Freud, Esther
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Freud, Esther (1963– ), British novelist, born in London, a former actress who achieved immediate success with her first novel,
Hideous Kinky (1992). It tells of a child's upbringing in Morocco at the hands of her bohemian mother. Set in an abandoned London tower block,
Peerless Flats (1993) offered a slightly bleaker portrait of dysfunctional families.
Gaglow (1997) told the parallel stories of an impoverished single mother and her East German ancestors. Childhood and family themes are at the centre of
The Wild (2000) which, like her other novels, is distinguished by a prevailing generosity of spirit, pierced by frequent shafts of irony.
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`The Waste Books,' by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/13/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...a bad discovery," wrote Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the 18th-century physicist...rumination." Nietzsche credited Lichtenberg as the greatest German aphorist...written over the course of Lichtenberg's adult life _ from 1765...
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G. C. Lichtenberg: a "spy on humanity".
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful...problem lies hidden. --Goethe Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone...ledger of posterity, the aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg rates high but is undeniably a...
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Die kleine Stechardin.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...protagonist is a cripple: namely, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99), the Enlightenment...lifetime. Along with quotes from Lichtenberg's letters, Hofmann has...ones. The book deals with Lichtenberg's life as an academic in...
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5 million-volt masterpiece
Newspaper article from: Courier News (Elgin, IL); 3/26/2008; ; 526 words
; ...branching pattern called a Lichtenberg figure or "electron tree." The figure is named after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who in 1777 discovered the...images he reproduced are called Lichtenberg figures. "These are not...
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The life of a hunchbacked genius and his Lolita-like lover
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/3/2008; ; 583 words
; The Wednesday Book LICHTENBERG & THE LITTLE FLOWER GIRL By...good Enlightenment brains, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's rode roughshod over academic...chapter of the man's story. Lichtenberg is born with a hunchback and...
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William Hogarth and the Tradition of Sexual Scissors.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...1794-99), for example, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg uses Moll's scissors to...readings have appeared since Lichtenberg: a modern example is the...enlisted (or ignored, as by Lichtenberg) only to support a previously...
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 "Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)")
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Science, art fuse in lightning-like creation
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 3/26/2008; ; 625 words
; ...branching pattern called a Lichtenberg figure or "electron tree." The figure is named after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who in 1777 discovered the...images he reproduced are called Lichtenberg figures. "These are not...
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ABOUT FACE: GERMAN PHYSIOGNOMIC THOUGHT FROM LAVATER TO AUSCHWITZ
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...without internal tensions and differentiations, from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's late-eighteenth-century critique of Lavater...critique of modern physiognomy in thinkers like Lichtenberg and G.W.F. Hegel privileges the dynamic features...
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Precision-Tuned Playing
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/26/1999; ; 567 words
; ...unaccompanied soprano, "A Few Pieces From the Jottings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg" (1996). One does not have to believe in the existence of Herr Lichtenberg to enjoy these enigmatic scraps of words and music...
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LETTER FROM GÖTTINGEN
Magazine article from: Opera News; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...month of May feting the glories of Georg Frideric Handel's music in what...rest of the year as the home of Georg-August-Universitt - founded...a diminutive bronze statue of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (b. 1742), the university...
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , 1742-99, German physicist and satirist. He taught at the Univ. of Göttingen, where his special field was electricity. Lichtenberg made several visits to England and was influenced by the satire...
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Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph ( b. Oberramstadt...February 1799) physics. Lichtenberg was the seventeenth...At the university Lichtenberg studied a wide range...history under Johann Christoph Gatterer, and natural...
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Girtanner, Christoph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Girtanner, Christoph ( b . St. Gall, Switzerland, 7...was the daughter of the burgomaster Christoph Wegelin. He studied first at Lausanne...ttingen in 1787, the year he met Georg Lichtenberg. After further travels in 1788...
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