John Berger's seminal text on how to look at art John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has. "The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general...
John Berger's seminal text on how to look at art John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influentia...
World Bank literature is more than a concept -- it is a provocation, a call to arms. It is intended to prompt questions about each word, to probe globalization, political economy, and the role of literary and cultural studies. As asserted in this major work, it signals a radical rewriting of academic debates, a rigorous analysis of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a consideration of literature that deals with new global realities.
Made more relevant than ever by momentous antiglobalization demonstrations in Seattle and Genoa, World Bank Literature brings...
World Bank literature is more than a concept -- it is a provocation, a call to arms. It is intended to prompt questions about each word, to probe glob...
When the Japanese Empire went to war with the Allies in December 1941, it had already been fighting in China for 10 years. During that time it had conquered huge areas of China, and subjugated millions of people. The Japanese needed to control the Chinese population in these occupied territories, and for this reason they set up governments from amongst the leaders of the Chinese who were willing to co-operate with them. These so-called 'puppet' governments were designed to rule on behalf of the Japanese while firmly under their overall control. In turn, the puppet governments needed their own...
When the Japanese Empire went to war with the Allies in December 1941, it had already been fighting in China for 10 years. During that time it had con...
Winer of a 1994 Time Out Theatre Award and TMA/Martini Award for Best UK Touring Production
Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover, Jean, and banished by her family, she becomes an outcast. She survives her second life by smuggling goods across the border. But it is not until her thrid life, her afterlife, that she discovers the survival of something more than bare human existence - the survival of hope and love. "In Simon McBurney's exhilarating production the story becomes an unsentimental evocation of peasant...
Winer of a 1994 Time Out Theatre Award and TMA/Martini Award for Best UK Touring Production
Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a pe...
Leben und Welt der Bauern sind selten so eindringlich, mit ruhiger Anteilnahme und nachdenklicher Distanz geschildert worden wie in diesen Erzhlungen. Sie halten die Erinnerung wach an eine Lebensform, die vom Kargen, Strengen und Einfachen bestimmt wird und fr die es in der modernen Welt keinen Raum mehr gibt.
Leben und Welt der Bauern sind selten so eindringlich, mit ruhiger Anteilnahme und nachdenklicher Distanz geschildert worden wie in diesen Erzhlungen....
