Trefferliste "Modern Classic" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the histor…

The Boomtown Rats

Back To Boomtown: Classic Rats' Hits

Die Boomtown Rats wurden einst als ‘Chaoten’ und ‘Geschwür’ bezeichnet, und als ‘aussätzige, antiautoritäre Schweine’ und es wurde ihnen untersagt, in ihrem Heimatland aufzutreten. Der Schrecken, den die …

Zoot Sims (1925-1985)

Four Classic Albums 2

4 klassische Alben von Zoot Sims inklusive Original LP Liner Notes auf einer digital remasterten 2CD!

Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer

Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

Paul Tenngart

The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

"Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture"--

Sebastian P Klinger

Sleep Works

An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century. At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive st…

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

Three Classic Albums Plus

The Political Uses of Literature

"Analyses the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing in order to provoke new debate about the complex intersections between literature and political action"--

D Marcel Decoste

Professing Darkness

"Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment establishes the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament both to the spiritual outlook of the McCarthy cor…

Jazz Drummers: Four Classic Albums

Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis

Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustic…

Ange Mlinko

Difficult Ornaments

This book draws on the works and lives of six poets, illustrating how the state of Florida inspired twentieth-century poets to new subject matter and forms, expanding and deepening the American experiment…

Rochelle Rives

The New Physiognomy

"This work bridges a number of fields in the humanities to examine how modernist representations demonstrate the limits of facial expressivity as a marker of the true qualities of a person"--

Rethinking Kerouac

"Esteemed Beat commentators examine Kerouac's classic works, like On the Road, alongside more obscure ones; they bring to light new facets of Kerouac's life and work, including his excursions into paintin…

Niels Caul,

James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures

Putting Joyce back into dialogue with other Irish writers of his generation, this book shows that his experiments with narrative styles and structures were a renegotiation rather than a rejection of earli…

Eva Lilja,

Rhythm in Modern Poetry

"A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse"--

Benjamin Mangrum

The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From the …

The Poetry Reader

"This companionable anthology shows how poetry is a discussion, alive and flowing, and how poems speak to, with, and sometimes over one another. If you are a teacher, this is the anthology you wish you ha…

Funny Dostoevsky

"Funny Dostoevsky demonstrates how and why Dostoevsky is one of the most humorous 19th-century authors, even as he plumbs the depths of the human psyche and the darkest facets of European modernity. Contr…