Author: J. D. Bentley
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1649528698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Costumed sisters Ava and Oona Magnolia stepped into the McClure Mansion among swirls of dancing masqueraders, not knowing where the night would take them. They thought they were safe from the Lost Island Strangler in the home of friends and surrounded by party guests, but things turned sideways that fateful night and began a chain of events involving vicious lies, stalking, and even murder. Eventually the sisters suspected even their close friends of terrible deeds, and they didn't know whom they could trust for help anymore. 2
The Lost Island Masquerade
Author: J. D. Bentley
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1649528698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Costumed sisters Ava and Oona Magnolia stepped into the McClure Mansion among swirls of dancing masqueraders, not knowing where the night would take them. They thought they were safe from the Lost Island Strangler in the home of friends and surrounded by party guests, but things turned sideways that fateful night and began a chain of events involving vicious lies, stalking, and even murder. Eventually the sisters suspected even their close friends of terrible deeds, and they didn't know whom they could trust for help anymore. 2
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1649528698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Costumed sisters Ava and Oona Magnolia stepped into the McClure Mansion among swirls of dancing masqueraders, not knowing where the night would take them. They thought they were safe from the Lost Island Strangler in the home of friends and surrounded by party guests, but things turned sideways that fateful night and began a chain of events involving vicious lies, stalking, and even murder. Eventually the sisters suspected even their close friends of terrible deeds, and they didn't know whom they could trust for help anymore. 2
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics
Author: Sue Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350275778
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental aesthetics. Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys's practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these, this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political reaches of Rhys's fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex writerly affiliations and lineages.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350275778
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental aesthetics. Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys's practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these, this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political reaches of Rhys's fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex writerly affiliations and lineages.
Masquerade and Civilization
Author: Terry Castle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804714686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804714686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
Masquerade
Author: Kit Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On his way to deliver a splendid necklace to the Sun from the Moon, Jack Hare is diverted by a series of odd characters and when he finally reaches his destination he realizes that the necklace is missing. The reader is invited to answer several riddles and solve the mystery from clues given in the text.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
On his way to deliver a splendid necklace to the Sun from the Moon, Jack Hare is diverted by a series of odd characters and when he finally reaches his destination he realizes that the necklace is missing. The reader is invited to answer several riddles and solve the mystery from clues given in the text.
Montserrat And Montserratians
Author: Howard A. Fergus
Publisher: KiMAGIC
ISBN: 0973695005
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Provides vivid photographs of the beautiful island of Montserrat and its people.
Publisher: KiMAGIC
ISBN: 0973695005
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Provides vivid photographs of the beautiful island of Montserrat and its people.
Masquerade
Author: Deborah Bell
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078647646X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In its conventional meaning, masquerade refers to a festive gathering of people wearing masks and elegant costumes. But traditional forms of masquerade have evolved over the past century to include the representation of alternate identities in the media and venues of popular culture, including television, film, the internet, theater, museums, sports arenas, popular magazines and a range of community celebrations, reenactments and conventions. This collection of fresh essays examines the art and function of masquerade from a broad range of perspectives. From African slave masquerade in New World iconography, to the familiar Guy Fawkes masks of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to the branded identities created by celebrities like Madonna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga, the essays show how masquerade permeates modern life.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078647646X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In its conventional meaning, masquerade refers to a festive gathering of people wearing masks and elegant costumes. But traditional forms of masquerade have evolved over the past century to include the representation of alternate identities in the media and venues of popular culture, including television, film, the internet, theater, museums, sports arenas, popular magazines and a range of community celebrations, reenactments and conventions. This collection of fresh essays examines the art and function of masquerade from a broad range of perspectives. From African slave masquerade in New World iconography, to the familiar Guy Fawkes masks of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to the branded identities created by celebrities like Madonna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga, the essays show how masquerade permeates modern life.
Gendered Identity and the Lost Female
Author: Shrabani Basu
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811949670
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective. In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean theatre and performance, this study of gendered identities chronicles the postcolonial hybrid experience – and how it varies in the context of questions of sex, performance and social designation. In the process, it examines the diverse performances of the anglophone Caribbean. The work includes works by Caribbean anglophone playwrights like Derek Walcott, Mustapha Matura, Michael Gikes, Dennis Scott, Trevor Rhone, Earl Lovelace and Errol John with more recent works of Pat Cumper, Rawle Gibbons and Tony Hall. The study would also engage with Carnival, calypso and chutney music, while commenting on its evolving influences over the hybrid imagination. Each section covers the dominant socio-political thematics associated with the tradition and its effect on it, followed by an analysis of contemporaneously significant literary and cultural works – plays, carnival narrative and calypso and chutney lyrics as well as the experiences of performers. From Lovelace’s fictional Jestina to the real-life Drupatee, the book critically explores the marginalization of female performances while forming a hybrid identity.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811949670
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective. In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean theatre and performance, this study of gendered identities chronicles the postcolonial hybrid experience – and how it varies in the context of questions of sex, performance and social designation. In the process, it examines the diverse performances of the anglophone Caribbean. The work includes works by Caribbean anglophone playwrights like Derek Walcott, Mustapha Matura, Michael Gikes, Dennis Scott, Trevor Rhone, Earl Lovelace and Errol John with more recent works of Pat Cumper, Rawle Gibbons and Tony Hall. The study would also engage with Carnival, calypso and chutney music, while commenting on its evolving influences over the hybrid imagination. Each section covers the dominant socio-political thematics associated with the tradition and its effect on it, followed by an analysis of contemporaneously significant literary and cultural works – plays, carnival narrative and calypso and chutney lyrics as well as the experiences of performers. From Lovelace’s fictional Jestina to the real-life Drupatee, the book critically explores the marginalization of female performances while forming a hybrid identity.
Gothic Novels of the Twentieth Century
Author: Elsa J. Radcliffe
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810811904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Easy to use, competently indexed, and fun to explore, this bibliography is an irresistible antidote for all forms of gothic snobbery. Recommended for gothophiliacs, gothophobiacs, and readers with idle nights and empty weekends.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810811904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Easy to use, competently indexed, and fun to explore, this bibliography is an irresistible antidote for all forms of gothic snobbery. Recommended for gothophiliacs, gothophobiacs, and readers with idle nights and empty weekends.
Electric Railway Service
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Masquerade
Author: Carolyne Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736432334
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Masquerade is a jazz-inflected, lyric-narrative sequence of poems, a "memoir in poetry" set principally in pre-Katrina New Orleans and in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and writers. Moved by mutual fascination, shared ideals and aspirations, and the passion they discover in each other, the two are challenged to find a place together in the cultures of both races and families, amid personal and political dislocations as well as questions of trust--all against the backdrop of America's racism and painful social history. The twentieth century's global problem, the color line, as W. E. B. du Bois named it, is enacted here in microcosm between these lovers and fellow artists, who must face their own fears and unresolved conflicts in each other. Similar stories have been told from the male protagonist's point of view; Masquerade is unique in foregrounding the female perspective.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736432334
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Masquerade is a jazz-inflected, lyric-narrative sequence of poems, a "memoir in poetry" set principally in pre-Katrina New Orleans and in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and writers. Moved by mutual fascination, shared ideals and aspirations, and the passion they discover in each other, the two are challenged to find a place together in the cultures of both races and families, amid personal and political dislocations as well as questions of trust--all against the backdrop of America's racism and painful social history. The twentieth century's global problem, the color line, as W. E. B. du Bois named it, is enacted here in microcosm between these lovers and fellow artists, who must face their own fears and unresolved conflicts in each other. Similar stories have been told from the male protagonist's point of view; Masquerade is unique in foregrounding the female perspective.