Oblivion S Triumph

Author : Dylan McFadyen
Publisher : Dylan McFadyen
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781738797271

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Oblivion's Triumph by Dylan McFadyen Pdf

Shaara is running out of friends. The sacrifices she and Warden made two years ago bought the League time, not victory. The war against the Undying has left them exhausted, drained of everything but hope—and precious little of that. The simple fact is that the Undying are going to win. Warden knows it, Shaara knows it. The Undying sure as hell know it. Until, out of the black, the Eternal comes to Shaara with an offer she can’t refuse, however much she’d like to. The threat he warned her about two years ago is real, and now it’s come calling. It cares nothing for their little war. All life in the galaxy, Undying or not, will end if it spreads unchecked. Shaara and the Eternal have little choice but to work together to destroy it . . . At least, for now. But people on both sides aren’t happy with an alliance, however temporary. Some of them are willing to risk all that lives just for a shot at power—and revenge. If Shaara can’t find a way to defeat them, she and the few friends she has left will lose more than their lives. They’ll lose everything.

Author : Leona Toker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801422116

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Nabokov by Leona Toker Pdf

"In each chapter Toker carefully reconstructs a novel for us those are not mere plot summaries, but mature products of several re-readings and proceeds to make her way through the novel's numerous patterns, images, themes and motifs in an attempt to..."

Author : Mu Yang,Yang Mu
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300070705

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No Trace of the Gardener by Mu Yang,Yang Mu Pdf

Drawing on avant-garde traditions of Europe and the United States as well as on the traditions of classical Chinese poetry and prose, his work explores intense sensuality, the anguish of war, exile, the colonial experience, and conflicting views of national and cultural identity.

Author : Edward Burns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781349095940

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Character, Acting and Being on the Pre-modern Stage by Edward Burns Pdf

An analysis of acting and characterization on stage, covering theories of character from Aristotle to Brecht and approaches from formalism to post structuralism. The Early Theatre Group have, over the last 5 years, used an experimental approach to performing some of the plays written about here.

Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199880232

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Pdf

"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sá Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, this Library of Latin America edition brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.

Author : Lindsay Waters,Wlad Godzich
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816616602

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Reading De Man Reading by Lindsay Waters,Wlad Godzich Pdf

Author : Regula Hohl Trillini
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042024892

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The Gaze of the Listener by Regula Hohl Trillini Pdf

This study analyzes representations of music in fiction, drama and poetry as well as normative texts in order to contribute to a gendered cultural history of domestic performance. From the Tudors to the First World War, playing the harpsichord or piano was an indispensable asset of any potential bride, and education manuals as well as courtship plots and love poems pay homage to this social function of music. The Gaze of the Listener charts the fundamental tension which determines all these texts: while music is warmly recommended in conduct books and provides standard metaphors like ?concord? and ?harmony? for virtuous love, a profound anxiety about its sensuous inarticulateness and implicit femininity unsettles all descriptions of actual music-making. Along with repressive plot lines, the privileging of visual perception over musical appreciation is the most telling indicator of this problem. The Gaze of the Listener is the first coherent account of this discourse and its historical continuity from the Elizabethan to the Edwardian period and provides a significant background for more narrowly focused research. Its uniquely wide database contextualizes numerous ?minor? works with classics without limiting itself to the fringe phenomenon of ?musician novels'. Including a fresh account of the novels of Jane Austen in their contemporary (rather than Victorian) context, the book is of interest to scholars and students in gender studies, English literature, cultural studies and musicology.

Author : Robert Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521465818

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Derrida and Autobiography by Robert Smith Pdf

The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of current theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much subjective self-revelation as relation to the other, not so much a general condition of thought as a general condition of writing - what Derrida calls the 'autobiography of the writing' - which mocks any self-centred finitude of living and dying. In this context, and using literary-critical, philosophical, and psychoanalytical sources, Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new, but distinctly Derridean, way, and finds new perspectives to analyse the work of classical writers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, and de Man.

