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Beginning in the 1790s, North American readers developed an appetite for the gothic novel, as imported, reprinted, and pirated editions of British and European romances flooded the market alongside homegrown works. In Gothic Subjects , Siân Silyn Roberts accounts for the sudden and considerable appeal of the gothic during this period by contending that it prepared a culturally diverse American readership to think of itself as part of a transatlantic world through which goods, people,...
| Автор | Sian Silyn Roberts |
Harry Paradise es un escritor solitario, depresivo y pervertido que ha cumplido los treinta años. Sobrevive en el laberinto de los días con una filosofía vagabunda, moviéndose por sórdidos lugares con la única gasolina del amor. Su amigo Melquiades Allende y su primo Simón Oliva lo acompañan en algunos tramos del camino.Cuando conoce a María Laguna, su vida empieza a cambiar con un inesperado giro al infierno personal.
| Автор | Daniel Ruiz Salamanca |
In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue—but the extremity of their stylistic innovations yielded texts that seemed hardly English at all. Critics likened Lyly's hyperembellished prose to a bejeweled «Indian,» complained that...
| Автор | Catherine Nicholson |
In The Nature of the Page , Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a...
| Автор | Joshua Calhoun |
Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form. They built up their stocks of papers by sharing these materials through postal and less formal carrier services. They exchanged letters, loose notes, drawings and plans, commonplace books, as well as lengthy treatises, ever-expanding repositories for new...
| Автор | Elizabeth Yale |
Entre las comisuras de sus dedos de los callejones sin entrada de ventanas no construidas de las puertas me detiene el tacto la posibilidad el disparate de lo permanente de ser la torre más alta, más vista el puente macizo por donde cruzas con la ciudad en los ojos y la luna.
| Автор | Lilian Broeck Van Den |
Als Möne Braaken den Maler Pirmin Scheufelrainer heiratet und zu ihm in die Berghütte gezogen ist, die er für dauernd eingerichtet hat, scheint das Glück perfekt. Doch Pirmin entdeckt Aufzeichnungen seiner Frau, in denen er nachzuspüren versucht, was er Möne bedeutet. Was er nicht weiß, ist, dass es wirklich in ihrer Vergangenheit eine rätselhafte Beziehung gegeben hat, die Mönes Gefühle auch für ihren Mann beeinflusst. Eine Tages steht ein Gast in der Tür der Jagdhütte.-
| Автор | Hans Leip |
Generations of scholars have meditated upon the literary devices and cultural meanings of The Song of Roland . But according to Andrew Taylor not enough attention has been given to the physical context of the manuscript itself. The original copy of The Song of Roland is actually bound with a Latin translation of the Timaeus . Textual Situations looks at this bound volume along with two other similarly bound medieval volumes to explore the manuscripts and marginalia that have been cast...
| Автор | Andrew Taylor |
Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted popular musical settings of poems to spread scandal and satire, or used poems as a medium for asserting personal and family memories as well as local and national affiliations. Poetry was not only read but memorized and quoted,...
| Автор | Michael C. Cohen |
Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling explores the mutually generative relationship between post-Reformation religious life and London's commercial theaters. It explores the dynamic exchange between the imaginatively transformative capacities of shared theatrical experience, with the particular ideological baggage that individual playgoers bring into the theater. While early modern English drama was shaped by the polyvocal, confessional scene in which it was embedded, Musa Gurnis contends that...
| Автор | Musa Gurnis |
This eBook edition of «The Complete Works of O. Douglas» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents. Novels: Olivia in India The Setons Penny Plain Ann and Her Mother Pink Sugar The Proper Place The Day of Small Things Priorsford Taken by the Hand Jane's Parlour The House That Is Our Own Unforgettable, Unforgotten – A Memoir
| Автор | O. Douglas (Anna Buchan) |
Schreibe ein kurzes Gedicht, wurde mir gesagt und ich blieb sprachlos und wartete auf den Vers, aber es waren zu viele die Wörter, sie trampelten aufeinander rum beim Versuch herauszukommen aus meiner Seele, wie eine panische Menschenmenge auf der Flucht aus einem brennenden Stadion und ich habe nichts geschrieben, weil alles aus mir heraus wollte und das Nichts war der Rauch, der mein Herz erstickte.
| Автор | Alvaro Solar |
A Monster with a Thousand Hands makes visible a figure that has been largely overlooked in early modern scholarship on theater and audiences: the discursive spectator, an entity distinct from the actual bodies attending early modern English playhouses. Amy J. Rodgers demonstrates how the English commercial theater's rapid development and prosperity altered the lexicon for describing theatergoers and the processes of engagement that the theater was believed to cultivate. In turn, these...
| Автор | Amy J. Rodgers |
For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority. In Showing Like a Queen , Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage by using it as an occasion to experiment with new literary genres. Unlike other critics who have argued that a...
| Автор | Katherine Eggert |
In Animals and Other People , Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the «lives» of mice as well as men. From such writers—including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld,...
| Автор | Heather Keenleyside |
The storyline of the novel The Emancipated, written by George Gissing, is set in Italy. It depicts a group of British middle class intellectuals going on a tour through the countryside and doing things they might later either bless or regret. This book shows their adventures and search of identity.
| Автор | George Gissing |
Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Table of Contents: The Gift of the Magi Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking Christmas by Injunction A Chaparral Christmas Gift
| Автор | O. Henry |
Between 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly «American» tradition. No one had yet figured out, however, what it would mean to write like an American, what literature with an American origin would look like, nor what literary characteristics the elusive quality of Americanness could generate. ...
| Автор | Ezra Tawil |
Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the commercial theater industry writing to make a living nor aristocratic amateurs dipping their toes in theatrical waters for social or political prestige. Instead, they were largely working- and middle-class amateurs who had learned most of what they knew about drama from being members of the audience. Using a range of familiar and lesser-known print...
| Автор | Matteo A. Pangallo |
In Front Lines , Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship. The soldiers of Italian garrisons and North African presidios , on colonial American frontiers and in the traveling military camps of northern Europe read and wrote epic...
| Автор | Miguel Martinez |
