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Jorge Luis Borges

The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise

Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He…

Jj Irani

Doctor Steel

He held positions on various Tata boards, and was part of the Confederation of Indian Industry and several other government-appointed committees. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan and an honorary knighthoo…

Heather Warren-Crow

Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence

The Infinite Monkey Theorem is an idea frequently encountered in mass market science books, discourse on Intelligent Design, and debates on the merits of writing produced by chatbots. According to the The…

D J Hopkins

Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

This Element focuses on Sleep No More, the iconic immersive theatre production of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance frames thi…

Pascal Quignard

The Answer to Lord Chandos

In defense of the poetic, Pascal Quignard pens an impassioned reply to von Hofmannsthal's despondent Lord Chandos In 1902, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Lord Chandos Letter articulated a deep crisis of faith in…

David Trinidad

New Playlist

Disarmingly Personal Poems in the Spirit of Fun

Emily Allen, Dino Franco Felluga

Novel-Poetry

Explores the influence of literary form on the ways in which our worldly experiences are shaped. The volume considers the role of novelistic realism in establishing our sense of temporality, subjectivity,…

Thomas Hardy

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)--the first for nearly thirty years. The edition pres…

The Fleshtones

It's Getting Late (...And More Songs About Werewolves) (Pink Acid Wash Vinyl)

Das kleine Gespenst

Seit Urzeiten haust auf Burg Eulenstein ein kleines Nachtgespenst. Tagsüber schlummert es auf dem Dachboden in seiner Truhe, Schlag Mitternacht erwacht es und macht seinen nächtlichen Rundgang. Als Karl m…

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Tristan und Isolde

Robert Dean Smith, Robert Holl, Irene Theorin, Ralf Lukas, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Peter Schneider

David Mackinnon

A Dangerous Life, Volume 1

Voodoo killers, Bank Robbers & Sewermen: True tales from the life and times of Blaise Cendrars, the world's greatest vagabond features seven Cendrars works: The Sewerman of London: a tale of a secret pass…

Mallarika Sinha Roy

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India

This Element examines Dutt's passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned through the writing and producing of plays about the peasant revolts and armed anti-colo…

Cassius Dio,

The Fall of the Roman Republic

This book presents the first English translation to appear for over a hundred years of a key text, Books 36-40 of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which is not only the fullest surviving account of the last t…

Mel Gordon,

Cabarets of Death

Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants…

Jennifer Panek

Staging Disgust

This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the…

Niccolo Jommelli (1714-1774)

Il Vologeso

Ana Durlovski, Igor Durlovsky, Catriona Smith, Sophie Marilley, Helene Schneiderman, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Gabriele Ferro

Africa Nuda, Africa Violenta (Blu-ray & DVD im Mediabook)

Ein fanszinierender Trip zur Entdeckung der letzten Paradiese einer verlorenen Welt. Selbst heute noch gibt es Dinge, die man noch nie sah - und nie mehr sehen möchte - und das in der unmittelbaren Nachba…

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Wassermusik

Festspielorchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings