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Her Infinite Variety

Author : Louis Auchincloss
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547756348
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Her Infinite Variety written by Louis Auchincloss and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his novel, Her Infinite Variety. Louis Auchincloss has been called "our most astute observer of moral paradox among the affluent" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), and his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" (Washington Post Book World). Now he brings us the rollicking tale of an unforgettable woman of mid-twentieth century America: the devilish, forever plotting, yet wholly beguiling Clara Hoyt. A romantic early in life, Clara gets engaged—much to her mother's horror—to the lackluster Bobbie Lester. Soon after her Vassar graduation, however, Clara sees the error of her ways, spurns Bobbie, and slyly enthralls the well-bred and fabulously wealthy Trevor Hoyt, the first of her husbands. Soon she lands a job at a tony magazine, and so begins her wildly entertaining course to the inner sanctum of New York's aristocracy and into the boardrooms of the publishing world. In a world where women still had to wield the weapons of allure and charm, above all else, to secure positions of power, Clara, one of the last of her kind, succeeds marvelously. Auchincloss gives us, in Clara, an irresistible Cleopatra, lovely, wily, and mercurial. As Shakespeare wrote of that feminine creation, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety."

Infinite Variety

Author : Wolfram Schmidgen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812299906
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Variety written by Wolfram Schmidgen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen contends, provided both theological framework and aesthetic license. In Infinite Variety, he reconstructs this voluntarist tradition of literary invention. Once one accepted that creation was willful and order arbitrary, Schmidgen argues, existing hierarchies of kind lost their normative value. Literary invention could be radicalized as a result. Acknowledging that the will drives creation, such writers as Blackmore and Locke inverted the rules of composition and let energy dominate structure, matter create form, and parts be valued over the whole. In literary, religious, and philosophical works, voluntarism authorized the move beyond the natural toward the deformed, the infinite, and the counterfactual. In reclaiming ontology as an explanatory context for literary invention, Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of an aesthetic framed not by the rise of secularism, but by its opposite. It is a book that articulates how religious belief shaped modern literary practices, including novelistic realism, and one that will be of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about the relationship between literature, religion, and philosophy.

Infinite Variety

Author : Scot D. Ryersson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967052724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Variety written by Scot D. Ryersson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of the life of the Marchesa Luisa Casati, "Europe's most notorious celebrity," whose promenades with cheetahs, love affairs with famous men, and lavish spending were so fascinating as to inspire a play, a movie, and a fashion collection.--Jacket.

Infinite Variety

Author : Madhavi Menon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387693289
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Variety written by Madhavi Menon and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Elegant, lucid and funny, this book will appeal to as many readers as there are desires.'--Shohini Ghosh 'The history of desire in India, ' writes Madhavi Menon in this splendid book, 'reveals not purity but impurity as a way of life. Not one answer, but many. Not a single history, but multiple tales cutting across laws and boundaries.' In Bhakti poetry, Radha and Krishna disregard marital fidelity, age, time and gender for erotic love. In Sufi dargahs, pirs (spiritual guides) who were married to women are buried alongside their male disciples, as lovers are. Vatsyayana, author of the world's most famous manual of sex, insists that he did not compose it 'for the sake of passion', and remained celibate through the writing of it. Long hair is widely seen as a symbol of sexuality; and yet, shaved off in a temple, it is a sacred offering. Even as the country has a draconian law to punish homosexuality, heterosexual men share the same bed without comment. Hijras are increasingly marginalized; yet gender has historically been understood as fluid rather than fixed. Menon navigates centuries, geographies, personal and public histories, schools of philosophy, literary and cinematic works, as she examines the many--and often surprising--faces of desire in the Indian subcontinent. Her study ranges from the erotic sculptures of Khajuraho to the shrine of the celibate god Ayyappan; from army barracks to public parks; from Empress Nur Jahan's paan to home-made kohl; from cross-dressing mystics to androgynous gods. It shows us the connections between grammar and sex, between hair and war, between abstinence and pleasure, between love and death. Gloriously subversive, full of extraordinary analyses and insights, this is a book you will read to be enlightened and entertained for years.

The Infinite Variety of Music

Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671643
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Variety of Music written by Leonard Bernstein and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music , illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an "imaginary conversation" with George Washington entitled "The Muzak Muse," in which he argues the values of actively listening to music by learning how to read notes, as opposed to simply hearing music in a concert hall. The book also features the reproduction of five television scripts from Bernstein on the influence of jazz, the timeless appeal of Mozart, musical romanticism, and the complexities of rhythmic innovation. Also included are Bernstein's analyses of symphonies by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Brahms, a rare reproduction of a 1957 lecture on the nature of composing, and a report on the musical scene written for the New York Times after his sabbatical leave from directorship of the New York Philharmonic during the 1964-65 season.

Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety

Author : Elizabeth Warren
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847846520
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety written by Elizabeth Warren and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant catalog is a highly detailed look at the world’s most celebrated collection of red and white quilts. Like the Log Cabin or Baltimore-style, the red and white quilt is a hugely popular genre of quilting. Colorfast Turkey red dye became readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, so red and white quilts became extremely popular, due not only to the newness of the color but also because of the extremely vibrant and punchy contrasting color scheme. Featuring over 650 quilts from the past three centuries, this book is filled with the gorgeous and imaginative designs of feathered stars, diamonds, animals, oak leaves, baskets, lettering, and snowflakes, as well as fascinating examples of careful embroidery and appliqué. With inspiring handiwork, designs, and visual histories, this book exemplifies the sheer magnitude and poetry of red and white quilts and is a staple compendium of this beloved art form.

