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    What W. H. Auden Can Do for You: Alexander McCall Smith , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 173min
    When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by Auden. Indeed, the novelist, best known for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, calls the poet not only the greatest literary discovery of his life but also the best of guides on how to live. In this book, McCall Smith has written a charming personal account about what Auden has done for him--and what he just might do for you.Part self-portrait, part literary appreciation, the book tells how McCall Smith first came across the poet's work in the 1970s, while teaching law in Belfast, a violently divided city where Auden's "September 1, 1939," a poem about the outbreak of World War II, strongly resonated. McCall Smith goes on to reveal how his life has related to and been inspired by other Auden poems ever since. For example, he describes how he has found an invaluable reflection on life's transience in "As I Walked Out One Evening," while "The More Loving One" has provided an instructive meditation on unrequited love. McCall Smith shows how Auden can speak to us throughout life, suggesting how, despite difficulties and change, we can celebrate understanding, acceptance, and love for others. An enchanting story about how art can help us live, this book will appeal to McCall Smith's fans and anyone curious about Auden. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Neenan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015789/bk_adbl_015789_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dancing with Mr. D. Der Tod in Popmusik und Kunst
    Ein guter Song, tanzbar, drei Minuten, vergänglich. Das Ende ist gewiss und so unausweichlich wie der Tod. Der Beat ist eingängig und doch, in den Lyrics wird gestorben, gemordet und getrauert. Die Vergänglichkeit und das Sterben, aber auch ein koketter Umgang mit dem Tod, sind in der Rock- und Popmusik der Jugendkultur der 1950er und 1960er-Jahre omnipräsent. Die Themen ähneln denjenigen der Bildenden Künste aus der Tradition der Totentänze und Vanitas-Darstellungen. Der vorliegende Band führt die beiden Stränge zusammen: Exemplarisch werden Songs und Bands vom Beat der 1960er-Jahre, dem Classic Rock, Punk und Reggae bis hin zum Pop und Hip Hop vorgestellt und mit Abbildungen aus der Graphiksammlung Mensch und Tod der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf sowie zeitgenössischen Kunstwerken verknüpft.A good song, danceable, three minutes, and then it's over. The beat is catchy, and yet the lyrics tell a tale of death, murder and mourning. Transience and mortality - but also a coquettish way of dealing with death - are omnipresent in the rock and pop music of the youth culture of the 1950s and 60s. The themes are similar to those of the fine arts from the tradition of the 'dance of death' and vanitas motifs. The present volume brings the two strands together.
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    Complete Poetry: Sonnets and Narrative Poems , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 373min
    The sonnets are a collection numbering 154 poems dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. They were probably written over a long period of Shakespeare's life up until 1609, when they were first printed. The first 17 poems, traditionally referred to as the "procreation sonnets", are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it on to his descendants. The other sonnets: express the speaker's love for a young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; appear to criticize the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguity toward the speaker's mistress; and make a pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are allegorical recreations of Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god" Cupid. Shakespeare's sonnets were strongly influenced by the Latin poet Horace. In 1593 and 1594 the London theaters were closed because of plague. Shakespeare turned to poetry and published two narrative poems on erotic themes, "Venus and Adonis", and "The Rape of Lucrece". In "Venus and Adonis", a youthful Adonis rejects the sexual advances of Venus; but in "The Rape of Lucrece", the virtuous wife Lucrece is raped by the lascivious Tarquin. Inspired by Ovid's The Metamorphoses, the poems show the guilt and moral confusion resulting from uncontrolled lust. A third narrative poem, "A Lover's Complaint", presents a young woman who laments her seduction by a persuasive suitor. "The Phoenix and the Turtle" mourns the deaths of the legendary phoenix and his lover, the faithful turtle dove. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000151/bk_acon_000151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min
    Before the American Revolution, the people who lived in British North America were not just colonists; they were also imperial subjects. To think of 18th-century New Yorkers as Britons rather than incipient Americans allows us fresh investigations into their world. How was the British Empire experienced by those who lived at its margins? How did the mundane affairs of ordinary New Yorkers affect the culture at the center of an enormous commercial empire? Dangerous Economies is a history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the 18th century, when Britain was just beginning to catch up with its imperial rivals, France and Spain. In that sparsely populated city on the fringe of an empire, enslaved Africans rubbed elbows with white indentured servants while the elite strove to maintain ties with European genteel culture. The transience of the city's people, goods, and fortunes created a notably fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge. New York's shifting imperial identity created new avenues for success but also made success harder to define and demonstrate socially. Such a mobile urban milieu was the ideal breeding ground for crime and conspiracy, which became all too evident in 1741, when 30 slaves were executed and more than 70 other people were deported after being found guilty - on dubious evidence - of plotting a revolt. This sort of violent outburst was the unforseen but unsurprising result of the seething culture that existed at the margins of the British Empire. