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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...
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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 |
Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon—and there are some 700,000 a year who do so—might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, was purchased by Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, in two stages in 1556 and 1575, and William was born and brought up there. The street itself might have changed through the...
| Автор | Julia Thomas |
In the late eighteenth century, British print culture took a diagrammatic and accentual turn. In graphs of emphasis and tonal inflection, in signs for indicating poetic stress, and in tabulations of punctuation, elocutionists, grammarians, and prosodists deployed new typographic marks and measures to represent English speech on the page. At the same time, cartographers and travel writers published reconfigurations of landscape on large-scale topographical maps, in geometric surveys, and in...
| Автор | Julia S. Carlson |
The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to uncover the habits, forms, and secrets of letter writing. Where material...
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Dos ancianos que se encuentran de forma casual en un puente, son los protagonistas de esta historia. La inquietante luna de plata genera la apertura de un portal que los lanza hacia mundos extraños y peligrosos, donde investigan y aprenden secretos de los antiguos; una raza extinta cuya tecnología no sólo les confiere poder, sino también juventud.
| Автор | Omar Casas |
For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinson's originality in relation to her nineteenth-century audiences, including poet, novelist, and Indian rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson and her controversial first editor, Mabel Loomis Todd, and traces the emergence of competing versions of a brilliant but...
| Автор | Vivian R. Pollak |
In the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war, fire, neglect, or the ravages of time itself, the colonial history of the United States was perceived as a vanishing record, its archive a hoard of materially unsound, temporally fragmented, politically fraught, and endangered documents. Colonial Revivals traces the labors of a nineteenth-century cultural network of antiquarians, bibliophiles,...
| Автор | Lindsay DiCuirci |
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste , and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. In Power Play , Jenny Adams looks to medieval...
| Автор | Jenny Adams |
Lor es una joven de dieciocho años obsesionada con la desaparición de su hermano. Tras tres años de escasas respuestas y prohibiciones extrañas, consigue regresar a su pueblo natal, lugar donde sucedió. Alma le enseñará a nuestra protagonista que toda leyenda tiene una parte de realidad, y que las viejas historias están más relacionadas con ella de lo que creía.
| Автор | Irene Recio Honrado |
A Noble Queen is a novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor that illustrates one of the most important epochs in the history of the Dekhan. The book features the life of the noble Queen Chand Beebee whose memory is reverenced, not only as the preserver of Beejapoor, but for the heroic resistance she made to the Moghul armies in their first invasion of the Dekhan and siege of Ahmednugger.
| Автор | Taylor Meadows |
In the early modern period, England radically expanded its participation in an economy that itself was becoming increasingly global. Yet less than twenty years after the highly profitable English East India Company made its first voyage, England was suffering from an economic depression, blamed largely on the shortage of coin necessary to exploit those very same profitable routes. How could there be profit in the face of so much loss, and loss in the face of so much profit? In Tragicomic...
| Автор | Valerie Forman |