Lelia S Kiss

Author : Laura Giannetti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802099518

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Lelia's Kiss by Laura Giannetti Pdf

In Lelia's Kiss, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the Italian Renaissance. Going beyond the traditional canon, Giannetti focuses her study on the social and cultural scripts found in a wide array of comedies of the period to reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles and their cultural construction in Renaissance society. Giannetti argues that the comedic dialogue and cross-dressing characters so prevalent in Italian Renaissance comedies played with the presuppositions of the day and engaged with contemporary social norms, expectations, and desires. Cross-dressing female characters reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles, and also present a vision of female empowerment. At the same time, cross-dressing male characters suggest a unique perception of the male life cycle that was more uncertain and contested than often assumed, and show more broadly how masculinity was also socially and culturally constructed. In discussing marriage, sexuality, and gender roles, the comedies deploy a social scripting that not only reflects and comments on the everyday life of the time, but also interacts with it with playful humor and revealing insight.

Author : Leila S. Chudori
Publisher : Lontar Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Indonesian fiction
ISBN : 6029144294

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The Longest Kiss by Leila S. Chudori Pdf

The protagonists of the stories in this translated collection all crave a private domain, a place that nobody else can touch. These characters are feisty, non-conformist, and fiercely independent--traits that do not necessarily serve them well in the constraints of the conservative environments in which they find themselves, be that the environment of their family, their work or their country. To read the stories in this collection is to enter the private domain of the characters. It is also to share with those characters their quest for the most elemental thing in life: meaningful connections with other human beings.

Author : Lottie Moggach
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1447233204

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Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD On the internet, we can be anyone we choose. No one knows who we really are. Sheltered and obsessive, Leila spends more time online than out in the real world. So she seems the ideal person to take over the virtual identity of the vivacious and fragile Tess, who wants to disappear. But even with all the facts at her fingertips, there are things that Leila can't possibly know about Tess - or herself - until it is too late . .

Author : Nicholas De Genova
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822387619

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Racial Transformations by Nicholas De Genova Pdf

Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and social processes that have racialized Latinos and Asians while highlighting the productive ways that these communities challenge and transform the identities imposed on them. Each essay addresses the sociopolitical predicaments of both Latinos and Asians, bringing their experiences to light in relation to one another. Several contributors illuminate ways that Latinos and Asians were historically racialized: by U.S. occupiers of Puerto Rico and the Philippines at the end of the nineteenth century, by public health discourses and practices in early-twentieth-century Los Angeles, by anthropologists collecting physical data—height, weight, head measurements—from Chinese Americans to show how the American environment affected “foreign” body types in the 1930s, and by Los Angeles public officials seeking to explain the alleged criminal propensities of Mexican American youth during the 1940s. Other contributors focus on the coalitions and tensions between Latinos and Asians in the context of the fight to integrate public schools and debates over political redistricting. One addresses masculinity, race, and U.S. imperialism in the literary works of Junot Díaz and Chang-rae Lee. Another looks at the passions, identifications, and charges of betrayal aroused by the sensationalized cases of Elián González, the young Cuban boy rescued off the shore of Florida, and Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos physicist accused of spying on the United States. Throughout this volume contributors interrogate many of the assumptions that underlie American and ethnic studies even as they signal the need for a research agenda that expands the purview of both fields. Contributors. Nicholas De Genova, Victor Jew, Andrea Levine, Natalia Molina, Gary Y. Okihiro, Crystal Parikh, Greg Robinson, Toni Robinson, Leland T. Saito

Author : Suzanne Brockmann
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553905847

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Kiss and Tell by Suzanne Brockmann Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann comes a funny, feisty, romantic tale about childhood rivals who discover the mystery of grown-up love. When Leila Hunt is swept off her feet by a ninja at a New Year's Eve costume party, she has no idea who the masked man is—but after he disappears into the night, she’s determined to find him. When the clock struck twelve, what began as a friendly New Year's greeting quickly became the most unforgettable kiss Leila had ever experienced with anyone—including her absent boyfriend. But of all the possible suspects, Leila hardly imagines that the ninja is the same man who’s teased, tormented—and secretly intrigued her—since childhood. Marshall Devlin is finally ready to face the terrifying truth: he’s in love with his best friend’s sister, and has been for years. There’s just one complication: Leila didn't know he was her ninja. To win her, Marsh will have to woo her. But can he make Leila forget their decades of verbal sparring in time to stop her from making the biggest mistake of her life? From the Paperback edition.

