Author: Angela Carter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788445071335
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 157

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Author: Israel Sanmartín
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040115918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The collected contributions analyze texts, authors, social movements, and cultural representations covering a wide period, from the 6th to the 16th century, in geographically liminal spaces where Catholic, Byzantine, Islamic, and Jewish cultures converged. The book is organized in eleven chapters which reflect and explore the following arguments: the study of specific eschatological episodes in medieval Europe and their interpretations; the analysis of apocalyptic visionaries, apocalyptic authors, and their individual contributions; the social and political implications of eschatology in medieval society; the study of medieval apocalyptic literature from a rhetorical, narratological, and historiographical perspective; the history of the transmission of apocalyptic literature and its transformation over time; and a comparative examination of apocalypticism between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. This study provides a lens through which academics, specialists, and interested researchers can observe and reflect on this entire eschatological universe, dwelling both on well-known texts, authors, and events, and on others which are much less popular. In gathering different paradigms, tools, and theoretical frameworks, the book exposes readers to the complex reality of medieval anxiety regarding the end of the world.

Author: Eduardo Protto
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557483794
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 141

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Author: Goldy Moldavsky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545867525
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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From New York Times bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky comes an uproarious take on when the best of intentions go horribly wrong. Gregor Maravilla doesn't want much. Just to feed all the starving children. That's why he goes to Camp Save the World, a summer program for teen activists who care about making a difference. What could be better?It's almost perfect. Except some of these causes are kind of...strange. Like Eat Dirt--a campaign started by up-and-coming actress Ashley Woodstone. Gregor wasn't a fan of her work before, and he's certain she's only there now because of her fame. But Gregor is determinged to not let her ruin his experience.And then the contest is announced. That's when the sabotage starts. They want to see who can do the most good. But that leads to the most bad.No good deed goes unpunished.

Author: YURI ZAMBRANO
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312316586
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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LOS EXTRACTOS DE ESTA OBRA, EN LA VISTA PREVIA, !SON para darle click !Es una novela amena, en la que el personaje principal es una mascota, una perra callejera que narra un segmento de la historia de cualquier país latinoamericano.En ella, deambulan taxidermistas, políticos corruptos, mujeres capaces de desestabilizar un sistema socioeconómico, personajes psicodélicos-etéreos, profundamente emocionales y disímiles.Mujeres de carne y hueso en medio de un realismo-mágico más real que mágico, un cineaste antihéroe que busca documentar negocios fraudulentos, un artista perseguido por sus demonios, un periodistra travesti que cree en la magia de los animales, y lo más interesante, un animal que cree en ese sentimiento de los humanos, llamada amor.Entre todos ellos, aprenden a COMPARTIR LAS PULGAS -en pasajes prácticamente alucinantes- como una increíble y genial maravilla...

Author: Maria Fernanda Ampuero
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1936932830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a "grotesque, unflinching" portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly). “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” —Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist María Fernanda Ampuero. In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it.

Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545820677
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Revised and updated, the autobiography of the Master of Fright, RL Stine! The autobiography of RL Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series, now a motion picture in theaters October 16, 2015!Has he had a horrifying life?-Was RL Stine a SCARY kid?-Did he have a WEIRD family?-Did his friends at school think he was STRANGE?- Why does he like to TERRIFY his readers?-Where does he get the frightening ideas for his stories?All of your questions about best-selling your favorite author are answering in this STINE-TINGLING life story! For the first time ever, RL Stine reveals what he was like when he was YOUR age--and what his scary life is like TODAY!Plus: Private snapshots and photos from his family album!

Author: Sandra Markle
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545638240
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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If you could have any animal's hair, whose would you choose? If you had a polar bear's double coat, you would never have to wear a hat when playing in the snow. If you had reindeer hair, it could help you stay afloat in water. And if you had a porcupine's hair, no bully would ever bother you again! WHAT IF YOU HAD ANIMAL HAIR? is a follow-up to the adorable WHAT IF YOU HAD ANIMAL TEETH? Each spread will feature a photographic image of the animal and its hair on the left and an illustration of a child with that animal's hair on the right. As in ANIMAL TEETH, the illustrations will be humorous and will accompany informative text.

Author: Bobby Ray Glover
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111708489
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Amparo Dávila
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811228223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.