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Traveling On One Leg
''Traveling on One Leg'' (german: Reisende auf einem Bein) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in German in 1989 by Rotbuch Verlag. An English translation was made available in 1998. The protagonist Irene is a German-speaking woman in her mid-thirties who has just emigrated from Romania to West Germany and starts living in Berlin in the second half of the 1980s. ''Traveling on One Leg'' explores the themes of exile, homeland, and identity, and the protagonist's unsuccessful acquaintance or relationship with three different men. Irene seeks to escape her traumatisation by creating a collage from newspaper clippings. By the creative process she experiments on what a fluid subjectivity might feel like. Irene can only live in the here and now by denying that she wishes to understand her life and keep in control. So the collage's dynamics between design and serendipity attract her attention and provide some kind of consolation. Published after Müller's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Prize For Literature
) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , reward = 10 million SEK (2022) , website = , year2 = 2022 , holder_label = Currently held by , previous = 2021 , main = 2022 , next = 2023 The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning ''for'' literature) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original Swedish: ''den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk rigtning''). Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, the award is based on an author's body of work as a who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern University Press
Northwestern University Press is an American publishing house affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It publishes 70 new titles each year in the areas of continental philosophy, poetry, Slavic and German literary criticism, Chicago regional studies, African American intellectual history, theater and performance studies, and fiction. Parneshia Jones is director of the press. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. History Founded in 1893, Northwestern University Press was initially dedicated to the publication of legal periodicals and scholarly legal texts. In 1957, the Press was established as a separate university publishing company and began expanding its offerings with new series in various fields. Notable Publications, Imprints, and Series Northwestern University Press publishes a wide range of titles. In 1963, the Press published Viola Spolin's landmark volume, ''Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania In Fiction
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Romania from the north to the southwest, include Moldoveanu Peak, at an altitude of . Settlement in what is now Romania began in the Lower Paleolithic, with w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Novels
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerda Meijerink
Gerda is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: A *Gerda Ahlm (1869–1956), Swedish-born American painter and art conservator * Gerda Alexander (1908–1994), Danish teacher and therapist *Gerda Antti (born 1929), Swedish writer B *Gerda Becker, Dutch table tennis player *Gerda Bengtsson (1900–1995), Danish textile artist * Gerda Blees (born 1985), Dutch writer *Gerda Blumenthal (1923–2004), German-American literary scholar *Gerda Boyesen (born 1922), Norwegian psychotherapist *Gerda Bredgaard (1908–1996), Danish swimmer * Gerda Bryłka (born 1941), Polish gymnast * Gerda Bülow, (1904–1990), Danish violinist C *Gerda Charles, pseudonym of the British novelist Edna Lipson (1915–1996) *Gerda Christian (1913–1997), German private secretary of Adolf Hitler *Gerda Christophersen (1870–1947), Danish actress *Gerda Claeskens (fl. 2000s), Belgian statistician D * Gerda Daumerlang (1920–2006), German diver *Gerda Dendooven (born 1962), Belgian il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Lefevere
André Alphons Lefevere (1945 – 27 March 1996) was a translation theorist. He had studied at the University of Ghent (1964–1968) and then obtained his PhD at the University of Essex in 1972. When he died of acute leukemia, he was Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thought and influence His most important contribution is in comparative literary studies and translation studies in particular. Drawing upon the notions of polysystem theorists like Itamar Even-Zohar, he theorized translation as a form of rewriting produced and read with a set of ideological and political constraints within the target language cultural system. Lefevere developed the idea of translation as a form of rewriting, which means that any text produced on the basis of another has the intention of adapting that other text to a certain ideology or to a certain poetics, and usually to both. Lefevere, along with Gideon Toury, James S. Holmes and Jose Lambert, can be considered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Glajar
Valentina may refer to: Entertainment Film * ''Valentina'' (1950 film), a 1950 Argentine film * ''Valentina'' (2008 film), a 2008 Argentine film Television * ''Valentina'' (1993 telenovela), a 1993 Mexican telenovela * Valentina (2013 telenovela), an upcoming 2013 Chilean telenovela by TVN * ''Valentina'' (TV series), an Italian television series Comics * Valentina (Philippine comics), a supervillainess in the Filipino comic book ''Darna'' * ''Valentina'' (comics), an Italian comic book by Guido Crepax * Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, a fictional espionage agent in the Marvel Comics universe Music * ''Valentina'' (album), a 2012 album by English band The Wedding Present * "Valentina", a song about Valentina Tereshkova by Public Service Broadcasting from the 2015 album ''The Race for Space'' Names * Valentina (given name), a female given name * Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937), the first and youngest woman to have flown in space * Elizabeth Miklosi (born 1983), a.k.a. "V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydra Books
Hydra generally refers to: * Lernaean Hydra, a many-headed serpent in Greek mythology * ''Hydra'' (genus), a genus of simple freshwater animals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria Hydra or The Hydra may also refer to: Astronomy * Hydra (constellation) * Hydra (moon), a satellite of Pluto Computing * Hydra (chess), a chess computer * Hydra (digital repository) * Hydra (operating system) * Hydra (software) * Hydra 100, a multi-GPU hardware solution * HYDRA Game Development Kit, a development system by André LaMothe * Razer Hydra, a game controller * NEC HYDRAstor, a storage system Fictional entities * Hydra (comics), a fictional organization in the Marvel Universe ** Hydra (Marvel Cinematic Universe), an organisation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe based on the comics counterpart * Hydra (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a fictional monster in ''D&D'' * Hydra (''Transformers''), a character in ''Transformers'' * The Hydra, a fictional organization in ''The Phantom'' * Hydra, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herta Müller
Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Nițchidorf (german: Nitzkydorf, link=no), Timiș County in Romania, her native language is German. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages. Müller is noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of the Socialist Republic of Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceaușescu regime which she has experienced herself. Many of her works are told from the viewpoint of the German minority in Romania and are also a depiction of the modern history of the Germans in the Banat and Transylvania. Her much acclaimed 2009 novel ''The Hunger Angel'' (''Atemschaukel'') portrays the deportation of Romania's German minority to Soviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of Romania for use as German forced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western World
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to the various nations and state (polity), states in the regions of Europe, North America, and Oceania.Western Civilization Our Tradition; James Kurth; accessed 30 August 2011 The Western world is also known as the Occident (from the Latin word ''occidēns'' "setting down, sunset, west") in contrast to the Eastern world known as the Orient (from the Latin word ''oriēns'' "origin, sunrise, east"). Following the Discovery of America in 1492, the West came to be known as the "world of business" and trade; and might also mean the Northern half of the North–South divide, the countries of the ''Global North'' (often equated with capitalist Developed country, developed countries). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land Of Green Plums
''The Land of Green Plums'' (german: Herztier) is a novel by Herta Müller, published in 1994 by Rowohlt Verlag. The novel portrays four young people living in a totalitarian police state in Communist Romania, ending with their emigration to Germany. The narrator is an unidentified young woman belonging to the ethnic German minority. Müller said the novel was written "in memory of my Romanian friends who were killed under the Ceauşescu regime". Like many of Müller's books, ''The Land of Green Plums'' illustrates the position of dissidents from the German minority in Romania, who suffered a double oppression under the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. The rural German-speaking community tries to preserve its culture by enforcing traditional rules; once the main characters escape this environment through university study in the city, they suffer, as political dissidents, the oppression exercised by the totalitarian regime. Those who flee the country for Germany become cultural outc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
