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Book Synopsis Masquerade Into Madness by : Russ Meservey
Download or read book Masquerade Into Madness written by Russ Meservey and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Modernist Masquerade by : Colleen McQuillen
Download or read book The Modernist Masquerade written by Colleen McQuillen and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period of rich literary and theatrical experimentation. The first study of its kind, The Modernist Masquerade examines the cultural history of masquerades in Russia and their representations in influential literary works. The masquerade's widespread appearance as a literary motif in works by such writers as Anna Akhmatova, Leonid Andreev, Andrei Bely, Aleksandr Blok, and Fyodor Sologub mirrored its popularity as a leisure-time activity and illuminated its integral role in the Russian modernist creative consciousness. Colleen McQuillen charts how the political, cultural, and personal significance of lavish costumes and other forms of self-stylizing evolved in Russia over time. She shows how their representations in literature engaged in dialog with the diverse aesthetic trends of Decadence, Symbolism, and Futurism and with the era's artistic philosophies.
Download or read book Masquerade written by Alfred F. Young and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-03-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution. Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans’ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.
Download or read book Masquerade written by and published by Darling. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents over 130 illustrations of costumes, from chambermaid and lady bug to peasant girl and gypsy, from French and Continental fashion magazines published from the f0s through the 1950s.
Download or read book Clanbook written by Andrew Greenberg and published by White Wolf Games Studio. This book was released on 1997 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clanbook: Malkavian presents this special clan in all its demented glory.
Book Synopsis The Cure of the Passions and the Origins of the English Novel by : Geoffrey Sill
Download or read book The Cure of the Passions and the Origins of the English Novel written by Geoffrey Sill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study examines the role of the passions in the rise of the English novel. Geoffrey Sill examines medical, religious, and literary efforts to anatomize the passions, paying particular attention to the works of Dr Alexander Monro of Edinburgh, Reverend John Lewis of Margate, and Daniel Defoe, novelist and natural historian of the passions. He shows that the figure of the 'physician of the mind' figures prominently not only in Defoe's novels, but also in those of Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Burney, and Edgeworth.
Book Synopsis Backstage in the Novel by : Francesca Saggini
Download or read book Backstage in the Novel written by Francesca Saggini and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres, Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work, considering the relation between drama, a long-standing tradition, and the still-emergent form of the novel. Through close semiotic analysis, intertextual comparison, and cultural contextualization, Saggini highlights the extensive metatextual discourse in Burney's novels, allowing the theater within the novels to surface. Saggini’s comparative analysis addresses, among other elements, textual structures, plots, characters, narrative discourse, and reading practices. The author explores the theatrical and spectacular elements that made the eighteenth-century novel a hybrid genre infused with dramatic conventions. She analyzes such conventions in light of contemporary theories of reception and of the role of the reader that underpinned eighteenth-century cultural consumption. In doing so, Saggini contextualizes the typical reader-spectator of Burney’s day, one who kept abreast of the latest publications and was able to move effortlessly between "high" (sentimental, dramatic) and "low" (grotesque, comedic) cultural forms that intersected on the stage. Backstage in the Novel aims to restore to Burney's entire literary corpus the dimensionality that characterized it originally. It is a vivid, close-up view of a writer who operated in a society saturated by theater and spectacle and who rendered that dramatic text into narrative. More than a study of Burney or an overview of eighteenth-century literature and theater, this book gives immediacy to an understanding of the broad forces informing, and channeled through, Burney's life and work.
Book Synopsis The Stylistic Development of Edgar Allan Poe by : Richard M. Fletcher
Download or read book The Stylistic Development of Edgar Allan Poe written by Richard M. Fletcher and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Stylistic Development of Edgar Allan Poe".
Book Synopsis The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book The Portable Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the world's first detective story. In addition, this volume offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of random "opinions" on fancy and the imagination, music and poetry, intuition and sundry other topics. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy by : Lisa Sarti
Download or read book Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy written by Lisa Sarti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian modernist. The volume re-examines traditional critical notions central to the study of Pirandello by focusing on the importance of the visual imagination in his poetics and aesthetics, an area of multimedia investigation which has not yet received ample attention in English-language books. Putting scholarship on Pirandello in conversation with new work on the multimedia dimensions of modernism, the volume examines how Pirandello worked across and was adapted through multiple media. It also brings Pirandello into a cross-disciplinary dialogue with new approaches to Italian cultural studies to show how his work remains relevant to scholarly conversations across the field. The essays in this collection highlight the ways in which Pirandello is engaged not only in literature and theatre but also in the visual arts, film, and music. At the same time, they emphasize the ways in which this multimedia creativity enables Pirandello to pursue complex philosophical thoughts, and how scholars’ interpretation of his works can provide new insights into problems facing us today. Crossing from aesthetics and a study of modernist notions of creative imagination into studies of multimedia works and adaptations, the volume argues that Pirandello should be understood as a thinker in images whose legacy can be felt across the arts and into the realm of 21st-century theories of literary cognition.
