Author: Tanja Hemmann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710875951
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 62
Book Description
Wir waren Kinder, freier als der Wind. Wir dachten, dass wir für immer glücklich sind. Wir lachten und fochten und vertrauten blind. Ob wir im Herzen noch dieselben sind? In zwölf Gedichten erzählt dieser Band die Geschichte eines Sommers. Eine Geschichte vom Erwachsen-werden und sich zurückerinnern, eine Geschichte von Heimat, Kindheit und Sehnsucht. Es geht um die Suche nach Antworten, um Natur, Träume, Nostalgie, Glück. Kurz: um das Leben. Um das, was uns alle etwas angeht, uns alle berührt - irgendwie, irgendwann, irgendwo, vielleicht hier.
Wir waren Kinder, freier als der Wind. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Tanja Hemmann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710875951
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 62
Book Description
Wir waren Kinder, freier als der Wind. Wir dachten, dass wir für immer glücklich sind. Wir lachten und fochten und vertrauten blind. Ob wir im Herzen noch dieselben sind? In zwölf Gedichten erzählt dieser Band die Geschichte eines Sommers. Eine Geschichte vom Erwachsen-werden und sich zurückerinnern, eine Geschichte von Heimat, Kindheit und Sehnsucht. Es geht um die Suche nach Antworten, um Natur, Träume, Nostalgie, Glück. Kurz: um das Leben. Um das, was uns alle etwas angeht, uns alle berührt - irgendwie, irgendwann, irgendwo, vielleicht hier.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710875951
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 62
Book Description
Wir waren Kinder, freier als der Wind. Wir dachten, dass wir für immer glücklich sind. Wir lachten und fochten und vertrauten blind. Ob wir im Herzen noch dieselben sind? In zwölf Gedichten erzählt dieser Band die Geschichte eines Sommers. Eine Geschichte vom Erwachsen-werden und sich zurückerinnern, eine Geschichte von Heimat, Kindheit und Sehnsucht. Es geht um die Suche nach Antworten, um Natur, Träume, Nostalgie, Glück. Kurz: um das Leben. Um das, was uns alle etwas angeht, uns alle berührt - irgendwie, irgendwann, irgendwo, vielleicht hier.
federleicht. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Tanja Hemmann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711551971
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 82
Book Description
federleicht ist eine Akkumulation von deutschen und englischen Gedichten, die zu gleichen Teilen fatalistisch und rebellisch sind. Es ist der Spiegel zu einem blauen Sommer, einem Wechselspiel aus Selbstermächtigung und Weltflucht. Die Gedichte in diesem Band fühlen sich so intim an wie Tagebucheinträge. Sie entführen in eine Welt, die sowohl zutiefst authentisch als auch herzlich fantasievoll ist. In federleicht vereinen sich das Erwachen einer Dichterin, die Sehnsucht einer jungen Frau nach dem Ausbruch aus altbekannten Mustern sowie eine Rückbesinnung auf die Magie des Schreibens als Mittel zur Selbstfindung und Heilung. Die Autorin ist überzeugt davon, dass uns Worte aus den tiefsten Tiefen tragen und befreien können. Nur wenn wir unserer Wut und unserem Schmerz Ausdruck verleihen, finden wir zu einem Zustand zurück, in dem wir federleicht durchs Leben schweben können.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711551971
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 82
Book Description
federleicht ist eine Akkumulation von deutschen und englischen Gedichten, die zu gleichen Teilen fatalistisch und rebellisch sind. Es ist der Spiegel zu einem blauen Sommer, einem Wechselspiel aus Selbstermächtigung und Weltflucht. Die Gedichte in diesem Band fühlen sich so intim an wie Tagebucheinträge. Sie entführen in eine Welt, die sowohl zutiefst authentisch als auch herzlich fantasievoll ist. In federleicht vereinen sich das Erwachen einer Dichterin, die Sehnsucht einer jungen Frau nach dem Ausbruch aus altbekannten Mustern sowie eine Rückbesinnung auf die Magie des Schreibens als Mittel zur Selbstfindung und Heilung. Die Autorin ist überzeugt davon, dass uns Worte aus den tiefsten Tiefen tragen und befreien können. Nur wenn wir unserer Wut und unserem Schmerz Ausdruck verleihen, finden wir zu einem Zustand zurück, in dem wir federleicht durchs Leben schweben können.
