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Modern Indian studies have recently become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts—such as ahimsa, caste, darshan, and race—have taken on different meanings. Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the Indian subcontinent....
| Автор | Rachel Dwyer |
Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive.–Diana Trilling A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too.–Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing...
| Автор | Elaine Baruch |
Whether a five-star chef or beginning home cook, any gourmand knows that recipes are far more than a set of instructions on how to make a dish. They are culture-keepers as well as culture-makers, both recording memories and fostering new ones. Organized like a cookbook, Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal is a collection of American literature written on the theme of food: from an invocation to a final toast, from starters to desserts. All food literatures are indebted to the form...
| Автор | Melissa Goldthwaite |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel that records the daily events in the lives of a London clerk, Charles Pooter, his wife Carrie, his son Lupin, and numerous friends and acquaintances over a period of 15 months.
| Автор | George Grossmith |
Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue , Forty-second Street, then the most infamous street in America, was being remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disappearance of porn theaters, peep shows, and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a children’s theater, and large, neon-lit cafes,...
| Автор | Samuel R. Delany |
Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies Jews have played an integral role in the history of obscenity in America. For most of the 20th century, Jewish entrepreneurs and editors led the charge against obscenity laws. Jewish lawyers battled literary censorship even when their non-Jewish counterparts refused to do so, and they won court decisions in favor of texts including Ulysses , A Howl , Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Tropic of...
| Автор | Josh Lambert |
What is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. It asks why the practice of decapitation was once so widespread, why it has diminished—but not, as scenes from contemporary Iraq show, completely disappeared—and why we find it so peculiarly repulsive that we use it as a...
| Автор | Regina Janes |
The mystery starts out in Sierra Nevada, at a gold mining camp. Bryan came to America from England, chasing a man who may have papers which explain Bryan's mysterious origins… E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.
| Автор | E. Phillips Oppenheim |
Stephen is an errant cowboy who does not believe in Church or Christ. Adding to that he has an equally obnoxious friend who is hell bent on testing Margaret's patience. But will Margaret be able to show her brother Stephen the true power of faith? Will Stephen finally accept Christ? Read On!
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |
DAS SPIEL BEGINNT!Im Kloster von Westvorstadt wird der Leichnam eines Mönchs gefunden. Die Kommissare Marrak und Schäfer stoßen bei der Untersuchung des Mordfalls auf einen geheimnisvollen Raum aus Quarzkristall, der mit unheilverkündenden Ornamenten versehen ist.Als mutierte Katzen Jagd auf Menschen machen, versinkt der Ort im Chaos und nur die Klosterbrüder scheinen zu wissen, welche überirdische Macht Westvorstadt in eine Hölle aus Quarz verwandelt.
| Автор | Tobias Bachmann |
Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc . provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture. Organized around the idea of «incorporation»–embodiment, repressed memory, and advanced capitalism– Modernism, Inc . covers a wide range of topics: Josephine Baker's «hot house style»; the president's penis in American political life;...
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The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon. Spanning the 1990s to the present, Carol Fadda-Conrey takes in the sweep of literary and cultural texts by Arab-American writers in order to understand the ways in which their depictions of Arab...
| Автор | Carol Fadda-Conrey |
Die überarbeitete Neuauflage des Klassikers. «Unzucht» ist eine Erzählung, in der alle Aspekte einer dysfunktionalen Beziehung auf das Genaueste durchleuchtet werden. Was Jan Off in seinen gewohnt präzise gewählten Worten hier erzählt, schwankt zwischen der Chronik einer Obsession und der Innenschau einer Amour fou. Nach wie vor für die deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur ein Glücksfall von Buch!
| Автор | Jan Off |
Heiße Doktorspiele in der Arztpraxis.Draußen ist es heiß und auch in der Sprechstunde kocht es vor Leidenschaft. Der junge Arzt raubt ihr den Verstand, bringt ihr Blut in Wallung und lässt sie unglaublich feucht werden. Und er? Wird er den Verführungskünsten seiner Patientin widerstehen können? Schon bald muss er seine Standhaftigkeit unter Beweis stellen....-
| Автор | Alexandra Södergran |
Winner of the Colorado Book Award;Winner of the Willa Literary Award As heard on Public Radio International's The Writer's Almanac! Full of music and evocative word play, Veronica Patterson's Swan, What Shores? offers alluring poems varied in form and inventive in approach. In language that is both precise and lyrical, Patterson's work, like much of the best poetry, plumbs the human condition with depth, wit, and, above all, compassion. The poems offer fine surprises, from...
| Автор | Veronica Lee Patterson |
Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer’s work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and special characteristics, as well as a chronology of the author’s life. Finally, there is a bibliography of primary works and criticism that suggests avenues for further study. "I know of no better introduction to these writers, and the studies in question are full of basic information not readily...
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An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. [b][/b]"Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a “kosmo-polites,” or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one’s place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Ein Förster wird vom geheimnisvollen «Samiel» niedergeschlagen. Er verdächtigt Hermann, weil der Förster diesem nicht erlaubt hat, seine Tochter Pauline zu heiraten. Nun versucht Hermann seine Unschuld zu beweisen. "Der Samiel" ist eine Kurzgeschichte. Sie wurde bereits in «Aus dunklem Tann» (Band 43 der Gesammelten Werke) veröffentlicht.
| Автор | Karl May |
