Teresina Peregrina Or Fifty Thousand Miles Of Travel Round The World Scholar S Choice Edition

Author : Maria Theresa Longworth
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298075971

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Teresina Peregrina; Or, Fifty Thousand Miles of Travel Round the World - Scholar's Choice Edition by Maria Theresa Longworth Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Maria Theresa Longworth
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0353902721

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Teresina Peregrina; Or, Fifty Thousand Miles of Travel Round the World by Maria Theresa Longworth Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Maria Theresa Longworth,Thérèse Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN : OXFORD:600013863

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Teresina peregrina; or, Fifty thousand miles of travel round the world by Maria Theresa Longworth,Thérèse Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore) Pdf

Author : Thérèse Yelverton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348059607

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Teresina Peregrina by Thérèse Yelverton Pdf

Author : Magnus Lundberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 9150624431

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Mission and Ecstasy by Magnus Lundberg Pdf

The author explores the relationship between contemplative and apostolic aspects of religious life in accounts by and about religious women in the Spanish Indies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Author : Aimé Humbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:32000002612861

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Japan and the Japanese Illustrated by Aimé Humbert Pdf

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780744046311

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Flora by DK Pdf

Let the experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens guide you around the beautiful and mysterious world that is the plant kingdom. From regulating the air we breathe to providing food, clothes, fuels, and medicines - plants are fundamental to our lives. Discover an extraordinary diversity of species, which includes a grass that grows a meter a day, roots that breathe air, and "queen of the night" cactuses whose rare blooms vanish before dawn. In a combination of art and science, Flora celebrates plants from majestic trees to microscopic algae, explaining how they germinate, grow, and reproduce. It presents species that have evolved to accommodate pollinating insects such as the foxglove, and plants that have adapted to flourish in even the most hostile of habitats. Pierre-Joseph Redoute in the 18th-century was described as the "Raphael of flowers". Flora showcases his botanical paintings as well as those of Georg Ehret and others in this gorgeous visual celebration of plants through the ages. Whether you are a keen gardener, naturalist, or botany student, this beautiful book is a treat that will entice, inform, and amaze.

Author : Héctor Hoyos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231538664

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Beyond Bolaño by Héctor Hoyos Pdf

Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also affirms the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature. Focusing on post-1989 Latin American novels and their representation of globalization, Hoyos considers the narrative techniques and aesthetic choices Latin American authors make to assimilate the conflicting forces at work in our increasingly interconnected world. Challenging the assumption that globalization leads to cultural homogenization, he identifies the rich textual strategies that estrange and re-mediate power relations both within literary canons and across global cultural hegemonies. Hoyos shines a light on the unique, avant-garde phenomena that animate these works, such as modeling literary circuits after the dynamics of the art world, imagining counterfactual "Nazi" histories, exposing the limits of escapist narratives, and formulating textual forms that resist worldwide literary consumerism. These experiments help reconfigure received ideas about global culture and advance new, creative articulations of world consciousness.

Author : Jean Franco
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822354567

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Cruel Modernity by Jean Franco Pdf

In Cruel Modernity, Jean Franco examines the conditions under which extreme cruelty became the instrument of armies, governments, rebels, and rogue groups in Latin America. She seeks to understand how extreme cruelty came to be practiced in many parts of the continent over the last eighty years and how its causes differ from the conditions that brought about the Holocaust, which is generally the atrocity against which the horror of others is measured. In Latin America, torturers and the perpetrators of atrocity were not only trained in cruelty but often provided their own rationales for engaging in it. When "draining the sea" to eliminate the support for rebel groups gave license to eliminate entire families, the rape, torture, and slaughter of women dramatized festering misogyny and long-standing racial discrimination accounted for high death tolls in Peru and Guatemala. In the drug wars, cruelty has become routine as tortured bodies serve as messages directed to rival gangs. Franco draws on human-rights documents, memoirs, testimonials, novels, and films, as well as photographs and art works, to explore not only cruel acts but the discriminatory thinking that made them possible, their long-term effects, the precariousness of memory, and the pathos of survival.

