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Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with the opening of the western frontier and the replacement of sailing ships by steamers. Rather, he demonstrates its continuity and vitality, identifying a central vision within the tradition and showing...
| Автор | Bert Bender |
Una ciudad y miles de historias. Una forma diferente de descubrirlas, donde el protagonista será el narrador.¿Creías que las conocías todas? Seguro que más de una te sorprenderá. Realidad o leyenda, el misterio está servido en estos relatos. Adéntrate en ellos y descubre la otra cara de la ciudad de Úbeda , lo que sus gentes vivieron hace muchos años.
| Автор | N. Exvil |
(be)sinnliche Geschichten rund um scharfe Rezepte, verführerische Drinks, vernaschbare Desserts und andere aphrodisierende Gerichte: Lilla An Parker Emilia Jones Jennifer Schreiner Katinka Uhlenbrock + Rezepte zum Nachkochen
| Автор | Jennifer Schreiner |
Heißer Flirt zwischen Dozentin und Student.Seit ihrer Scheidung hat sie, Dozentin an einer Hochschule, das Interesse an Männern verloren. Bis sie auf Sebastian trifft. Er ist jung, bildhübsch, sitzt in ihren Vorlesungen und arbeitet als Kartenabreißer in ihrem Stammkino. Als beide eines Abends unerwartet aufeinander treffen, knistert es gewaltig – und schon bald bekommt sie eine ganze private heiße Filmvorführung.-
| Автор | Andrea Hansen |
In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American georgic. Offering a fresh approach to ecocritical and environmentally-oriented literary studies,...
| Автор | Timothy Sweet |
How did this vagabond word, bohemia , migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia , Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and histories they sought to animate. Beginning with the invention of bohemianism's modern sense in Paris during the 1830s and 1840s, Cottom traces the twists and turns...
| Автор | Daniel Cottom |
Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained the point of reference to which all later writers invariably return in their search for the roots of...
| Автор | Brian Stock |
Eine Erzählung über eine Liebe zwischen einem Pastor und einer blinden jungen Frau: Der Pastor und seine Frau Amélie adoptieren ein blindes Mädchen, Gertrude. Schon bald verliebt sich der älteste Sohn in Gertrude, aber der Vater, der ebenfalls Gefühle für die Blinde hegt, verhindert dies und beginnt selbst ein Verhältnis mit ihr. Als Gertrudes Augen operiert werden und sie sieht, wie traurig ihre Adoptivmutter über die Affäre ist, sieht sie nur einen Ausweg… -
| Автор | Андре Жид |
Heiß, leidenschaftlich und mitreißend!Sofia ist eine Rolle in einem Film angeboten worden und ihre Freude lässt sich kaum beschreiben. Noch dazu scheint der Mann, mit dem sie gemeinsam spielen wird, schlau, leidenschaftlich – und sexy zu sein. Und als die Dreharbeiten dann beginnen, verwischen die Grenzen zwischen Schauspiel und Wirklichkeit… -
| Автор | Alexandra Södergran |
Todos soñamos, esperamos, fantaseamos sobre nosotros mismos y sobre nuestra vida. Sin embargo, cuando abruptamente esos sueños quedan atravesados por lo inesperado, lo doloroso, lo irreversible, quedamos desarmados frente a la vida. Todo cambia, de una manera única, no pensada, no deseada. Estas historias, reales, convirtieron la humanidad de sus protagonistas en otra cosa.
| Автор | María Gabriela Mangas |
In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as «rather soiled by use.» When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as «well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner»; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered it to be «enlivened by the marginal notes and comments.» For this collector, as for an increasing number of...
| Автор | William H. Sherman |
The Dutch were culturally ubiquitous in England during the early modern period and constituted London's largest alien population in the second half of the sixteenth century. While many sought temporary refuge from Spanish oppression in the Low Countries, others became part of a Dutch diaspora, developing their commercial, spiritual, and domestic lives in England. The category «Dutch» catalyzed questions about English self-definition that were engendered less by large-scale cultural...