Songs & Poems
Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Flying Mountain
Author: Christoph Ransmayr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857424747
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Flying Mountain tells the story of two brothers who leave the southwest coast of Ireland on an expedition to Transhimalaya, the land of Kham, and the mountains of eastern Tibet--looking for an untamed, unnamed mountain that represents perhaps the last blank spot on the map. As they advance toward their goal, the brothers find their past, and their rivalry, inescapable, inflecting every encounter and decision as they are drawn farther and farther from the world they once knew"--Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857424747
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Flying Mountain tells the story of two brothers who leave the southwest coast of Ireland on an expedition to Transhimalaya, the land of Kham, and the mountains of eastern Tibet--looking for an untamed, unnamed mountain that represents perhaps the last blank spot on the map. As they advance toward their goal, the brothers find their past, and their rivalry, inescapable, inflecting every encounter and decision as they are drawn farther and farther from the world they once knew"--Jacket.
Sand
Author: Wolfgang Herrndorf
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Set in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time. North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara. Four people are murdered in a hippie commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. . . . This darkly sophisticated literary thriller, the last novel Wolfgang Herrndorf completed before his untimely death in 2013, is, in the words of Michael Maar, “the greatest, grisliest, funniest, and wisest novel of the past decade.” Certainly no reader will ever forget it.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Set in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time. North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara. Four people are murdered in a hippie commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. . . . This darkly sophisticated literary thriller, the last novel Wolfgang Herrndorf completed before his untimely death in 2013, is, in the words of Michael Maar, “the greatest, grisliest, funniest, and wisest novel of the past decade.” Certainly no reader will ever forget it.
Franz Kafka
Author: Jakob Lothe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814211502
Category : Narration (Rhetoric)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading presents essays by noted Kafka critics and by leading narratologists who explore Kafka's original and innovative uses of narrative throughout his career. Collectively, these essays by Stanley Corngold, Anniken Greve, Gerhard Kurz, Jakob Lothe, J. Hillis Miller, Gerhard Neumann, James Phelan, Beatrice Sandberg, Ronald Speirs, and Benno Wagner examine a number of provocative questions that arise in narration and narratives in Kafka's fiction. The arguments of the essays relate both to the peculiarities of Kafka's story-telling and to general issues in narrative theory. They reflect, for example, the complexity of the issues surrounding the "somebody" doing the telling, the attitude of the narrator to what is told, the perceived purpose(s) of the telling, the implied or actual reader, the progression of events, and the progression of the telling. As the essays also demonstrate, Kafka's narratives still present a considerable challenge to, as well as a great resource for, narrative theory and analysis.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814211502
Category : Narration (Rhetoric)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading presents essays by noted Kafka critics and by leading narratologists who explore Kafka's original and innovative uses of narrative throughout his career. Collectively, these essays by Stanley Corngold, Anniken Greve, Gerhard Kurz, Jakob Lothe, J. Hillis Miller, Gerhard Neumann, James Phelan, Beatrice Sandberg, Ronald Speirs, and Benno Wagner examine a number of provocative questions that arise in narration and narratives in Kafka's fiction. The arguments of the essays relate both to the peculiarities of Kafka's story-telling and to general issues in narrative theory. They reflect, for example, the complexity of the issues surrounding the "somebody" doing the telling, the attitude of the narrator to what is told, the perceived purpose(s) of the telling, the implied or actual reader, the progression of events, and the progression of the telling. As the essays also demonstrate, Kafka's narratives still present a considerable challenge to, as well as a great resource for, narrative theory and analysis.
