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There are many books that assist writers with their craft, structure, and formatting, all of which are important. However, there does not exist a guide for writers to understand the evolution of their genre. In order to effectively write within a transmedia environment – a marketplace that includes different groups of consumers with short attention spans across various platforms – today’s writer must master the history of their genre. By understanding where and how their genre has emerged they...
| Автор | Laurie Scheer |
As television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly pervasive mass medium on the nation's literature. While many studies have addressed the rhetorical response of artists and intellectuals to mid-twentieth-century mass culture, the relationship between the emergence of this culture and the production of novels has gone largely unexamined. In A Novel Marketplace , Evan Brier illuminates the complex ties between postwar mass culture and the...
| Автор | Evan Brier |
Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major modifications of the medieval canon and its literary history are necessary. Menocal reviews the Arabic cultural presence in a variety of key settings, including the courts of William of...
| Автор | Maria Rosa Menocal |
"Vem comigo a Itália… e faz de conta que és a minha noiva" Ivo Greco queria a custódia do sobrinho, órfão de pais, destinado a herdar a fortuna dos Greco. Mas para consegui-la tinha de manipular a guardiã do bebé, Flora Henderson. Só que a atração entre os dois e um falso noivado vai entrar no jogo e complicar tudo…
| Автор | Ким Лоренс |
Was der Chef nicht weiß, macht Jimmi heiß…Jimmi hat ein Geheimnis: Er hat eine Affäre mit der Frau seines Chefs, und Jimmi ist ihr hoffnungslos verfallen. Jimmi und sein Chef können sich nicht ausstehen. Und der Gedanke daran, dass sein Chef ihn beim Sex mit seiner Frau erwischen könnte, macht Jimmi nur noch heißer…-
| Автор | Sarah Skov |
Ein furchtbarer Fall von Kindesmisshandlung in Schweden: Der 10-jährige Bobby, der an Autismus litt, wurde um den Jahreswechsel 2005/2006 so schwer von seiner Mutter und deren Partner misshandelt, dass er schließlich an den Folgen starb. Ob man die Schuldigen dafür zur Rechenschaft ziehen und wie die Polizei die Umstände rekonstruieren konnte, darum geht es in diesem erschütternden True Crime-Fall.-
| Автор | Karl-Olof Ackerot |
Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual—and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from...
| Автор | Richard Halpern |
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Romantic movement had profound social implications for nineteenth-century British culture. Among the most significant, Debbie Lee contends, was the change it wrought to insular Britons' ability to distance themselves from the brutalities of chattel slavery. In the broadest sense, she asks what the relationship is between the artist and the most hideous crimes of his or her era. In dealing with the Romantic period, this...
| Автор | Debbie Lee |
In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, «once venerated,» no longer earned homage «spontaneously and universally.» The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws regulating medical practice had been repealed; and professional practitioners were often branded by their lay competitors as aristocrats bent on establishing a health care monopoly. By 1900, the battles were over, and, as...
| Автор | Stephanie P. Browner |
Esta divertida novela, basada en la tierra de «Mundo De Mitologías», nos relata la historia de Milo, Alexandra y Tatiana, un trío muy particular de valientes aventureros que intentará convertirse en poderosos héroes y ganarse la entrada al Cielo, además Milo ha vendido su alma por lo que hará todo lo posible por recuperarla. Aquí se describen todo tipo de acciones y emociones, dándonos una mirada a los momentos más felices y tristes de su vida e intimidad.
| Автор | Juan Manuel Avigo |
El haiku es un género poético de origen japonés . Consta de tres versos sin rima, de cinco, siete y cinco sílabas, respectivamente. Suelen hacer referencia a la naturaleza.El viejo árbol invitaba a los pájaros a unirse en coro.Estos poemas japoneses cuando nos hablan de la vida cotidiana reciben el nombre de Senryu. El equipaje iba lleno de amor para el camino.
| Автор | Manuela Calderón Marín |
During the Renaissance, horses—long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant—gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and, with it, their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes and emperors, declined into figures of mindless mimicry. Cats, which were tortured by Catholics in the Middle Ages, were tortured in the Reformation as part of the Protestant attack...
| Автор | Bruce Thomas Boehrer |
The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts' production. In Knowing Books Lupton examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources, including sermons, graffiti, philosophical texts, and magazines, which illustrate the range and character...
