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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 |
Hans Herbjørnsrud erzählt in seinem Roman fünf Geschichten über die Magie des Alltäglichen, die gekennzeichnet von Leidenschaft, Visionen und merkwürdigen Begegnungen die Grenze zwischen Realität und Phantasie zu verwischen vermögen. -
| Автор | Hans Herbjörnsrud |
Alles im Leben hat einen Anfang und ein Ende. Die Freiheit nicht! Sie lebt in uns und bleibt in uns!In seinem vierten Buch Der Ruf nach Freiheit wirft der Lyriker Jürgen Heider einen Blick auf die Zeit während der Coronakrise. Die Fotografen Maria Stehle, Helmut Schiemann und Axel Kottal haben seine Gedanken bildlich in Szene gesetzt.
| Автор | Jürgen Heider |
Copyright is by no means the only device for asserting ownership of a work. Some writers, including playwrights in the early modern period, did not even view print copyright as the most important of their authorial rights. A rich vein of recent scholarship has examined the interaction between royal monopolies, which have been identified with later notions of intrinsic authorial ownership, and the internal copy registration practices of the English book trades. Yet this dialogue was but one part...
| Автор | James J. Marino |
What does the keyword «continence» in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the «quince» with weddings that is crucial for A Midsummer Night's Dream ? How does the evocation of Spanish-occupied «Brabant» in Othello resonate with contemporary geopolitical contexts, wordplay on «Low Countries,» and fears of sexual/territorial «occupation»? How does «supposes» connote not only...
| Автор | Patricia Parker |
"You must see yourself." The exhortation was increasingly familiar to English men and women in the two centuries before the Reformation. They encountered it repeatedly in their devotional books, the popular guides to spiritual self-improvement that were reaching an ever-growing readership at the end of the Middle Ages. But what did it mean to see oneself? What was the nature of the self to be envisioned, and what eyes and mirrors were needed to see and know it properly? Looking Inward ...
| Автор | Jennifer Bryan |
Shauna estaba en su cabaña en medio del bosque cuando un desconocido llamó a su puerta. El agente secreto Ben McKinnon llevaba un bebé en brazos, y necesitaba que Shauna los escondiera a los dos. Esta no solo los acogió en su hogar, sino también en su corazón.Pero Ben tendría que marcharse, y Shauna volvería a estar sola… a menos que se diera cuenta de que la necesitaba tanto como ella a él…
| Автор | Cara Colter |
In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia , an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being «Black as Coal.» Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons—but neither was the statement that followed: «here, thro' Custom, (being Christians) they account themselves White Men.» The Complexion of Race asks how such categories would have been possible, when and how such statements came to...
| Автор | Roxann Wheeler |
What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal charisma—and indeed, in his award-winning Envy of Angels , Jaeger himself brilliantly parsed the ability of charismatic teachers to shape the world of medieval learning. In Enchantment , he turns his...
| Автор | C. Stephen Jaeger |
As seventeenth-century England wrestled with the aftereffects of the Reformation, the personal frequently conflicted with the political. In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography. John Milton famously interrupts his arguments against episcopacy with autobiographical accounts of his poetic hopes and dreams, while John Donne's attempts to describe his conversion from...
| Автор | Brooke Conti |