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Today’s mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since. Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both “low modern” and “high modernist” British culture in...
| Автор | Martin Hipsky |
Across the nineteenth century, meter mattered—in more ways and to more people than we might well appreciate today. For the period’s poets, metrical matters were a source of inspiration and often vehement debate. And the many readers, teachers, and pupils encountered meter and related topics in both institutional and popular forms. The ten essays in Meter Matters showcase the range of metrical practice of poets from Wordsworth and Byron to Hopkins, Swinburne, and Tennyson; at the same time, the...
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Había una vez un cuervo que se robó un queso y se subió a los altos de un árbol para comérselo. Pero un zorro pasaba por el lugar, vio al cuervo que tenía un gran pedazo de queso y vio la forma de quitárselo.
| Автор | F. Mª Samaniego |
Cristina Stanca-Mustea erzählt die schier unglaubliche Biografie Carl Laemmles (1867-1939), der 1884 als mittelloser 17-Jähriger aus demschwäbischen Laupheim nach Amerika auswanderte, der Gründer Hollywoods wurde und zu einem der ganz Großen derFilmindustrie aufstieg. Er war es, der Universal Pictures ins Leben rief und Filme wie `Dracula´, `Frankenstein´, `Das Phantom der Oper´ und `Im Westen nichts Neues´ produzierte.-
| Автор | Cristina Stanca-Mustea |
Ein spannender Kurzkrimi, den der Leser nicht aus der Hand legen kann.Rhein in Flammen ist ein Touristenmagnet, Gabriel ist der Ansicht, dass Feuer und Wasser keine gute Mischung sind. Doch nachdem weglaufen nichts gebracht hatte, wurde es Zeit, seine Vergangenheit direkt zu konfrontieren. Und es somit ein für alle Mal und mit allen Mitteln zu beenden.-
| Автор | Mischa Bach |
Das Coronavirus ist für uns Menschen nicht sichtbar und trotzdem kann es überall sein – drinnen wie draußen, wie es auch bei anderen Viren und Bakterien der Fall ist. Wie aber gehen wir am besten damit um? Was hilft, sich davor zu schützen? Und welche Rolle spielt dabei die Zeit?
| Автор | Dr. Bernd Hallbauer |
Girlfriends Share Words of Wisdom on Making Friends, Having Friends, and Keeping Friends True friends are hard to find and even harder to describe. But with real life stories, life lessons, and anecdotes about the ups and downs and ins and outs of friendships, Friends Are Everything has everything you ever needed to know. No friend left unturned. To bestselling author B.J. Gallagher, there are so many types of friends. There are friends who tell you what you...
| Автор | B.J. Gallagher |
"While serious studies of the Bible's rhetoric have been written for academic readers . . . few have attempted to examine the persuasiveness of speeches directly assigned to the biblical 'God' that so many believe in and worship. . . . Further, no critic has yet tried to analyze how this God tries to invent and develop His arguments in the Bible as it has come down to us, or how this God arranges those arguments, or the styles He adopts to make them, and the roles memory and...
| Автор | Phillip Arrington |
Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person is a pilgrimage to rediscover the spiritual and humanizing benefit of the Commedia. Treating each cantica of the poem, this volume offers profound meditations on the intertwined themes of memory, prayer, sainthood, the irony of sin, theological and literary aesthetics, and desire, all while consistently reflecting upon the key themes of mercy and beauty in the revelation of the human person within the drama of divine love.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, the beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, brings to his work a great treasure–his Christian faith. Tolkien's literary works are so popular in part because, in some sense, they pertain to the real world. This present volume is an attempt to understand better the deep Christian influences on his work but also to explore the relevance of Tolkien's work for theology today. After examining Tolkien's fiction in order better to appreciate Christian...
| Автор | Jeffrey L. Morrow |
Das Hauptwerk Elisabeth Langgässers, an dem sie heimlich während der NS-Zeit arbeitete: Sie beschreibt in diesem Roman das fiktionalisierte Schicksal ihres jüdischen Vaters, der sich katholisch taufen ließ. Der «Kampf zwischen Gott und Satan» steht im Mittelpunkt der Erzählung. -
| Автор | Elisabeth Langgässer |
A través de la lectura de cuatro obras fundamentales, Madame Bovary, El rojo y el negro, La piel de zapa y El paraíso de las damas, S. Münnich analiza la idea del deseo en su manifestación explícita en los personajes de esas novelas, pero también en la posición ideológica de los autores.