Oriental and Biblical Studies
Author: E. A. Speiser
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512818828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Rarely has mastery of a field been combined with such style and lucidity as in the writings of E. A. Speiser. For forty years before his death, in 1965, Dr. Speiser, the renowned author of the Anchor Bible Genesis, was a leading American orientalist. Speiser was at home in the modern as well as the ancient Near East and knew its many cultures intimately. His wide-ranging biblical studies are informed with a profound knowledge of Assyriology, and to both he brought the insights of a brilliant comparative linguist. Speiser's unique vision of the whole of ancient Near Eastern culture resulted in several classic syntheses that are included in these pages. Collected in this volume are thirty-six of his now difficult-to-obtain articles. The reader will discover papers that deal not only with biblical studies and linguistics but also with the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine; with law and political science; and with intellectual and social progress in the ancient Near East. "Speiser insisted on the simultaneous concentration upon analysis and synthesis; the first without the second he deemed sterile, the second without the first an empty playing with words. . . . [This insistence], so eloquently exemplified in his own work was . . . the most distinctive and certainly the most enduring part of his legacy as a teacher (from the Appreciation, by J. J. Finkelstein). E. A. Speiser was born in Galicia in 1902. After his graduation from the College of Lemberg, Austria, in 1918, he came to the United States, arriving in 1920. He received his M.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1923 and Ph.D. degree from Dropsie College, Philadelphia, in 1924. During World War II, Speiser was the chief of the Near East section, research and analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services. Following the war, in 1947, Speiser was named chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1954 he became Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University. One year prior to his death, he was named University Professor of Oriental Studies, the highest honor that the University of Pennsylvania awards to distinguished faculty members. Those familiar with one or another aspect of Speiser's contribution will find here a selection and arrangement designed to capture the underlying unity in approach that informed all of his work. And the nonspecialist cannot help but discover the broader, humanistic implications of oriental studies.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512818828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Rarely has mastery of a field been combined with such style and lucidity as in the writings of E. A. Speiser. For forty years before his death, in 1965, Dr. Speiser, the renowned author of the Anchor Bible Genesis, was a leading American orientalist. Speiser was at home in the modern as well as the ancient Near East and knew its many cultures intimately. His wide-ranging biblical studies are informed with a profound knowledge of Assyriology, and to both he brought the insights of a brilliant comparative linguist. Speiser's unique vision of the whole of ancient Near Eastern culture resulted in several classic syntheses that are included in these pages. Collected in this volume are thirty-six of his now difficult-to-obtain articles. The reader will discover papers that deal not only with biblical studies and linguistics but also with the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine; with law and political science; and with intellectual and social progress in the ancient Near East. "Speiser insisted on the simultaneous concentration upon analysis and synthesis; the first without the second he deemed sterile, the second without the first an empty playing with words. . . . [This insistence], so eloquently exemplified in his own work was . . . the most distinctive and certainly the most enduring part of his legacy as a teacher (from the Appreciation, by J. J. Finkelstein). E. A. Speiser was born in Galicia in 1902. After his graduation from the College of Lemberg, Austria, in 1918, he came to the United States, arriving in 1920. He received his M.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1923 and Ph.D. degree from Dropsie College, Philadelphia, in 1924. During World War II, Speiser was the chief of the Near East section, research and analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services. Following the war, in 1947, Speiser was named chairman of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1954 he became Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University. One year prior to his death, he was named University Professor of Oriental Studies, the highest honor that the University of Pennsylvania awards to distinguished faculty members. Those familiar with one or another aspect of Speiser's contribution will find here a selection and arrangement designed to capture the underlying unity in approach that informed all of his work. And the nonspecialist cannot help but discover the broader, humanistic implications of oriental studies.
A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka
Author: James Rolleston
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781571133366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Kafka's novels and stories fascinate readers and critics of each generation. Although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. This work aims to present a point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781571133366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Kafka's novels and stories fascinate readers and critics of each generation. Although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. This work aims to present a point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research.
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
Author: MK Czerwiec
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079266
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book’s first section, featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Squier, argues that as a new area of scholarship, research on graphic medicine has the potential to challenge the conventional boundaries of academic disciplines, raise questions about their foundations, and reinvigorate literary scholarship—and the notion of the literary text—for a broader audience. The second section, incorporating essays by Michael Green and Kimberly Myers, demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives can engage members of the health professions with literary and visual representations and symbolic practices that offer patients, family members, physicians, and other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex challenges of the medical experience. The final section, by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, focuses on the practice of creating graphic narratives, iconography, drawing as a social practice, and the nature of comics as visual rhetoric. A conclusion (in comics form) testifies to the diverse and growing graphic medicine community. Two valuable bibliographies guide readers to comics and scholarly works relevant to the field.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079266
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book’s first section, featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Squier, argues that as a new area of scholarship, research on graphic medicine has the potential to challenge the conventional boundaries of academic disciplines, raise questions about their foundations, and reinvigorate literary scholarship—and the notion of the literary text—for a broader audience. The second section, incorporating essays by Michael Green and Kimberly Myers, demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives can engage members of the health professions with literary and visual representations and symbolic practices that offer patients, family members, physicians, and other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex challenges of the medical experience. The final section, by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, focuses on the practice of creating graphic narratives, iconography, drawing as a social practice, and the nature of comics as visual rhetoric. A conclusion (in comics form) testifies to the diverse and growing graphic medicine community. Two valuable bibliographies guide readers to comics and scholarly works relevant to the field.