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Naomi Jacobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000059/bk_redw_000059_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 452min
    Even if others abandon you, you must never abandon yourself. This simple truth became Terry Helwig’s lifeline as she was forced to grow up too soon. Terry grew up the oldest of six girls in the big-sky country of the American Southwest, where she attended 12 schools in 11 years. Helwig’s stepfather, Davy, a good-hearted and loving man, proudly purchased a mobile home to enable his family to move more easily from one oil town to another, where Davy eked out a living in the oil fields. Terry’s mother, Carola Jean, a wild rose whose love often pierced those who tried to claim her, had little interest in the confines of home and motherhood. In Davy’s absence, she sought companionship in local watering holes—a pastime she dubbed "visiting Timbuktu". She repeatedly left Terry in charge of the household and her five younger sisters. Despite Carola Jean’s genuine attempts to “better herself”, her life spiraled ever downward as Terry struggled to keep the family whole. In the midst of transience and upheaval, Terry and her sisters forged an uncommon bond of sisterhood that withstood the erosion of Davy and Carola Jean’s marriage. But ultimately, to keep her own dreams alive, Terry had to decide when to hold on to what she loved and when to let go. Unflinching in its portrayal, yet told with humor and compassion, Terry Helwig’s luminous memoir, Moonlight on Linoleum, explores a family’s inner and outer landscapes of hope, despair, and redemption. It will make you laugh, cry, and hunger for more. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Richardson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/000961/bk_oasi_000961_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 209min
    I raise my glass to my eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us. Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. 'To life!' I say as the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My mother says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We don't answer it. Who could be calling so late on a Saturday evening?In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident.     When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back is about losing a child. It is about formulating a vocabulary to express the deepest kind of pain. And it's about finding a way to write about a reality invaded by grief, lessened by loss.    Faced with the sudden emptiness of language, Naja finds solace in the anguish of Joan Didion, Nick Cave, C. S. Lewis, Mallarmé, Plato and other writers who have suffered the deadening impact of loss. Their torment suffuses with her own as Naja wrestles with words and contests their capacity to speak for the depths of her sorrow.    This palimpsest of mourning enables Naja to turn over the pathetic, precious transience of existence and articulates her greatest fear: to forget. The insistent compulsion to reconstruct the harrowing aftermath of Carl's death keeps him painfully present, while fragmented memories, journal entries and poetry inch her closer to piecing Carl's life together.   Intensely moving and quietly devastating, this is what it is to be a family, what it is to love and lose and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's indomitable resolve.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Manners. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000979/bk_qpuk_000979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sparsholt Affair: A novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 980min
    From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new novel that spans seven transformative decades in England - from the 1940s to the present - as it plumbs the richly complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his effect on others - especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. With the world at war, and the Blitz raging in London, Oxford nevertheless exists at a strange remove: a place of fleeting beauty - and secret liaisons. A friendship develops between these two young men that will have unexpected consequences as the novel unfolds. Alan Hollinghurst's new novel explores the legacy of David Sparsholt across three generations, on friends and family alike; we experience through its characters changes in taste, morality, and private life in a sequence of vividly rendered episodes: a Sparsholt holiday in Cornwall; eccentric social gatherings at the Dax family home; the adventures of David's son Johnny, a painter in 1970s London; the push and pull in a group of friends brought together by art, literature, and love. And evoking the increasing openness of gay life, The Sparsholt Affair becomes a meditation on human transience, even as it poignantly expresses the longing for permanence and continuity. Witty, tender, epic in scope yet rich in observation, this is a dazzling novel of fathers and sons; of family and home by a writer hailed by The Wall Street Journal as "one of the best novelists at work today". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Dawson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005980/bk_rand_005980_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo (eBook, ePUB)