| Автор | Marjorie Rubright |
Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence of the modern West's emphasis on guilt, Burrus seeks to recuperate the importance of shame for Christian culture. Focusing on late antiquity, she explores a range of fascinating phenomena, from...
| Автор | Virginia Burrus |
Ein Roman über Außenseiter, unerwartete Gewinner im Leben und einen Mord: Der Ich-Erzähler Eduard hat sich als Schiffsarzt in Südafrika niedergelassen. Nun besucht er seine Heimatstadt in der deutschen Provinz, um seinen Kindheitsfreund Heinrich und den alten Briefträger Störzer wiederzusehen. Doch zwei Überraschungen warten dort auf ihn, und Heinrich hat eine erschreckende Entdeckung gemacht..-
| Автор | Wilhelm Raabe |
Der britische Adelige ist zwar verarmt, kann es aber nicht unterlassen, immer wieder eine lockere Party zu geben, bei der dann ein Fotograf mitmischt. Er knipst die verschiedensten Intim-Szenen. Die Fotos werden unter den Gästen ausgetauscht und zur Nachahmung empfohlen und dies geschieht dann auch, wobei auch die hübschen weiblichen Angestellten mit einbezogen werden.-
| Автор | Sam Winter |
During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay, and Charles Brockden Brown developed a set of formal tropes that countered, move for move, those gestures and conventions by which Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and others created their closed worlds...
| Автор | Nancy Armstrong |
Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls «atopias»—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new...
| Автор | Siobhan Carroll |
Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and acknowledging potentially threatening figures from the medieval past—pagan judges, primeval giants, Greek knights, Jewish forefathers, Egyptian sorcerers, and dead ancestors. In addressing...
| Автор | Christine Chism |
Murray Van Rensselaer is a spoiled rich kid who gets away with everything. After causing a terrible car accident, Murray leaves town before the police get a chance to charge him with murder. Murray arrives in the new town where he is mistaken for Allan Murray, a young Christian leader who the town was expecting. He accepts this new identity and his new life begins…
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |
Como si de una epopeya se tratara, supeditada al modo en que cada pueblo concibe su propia cultura, «Pobres conquistadores» narra las aventuras y desventuras de los hermanos Tuoran, miembros de la tripulación de Eretrin, durante su periplo a lejanas tierras. Una vez allí, el amor, la lealtad y el instinto de supervivencia condicionarán el cumplimiento no solo de su palabra, sino también la de todos aquellos que les acompañan.
| Автор | Daniel Sánchez Centellas |
American literary studies has undergone a series of field redefinitions over the past two decades that have been consistently described as «turns,» whether transnational, hemispheric, postnational, spatial, temporal, postsecular, aesthetic, or affective. In Turns of Event , Hester Blum and a splendid roster of contributors explore the conditions that have produced such movements. Offering an overview of the state of the study of nineteenth-century American literature, Blum contends that the...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation . Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions. They also convey discoveries achieved through exploration or experiment. Contemporaries relied on such accounts for access to information even as they distrusted them; scholars today share both their dependency and their doubt. What we take as evidence, Frances E. Dolan argues, often raises more...
| Автор | Frances E. Dolan |
The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, Of Bondage examines a culture that understood money and the body of the borrower as...
| Автор | Amanda Bailey |
Ein neuer Fall für Kriminalkommissar Høyer im dänischen Rockermilieu: Nachdem der «König» der Rockerbande Blue Devils nach einem Unfall im Koma liegt, wird sein Nachfolger, der «Prinz» Lars Sørensen, ermordet. Kriminalkommissar Therkelsen glaubt, dass der Täter aus derselben Gang kommt, da es Rivalitäten um die Nachfolge des «Königs» gab. Doch dann geschieht ein weiterer mysteriöser Mord… -
| Автор | Kirsten Holst |