Author : Thomas Hawkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1773
Category : English drama
ISBN : NLI:3121259-30

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“The” Origin of the English Drama: Supposes : a comedy written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto, Englished by George Gascoigne. Satiro-mastix, or, The untrussing of the humorous poet by Thomas Hawkins Pdf

Author : Thomas Hawkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1773
Category : English drama
ISBN : NYPL:33433074900824

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Supposes: a comedy written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto, Englished by George Gascoigne. Satiro-mastix, or, The untrussing of the humorous poet, by Thomas Dekker. The return from Parnassus. Wily beguiled by Thomas Hawkins Pdf

Author : Katja Gvozdeva,Tatiana Korneeva,Kirill Ospovat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004329768

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Dramatic Experience by Katja Gvozdeva,Tatiana Korneeva,Kirill Ospovat Pdf

In Dramatic Experience: The Poetics of Drama and the Early Modern Public Sphere(s) Katja Gvozdeva, Tatiana Korneeva, and Kirill Ospovat (eds.) focus on a fundamental question that transcends the disciplinary boundaries of theatre studies: how and to what extent did the convergence of dramatic theory, theatrical practice, and various modes of audience experience — among both theatregoers and readers of drama — contribute, during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, to the emergence of symbolic, social, and cultural space(s) we call ‘public sphere(s)’? Developing a post-Habermasian understanding of the public sphere, the articles in this collection demonstrate that related, if diverging, conceptions of the ‘public’ existed in a variety of forms, locations, and cultures across early modern Europe — and in Asia.

Author : Ann Sophia Stephens,Charles Jacobs Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015069380726

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New Peterson Magazine by Ann Sophia Stephens,Charles Jacobs Peterson Pdf

Author : Pamela Allen Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192638083

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The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage by Pamela Allen Brown Pdf

The Diva's Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male stage. When Shakespeare entered the scene, women had been acting in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling in Italy and beyond and performing in all genres, including tragedy. The ambitious actress reinvented the innamorata, making her more charismatic and autonomous, thrilling audiences with her skills. Despite fervent attacks, some actresses became the first international stars, winning royal and noble patrons and literary admirers in France and Spain. After Elizabeth and her court caught wind of their success in Paris, Italian troupes with actresses crossed the Channel to perform. The Italians' repeat visits and growing fame posed a radical challenge to English professionals just as they were building their first paying theaters. Some writers treated the actress as a whorish threat to their stage, which had long minimized female roles. Others saw a vital new model full of promise. Lyly, Marlowe, and Kyd endowed innamorata parts with hot-blooded, racialized passions, but made them self-aware agents, not counters traded between men. Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster and others followed, ringing changes on the new type in comedy, tragedy, and romance. Like the comici they recycled actress-linked theatergrams and star scenes, such as cross-dressing, the mad scene, and the sung lament. In this way, the diva's prodigious virtuosity and stardom altered the horizons of playmaking even on the womanless stage. Capitalizing on the talents of boy players, the best playwrights created bold new roles endowed with her alien glamour, such as Lyly's Sapho and Pandora, Marlowe's Dido, Kyd's Bel-Imperia, Webster's Vittoria, and Shakespeare's Beatrice, Viola, Portia, Juliet, and Ophelia. Cleopatra is not alone in her superb theatricality and dazzling strangeness. As this book demonstrates, the diva's gifts mark them all.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175000537343

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New Peterson Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis Beaumont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754063371169

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The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The scornful lady. The coxcomb. The captain. The honest man's fortune. The little French lawyer by Francis Beaumont Pdf

Author : Francis Beaumont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10744819

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Sammlung by Francis Beaumont Pdf

Author : Francis Beaumont,John Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3287963

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The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher by Francis Beaumont,John Fletcher Pdf

Author : Francis Beaumont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z177103904

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The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher; with Notes and a Biographical Memoir by Alexander Dyce by Francis Beaumont Pdf