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Acts of Gaiety

Sara Warner
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Author : Sara Warner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472118533

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Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism by recovering earlier mirthful modes of political performance. The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s–70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety—including camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside "legitimate theater”-- at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era. Juxtaposing figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists including Hothead Paisan, Bitch and Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers, Sara Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging. Acts of Gaiety explores the mutually informing histories of gayness as politics and as joie de vivre, along with the centrality of liveliness to queer performance and protest.

Gaiety of Spirit

Frances Klatzel
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Author : Frances Klatzel
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781926855912

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Since the birth of modern mountaineering, the term Sherpa has been used to refer to Himalayan men working as guides on expeditions in and around the area of Mount Everest. Known mostly for their remarkable mountaineering skills and expertise, Sherpas are much more than mere high-altitude porters. The Sherpas are an extraordinary ethnic people who settled the remote valleys in the Himalayas about 500 years ago and whose culture is steeped in the rich philosophical traditions of Himalayan Buddhism. As distinguished British Himalayan mountaineer Eric Shipton wrote: “ . . . the temperament and character of the Sherpas . . . have won them a large place in the hearts of the Western travellers. Their most enduring characteristic is their extraordinary gaiety of spirit.” For three decades, writer and naturalist Frances Klatzel has lived and worked with Sherpas near Mount Everest. During this time, she has gained intimate access and a profound knowledge of the people, helping to create the Sherpa Cultural Centre at Tengboche, the largest Buddhist monastery in the region. Infused with the author’s own reflections and experiences, and complete with colour photos highlighting Sherpa life from the metaphysical to the everyday, Gaiety of Spirit will take the reader on a magnificent journey toward a richer level of understanding of Sherpa culture, traditions, symbols, belief and history.

The Gaiety of Language

Frank Lentricchia
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Author : Frank Lentricchia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520315631

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

The Goddess and the Gaiety Girl

Barbara Cartland
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Author : Barbara Cartland
Publisher : M-y books ltd
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782130635

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Katie King is a girl with big dreams for the future! A dancer in the heart of London's theatre land, Katie is awaiting her big break, when her name will finally be in lights above the Gaiety Theatre. Fun-loving, cute and adoring of her charming boyfriend, the enigmatic Harry Carrington, Katie is sure that her unusual crowning glory of wild auburn curls will help catapult her out of the chorus line and into the leading roles she deserves. But Katie's dazzling smile masks a tragedy - she is desperately ill and her enforced absence from the stage means that she does not have the money for the private healthcare she so badly needs. A few streets away, illness has touched the life of another young woman with distinctive Titian hair, Larentia. She is nursing her sick father, the eminent historian Professor Braintree, and suffers similar horrors when he is diagnosed as incurable. Whilst brilliant and an expert in his field, the Professor's books gain him respect, not money and they too cannot afford the surgery needed. At first it seems that the only two things that the girls have in common are their astoundingly beautiful hair and a desperate need for money to employ the services of the pioneering surgeon Mr. Curtis Sheldon. However, the sudden death of the 4th Duke of Tregaron, a cad of the first order, whose unwanted attentions and lewd behaviour caused a naive Katie such pain in her first year in London, results in Harry coming up with a daring plan to capitalise on their short lived relationship. If Larentia agrees to play her part, and the new Duke, Justin Garon, believes their story there is just a chance that they can raise enough money to save both Katie and the Professor. But can an innocent young woman, with no experience of the darker side of life, be able to trick everyone? And what will be the ultimate cost of the deception if she fails? For this final curtain call Katie must sit back stage as Larentia prepares to give the performance of a lifetime.

Gilded Age Richmond: Gaiety, Greed & Lost Cause Mania

Brian Burns
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Author : Brian Burns
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625858511

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Gilded Age Richmond: Gaiety, Greed & Lost Cause Mania by Brian Burns Pdf

Author Brian Burns traces the history of the River City as it marched toward a new century. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Richmond entered the Gilded Age seeking bright prospects while struggling with its own past. It was an era marked by great technological change and ideological strife. During a labor convention in conservative Richmond, white supremacists prepared to enforce segregation at gunpoint. Progressives attempted to gain political power by unveiling a wondrous new marvel: Richmond's first electric streetcar. And handsome lawyer Thomas J. Cluverius was accused of murdering a pregnant woman and dumping her body in the city reservoir, sparking Richmond's trial of the century.

Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson
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Author : Kate Atkinson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593466322

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE GUARDIAN, BOOKLIST "Set during Jazz Age London, in all its fizzy madness and desperation.... As dark as [Atkinson's] stories can get, within them always shines a beacon of humanity.” —Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Dark Places 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie’s empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho’s gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost. With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson gives us a window in a vanished world. Slyly funny, brilliantly observant, and ingeniously plotted, Shrines of Gaiety showcases the myriad talents that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time.

Angel of Gaiety

Joseph George Hitrec
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Author : Joseph George Hitrec
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Croatian fiction
ISBN : UCAL:$B101978

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"The author's Son of the Moon won the Harper prize in 1948. This seems the chief claim to advance for this new novel of India and Anglo-Indians, with the half-caste problem at the heart of the conflict. There's a somewhat cynical undertone in the author's approach to his central characters, hucksters on the make, the chief a boor whose lifeblood is linked to his faith in his product and the two men who work for him and who cordially detest each other. Two absentee wives provide insignificant brakes on the amorous adventures of the chief and his Cockney agent, while the wife of the third man, an Anglo-Indian who feels herself vastly superior to the rest of them, successfully puts spokes in her husband's wheel. The tension is brought to high heat by the pursuit of love on the part of the chief, in the person of Stella, a half-caste, who is out for what she can get without giving."--Kirkus

The Era Almanack

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Actors
ISBN : HARVARD:HNV8WP

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Handwriting and Expression

Jules Crépieux-Jamin
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Author : Jules Crépieux-Jamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Graphology
ISBN : UCSD:31822032635583

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Truth

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433095211144

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