Kisses For Jet
Author: Joris Bas Backer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1913123030
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A striking and emotive graphic novel from debut trans creator, Joris Bas Backer about coming to terms with his gender before the age of the internet. For fans of Gender Queer and The Black Flamingo. “A nuanced look into the life of a trans teen by a trans author and illustrator. The black, white, and grayish-blue illustrations powerfully capture Jet’s complicated emotions." –BuzzFeed "Jet’s earnest questioning and relationship with gender and adolescence illustrates the conflict between becoming who the world wants them to be and who they are, conveyed in a raw, personal-feeling portrayal of transition in a pre-internet era." – Publishers Weekly "I love that this graphic novel exists for generations who may be feeling these same insecurities, anxieties, and challenges that Jet experiences." —Utopian State of Mind "A warm, funny, lived-in book that captures exactly the feeling of having a desire you just can’t place, and the relief when you manage to crack it wide open." — Mattie Lubchansky, The Nib "Exciting from the first to the last page! I say, this book is already a classic." — Ulli Lust, author of Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life “Kisses for Jet is a sensitively written, beautifully-illustrated depiction of a trans-masculine experience so rarely shown in media…a huge step forward for trans representation.” — Jake Hall, Author of The Art of Drag Featured in Xtra Magazine with Interview by Gender Queer author, Maia Kobabe In 1999, when most people think that the world is about to end with the Y2K crash on the eve of the new Millennium, Jet is just trying to get through high school. When their Mom moves to another country to work on fixing the Millennium bug, Jet is forced to stay at a boarding house while they finish the school year, and they’re not pleased about it. But something’s not quite right, and it’s not just the out-of-control kids that Jet has to live with, or the staff who look after the boarding house who act super suspiciously. As Jet slowly starts to feel overwhelmed by their peers, they begin to notice that they don’t feel like the other girls in their class. As new feelings start to emerge, Jet slowly begins to realise that they may be more of a boy than a girl. Is that even possible? And who do they talk to about these feelings when there’s not even any internet around, and cell phones are barely used? This coming-of-gender graphic novel debut from trans creator Joris Bas Backer is an enlightening and often hilarious tale that casts light on what it was like to be transgender before information and help was more accessible and widespread.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1913123030
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A striking and emotive graphic novel from debut trans creator, Joris Bas Backer about coming to terms with his gender before the age of the internet. For fans of Gender Queer and The Black Flamingo. “A nuanced look into the life of a trans teen by a trans author and illustrator. The black, white, and grayish-blue illustrations powerfully capture Jet’s complicated emotions." –BuzzFeed "Jet’s earnest questioning and relationship with gender and adolescence illustrates the conflict between becoming who the world wants them to be and who they are, conveyed in a raw, personal-feeling portrayal of transition in a pre-internet era." – Publishers Weekly "I love that this graphic novel exists for generations who may be feeling these same insecurities, anxieties, and challenges that Jet experiences." —Utopian State of Mind "A warm, funny, lived-in book that captures exactly the feeling of having a desire you just can’t place, and the relief when you manage to crack it wide open." — Mattie Lubchansky, The Nib "Exciting from the first to the last page! I say, this book is already a classic." — Ulli Lust, author of Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life “Kisses for Jet is a sensitively written, beautifully-illustrated depiction of a trans-masculine experience so rarely shown in media…a huge step forward for trans representation.” — Jake Hall, Author of The Art of Drag Featured in Xtra Magazine with Interview by Gender Queer author, Maia Kobabe In 1999, when most people think that the world is about to end with the Y2K crash on the eve of the new Millennium, Jet is just trying to get through high school. When their Mom moves to another country to work on fixing the Millennium bug, Jet is forced to stay at a boarding house while they finish the school year, and they’re not pleased about it. But something’s not quite right, and it’s not just the out-of-control kids that Jet has to live with, or the staff who look after the boarding house who act super suspiciously. As Jet slowly starts to feel overwhelmed by their peers, they begin to notice that they don’t feel like the other girls in their class. As new feelings start to emerge, Jet slowly begins to realise that they may be more of a boy than a girl. Is that even possible? And who do they talk to about these feelings when there’s not even any internet around, and cell phones are barely used? This coming-of-gender graphic novel debut from trans creator Joris Bas Backer is an enlightening and often hilarious tale that casts light on what it was like to be transgender before information and help was more accessible and widespread.