Author : Lawrence Buell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674726321

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The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell Pdf

The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence Buell reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself. The dream of the G.A.N., as Henry James nicknamed it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-depth readings of selected contenders from the 1850s onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels, Buell delineates four "scripts" for G.A.N. candidates. One, illustrated by The Scarlet Letter, is the adaptation of the novel's story-line by later writers, often in ways that are contrary to the original author's own design. Other aspirants, including The Great Gatsby and Invisible Man, engage the American Dream of remarkable transformation from humble origins. A third script, seen in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved, is the family saga that grapples with racial and other social divisions. Finally,mega-novels from Moby-Dick to Gravity's Rainbow feature assemblages of characters who dramatize in microcosm the promise and pitfalls of democracy. The canvas of the great American novel is in constant motion, reflecting revolutions in fictional fashion, the changing face of authorship, and the inseparability of high culture from popular. As Buell reveals, the elusive G.A.N. showcases the myth of the United States as a nation perpetually under construction.

Author : Jean Franco
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 082232248X

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Critical Passions by Jean Franco Pdf

The author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o

Author : Dwayne A. Meisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780190663520

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Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods by Dwayne A. Meisner Pdf

"Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods is a literary history that attempts to reconstruct the fragments of four theogonies that were attributed to the legendary singer Orpheus: the Derveni, Eudemian, Hieronyman, and Rhapsodic Theogonies. Most modern scholars have described these poems as if they were similar to Hesiod's Theogony—lengthy chronological accounts of the births of the gods from the beginning of time to the present—but this book suggests that a better model for understanding how these poems were composed is to see each of them as an individual product of bricolage (as explained by Claude Lévi-Strauss), rather than as items in the stemma of a static manuscript tradition (as reconstructed by Martin West). The Orphic tradition was more fluid and fragmented than modern reconstructions would lead one to believe, but in these four Orphic theogonies certain features stand out, such as points of comparison with Near Eastern myths, the continuous discourse between Orphic poetry and philosophy, and speculations on the nature of the gods in ways that generated unique deities and new narratives. A study of Orphic theogonies reveals that the Orphic myths of Phanes and Zeus were no less important than the Orphic myth of Dionysus"--

Author : Luz Elena Ramirez
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438140605

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Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature by Luz Elena Ramirez Pdf

Presents a reference on Hispanic American literature providing profiles of Hispanic American writers and their works.

Author : Ed Husain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781632866417

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The House of Islam by Ed Husain Pdf

“Ed Husain has become one of the most vital Muslim voices in the world. The House of Islam could very well be his magnum opus.” -Reza Aslan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot “This should be compulsory reading.” -Peter Frankopan, author of the international bestseller The Silk Roads Today, Islam is to many in the West an alien force, with Muslims held in suspicion. Failure to grasp the inner workings of religion and geopolitics has haunted American foreign policy for decades and has been decisive in the new administration's controversial orders. The intricacies and shadings must be understood by the West not only to build a stronger, more harmonious relationship between the two cultures, but also for greater accuracy in predictions as to how current crises, such as the growth of ISIS, will develop and from where the next might emerge. The House of Islam addresses key questions and points of disconnection. What are the roots of the conflict between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims that is engulfing Pakistan and the Middle East? Does the Koran encourage the killing of infidels? The book thoughtfully explores the events and issues that have come from and contributed to the broadening gulf between Islam and the West, from the United States' overthrow of Iran's first democratically elected leader to the emergence of ISIS, from the declaration of a fatwa on Salman Rushdie to the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo. Authoritative and engaging, Ed Husain leads us clearly and carefully through the nuances of Islam and its people, taking us back to basics to contend that the Muslim world need not be a stranger to the West, nor our enemy, but our peaceable allies.

Author : Stephen Haliczer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195148633

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Between Exaltation and Infamy by Stephen Haliczer Pdf

Using case-studies and biographies, the author examines women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain and investigates the spiritual forces that provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Catholic Church.