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Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer’s reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Always renowned—if not notorious—for his fashionable persona, Wilde courted celebrity at an early age. Later, he came to prominence as one of the most talented essayists and fiction writers of his time. In the...
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Four essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have on the future? Haunted by Waters is a self-examination by the author as he constructs his own narrative and tries to answer these questions for himself. But it is also a thorough examination of the answers he uncovers in the course of reading what's been written on the subject. As his own story unfolds, Mark Browning analyzes angling...
| Автор | Mark Browning |
As the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing phenomenon that absorbs new tendencies and, at the same time, retains its centrality to Polish literature, whether written in Poland or abroad. Framing the Polish Home is a pioneering work that explores the idea of home as fundamental to the question of cultural and national identity within Poland's recent history and its tradition. In this inaugural volume...
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Meredith Sue Willis ’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities. Willis’s stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and...
| Автор | Meredith Sue Willis |
Moon Classics Here you will find the complete novels of Nikolai Gogol in the chronological order of their original publication. – Taras Bulba – Dead Souls
| Автор | Nikolai Gogol |
"Erinnerungen von Ludolf Ursleu dem Jüngeren" erzählt über familiäre Beziehungen, Liebe und Hass, persönliche Tragödien, die Such nach Liebe und Gegenseitigkeit. Nach Handlung, hat sich der gelernte Jurist Ludolf Ursleu der Jüngere ins Kloster Einsiedeln als «griesgrämiger Greis» zurückgezogen und erzählt in dieser Klausur eine Geschichte aus längst vergangenen Jugendzeiten.
| Автор | Ricarda Huch |
E-BOOK VERSION. Expectations filled to the brim. And maybe spilling all over the table. 'Expectations Filled to The Brim' is the very first book of the author, Ibrahim Sonmez. More than a demonstration of his excitement for poetry; with this work, he hopes to share his love for subtle and clear meanings of words itself and, what and how they mean to him.
| Автор | Ibrahim Sönmez |
Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse. Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that...
| Автор | Neil Hultgren |
Que lugar ocupa a edição de escritores hispano-americanos no panorama português? Que escritores foram publicados e em que datas? Como podemos caracterizar o trabalho tradutório do espanhol para o português? Dar resposta a estas e outras questões é o objectivo fundamental desta obra, que apresenta um panorama da dinâmica do polissistema português desde as últimas décadas do século XX ao início do século XXI, em particular a sua relação com os países da América Hispânica. Partindo do levantamento...
| Автор | Isabel Araújo Branco |
Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden’s Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between 1908 and 1918, Miles kept a series of journals in which she recorded in beautiful and haunting prose the natural wonders and local customs of Walden’s Ridge. Jobs were scarce, however, and as the family’s...
| Автор | Emma Bell Miles |
New Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature. The editors solicited nominations from more than three hundred magazines, literary journals, and small presses, and narrowed the selection to nineteen authors comprising prize winners and new and established authors. The stories, written by midwestern writers or focusing on the Midwest, demonstrate how the quality of fiction from...
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"Michael Unger" ist Ricarda Huchs zweiter Roman. Er berührt soziale Themen wie soziale Ungleichheit, Bourgeoisie und Rebellion gegen die Macht. Der Roman wurde 1903 veröffentlicht.
| Автор | Ricarda Huch |
Der Mord an einem windigen Anwalt gibt Karin Wolf und ihrem Team Rätsel auf. Waren es seine unsauberen Geschäfte oder seine perversen Umtriebe, die ihm zum Verhängnis wurden? Doch der Täter hat eine Nachricht hinterlassen. Die Parallelen zu einem weiteren Verbrechen legen den Verdacht nahe, dass es sich um einen Serienmörder handelt. Geht in der Stadt ein Mörder um, der scheinbar wahllos und mit unvorstellbarer Grausamkeit tötet?
| Автор | Andreas M. Sturm |
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture—particularly literary output—through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic Criticism in new and exciting directions. Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an...
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The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to secure and promote their professional identity as guardians of taste and national welfare. These social arbiters were, at the same time, devotees of the spontaneous culture of “the people.” In examining fiction from Walter...
| Автор | Barry J. Faulk |
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice. Midland , the seventh collection by Kwame Dawes, draws deeply on the poet's travels and experiences in Africa, the Caribbean, England, and the American South. Marked equally by a lushness of imagery, an urgency of tone, and a muscular rhythm, Midland , in the words of the final judge, Eavan...
| Автор | Kwame Dawes |
Wein, Mord und Fassenacht. Alle feiern Fassenacht. Die große Sitzung ist in vollem Gange, bis in die Morgenstunden wird bei Wein und Sekt getanzt. Als am nächsten Tag eine der Bedienungen tot aufgefunden wird und der Till spurlos verschwunden ist, wird schnell klar, dass in diesem Jahr einiges aus dem Ruder gelaufen ist. Kurt-Otto Hattemer versucht Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen. Eine fieberhafte Suche beginnt, die schnell offenbart, dass Schuld niemals verjährt.
| Автор | Andreas Wagner |
Wenn das Böse auf Amrum anklopft. Drei Männer flüchten nach einem Raubüberfall vom Festland nach Amrum, das von einem heftigen Sturm heimgesucht wird. In der Hoffnung auf Unterschlupf klopfen sie am Heiligen Abend an die Tür einer jungen Familie, die auf der Insel ihre Weihnachtsferien verbringt. Als sie eingelassen werden, nimmt das Schicksal seinen blutigen Lauf – und Inselpolizist Nils Petersen steht vor seinem bislang schwersten Fall..
| Автор | Bent Ohle |
Mysteriöse Todesfälle am Jurasüdfuß Eine Reihe mysteriöser Todesfälle hält das Schweizer Mittelland in Atem. Was zunächst nach Suiziden aussieht, entpuppt sich als perfide ausgeführte Mordserie. Als Andrinas Arbeitskollege Lukas in den Fokus der Ermittlungen gerät, beginnt Andrina, Fragen zu stellen, und bringt sich damit einmal mehr selbst in tödliche Gefahr.
| Автор | Ina Haller |
Es gibt nur einen, der seine Lust stillen kann… Vom ersten Moment an fühlt sich Ludvig zu Max hingezogen. Er ist derjenige, den er begehrt. Doch das Verlangen, das Ludvig empfindet, ist für ihn alles andere als risikofrei. Um seine Lust zu stillen, setzt Ludvig alles auf eine Karte. Max ist für ihn der Beginn einer neuen Lebensweise: Weniger Verleugnung, mehr Vergnügen…-
| Автор | Elena Lund |
We live in a context of change, whereby postmodernity shapes our understanding and our searching for truth. Postmodernity dictates not only what kind of results we obtain in our researches, but also on the ways we use to search for truth. This means that postmodernity dictates the ways we do research in various disciplines, the ways we use to analyze the research results, and the ways we use to communicate the findings. Postmodernity is the paradigm in which we are greatly concerned. What is the...
| Автор | Elia Shabani Mligo |
Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed brings together 154 remixes of William Shakespeare’s 1609 sonnet sequence. If Shakespeare the auteur and his sonnets have influenced so much of how we think (and act) as humans, this collection asks how might we be un- (and redone) by the conscious act of responding to (or through) these seventeenth-century verses? Here you will find a wide variety of remixes: entries various by their form – poems, short essays, comics, songs, and art; and various by their...
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