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Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s Georgics , a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about...
| Автор | Philip Thibodeau |
The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical memoirs, and state papers, Sara E. Johnson examines the migration of people, ideas, and practices across imperial boundaries. Building on previous scholarship on black internationalism, she traces...
| Автор | Sara E. Johnson |
This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews with 75 friends of Levertov, as well as on Levertov’s entire opus, Donna Krolik Hollenberg’s authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both woman and artist, and the dynamic world...
| Автор | Donna Hollenberg |
Eduard Breimann versteht es in seinem Roman, ein immer noch heikles Thema, das heutige Problem mit den Zwangsarbeitern des letzten Weltkriegs in Deutschland, auf eine unter die Haut gehende Weise, spannend und anrührend darzustellen. Der Roman beleuchtet Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, das Leben in Russland, wie auch die Verwicklungen, die durch das Eintreten einer Schüler-Projektgruppe für eine zügige Entschädigung, in einer rheinischen Kleinstadt ausgelöst werden.-
| Автор | Eduard Breimann |
Das plötzliche Verschwinden ihres Verlobten beunruhigt die wohlhabende Miss Sutherland: Ruhig und extrem verschlossen wie er war, weiß sie nicht viel über ihn. Merkwürdigerweise tippte er immer seine Briefe an sie, er schrieb nie per Hand und pochte darauf, dass sie ihre Briefe postlagernd an ihn sandte. Sherlock Holmes sieht ein Leichtes darin, den Fall aufzuklären, doch kann er seiner Klientin die Wahrheit sagen?-
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
From risqué cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, <i>Trade of the Tricks</i> offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, Graham M. Jones gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their astonishing deceptions. He follows the day-to-day lives of some of France’s most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also...
| Автор | Graham Jones |
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? <I>The Thought of Music</I> grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In this third volume in a trilogy on musical understanding that includes <I>Interpreting Music</I> and <I>Expression and Truth</I>, Lawrence Kramer...
| Автор | Lawrence Kramer |
In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of business, research, technology, and finance. Most assume that if parties on both ends of the conference call are fluent English speakers, information will be shared seamlessly and without any misunderstanding. But is that really true?<BR />  <BR /><I>Words...
| Автор | Elizabeth Keating |
The Yuki language, including Huchnom and Coast Yuki, was spoken in Mendocino County until relatively recently (the last speaker died in 1983). This grammar is based primarily on spoken narratives recorded by Alfred Kroeber between 1901-1911. While Yuki was extensively documented over the course of the twentieth century, there is relatively little in the way of actual published works on the language. Balodis discusses the language within the historical and cultural context of the people who spoke...
| Автор | Uldis Balodis |
Había una vez una cabrita blanca muy tozuda que un día regresando del colegio con su bicicleta se encontró a una cabrita negra al otro lado de un puente muy estrecho, hecho con el tronco de un árbol. La cabrita blanca quiso atravesar el barranco, y decidida se fue hacia el puente. La cabrita negra, que estaba del otro lado, quiso también atravesar el barranco en aquel preciso momento y se fue muy decidida hacia el puente.
| Автор | La Fontaine |
I wake up terrified, humiliated, and chained to a wall.The shackles around my wrists mean only one thing.He owns me now. With his dark glares and barked orders, he is dangerous.He is my tormentor, my captor, a threat to my very existence. Not to be toyed with.Even if my frightened mind whispersmaybeEven if I am very curious how such a man came to be.I am still his dark and twisted pet, to cherish or to scorn.And I am starting to love the darkness…
| Автор | Jessa James |
Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style classical voice has become a specifically Christian emblem of South Korean prosperity. By cultivating certain qualities of voice and suppressing others, Korean Christians strive to personally embody...
| Автор | Nicholas Harkness |
   Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism, and contrary to the picture drawn in the most post-war literary histories and anthologies, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of wide publication and both popular and critical recognition for female authors in Italy. Focusing on the cultural pages of three major daily newspapers of the period, Robin Pickering-Iazzi discovered a wealth of contributions by famous and less-known woman that have been unavailable to...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of his publishing business, the failure of the typsetting machine in which he invested heavily, and the death of his daughter Susy. Their principal fable is that of a man who has been long favored by luck while pursuing a dream of success that has seemed about to turn into reality. Sudden reverses occur...
| Автор | Марк Твен |
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival materials—including previously unexamined marginalia in books from Clemens’s personal library—Driscoll charts the development of...
| Автор | Kerry Driscoll |
Wenn Alter keine Rolle spielt…Vivian ist fast 20 Jahre jünger als Alexander, dennoch fühlt sie sich stark zu dem attraktiven Mann hingezogen. Als sie eines Tages einen großen Strauß Rosen vor ihrer Haustür findet, kann sie ihrem Verlangen nicht länger widerstehen und der Altersunterschied spielt plötzlich gar keine Rolle mehr!-
| Автор | Camille Bech |
Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann’s novel <I>Doctor Faustus</I>. In the thick of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers—be they naturalists or armchair explorers—will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span more than a century. Divided into sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast, and elements (earth, wind, and fire), the book contains essays, diary entries, and...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux «genius,» and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux’s work «is without equal in the literature of our time.» This anthology contains substantial selections from almost all of Michaux’s major works, most never before published in English, and allows readers to explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a...
| Автор | Henri Michaux |
Olivia, a young Scotswoman, takes a trip to India to visit her brother, who is a civil servant. Through her letters, we follow Olivia's ocean voyage to India, her stay in Calcutta, and her visits to outlying posts. The letters are gaily written and offer amusing anecdotes about the journey, the people she meets, and impressions of India on a girl who has barely left Scotland before.
| Автор | Anna Buchan |