| Автор | Susana Münnich Busch |
En esta fascinante obra, el autor nos lleva por un laberinto simultáneamente ajeno y perteneciente a todo ser humano: el arte a través de la música. Logramos ser testigos fieles y presenciales de hechos comunes y cotidianos de grandes creadores de la historia humana, entrando con sigilo y admiración en espacios de su intimidad. Este libro nos da esperanza, porque cuando la música es sublime, infunde de vida a quien la escucha.
| Автор | Eusebio Ruvalcaba |
National Indie Excellence Awards, first prize in the Parenting and Family category Arguing that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without, this groundbreaking study shows that teen confusion and hardships are caused by outmoded systems that were designed to destroy the continuum between childhood and adulthood. Documenting how teens are isolated from adults and are forced to look to their media-dominated peers for knowledge, this discussion contends that by...
| Автор | Robert Epstein |
A step-by-step guide through the process of proposing a book to a publisher, this straightforward and accessible work helps aspiring authors get their nonfiction work published quickly. Packed with specific examples of proposals, query letters, publishing contracts, and more, this reference addresses the many questions authors have in this digital age. Written by a seasoned editor and used in publishing classes at numerous universities, the book is a proven tool for nonfiction book authors. A...
| Автор | Stephen Blake Mettee |
Ideal for aspiring authors who only dream of actually finishing their works in progress, this guide features proven, field-tested tools guaranteed to successfully complete that romance, expert guide to business success, or great American novel. The chapters simplify the writing process by breaking it down into a series of discrete tasks, from creating a schedule in order to finish within a reasonable time, brainstorming sections of the book, and organizing ideas into chapters to rewriting,...
| Автор | Gene Perret |
Packed with income-generating ideas about creating a variety of saleable written works, this guide includes information for researching and writing effective, instructional materials and calling upon a variety of publishing channels, including magazines, traditional book publishers, self-publishing, and the Internet. The mechanics behind becoming a successful writer and information packager are presented in this resource that explores how to write and sell simple information in multiple formats,...
| Автор | Robert W. Bly |
An accurate and accessible survey of modern psychological theory and practice, this reference offers professional writers practical advice for incorporating psychological elements into their work. With easy-to-understand explanations and definitions, this book is an invaluable resource for any writer wishing to add realistic details to scenes that depict psychologists, mental illnesses and disorders, and psychotherapeutic treatments. Designed around the needs of professional fiction and...
| Автор | Carolyn Kaufman |
Der Ofenwart eines Krematoriums macht eine atemberaubende Entdeckung: Es liegt doch tatsächlich eine Leiche zu viel im Sarg… Der Kriminalkommissar Jens Holst kommt dem Rätsel nur sehr langsam auf die Schliche… Frits Remar erzählt in diesem spannenden Krimi auf humorvolle und fesselnde Weise über Fähigkeiten eines Kriminalkommissars. -
| Автор | Frits Remar |
A veces me parece que no tengo nombre y voy a la deriva en un barco sin timonel en un mar púrpura que poco a poco hunde mi espíritu, tal vez vuelva a ser rebautizada por los peces y rotulen nuevamente mi nombre, ese día oiré romper las olas con fuerza y el viento llegará a mi puerta preguntando si existí.
| Автор | Beatriz Celina |
Ein Gedichtzyklus, der wie «Die Heimkehr» in Heines «Buch der Lieder» erschien und zu seinem Frühwerk gezählt wird: Die Gedichte kreisen um die Nordsee mit all ihren Besonderheiten. Heine zeichnet ein atmosphärisches Bild mit Gedichten wie «Sonnenuntergang», «Abenddämmerung» oder «Sturm», in denen man das Meer und die Natur förmlich spüren kann.-
| Автор | Heinrich Heine |
Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology to gather both mini-essays and short-short stories; readers, writers, and teachers will get will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital, post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.1. We are mortal beings.2. There is no god.3. We live in a digital culture.4. Art is related to the body and to the...
| Автор | David Shields |
""Secrets of Social Media Marketing"" is a handbook for marketers and business owners to use in deciding how to employ the new social media for online marketing. Social media has quickly moved from the periphery of marketing into the forefront, but this is a new and quickly-evolving field and there are few established formulas for success. Building on the lessons set out in Gillin's acclaimed and oft-reviewed «„The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media,“»...
| Автор | Paul Gillin |
One of fiction's most well-loved novels, this 19th-century classic continues to capture the hearts of contemporary readers with its notions of marriage, dating, and romance. Leading authors in the area of women's literature and romance contribute to this fresh collection of essays on everything from Lydia's scandalous marriage to George Wickham to the female-dominated Bennett household and the emphasis placed on courtship and marriage. Contributors include Jo Beverly, Alesia...
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