Author: Tadeusz Różewicz
Publisher: London ; New York : Marion Boyars
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Mariage Blanc is a tragic farce set in a middle class household in Poland of the late nineteenth century and concerns itself with "respectable" attitudes towards love and sex in the society of that period. The Hunger Artist Departs takes its origin and inspiration from a short story by Kafka in which a showman travels from town to town with his inpressario, starving himself for long periods of time for people's amusement.
Mariage Blanc; And, The Hunger Artist Departs
Author: Tadeusz Różewicz
Publisher: London ; New York : Marion Boyars
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Mariage Blanc is a tragic farce set in a middle class household in Poland of the late nineteenth century and concerns itself with "respectable" attitudes towards love and sex in the society of that period. The Hunger Artist Departs takes its origin and inspiration from a short story by Kafka in which a showman travels from town to town with his inpressario, starving himself for long periods of time for people's amusement.
Publisher: London ; New York : Marion Boyars
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Mariage Blanc is a tragic farce set in a middle class household in Poland of the late nineteenth century and concerns itself with "respectable" attitudes towards love and sex in the society of that period. The Hunger Artist Departs takes its origin and inspiration from a short story by Kafka in which a showman travels from town to town with his inpressario, starving himself for long periods of time for people's amusement.
Memory and Survival the French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski
Author: Emma Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351198610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Kieslowski's last films have indelibly marked the past decade. His cinema has renewed the representation of the human subject and emotion in film: space and luminous surface reveal the finest, most fragile impressions of states of mind and human consciousness. This study is the first to offer specific focus on Kies'lowski's last films, on his French-language cinema and its place within the broader context of French film-making. Engaging with Deleuze's discussions of the time-image, and recent work in trauma theory, Emma Wilson offers radical insights into the innovation in Kies'lowski's explorations of memory, temporality, loss and desire. A charged defence of Kies'lowski's work, Memory and Survival offers new readings of this cinema of blind chance and fleeting beauty."
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351198610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Kieslowski's last films have indelibly marked the past decade. His cinema has renewed the representation of the human subject and emotion in film: space and luminous surface reveal the finest, most fragile impressions of states of mind and human consciousness. This study is the first to offer specific focus on Kies'lowski's last films, on his French-language cinema and its place within the broader context of French film-making. Engaging with Deleuze's discussions of the time-image, and recent work in trauma theory, Emma Wilson offers radical insights into the innovation in Kies'lowski's explorations of memory, temporality, loss and desire. A charged defence of Kies'lowski's work, Memory and Survival offers new readings of this cinema of blind chance and fleeting beauty."
Shades of Sexuality
Author: Leamon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004649042
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Shades of Sexuality: Colors and Sexual Identity in the Novels of Blaise Cendrars, by Amanda Leamon, is currently one of the few studies on the modernist poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars to be written in English. Of interest to scholars of Cendrars, Modernism, Twentieth Century French Literature and early Twentieth Century Art and Humanities, Shades of Sexuality is unique among the growing body of criticism and analysis of Cendrars' fiction in that it explores the ways in which Cendrars makes use of the spectrum of fragmented colors and other elements of disguise and trompe-l'oeil, both as an artistic device in the construction of the fictional tekst, and as a recurrent motif in the representation and exploration of the male subject and his relation to woman. The author demonstrates how Cendrars effects intersections of gender in the tekst through the manipulation of colors and their associations with femininity, ultimately undermining the illusory façade of male autonomy which dominates his fictional corpus.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004649042
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Shades of Sexuality: Colors and Sexual Identity in the Novels of Blaise Cendrars, by Amanda Leamon, is currently one of the few studies on the modernist poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars to be written in English. Of interest to scholars of Cendrars, Modernism, Twentieth Century French Literature and early Twentieth Century Art and Humanities, Shades of Sexuality is unique among the growing body of criticism and analysis of Cendrars' fiction in that it explores the ways in which Cendrars makes use of the spectrum of fragmented colors and other elements of disguise and trompe-l'oeil, both as an artistic device in the construction of the fictional tekst, and as a recurrent motif in the representation and exploration of the male subject and his relation to woman. The author demonstrates how Cendrars effects intersections of gender in the tekst through the manipulation of colors and their associations with femininity, ultimately undermining the illusory façade of male autonomy which dominates his fictional corpus.
Using French
Author: Ronald Ernest Batchelor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645935
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is an extensively revised and substantially enlarged 2000 edition of the acclaimed Using French.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645935
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This is an extensively revised and substantially enlarged 2000 edition of the acclaimed Using French.
Author:
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738189563
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738189563
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
People Like Us
Author: Dominick Dunne
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307815110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Before they had Too Much Money, the inhabitants of Dominick Dunne’s glitzy, gossipy New York Times bestselling novels were People Like Us. The way journalist Gus Bailey tells it, old money is always preferred, but occasionally new money sneaks in–even where it is most unwelcome. After moving from Cincinnati, Elias and Ruby Renthal strike it even richer in New York, turning their millions into billions. It would be impolite for high society to refuse them now. Not to mention disadvantageous. As long as the market is strong, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about–except for those nasty secrets from the past. Scandal, anyone?