Her Infinite Variety

Author : Pamela Rafael Berkman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743215729
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Her Infinite Variety written by Pamela Rafael Berkman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With elegance, sympathy, and nuance, Her Infinite Variety celebrates the women in William Shakespeare's world. These lyrical stories move from Elizabethan London, where Shakespeare is drawn to the plight of the young wife of a wealthy friend, to a wintry Denmark, where Ophelia struggles to understand her love for Hamlet, and to Shakespeare's Stratford home, where his daughter Judith deliberately enters into a shameful marriage. At the center of this remarkable book is Shakespeare's enduring love for Anne Hathaway, his beautiful, passionate, illiterate wife. Together, the masterfully interwoven stories of Her Infinite Variety bring to life a Shakespeare who was formed by the women he loved -- and who loved him.

Infinite Variety

Author : Marilyn L. Williamson
Publisher : Lawrence Verry Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infinite Variety written by Marilyn L. Williamson and published by Lawrence Verry Incorporated. This book was released on 1974 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Infinite Variety

Author : Esther Ferington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Variety written by Esther Ferington and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library are the subjects of this beautifully illustrated volume for the popular reader. The story of the Folgers, their collection, and the creation of the Library is told in lively detail, with many photos. A catalog of selected works and events follows with the object or event depicted in a full-page color plates with facing entry. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Infinite Regress

Author : David Joselit
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262600385
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Regress written by David Joselit and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-02-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career. There is not one Marcel Duchamp, but several. Within his oeuvre Duchamp practiced a variety of modernist idioms and invented an array of contradictory personas: artist and art dealer, conceptualist and craftsman, chess champion and dreamer, dandy and recluse. In Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career. Taking into account underacknowledged works and focusing on the conjunction of the machine and the commodity in Duchamp's art, Joselit notes a consistent opposition between the material world and various forms of measurement, inscription, and quantification. Challenging conventional accounts, he describes the readymade strategy not merely as a rejection of painting, but as a means of producing new models of the modern self.

The Infinite

Author : Patience Agbabi
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1786899663
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Infinite written by Patience Agbabi and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive' Philip Pullman 'Has a magic all of its own' Bernardine Evaristo 'What an inspiration. The future just got so much better' Benjamin Zephaniah FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME! Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift – the ability to leap through time. Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè has The Gift, but she’s never used it. Until now. On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time – and not everyone at the centre can be trusted. Soon Elle’s adventure becomes more than a race through time. It’s a race against time. She must fight to save the world as she knows it – before it ceases to exist . . .

Serial Shakespeare

Author : Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526142333
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Serial Shakespeare written by Elisabeth Bronfen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. This book explores the reasons for this dissemination and reassemblage. Ranging widely over American TV drama, it discusses the use of citations in Westworld and The Wire, demonstrating how they tap into but also transform Shakespeare’s preferred themes and concerns. It then examines the presentation of female presidents in shows such as Commander in Chief and House of Cards, revealing how they are modelled on figures of female sovereignty from his plays. Finally, it analyses the specifically Shakespearean dramaturgy of Deadwood and The Americans. Ultimately, the book brings into focus the way serial TV drama appropriates Shakespeare in order to give voice to the unfinished business of the American cultural imaginary.

Susan Hayward

Author : Doug McClelland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Susan Hayward written by Doug McClelland and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Hundred Butterflies

Author :
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316071889
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Butterflies written by and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In One Hundred Butterflies, photographer Harold Feinstein showcases butterfly varieties from around the world, turning exquisite details into mesmerizing works of art. Feinstein's breathtaking photographs capture the color, vibrancy, and infinite variety of patterns that occur on the wings of these ornate insects. One hundred impeccably reproduced, oversized photographs allow viewers to appreciate the Blue Morpho of Central America, the African Birdwing, and the Asian Swallowtail at a scale and depth impossible to experience in nature. An elegantly printed deluxe gift book, it is a treasure for butterfly enthusiasts and art lovers alike.

Varieties of Exile

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170601
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Exile written by Mavis Gallant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.

The Marchesa Casati

Author : Scot Ryersson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marchesa Casati written by Scot Ryersson and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual biography about the Marchesa Luisa Casati (1881-1957), telling Casati's life story alongside the art and designs she has inspired, featuring 200 images covering her lifetime and beyond.

The Book of Fine Linen

Author : Francoise De Bonneville
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2080202472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Fine Linen written by Francoise De Bonneville and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual tribute to the elegant world of heirloom household fabrics, from the white linen cloth of ancient Egypt to the rainbow-hued coverlets of today. This lively text introduces heirloom household fabrics, their use, manufacture, embellishments, and care, as well as the infinite variety of fibers and materials used. The author explains how they serve as both unusually revealing testaments of the history of daily life and quintessential examples of the weaver’s craft, often so magnificently decorated that they rival works of art. The text is supplemented by a rich array of paintings, archival photographs, vintage advertisements, and original commissioned photography from collections, private homes, and workshops of the leading contemporary manufacturers. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms, bibliography, and index complete the book.