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

Jimmy Raney (1927-1995)

Four Classic Albums Plus

4 klassische Alben von Jimmy Raney inklusive der Original LP-Linernotes. Alle Aufnahmen digital remastert. Er startete seine musikalische Karriere 1944 mit der Jerry Wald Band. Jimmy spielte zudem zusamme…

Naama Harel

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

Eliot Now

Eliot Now-the first collection of essays written with full access to T. S. Eliot's recently published Complete Prose and Poems-combines contemporary critical approaches with a sustained inquiry into the n…

Adam Kelly

New Sincerity

"The years 1989-2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years - specific…

Edwin Frank

Stranger Than Fiction

One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 | A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 "Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious." -Louis…

Ashokan Nambiar C

Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala

The book demonstrates how the early novel can be seen as a good site to think about what was effected by the print technology in the last decades of the 19th Century in Kerala. It was in the novel that ch…

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures

In forty-three chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures presents Indian literature as inherently relational and comparative. Focusing on the multilingual richness of the field as constit…

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 …

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…

Amit Majmudar

The Great Game

In this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature. In The Great Game, poet, critic, translator, and literary omnivore Amit Majmudar…

Zoot Sims (1925-1985)

Four Classic Albums 2

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

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…

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"--

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…

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"--

Iona Heath

John Berger

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.

Jazz Drummers: Four Classic Albums

Cavafy as World Literature

Provides for the first time an inclusive and detailed view of C. P. Cavafy as a "World poet," tracing his critical reception, his translation history and his work's multiple interpretations around the glo…