The Drowned Muse

Author : Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
Publisher : Oxford Modern Languages & Lite
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198708629

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The Drowned Muse by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot Pdf

This book is the study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could, at first glance, seem quite ordinary. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled 'L'Inconnue de la Seine, ' the Unknown Woman of the Seine, and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. 'L'Inconnue' names the death mask of a girl who supposedly drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. Legend has it that the forensic scientist tending to the corpse awaiting identification on a block of ice at the Paris Morgue, was so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. The unknown girl, also called "The Mona Lisa of Suicide", has become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s and continues to reverberate today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1053726878

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The Drowned Muse: Casting the Unknown Woman of the Seine Across the Tides of Modernity, by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Death
ISBN : 0191779555

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The Drowned Muse by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot Pdf

'The Drowned Muse' charts the trajectory of representations of 'L'Inconnue de la Seine' in literature and the visual arts since the late 1890s and shows how the mask's metamorphoses track across the years provides points of negotiation through which to better understand modernity.

Author : K. R. Alexander
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338607932

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The Undrowned by K. R. Alexander Pdf

In too deadly. In too deep. Samantha and Rachel used to be friends. But then Rachel betrayed Samantha . . . and Samantha decided to make her life a living nightmare. Then one day, Sam and Rachel found themselves in a fight by a lake. Samantha pushed Rachel . . . and watched as Rachel fell back. And back. Into the water. And gone. No way to save her. No way she could be alive. The next day, Rachel shows up to school as if nothing happened. And now she's the one who wants to make her former friend's life a living nightmare . . .

Author : Clyde Woods
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820350905

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Development Drowned and Reborn by Clyde Woods Pdf

Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance. Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers in this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development. Woods contributes to debates about the history and geography of neoliberalism. The book suggests that the prevailing focus on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Specifically, it observes that theories of neoliberalism have tended to overlook New Orleans as an epicenter where racial, class, gender, and regional hierarchies have persisted for centuries. Through this Blues geography, Woods excavates the struggle for a new society.

Author : Claire Cox
Publisher : UMass + ORM
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613768174

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Silver Beach by Claire Cox Pdf

It's been decades since Mara's family was last together, decades since the day her sister Allison drowned at Silver Beach. After the family tragedy, Mara's father took her to the opposite end of the country, where she made a tidy life for herself in western Massachusetts, with a good education, stable job, and loving girlfriend. Her half-sister, Shannon, was left behind with their mother in San Diego. Surviving on disability checks and handouts from family, Shannon can't remember a time when Linda wasn't drunk. When a heart attack lands Linda in the hospital, Shannon's first impulse is to skip town—to finally escape her mother's orbit and make her sister step up. While Mara gave up on Linda years ago and couldn't have less in common with her sister, an unemployed stoner, it's time for her to stop running from everything that makes her have feelings. This is a novel about the persistent, mystifying ties of family, the extravagant mess of addiction, and what it means to actually live inside your own life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1778
Category : English poetry
ISBN : BL:A0022621574

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The Muse's Mirrour by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laini Taylor
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316341707

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Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor Pdf

The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. She was wrong. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice--save the woman he loves, or everyone else?--while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of. As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: Must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead? Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this gorgeous sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer./DIV

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1783
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074845409

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The Muse's Mirror: Being a Collection of Poems ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108487931

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Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by Sally Barnden Pdf

Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

Author : Catherine Chung
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062574091

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The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung Pdf

A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM: Los Angeles Times * USA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Buzzfeed * The Rumpus * Entertainment Weekly * Elle * BBC * Christian Science Monitor * Electric Literature * The Millions * LitHub * Publishers Weekly * Kirkus * Refinery29 * Thrillist * BookBub * Nylon * Bustle * Goodreads An exhilarating, moving novel about a trailblazing mathematician whose research unearths her own extraordinary family story and its roots in World War II From the days of her childhood in the 1950s Midwest, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem. As she matures from a girl of rare intelligence into an exceptional mathematician, traveling to Europe to further her studies, she must face the most human of problems—who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition? These questions grow ever more entangled as Katherine strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics and becomes involved with a brilliant and charismatic professor. When she embarks on a quest to conquer the Riemann hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that may hold both the lock and the key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II. Forced to confront some of the most consequential events of the twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, she finds kinship in the stories of the women who came before her, and discovers how seemingly distant stories, lives, and ideas are inextricably linked to her own. The Tenth Muse is a gorgeous, sweeping tale about legacy, identity, and the beautiful ways the mind can make us free.

Author : Henry Nicolella
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781476666884

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Frank Wisbar by Henry Nicolella Pdf

German director Frank Wisbar (1899-1967) had the misfortune of achieving success as a filmmaker just as Hitler came to power. While critics praised his work, Nazi cultural watchdogs were scornful of his attempts to chart "the landscape of the soul" in films like Ferryman Maria (1936) and Anna and Elisabeth (1933). Wisbar fled to America, where Hollywood saw him as no more than a technician, good for churning out low-budget horror like Strangler of the Swamp (1945) and Devil Bat's Daughter (1946). A successful stint in early television allowed him to return home to a very different Germany, where he abandoned his earlier mystical themes to tackle questions of war and peace, tabloid journalism and racial conflict. The author examines the films and career of an under-appreciated auteur who ultimately lost faith in his own vision.

Author : Kelly Link
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312380488

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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 by Kelly Link Pdf

Collects fantasy, horror, fairy tales, and gothic stories chosen from the past year, including works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Neil Gaiman, and Bill Lewis.

Author : Brooks Hansen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504074070

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The Unknown Woman of the Seine by Brooks Hansen Pdf

A mysterious woman is suspected of murder at the 1889 Paris Expo in this historical novel of “gorgeous prose” by the author of The Chess Garden (Kirkus Reviews). Paris, 1889. When the body of an unknown woman appears on the banks of the Seine, it is put on display at the morgue behind Notre Dame, according to protocol. Though the woman is never identified, her eerie beauty is so captivating that a death mask is made of her face. The mask would become one of the most famous curios of the twentieth century. Set during the final days of 1889’s Exposition Universelle, Brooks Hansen’s fascinating novel speculates on who this mysterious woman was. Disgraced former Gendarme Henri Brassard is returning to Paris, determined to reclaim his place in La Force. When he crosses paths with a suspicious woman in a gypsy wagon, he suspects her of a brutal crime. Tracking her through the city, Brassard observes from the shadows as she winds her way into the orbit of several savory and unsavory characters—an artist, an impresario, a madame, a countess—each of whom sees in her a chance for profit or redemption; any one of whom may therefore be responsible for her sudden and unexplained disappearance. Brassard’s chase will lead him on a grand tour of nineteenth-century Paris, from its highest spires to its darkest catacombs. By the end, he will learn the stunning truth of the unknown woman’s identity, but not before unearthing the equally disturbing truth about himself.

Author : Cynthia Chase
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421434100

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Decomposing Figures by Cynthia Chase Pdf

Originally published in 1986. The ghastly fate of a drowned man brought to a lake's surface in Wordsworth's "Prelude" typifies a fundamental pattern in Romantic writing, argues Cynthia Chase. Disfiguration involves not only a departure from representation but a disruption of the logic of figure or form, a decomposition of the figures composing the text. Ultimately it manifests the conflict between a work's meaning and its mode of performance. By means of an intense engagement with texts in the romantic tradition, Decomposing Figures rearticulates and recasts crucial concepts in recent literary theory, including the notion of the self-referential or self-reflexive nature of the literary work. Chase's readings show that, far from implying a privileged status, the work's self-reflexive structure entails its opacity, its inability to read itself, and the necessity of its decomposition.