Bøger om År 1900 til 1910

Der Autor und Verleger Otto Julius Bierbaum ist heute weitgehend unbekannt. Als Wegbereiter einer Ästhetik der Moderne und als Vertreter populärer Spielformen von Literatur, Theater und Cabaret stellt ihn diese Untersuchung wieder ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit. Das literarische Werk von Otto Julius Bierbaum gibt neue Einblicke in die Epoche um 1900 und in die vorherrschende Faszination für Weltausstellungen, Sportereignisse, Boulevardjournalismus und die Welt des Amusements und der Cabarets. Die vorliegende Arbeit entdeckt den Autor, Verleger, Publizisten und Theatermacher als Wegbereiter einer künstlerischen Avantgarde avant la lettre und legt jene populären Erzählstrategien in den Romanen Pankrazius Grauzer, Stilpe und Prinz Kuckuck frei, die diese Werke damals zu Medienereignissen machten.Auch wenn Bierbaum heute als Tingeltangel-Autor gilt und aufgrund seiner pittoresk-komischen Schreibweise zu den Vertretern der "niederen" Literatur der Jahrhundertwende zählt, sind die Themen vieler Romane und Erzählungen ernst und politisch. So kann Bierbaum heute von der Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft als Zeitkritiker, Dokumentarist oder literarischer Seismograph einer Umbruchsepoche gelesen werden. Dabei eint Bierbaum eine Literatur, die sich in ihrer Stoffwahl im besten Sinne als realistisch versteht, d.h. gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeiten in ihren sozialen und kulturellen Wirkmechanismen abzubilden versucht, und eine Ästhetik, die dem literarischen Gebilde trotz aller Nähe zu trivialen Erzählformen eine ästhetische Eigenständigkeit zubilligt.

M. T. Vasudevan Nair¿s much acclaimed novel Randamoozham is a retelling of the ancient epic the Mahabharata based on the perspective of Bhima, the second Pandava. Bhima, Lone Warrior is the English translation of the work by Gita Krishnankutty. Possessed of amazing strength, fierce loyalty and great tenderness, Bhima is almost always eclipsed by his brothers Yudhishtira and Arjuna. The title wholly signifies his helplessness as a second born. This dissertation entitled Mind Mapping Bhima: A Freudian Psychoanalytic Reading of M. T. Vasudevan Nair¿s Bhima, Lone Warrior, aims to have a psychoanalytic reading of the protagonist Bhima with the help of Freudian concepts and theories. The key idea is conveyed through three core chapters. The first chapter, ¿Journey through the Retellings of the Mahabharatä examines the genre ¿epic¿ with special mention about the Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Moreover, an introduction about retellings and how they reshape the traditional outlook regarding epics are given. Some prominent retellings of the Mahabharata including M. T. Vasudevan Nair¿s Randamoozham are discussed here.

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame.Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope.Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership-one selfless, one self-serving-and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of the Heroic Age of Discovery.

Could you marry a man you've never met? Three Korean women in 1918 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii, where they will marry, having seen only photographs of their intended husbands.Different fates await each of these women. Hong-ju, who dreams of a marriage of 'natural love', meets a man who looks twenty years older than his photograph; Song-hwa, who wants to escape from her life of ridicule as the granddaughter of a shaman, meets a lazy drunkard. And then there's Willow, whose 26-year-old groom, Taewan, looks just like his image ...Real life doesn't always resemble a picture, but there's no going back. And while things don't turn out quite as they'd hoped, even for Willow, they do find something that makes their journey worthwhile - each other.

Marine energy or marine power (also sometimes referred to as ocean energy, ocean power, or marine and hydrokinetic energy) refers to the energy carried by ocean waves, tides, salinity, and ocean temperature differences. The movement of water in the world¿s oceans creates a vast store of kinetic energy, or energy in motion. This energy can be harnessed to generate electricity to power homes, transport and industries. In this concern, the term marine energy encompasses both wave power i.e. power from surface waves, and tidal power i.e. obtained from the kinetic energy of large bodies of moving water. Offshore wind power is not a form of marine energy, as wind power is derived from the wind, even if the wind turbines are placed over water The marines have a tremendous amount of energy and are close to many if not most concentrated populations. Ocean energy has the potential of providing a substantial amount of new renewable energy around the world. Energy from the ocean is also known as hydro-electricity. The ocean can produce two types of energy: thermal energy from the sun's heat, and mechanical energy from the tides and waves.