Author: Andrew Franck
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465320423
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Author: Eugene Chen Eoyang
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824814298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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In this remarkably stimulating and erudite series of essays, Eugene Chen Eoyang explores many of the underlying paradigms and presumptions in world literature, highlighting issues of cultural interchange and cultural hegemony. Translation is seen in this perspective as a central rather than a peripheral factor in understanding the meanings of literary works. Taking concrete examples from Chinese literature, Eoyang illuminates not only the semantic collisions that underlie the complexities of translation, but also the cultural identities reflected in language and values. The title alludes to a passage from Emerson, reminding us that the object on view is not only the vision we see but is also the organ through which that vision is apprehended. The confrontation with a radical "other" - which is, for many Westerners, what Chinese literature represents - is thus both a discovery and a self-discovery. Part of the book's originality is that it identifies a new audience - one that is incipiently bicultural, or knowledgeable about what has been called "East" as well as what has been called "West." Readers with an interest in the theory and practice of translation will find this an inspiring and indispensable work, one that prepares the way for a comparative poetics that recognizes the intense subjectivities in every culture and at the same time establishes a basis for a comparison that tries to transcend, even as it acknowledges, provincialities.

Author: Pat Oxenford
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811744833
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Basic skills for making oval boxes with traditional decorative painting.

Author: Rebecca Agatha Armour
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734069394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Reproduction of the original: Lady Rosamond ́s Secret by Rebecca Agatha Armour

Author: Elizabeth Godfrey
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Laura Frantz
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493428594
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Selah Hopewell seems to be the only woman in the Virginia colony who has no wish to wed. True, there are too many men and far too few women in James Towne. But Selah already has her hands full assisting her father in the family's shop. And now she is in charge of an incoming ship of tobacco brides who must be looked after as they sort through their many suitors. Xander Renick is perhaps the most eligible tobacco lord in the settlement. His lands are vast, his crops are prized, and his position as a mediator between the colonists and the powerful Powhatan nation surrounding them makes him indispensable. But Xander is already wedded to his business and still grieves the loss of his wife, daughter of the Powhatan chief. Can two fiercely independent people find happiness and fulfillment on their own? Or will they discover that what they've been missing in life has been right in front of them all along? Bestselling and award-winning author Laura Frantz takes you to the salty shores of seventeenth-century Virginia in this exploration of pride, honor, and the restorative power of true love.

Author: Siham Tergeman
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292781261
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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This book presents a personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in the Suq Saruja (old city) of Damascus in the first half of this century. Author Tergeman wrote the original memoir, Ya Mal al-Sham, in Arabic to preserve the details of a genuine Arab past for Syrian young people and to help them appreciate the architecture of the old quarter with its reminders of earlier values.

Author: Emma Cheatle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317084039
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass. Aligning the two works materially, historically and conceptually, the book challenges the accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre, makes original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s Paris, and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass. Through a rich analysis, which incorporates creative projects into history and theory research, the book establishes new ways of writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avant-garde wife, Annie Dalsace, the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a gynaecology clinic into a ‘free-plan’ layout. Screened only by glass walls, the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de Verre through another radical glass construction, the Large Glass, where Duchamp’s complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital conventions of 1920s Paris. This and other analyses of the Large Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a register of the changing history of women’s domestic and maternal choices, reclaiming the building as a piece of female social architectural history. The process used to uncover and write the accounts in the book is termed ‘part-architecture’. Derived from psychoanalytic theory, part-architecture fuses analytical, descriptive and creative processes, to produce a unique social and architectural critique. Identifying three essential materials to the Large Glass, the book has three main chapters: ‘Glass’, ‘Dust’ and ‘Air’. Combining theory text, creative writing and drawing, each traces the history and meaning of the material and its contribution to the spaces and sexuality of the Large Glass and the Maison de Verre. As a whole, the book contributes important and unique spatial readings to existing scholarship and expands definitions of architectural design and history.

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Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Lucinda Brant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925614299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Jane and Salt--Four years of Happily Ever After Sir Antony Templestowe--Four years of Exile Lady Caroline--Four years of Heartache Diana St. John--Four years plotting Revenge The time has come... "Just when you feel safe to resurface Lucinda Brant returns with a chilling story mixing insanity with brilliance, a deadly combination. Extraordinary historical romance at its very best ★★★★★ Top Pick All Time Keeper Shelf --S. Wurman, Night Owl Reviews