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307815110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Before they had Too Much Money, the inhabitants of Dominick Dunne’s glitzy, gossipy New York Times bestselling novels were People Like Us. The way journalist Gus Bailey tells it, old money is always preferred, but occasionally new money sneaks in–even where it is most unwelcome. After moving from Cincinnati, Elias and Ruby Renthal strike it even richer in New York, turning their millions into billions. It would be impolite for high society to refuse them now. Not to mention disadvantageous. As long as the market is strong, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about–except for those nasty secrets from the past. Scandal, anyone?
The Signature of All Things
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408841894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition and the thirst for knowledge-from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408841894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition and the thirst for knowledge-from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love
A Marriage Below Zero
Author: Alan Dale
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770486631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A Marriage Below Zero is the first novel in English to explicitly explore the subject of male homosexuality. Written by a British émigré to America, the New York theater critic Alfred J. Cohen, under the pseudonym of “Alan Dale,” this first-person narrative is told by a young Englishwoman, Elsie Bouverie, who gradually discovers that her new husband, Arthur Ravener, is romantically involved with another man. Denounced on publication (“a saturnalia in which the most monstrous forms of human vice exhibit themselves shamelessly,” wrote one reviewer), the novel was published during the public exposure of a London homosexual brothel frequented by upper-class men and telegraph boys. A Marriage Below Zero reflected late-nineteenth-century fears and anxieties about homosexuality, women’s position in marriage, and the threat that seemingly new, illicit forms of desire posed to marriageable women and to the Victorian family. This Broadview edition includes excerpts from the era’s pro-homosexual tracts, scientific and legal documents, contemporary feminist commentary on the new “dandyism,” and newspaper accounts of late-Victorian same-sex scandals. Highlights of the volume include excerpts from Charles Dickens’s 1836 account of his visit to Newgate Prison, where he witnessed the last two men in Britain executed for sodomy, George Bernard Shaw’s 1889 unpublished letter attacking the social purity movement’s legislation against homosexual men, and a never-before-reprinted 1898 article from Reynolds’s Newspaper, “Sex Mania,” that warned of an increasing number of homosexual men choosing to enter marriages as a cover for an illicit life.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770486631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A Marriage Below Zero is the first novel in English to explicitly explore the subject of male homosexuality. Written by a British émigré to America, the New York theater critic Alfred J. Cohen, under the pseudonym of “Alan Dale,” this first-person narrative is told by a young Englishwoman, Elsie Bouverie, who gradually discovers that her new husband, Arthur Ravener, is romantically involved with another man. Denounced on publication (“a saturnalia in which the most monstrous forms of human vice exhibit themselves shamelessly,” wrote one reviewer), the novel was published during the public exposure of a London homosexual brothel frequented by upper-class men and telegraph boys. A Marriage Below Zero reflected late-nineteenth-century fears and anxieties about homosexuality, women’s position in marriage, and the threat that seemingly new, illicit forms of desire posed to marriageable women and to the Victorian family. This Broadview edition includes excerpts from the era’s pro-homosexual tracts, scientific and legal documents, contemporary feminist commentary on the new “dandyism,” and newspaper accounts of late-Victorian same-sex scandals. Highlights of the volume include excerpts from Charles Dickens’s 1836 account of his visit to Newgate Prison, where he witnessed the last two men in Britain executed for sodomy, George Bernard Shaw’s 1889 unpublished letter attacking the social purity movement’s legislation against homosexual men, and a never-before-reprinted 1898 article from Reynolds’s Newspaper, “Sex Mania,” that warned of an increasing number of homosexual men choosing to enter marriages as a cover for an illicit life.
THE INNOCENT'S EMERGENCY WEDDING
Author: Hiro Matsuba
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596485283
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The man I asked to marry me under false pretenses is a playboy millionaire… When Katie meets Alessandro again after ten years, she asks him to marry her! Her adoptive father has ordered her to marry a much older man she despises, and Alessandro offers her an escape from his control. Alessandro agrees to the sham marriage with surprising ease, but before they can walk down the aisle, Katie’s father publicly announces her engagement…to the man she despises!
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596485283
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The man I asked to marry me under false pretenses is a playboy millionaire… When Katie meets Alessandro again after ten years, she asks him to marry her! Her adoptive father has ordered her to marry a much older man she despises, and Alessandro offers her an escape from his control. Alessandro agrees to the sham marriage with surprising ease, but before they can walk down the aisle, Katie’s father publicly announces her engagement…to the man she despises!
My Mother's Wedding Dress
Author: Justine Picardie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596911492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A former editor of Vogue chronicles a sequence of stories that reveal the fabric of the past and how a family has fashioned itself through the clothes that they have worn, detailing her own encounters with fashion designers, conversations with supermodels, and search for Charlotte Bront's ring.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596911492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A former editor of Vogue chronicles a sequence of stories that reveal the fabric of the past and how a family has fashioned itself through the clothes that they have worn, detailing her own encounters with fashion designers, conversations with supermodels, and search for Charlotte Bront's ring.