Author: Marie d'Agoult
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791485919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Winner of the 2004 Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation presented by the Texas Institute of Letters First published in 1846 under the pen name Daniel Stern, Nelida tells the story of a beautiful French heiress who surrenders everything—marriage, reputation, and an aristocratic way of life—for the love of a talented young middle class painter. Based on the author's own ten-year relationship with the pianist and composer Franz Liszt, the novel quickly became the scandalous bestseller of its day. Its author, Marie d'Agoult, has emerged as one of the most remarkable women of her time. An aristocratic Parisian woman who left her husband and child to become the companion of Liszt, d'Agoult became an accomplished woman of letters whose works included a major history of the 1848 revolution in Paris. In Nelida, her only major novel, she brings to life the deeply intimate parts of her own story and the era in which it took place. Written with a keen sensitivity to social mores and psychological nuances, the novel reveals the primal cry of a woman determined to control her own destiny without betraying her womanhood. Appearing here for the first time in English, Lynn Hoggard's translation of Nelida is ripe for rereading by today's readers.
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Author: Nelida Fuccaro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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This book examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it addresses the changing relationship between urban development, politics and society before and after the discovery of oil.
Author: Nelida Pinon
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Languages : en
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The matriarch has begun her final task; the task of dying. As Eulalia shapes her memories and dreams into tales, the clan, gathered at her side, relives its past and vies for its future. A novel following four generations of a family torn between its Spanish past and Brazilian present.
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Category : Authors, Latin American
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Discusses writers of the New World and provides a critial analyses of today's outstanding writers.
Author: Nélida Piñon
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Nélida Piñon
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307266672
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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In exquisite prose, Pinon tells the story of "One Thousand and One Nights" told from Scheherezade's perspective, giving readers the full depth and breadth of her jealousies and resentments, her longings and desires.
Author: Ivan A. Brady
Publisher: New York : J. Wiley
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Author: Ulrike Freitag
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782385843
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. By situating incidents in particular processes and conflicts, the case studies seek to counter notions of a violent Middle East in order to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act. Contributions explore processes sparked by the transition from empires — Ottoman and Qajar, but also European — to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in cityscapes throughout the region.
