When Laine Camara moves to sleepy Seaglass Bay after a botched engagement she wants nothing more than to rest and regroup. But on her morning beach walk, Laine literally bumps into Sam, who makes her regret her decision to stay single forever. To top it off, she suspects foul play at her job at the Nature Center. In short order, both the man and the mystery have her off the couch and on the case. Laine is determined to expose the village's dark secrets, before she gets caught... and can she protect her own heart... from hurt once again?
„The Shakespeare‘s mine, but you can have it.“ With these words Billie, Othello‘s black, first wife in 20th century Harlem, kisses her marriage goodbye in Djanet Sears‘ Harlem Duet. Sears is one of several contemporary authors who use, translate, adapt and rewrite Shakespeare‘s Othello to tell their own stories. This study examines eight postcolonial plays written between 1964 and 2003. It analyses their treatment of and closeness to the original text. The choice of texts range from Charles Marowitz‘ collage in An Othello to the tiny fragments of Shakespeare buried almost invisibly deep inside Amiri Baraka‘s Dutchman and The Slave. The playwright‘s changes to gender, ethnicity and relationships of the main characters are often influenced by their country of origin and by contemporary historical events, e. g. the US-American Civil Rights Movement and the race riots in C. Bernard Jackson‘s Iago. Murray Carlin‘s Not Now, Sweet Desdemona, set a mere six years after Ugandan independence, gives a voice to a new generation of white and black hoping to overcome racism. Canadian Ken Mitchell‘s country operaCruel Tears is the first rewrite to radically change Othello‘s ethnicity and colour. Finally, Juha Lehtola uses Othello as a foil for Spinning Othello, where the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the subsequent migration of Ingrian Finns and their reception in Finland serves as a filter to a criticism of Finnish work ethics.
Eine Geschichte des Wissens vom Wetter (1750–1850)
Die Art und Weise, wie die Menschen über das alltägliche und zugleich so komplexe Wetter nachdenken, hat eine überraschende Geschichte. Bevor die Meteorologie um 1850 eine Physik der Atmosphäre wurde, gab es verschiedene Formen des Wetterwissens: eine, die nach Naturgesetzen forschte, aber auch eine, die Wetterzeichen sammelte und eine, die das Wetter als Teil eines natürlichen Organismus untersuchte. Diesen verschiedenen historischen Wissensformen und ihren Akteuren geht die vorliegende Studie auf den Grund. Untersucht wird, wie sich die moderne Meteorologie aus ihnen entwickelte? und auch, welches Wissen dabei verlorenging