Author : Angel Flores,Kate Flores
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0935312544

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Hispanic Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present by Angel Flores,Kate Flores Pdf

Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Italian volumes represent their respective countries; the Hispanic volume includes poems from the many Spanish-speaking nations; and the Hebrew volume encompasses writing in Hebrew from around the world. The poems are presented in their original languages alongside English translations. Each volume includes an introduction, placing the poetry in historical and aesthetic perspective, and full biographical and bibliographical notes on the poets.

Author : Gordon Braden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300076215

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Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance by Gordon Braden Pdf

The 366 lyrics of Petrarch's Canzoniere exert a unique influence in literary history. From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, the poems are imitated in every major language of western Europe, and for a time they provide Renaissance Europe with an almost exclusive sense of what love poetry should be. In this stimulating look at the international phenomenon of Petrarch's poetry, Gordon Braden focuses on materials in languages other than English--Italian, French, and Spanish, with brief citations from Croatian and Cypriot Greek, among others. Braden closely examines Petrarch's theme of love for an impossible object of desire, a theme that captivated and inspired across centuries, societies, and languages. The book opens with a fresh interpretation of Petrarch's sequence, in which Braden defines the poet's innovations in the context of his predecessors, Dante and the troubadours. The author then examines how Petrarchan predispositions affect various strains of Renaissance literature: prose narrative, verse narrative, and, primarily, lyric poetry. In the final chapter, Braden turns to the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to demonstrate a sophisticated case of Petrarchism taken to one of its extremes within the walls of a convent in seventeenth-century Mexico.

Author : H. David Brumble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136797378

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Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by H. David Brumble Pdf

While numerous classical dictionaries identify the figures and tales of Greek and Roman mythology, this reference book explains the allegorical significance attached to the myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for the gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and places of classical myth and legend. Each entry includes a brief account of the myth, with reference to the Greek and Latin sources. The entry then discusses how Medieval and Renaissance commentators interpreted the myth, and how poets, dramatists, and artists employed the allegory in their art. Each entry includes a bibliography and the volume concludes with appendices and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

Author : Brigida M. Pastor,Lloyd Hughes Davies
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662360

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A Companion to Latin American Women Writers by Brigida M. Pastor,Lloyd Hughes Davies Pdf

This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area; others have made such telling contributions to particular strands of literature that their names are immediately evocative of specific currents or styles. Elena Poniatowska is associated with testimonial writing; Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel are known for the magical realism of their texts; others, such as Juana de Ibarbourou and Laura Restrepo remain relatively unknown despite their contributions to erotic poetry and to postcolonial prose fiction respectively. The distinctiveness of this volume lies in its attention to writers from widely differing historical and social contexts and to the diverse theoretical approaches adopted by the authors. Brígida M. Pastor teaches Latin American literature and film at the University of Glasgow . Her publications include Fashioning Cuban Feminism and Beyond, El discurso de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad; and Discursos Caribenhos: Historia, Literatura e Cinema Lloyd Hughes Davies teaches Spanish American Literature at Swansea University. His publications include Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus and Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486143163

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Philosophical Letters by Voltaire Pdf

The voice of the Age of Reason remarks on English religion and politics during the early 18th century: Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Anti-Trinitarians, Parliament, government, commerce, plus essays on Locke, Descartes, and Newton.

Author : Nina M. Scott
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826321445

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Madres Del Verbo by Nina M. Scott Pdf

A bilingual anthology of writings by both secular and religious women writers from colonial Latin America through the 19th century.

Author : Kathryn M. Mayers
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611483932

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Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing by Kathryn M. Mayers Pdf

The process of shaping cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America has occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing. Focused on writing that references visual texts (ekphrasis), Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic Writing examined the way words about pictures in the writing of three Spanish American Creoles negotiate the challenges that confronted the ruling elite in Spanish America during the contentious period between the Conquest and Independence.