    This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld to The Silence along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study covers eight novels which mark the development of one of the most philosophical and prestigious novelists writing in English. Death, in its close relation to time, temporality and transience, has been an ongoing subject or motif in Don DeLillo's oeuvre. His later work is shot through with the cultural and socio-psychological symptoms and responses death elicits. His 'reflection on dying' revolves around defensive mechanisms and destruction fantasies, around immortalism and cryonics, covert and overt surrogates, consumerism and media, the mortification of the body. His characters give themselves to mourning, are afflicted with psychosis, depression and the looming of emptiness. Yet writing about death also means facing the ambiguity and failing representability of 'death.' The book considers DeLillo's use of language in which temporality and something like 'death' may become manifest. It deals with the transfiguration of time and death into art, with apocalypse as a central and recurring subject, and, as a kind of antithesis, epiphany. The study eventually proposes some reflections on the meaning of death in an age fully contingent on media and technology and dominated by financial capitalism and consumerism. Despite all the distractions, death remains a sinister presence which has beset the minds not only of DeLillo's protagonists.
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    Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo (eBook, PDF)
    This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld to The Silence along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study covers eight novels which mark the development of one of the most philosophical and prestigious novelists writing in English. Death, in its close relation to time, temporality and transience, has been an ongoing subject or motif in Don DeLillo's oeuvre. His later work is shot through with the cultural and socio-psychological symptoms and responses death elicits. His 'reflection on dying' revolves around defensive mechanisms and destruction fantasies, around immortalism and cryonics, covert and overt surrogates, consumerism and media, the mortification of the body. His characters give themselves to mourning, are afflicted with psychosis, depression and the looming of emptiness. Yet writing about death also means facing the ambiguity and failing representability of 'death.' The book considers DeLillo's use of language in which temporality and something like 'death' may become manifest. It deals with the transfiguration of time and death into art, with apocalypse as a central and recurring subject, and, as a kind of antithesis, epiphany. The study eventually proposes some reflections on the meaning of death in an age fully contingent on media and technology and dominated by financial capitalism and consumerism. Despite all the distractions, death remains a sinister presence which has beset the minds not only of DeLillo's protagonists.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Minding Mortality, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, we tend not to talk about death much in North America. Maybe we just don’t have the words to contain something so visceral, so fraught, so absolute. Maybe images are a better way to explore or express our mortality, and our feelings about it. Photographer Sarah Sudhoff has made art out of disease, hospitals, funeral homes, and her own battle with cervical cancer. In a recent body of work she takes a close look at death. An extreme close-up, in fact. Next, although it can be uncomfortable to look death in the face, contemplatives and philosophers have been doing that for millennia. When philosopher William Irvine went looking for a philosophy of life, he stumbled upon the Stoics. Irvine says Stoicism teaches that minding our mortality can help us live a more joyful life.Then, after years of treating people with brain injuries and illnesses, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander fell into a coma in 2008. He was unconsious for a week and says his near death experience gave him an entirely new perspective on life, consciousness and death.After that, although people have long been curious about the experience of death, the science of the question is still young. Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel is one of the leading researchers in the field. He says encountering death has had significant impacts for most of the people he's interviewed in his study of near death experiences. Van Lommel tells Steve Paulson that so much time spent talking death has removed his fear of the end of his life.Every spring in Japan, people crowd under blooming cherry trees. They're signs of spring, but they're also remembrances of life's transience. Master gardener Sadafumi Uchiyama says the blossoms are the quintessential representation of the Japanese principle of mono no aware... beauty in the intertwining of life and death. And finally, Christian Wiman is a poet and editor of Poetry Magazine. In his latest book of poems, Every Riven Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/130329/rt_tbon_130329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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