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This book compares and contrasts the ways in which the democratic
system limits and defines press freedom in two nations known for an
unfettered press-the United States and Great Britain. It
illustrates the interaction between government and press in these
nations.
Jealously guarded and frequently defended, the concept of freedom
of the press is still subject to widely varying interpretations in
different democratic systems. This book compares and contrasts the
ways in which the system limits and defines press freedom in two
nations known for an unfettered press-the United States and Great
Britain. Examining
Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen
years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland.
Focusing on this period, this book throws new light on Silone's
complex biography and shows how his literary production influenced
and was influenced by fellow antifascist German emigres and the
Swiss socialist intelligentsia. Using previously unknown archival
materials, letters, and diaries, and following a flexible
chronological structure, the book examines the developing role
Silone played in the intellectual life of Zurich. Its analysis of
Silone's links with 'Bauhaus' circles, disciples of C.J. Jung, and
Zurich's socialist city council offers an interdisciplinary and
comparative perspective on Silone's exile that both questions and
celebrates his status as an 'un-Italian' Italian author. Holmes
also considers wider topics such as the functions of the engage
writer in times of crisis, the dynamics of cultural transfer
through translation, and the phenomenon of exile literature.
Italian antifascist exile writing is an area of Italian literature
that has never been explored as an entity. With its painstaking
archival research and critical approach to the pioneering methods
and results of German 'Exilforschung,' Ignazio Silone in Exile
opens the way for further studies on this little known aspect of
Italian emigration culture.
Although beset by social, political, and economic instabilities,
interwar Vienna was an exhilarating place, with pioneering
developments in the arts and innovations in the social sphere.
Research on the period long saw the city as a mere shadow of its
former imperial self; more recently it has concentrated on
high-profile individual figures or party politics. This volume of
new essays widens the view, stretching disciplinary boundaries to
consider the cultural and social movements that shaped the city.
The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resulted not in an
abandonment of the arts, but rather led to new forms of expression
that were nevertheless conditioned by the legacies of earlier
periods. The city's culture was caught between extremes, from
neopositivism to cultural pessimism, Catholic mysticism to
Austro-Marxism, late Enlightenment liberalism to rabid
antisemitism. Concentrating on the paradoxes and often productive
tensions that these created, the volume's twelve essays explore
achievements and anxieties in fields ranging from modern dance,
theater, music, film, and literature to economic, cultural, and
racial policy. The volume will appeal to social, cultural, and
political historians as well as to specialists in modern European
literary and visual culture. Contributors: Andrea Amort, Andrew
Barker, Alys X. George, Deborah Holmes, Jon Hughes, Birgit Lang,
Wolfgang Maderthaner, Therese Muxeneder, Birgit Peter, Lisa
Silverman, Edward Timms, Robert Vilain, John Warren, Paul
Weindling. Deborah Holmes is Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna. Lisa
Silverman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen
years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland.
Focusing on this period, this book throws new light on Silone's
complex biography and shows how his literary production influenced
and was influenced by fellow antifascist German emigres and the
Swiss socialist intelligentsia. Using previously unknown archival
materials, letters, and diaries, and following a flexible
chronological structure, the book examines the developing role
Silone played in the intellectual life of Zurich. Its analysis of
Silone's links with 'Bauhaus' circles, disciples of C.J. Jung, and
Zurich's socialist city council offers an interdisciplinary and
comparative perspective on Silone's exile that both questions and
celebrates his status as an 'un-Italian' Italian author. Holmes
also considers wider topics such as the functions of the engage
writer in times of crisis, the dynamics of cultural transfer
through translation, and the phenomenon of exile literature.
Italian antifascist exile writing is an area of Italian literature
that has never been explored as an entity. With its painstaking
archival research and critical approach to the pioneering methods
and results of German 'Exilforschung,' Ignazio Silone in Exile
opens the way for further studies on this little known aspect of
Italian emigration culture.
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Meat (Hardcover)
Deborah Holm
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R194
Discovery Miles 1 940
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Oh, what to cook? We are spoiled for choice when it comes to
cooking-we have a multitude of fresh fruit and vegetables, herbs
and spices and fresh meats of all types available to us. This book
presents you with a range of tips to get the best out of whatever
type and cut of meat you choose to cook. Savour the tastes of meat
cooked to perfection for your friends and family. All the recipes
in this little compedium of cooking are beautifully photographed so
you will know just how they will appear on your plate. Whether you
are a novice or an experienced cook, you will find all these
recipes to be the perfect blend of simplicity of preparation and
sophistication of flavor, and you will enjoy not only eating them
but preparing them as well. Go to it-you will be so glad you did.
Although the Habsburg authorities did not organize a concerted war
effort on the home front, contemporary commentators nevertheless
made frequent reference to cultural mobilization among the civilian
population of Austria-Hungary. The essays in this volume
investigate ways in which the arts in particular were affected by
or indeed participated in the conflict of 1914-1918. Reactions of
avant-garde writers and artists to the war are considered alongside
developments in more popular art forms such as the postcard,
feuilleton and operetta. The volume also contributes to the debate
on cultural retrenchment versus revolution during this period by
examining changes within cultural institutions, especially but not
exclusively in Vienna.
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Vienna Tales (Paperback)
Helen Constantine; Translated by Deborah Holmes
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R348
R293
Discovery Miles 2 930
Save R55 (16%)
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Situated on the cusp of West and East, between the foothills of the
Alps and the mighty 'Blue Danube', Vienna has long presented
authors with a wealth of material for stories that entertain and
intrigue. The city's famous quality of life and rich variety of
cultural offerings is apparent here at every turn, but so too is
its darker side, whether it be the Viennese obsession with death
and decay or the dramatic, tragic events of its twentieth-century
history. In stories from the early to mid-nineteenth century in
particular, the city stands for wine, women and song, for a
laid-back - - perhaps somewhat lax?- - outlook on life that is
invariably linked to its location as German culture's southernmost
centre. In more recent tales, the theme of the good life and of
Vienna's beauty continues, but there are very few authors who do
not dwell on elements of darkness or melancholy. Indeed, from the
mid-twentieth century onward, death itself seems to have become
literature's preferred guide to the city. The collection
concentrates on stories set at the city's margins. The tales are
arranged geographically rather than chronologically, around and
through the city from west to east and back again. We begin and end
with Arthur Schnitzler and Joseph Roth, two authors already
indelibly associated with Vienna, but represented here by
little-known gems, translated for the first time. Other authors
include stars of Vienna's nineteenth century feuilleton journalism
- Heinrich Laube, Ferdinand Kurnberger, Adalbert Stifter - but also
the most recent generation of Viennese writers, Doron Rabinovici,
Eva Menasse, Dimitre Dinev, with tales as yet unknown in English.
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