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What does it mean when people say “You can’t compare apples and oranges”? Are comparisons across genres inherently invalid, or can they be insightful and illuminating? In this brilliant and provocative collection of essays, Dutch author Maarten Asscher maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument.Asscher makes his case with examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the...
| Автор | Maarten Asscher |
This book introduces readers to basic concepts of sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. The coverage goes beyond linguistics to examine the history and politics of Spanish in the US, the relationship of language to Latinx identities, and how language ideologies and policies reflect and shape societal views of Spanish and its speakers. Accessible to those with no linguistic background, this book provides students with a foundation in the study of language and society, and the...
| Автор | Janet M. Fuller |
<P><B>Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016)</B></P><P>Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. They become actors in the drama—interacting with the characters,...
| Автор | Stefan Ekman |
Fontanes Krimi-Klassiker aus dem 19. Jahrhundert: Der Schankwirt Abel Hradschek ist Spieler und hochverschuldet bei einer polnischen Firma, die deswegen einen Vertreter zum Eintreiben der Schulden schickt. Als Hradschek dann bei der Gartenarbeit das Skelett eines französischen Soldaten unter seinem Birnbaum findet, kommt ihm eine mörderische Idee…-
| Автор | Theodor Fontane |
Jaime Begazo begegnet in seinem prämierten Debütroman dem Autor, den man seit Jahrzehnten für den Inbegriff der Literatur hält: Jorge Luis Borges. Der Leser wird Zeuge einer Begegnung mit dem gealterten Meister, der die üblichen Fragen gekonnt pariert, bis Begazos Alter Ego ein Detail aus «Emma Zunz» anspricht. Darauf schnürt Begazo-Borges die berühmte Parabel auf und führt uns noch einmal in die Labyrinthe von «Aleph» zurück.
| Автор | Jaime Begazo |
<P>This groundbreaking, transgenre work—part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past—is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive...
| Автор | Kazim Ali |
Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of “history and tradition” suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy—from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to...
| Автор | Melissa E. Sanchez |
Ein Wiedersehen kann schnell zu einem zerstörerischen Akt der Unterwerfung führen. Damals, vor einigen Jahren, war sie ihm kurz vor der Hochzeitsnacht weggelaufen. Noch einmal würde das nicht passieren. Er hatte sie verdient und so hart dafür gearbeitet. Die Rollen waren klar. Er, der Herr, der mit seiner dominanten Art über seine Sklavin herrscht. Doch mit ihrem devoten Widerstand, lustvoll und mit einem zärtlichen Schmerz ausgeübt, hatte er nicht gerechnet.
| Автор | Sascha Lordness |
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 |