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In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, «Science does not know its debt to imagination,» words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine—to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make groundbreaking discoveries. We know a great deal about the empirical aspects of medicine,...
| Автор | Sari Altschuler |
Schweigend zum Höhepunkt…Mitten im schwedischen Nirgendwo hat Emma eine Autopanne. Während sie auf den Pannendienst wartet, findet sie in Sogans Ro, einem Yoga-Zentrum, Unterschlupf. Hier macht Emma Bekanntschaft mit einem mysteriösen Fremden, der ihr schweigend den Weg in neue Höhepunkt-Dimensionen weist. -
| Автор | Christina Tempest |
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive. Reading the...
| Автор | William H. Galperin |
The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as «the Word made flesh»—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the Word; how is it related to language; how can the Word become flesh? Such theological questions haunt the material imagery engaged by medieval writers, the structural forms that give their writing...
| Автор | Cristina Maria Cervone |
Textual criticism—the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text—is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to analyze. G. Thomas Tanselle argues, on the contrary, that the two activities cannot be separated. The textual critic, in choosing among textual variants and correcting what appear to be...
| Автор | G. Thomas Tanselle |
Sí, muchacha de cabellos australes, sé que no puedo detener el destino de los nómadas, la vida es así: siempre partir, te espera el viejo Buenos Aires, su tanguero cotorreo el teatro Colón apagado.
| Автор | Mario Arturo Ramos |
Eine historische Novelle über das traurige Schicksal eines geistig zurückgebliebenen Jugendlichen: Basierend auf den Memoiren Saint-Simons hat Conrad Ferdinand Meyer eine ergreifende Geschichte geschrieben, die tief in die menschliche Psyche eintaucht. Der königliche Leibarzt Fagon erzählt dem Sonnenkönig Louis XIV und dessen Frau von dem behinderten Jugendlichen Julian Boufflers, der an der Jesuitenschule von seinem Lehrer misshandelt wird. -
| Автор | Conrad Ferdinand Meyer |
Spannender biographischer Roman über das Leben, Schaffen und Werken des Dynamitkönigs Alfred Nobel. Rune Pär Oloffson zeigt in seiner Biographie die Fülle der Widersprüche, in denen sich das Leben des Dynamitfabrikanten Alfred Nobel vollzog.-
| Автор | Rune Pär Olofsson |
Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles, and quack medicine. Excavating a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song sheets, and early literary criticism, and revisiting...
| Автор | Lara Langer Cohen |
Peggy McCracken offers a feminist historicist reading of Guenevere, Iseut, and other adulterous queens of Old French literature, and situates romance narratives about queens and their lovers within the broader cultural debate about the institution of queenship in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Moving among a wide selection of narratives that recount the stories of queens and their lovers, McCracken explores the ways adultery is appropriated into the political structure of romance....
| Автор | Peggy McCracken |
The number of surviving medieval secular poems attributed to named female authors is small, some of the best known being those of the trobairitz the female troubadours of southern France. However, there is a large body of poetry that constructs a particular textual femininity through the use of the female voice. Some of these poems are by men and a few by women (including the trobairitz); many are anonymous, and often the gender of the poet is unresolvable. A «woman's song» in this sense...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing through our reading into our own ivory towers. Or we may devour our books like burrowing worms, not to benefit from the wisdom they contain but merely to stuff ourselves with countless words. With...
| Автор | Alberto Manguel |
Curiosities of Literature is a three volume anthology gathered by British scholar Isaac D'Israeli. The work contains countless anecdotes about historical persons and events, unusual books, and the habits of book-collectors. It offers a diversified miscellany of literary, artistic, and political history, of critical disquisition and biographic anecdote.
| Автор | Disraeli Isaac |
Sonne, Sex, Verlangen und Begehren – Jonathan und Julia machen gemeinsam mit ihrem Liebhaber José Urlaub am Mittelmeer und erleben in einem exklusiven Swingerclub Gruppensex der besonderen Art. Vor allem Julia kommt auf ihre Kosten und gleich durch mehrere fremde Männer zu ungeahnten Höhepunkten…-
| Автор | Malva B. |
As rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools—including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine and David Brown in the nineteenth—became passionate advocates for Native community as a political and cultural force. From handwriting exercises to Cherokee Syllabary texts, Native...
| Автор | Hilary E. Wyss |
In Medieval Boundaries , Sharon Kinoshita examines the role of cross-cultural contact in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century French literature. Starting from the observation that many of the earliest and best-known works of the French literary tradition are set on or beyond the borders of the French-speaking world, she reads the Chanson de Roland , the lais of Marie de France, and a variety of other texts in an expanded geographical frame that includes the Iberian peninsula, the Welsh...
| Автор | Sharon Kinoshita |
In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to claim the young man's inheritance. The press covered both cases with thoroughness and enthusiasm, narrating events in a style worthy of a popular novelist, and including lengthy passages of...
| Автор | Richard D. Altick |
In diesem spannenden Kurzkrimi wird der Leser selbst ein Teil der Geschichte!Hermes Eugene wurde von seinem Adoptivvater zum Dieb erzogen. Und dieser brauch nun nach einem Unfall eine Niere, jedoch passt Hermes nicht als Spender. Also macht er sich auf die Suche und findet dabei auch weitere Informationen über seine Mutter und seinen Erzeuger. Dieser faszinierenden Geschichte teilt er auf eine ganz besondere Art und Weise.-
| Автор | Mischa Bach |
Ein Buch voller knisternder Erotik und ausschweifenden Sexpraktiken. Sex, Leidenschaft, Erotik, Partnertausch – in einem Kurort geht es hoch her. Jeder hat seine Fantasien und Bedürfnisse, die nachts in den Betten der Kurgäste und Ärzte ausgelebt werden. Gelangweilte Frauen versuchen nicht nur ihren Organismus wieder auf Trab zu bringen, sondern lassen sich auch von Gigolos verführen und zu fesselnden Sexabenteuern hinreißen. -
| Автор | Rick Ocean |
Sexual types on the early modern stage are at once strange and familiar, associated with a range of «unnatural» or «monstrous» sexual and gender practices, yet familiar because readily identifiable as types: recognizable figures of literary imagination and social fantasy. From the many found in early modern culture, Mario DiGangi here focuses on six types that reveal in particularly compelling ways, both individually and collectively, how sexual transgressions were understood to intersect with...
| Автор | Mario DiGangi |
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have «no rights which the white man was bound to respect,» it overlooked the right...
| Автор | Jeannine Marie DeLombard |
Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of «India,» as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and perversion, she demonstrates, it was also a space where colonial authorities...
| Автор | Carmen Nocentelli |
El tambor encantado es la obra debut de uno de los mejores autores de terror y suspenso de la literatura japonesa. Un desamor crea un tambor especial, un regalo de bodas que esconde una oscura maldición para las dos familias. Un sonido encantador y al mismo tiempo maldito que puede llevar a la ruina y a la muerte a quien lo escucha. Proyecto ganador de la Beca para editoriales independientes IDARTES.
| Автор | Kyusaku Yumeno |
Set in post-1918, rural Sussex, the story revolves around Mary Viner, a young lady with aspirations to leave her small town, as well as her relationship with a man living on a local acreage, known as the Doomsday Farm. The story also follows Arnold Furze of the Doomsday Farm, World War I veteran struggling with the farm life, thorn between two women of different sensibilities who have a significant impact on him.
| Автор | Warwick Deeping |