The Land Beyond The Forest Vol 1 Of 2

Author : E. Gerard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1330488970

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The Land Beyond the Forest, Vol. 1 of 2 by E. Gerard Pdf

Excerpt from The Land Beyond the Forest, Vol. 1 of 2: Facts, Figures, and Fancies From Transylvania In the spring of 1883 my husband was appointed to the command of the cavalry brigade in Transylvania, composed of two hussar regiments, stationed respectively at Hermanstadt and Kronstadt, -a very welcome nomination, as gratifying a long-cherished wish of mine to visit that part of the Austrian empire known as the Land beyond the forest. The two years spent in Transylvania were among the most agreeable of sixteen years' acquaintance with Austrian military life; and I shall always look back to this time as to something quaint and exceptional, totally different from all previous and subsequent experiences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Barbara Brodman,James E. Doan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611475807

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The Universal Vampire by Barbara Brodman,James E. Doan Pdf

Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an "undead" creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume move outside Europe to explore vampire figures in Native American and Mesoamerican myth and ritual, as well as the existence of similar vampiric traditions in Japanese, Russian and Latin American art, theatre, literature, film, and other cultural productions. The female vampire looms large, beginning with the Sumerian goddess Lilith, including the nineteenth-century Carmilla, and moving to vampiresses in twentieth-century film, literature, and television series. Scientific explanations for vampires and werewolves constitute another section of the book, including eighteenth-century accounts of unearthing, decapitation and cremation of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. The vampire's beauty, attainment of immortality and eternal youth are all suggested as reasons for its continued success in contemporary popular culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403168710

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The Land Beyond the Forest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emily Gerard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Romanies
ISBN : IND:30000094740259

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The Land Beyond the Forest by Emily Gerard Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786831033

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Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic by Anonim Pdf

Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality – but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the lives of material animals, long persecuted in their declining habitats across the world. Werewolves therefore raise unsettling questions about the intersection of the real and the imaginary, the instability of human identities and the worldliness and political weight of the Gothic. This is the first volume concerned with the appearance of werewolves and wolves in literary and cultural texts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on representations of werewolves and wolves in literature, film, television and visual culture, the essays investigate the key texts of the lycanthropic canon alongside lesser-known works from the 1890s to the present. The result is an innovative study that is both theoretically aware and historically nuanced, featuring an international list of established and emerging scholars based in Britain, Europe, North America and Australia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11516757

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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Battersea (London, England). Public Libraries and Museums Commissioners. Lavender Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433089893717

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Catalogue of the Lending Department by Battersea (London, England). Public Libraries and Museums Commissioners. Lavender Hill Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1966 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015071098878

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Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1776 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015071099454

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Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : NYPL:33433087537209

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The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : HARVARD:HNKL1H

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Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
ISBN : NYPL:33433069266330

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Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
ISBN : UIUC:30112042681988

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Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year... by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Pdf

Author : Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2574112

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Bulletin by Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library Pdf

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1425 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135456634

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Literature of Travel and Exploration by Jennifer Speake Pdf

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.