| Автор | Christina Lupton |
Das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint. Das musste auch Herr Meyer lernen. Bleibt am Ende nur die Frage: Wie trickst man jemanden aus, der selbst den Tod betrügt?
| Автор | Marion Jaggi |
Es war kurz vor der Mittagspause, als Brigitte in mein Zimmer stürzte. Meine Sekretärin, die sie aufhalten und ordnungsgemäß anmelden wollte, wurde erregt auf die Seite geschoben.Ohne meine Antwort abzuwarten, ging sie in die Ecke meines Zimmers, kniete sich in einen Sessel, streifte sich hastig den Slip ab und zog dann den Rock hoch, sah stolz auf den schmalen Hüftgürtel, den Straps, die modernen gemusterten Netzstrümpfe. «Gefalle ich dir?» fragte sie…-
| Автор | Bernd Tillberg |
Shakespeare's Schoolroom places moments of considerable emotional power in Shakespeare's poetry—portraits of what his contemporaries called «the passions»—alongside the discursive and material practices of sixteenth-century English pedagogy. Humanist training in Latin grammar and rhetorical facility was designed to intervene in social reproduction, to sort out which differences between bodies (male and female) and groups (aristocrats, the middling sort, and those...
| Автор | Lynn Enterline |
Arguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature—inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts—were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and territories that lay uneasily beyond the national border. The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign «fair exotics» and a deeply rooted sense of their...
| Автор | Rajani Sudan |
Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an «us,» they also resented the Ancients as an imperial «them,» haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had colonized their ancestors, the Gauls. This memory put the elite on the...
| Автор | Sara E. Melzer |
In diesem schönen Werk erzählt Lise Gast von dem Pastor ihrer Gemeinde. Sie beschreibt, wie er ihr auf ihrem Ponyhof half, wenn sie alleine nicht zurechtkam, und erzählt von dem Menschen, den sie kennen gelernt hat. Dabei kommen viele schöne Geschichten und lustige Anekdoten zusammen, die den Leser direkt in den Moment versetzen können. Und natürlich wird Pater Toms merkwürdige Predigt, die dem Buch seinen Titel gibt, dabei nicht außer Acht gelassen.-
| Автор | Lise Gast |
Männer und Frauen erzählen in kurzen Geschichten von ihren erotischen Fantasien. Was macht sie an? Was würden sie gerne einmal erleben? Mit wem würden sie es gerne einmal erleben? Dazu gehören auch die geheimen Lüste – die, über die man in der Gesellschaft nicht offen spricht.
| Автор | Anna Bridgwater |
Despite the recent outpouring of scholarship on Piers Plowman , Lawrence Warner contends, we know much less about the poem's production, transmission, and readership than one might think. When did William Langland write each of the three versions of the poem, and when did they enter wide circulation? What role did scribes and other agents play in these processes? The Lost History of «Piers Plowman» engages with these questions to bring about a fundamental shift in our understanding of...
| Автор | Lawrence Warner |
Using insights from feminist studies, men's studies, and gay and queer studies, Leland Person examines Henry James's subversion of male identity and the challenges he poses to conventional constructs of heterosexual masculinity. Sexual and gender categories proliferated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Person argues that James exploited the taxonomic confusion of the times to experiment with alternative sexual and gender identities. In contrast to scholars who have...
| Автор | Leland S. Person |
In nineteenth-century America, Gillian Silverman contends, reading—and particularly book reading—precipitated intense fantasies of communion. In handling a book, the reader imagined touching and being touched by the people affiliated with that book's narrative world—an author, a character, a fellow reader. This experience often led to a sense of consubstantiality, a fantasy that the reader, the material book, and the imagined other were momentarily merged. Such...
| Автор | Gillian Silverman |
Die Geschichte eines jungen Paares, das aufgrund verschiedener Ansichten entzweit wird und sein Lachen verliert: Jukundus aus Seldwyla lernt Justine aus der reichen Familie Glor kennen. Sie heiraten und scheinen glücklich, doch Jukundus' grundehrliche Ansichten und Justines Nähe zu den Ansichten des Pfarrers bringen die Liebenden auseinander. Werden sie ihr Lachen zurückbekommen? -
| Автор | Gottfried Keller |