Download or read book His Hideous Heart written by Dahlia Adler and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation. Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in both Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and in the 13 unique and unforgettable ways that they've been brought to life. Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining “Ligeia”), Kendare Blake (“Metzengerstein”), Rin Chupeco (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), Lamar Giles (“The Oval Portrait”), Tessa Gratton (“Annabel Lee”), Tiffany D. Jackson (“The Cask of Amontillado”), Stephanie Kuehn (“The Tell-Tale Heart”), Emily Lloyd-Jones (“The Purloined Letter”), amanda lovelace (“The Raven”), Hillary Monahan (“The Masque of the Red Death”), Marieke Nijkamp (“Hop-Frog”), Caleb Roehrig (“The Pit and the Pendulum”), and Fran Wilde (“The Fall of the House of Usher”).
Book Synopsis The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revel in the sumptuous language of Edgar Allan Poe's best works. The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features key works, spanning from 1827 to his death in 1849, from the famous Gothic American writer, especially Poe's spine-chilling short stories and melodious poems. Included in this indispensable edition, with a new introduction by Daniel Stashower, are the short stories "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," as well as classic poems such as "The Raven," Annabel Lee," and 'The Bells.
Book Synopsis Edgar Allan Poe Word Search by : Editors of Thunder Bay Press
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe Word Search written by Editors of Thunder Bay Press and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into more than 50 themed word search puzzles based on Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre stories and poems. More than 50 puzzles inspired by passages from Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre stories and poems will delight puzzle enthusiasts and fans of the author. Each puzzle uses words drawn directly from the text, whether it’s an eerie description of a scene from a story such as “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” or enchanting lines from poems like “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.” The search terms are highlighted within the extract and listed below the puzzles for reference. Perfect for fans of Poe’s dark fantasies and lovers of classical literature, this puzzle book makes for an enjoyable, relaxing activity.
Book Synopsis Ravings of Love and Death by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book Ravings of Love and Death written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Play Attitude. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the darkest side of human soul with the Unique Illustrated Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe. The book includes: *Seven of his best stories (The Oval Portrait, The Tell-Tale Heart, Annabel Lee, The Masque of the Red Death, Hop-frog, The Black Cat and The Raven), *The dark biography of the Master of Terror *The Sketchbook by David García Forés In the XIX Century a writer was ahead of his time and revolutionized the horror genre. Enter the chilling world of Poe and enjoy it with the involving illustrations by David García Forés.
Book Synopsis The Great Stories: Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book The Great Stories: Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDGAR ALLAN POE was a famous American writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. He penned more than 70 different short stories across multiple genres: psychological, mystical, gothic, romantic, detective, satirical. He also wrote poetry, of which "The Raven" with its haunting rhythm, is unsurpassed. His writing style falls into the category of American romanticism. Poe was one of the first American writers predominately publish short stories. He is one of the creators of the detective fiction genre in literature. His work also marked the beginning of the science fiction genre. Contents: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Gold-Bug, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Hop-Frog, Ligeia Morella, The Oval Portret, The Raven Al Aaraaf, Annabel Lee, The Bells, The City in the Sea, The Conqueror Worm, A Dream Within a Dream, Eldorado, Eulalie, The Haunted Palace, To Helen, Lenore, Tamerlane, Ulalume
Book Synopsis Tales of Mystery and Terror by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book Tales of Mystery and Terror written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1995-01-26 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen stories of horror, suspense and the supernatural. 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Black Cat' are just three of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous tales in this chilling collection.
Download or read book Hop-Frog written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »Hop-Frog« is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1849. EDGAR ALLAN POE was born in Boston in 1809. After brief stints in academia and the military, he began working as a literary critic and author. He made his debut with the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, but it was in his short stories that Poe's peculiar style truly flourished. He died in Baltimore in 1849.