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The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca. Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language unencumbered by the political rivalries that accompanied English, German, and French. Organizations...
| Автор | Roberto Garvia |
Narrar y narrar historias, noche tras noche, vence a la muerte, enseña Scherezade, pero en esta novela la protagonista narradora está tirada en el diván y es su amado quien le cuenta su vida llena de aventuras, ora maravillosas, ora pringosas e irritantes, sin que ninguno de los dos se atreva a interrumpir esta intimidad con otra suerte de acercamiento.
| Автор | Enrique Butti |
Der Regisseur Hans Billian wurde oft gefragt, wie es denn beim Drehen eines Films zugehen würde. Werfen Sie in diesem Roman einmal einen Blick hinter die Kulissen…-
| Автор | Hans Billian |
Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. In Crossing Borders , Sahar Amer turns to the rich body of Arabic...
| Автор | Sahar Amer |
At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the...
| Автор | Sonja Drimmer |
In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determinants of American—rather than...
| Автор | Joshua David Bellin |
Tantadel es un personaje femenino interesante y poco común en las letras nacionales. Su autor, René Avilés Fabila, cautivado por los temas amorosos y sus principales consecuencias, hizo de la novela una historia donde la realidad y la fantasía van de la mano y predomina justo lo contrario: el desamor.
| Автор | René Avilés Fabila |
En La tumba del alacrán encontraremos relatos crudos y desgarradores, así como algunos plagados de humor negro. También leeremos cínicos relatos. Todos contados con el alma en la mano, tan así que en muchos nos sentiremos identificados, y quizá incómodos. Esa es la maestría de Eusebio Ruvalcaba —uno de los mejores cuentistas mexicanos—, lograr que un relato breve esté cargado de emociones y ocasione recuerdos y añoranzas.
| Автор | Eusebio Ruvalcaba |
In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively about women's reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women's writing in...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, or attempt to resolve their fascination with Spain and their debt to Spanish sources. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial competition, the rise of commercial authorship, and...
| Автор | Barbara Fuchs |
In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social differentiation, however, secular arrangements produced new anxieties. Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures and their expression in works by Jane Austen, Horace Walpole, Samuel Taylor...
| Автор | Colin Jager |
Der dritte Fall für die Journalistin Dicte Svendsen: An einem warmen Sommertag findet Dicte die Leiche einer jungen Frau. Schnell wird klar, dass es sich um einen besonders brutalen Mord handelt, denn die Frau wurde einem professionell ausgeführten Kaiserschnitt unterzogen. Doch von dem Baby gibt es keine Spur. Dicte ermittelt auf eigene Faust und ist damit der Polizei immer etwas voraus. Die Spur führt auf einen internationalen Verbrecherring…-
| Автор | Elsebeth Egholm |
¿Te cuento un vino? es el libro de vinos que gustará a todos; desde los más expertos en elaboración y cata al consumidor poco entendido pero que sabe distinguir lo más importante: si un vino le gusta o no. A través de más de 30 microrelatos, su autor Enrique López, nos abre las puertas de otras tantas bodegas para que sintamos y conozcamos algo más que sabores, aromas, fermentaciones y taninos: el alma, el corazón… el «lado humano» de nuestros vinos y bodegas.
| Автор | Enrique López |
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater investigated representations of religious and ethnic identity in its portrayals of Turks and Muslims, poetry, Miriam Jacobson argues, explored East-West exchanges primarily through language and the...
| Автор | Miriam Jacobson |
A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians, Goethe's literary rendering of interiority has not been the subject of detailed analysis in itself. Goethe's Allegories of Identity examines how Goethe created the essential bridge between...
| Автор | Jane K. Brown |
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 |