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Author : Aspazija
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ragana ; The Silver Veil written by Aspazija and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Astrida Barbins Stahnke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796097705
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Coveted Recipe written by Astrida Barbins Stahnke and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coveted Recipe may be a part of that story, only steeped in the Dark Ages. I am not sure what it is and where it belongs. Is it an adult fairy tale? A sad tragedy of times past? Or a parable of human nature that in changing remains the same, where innocent people are caught in webs of misplaced fears, laws, and regulations? It came to me on a sunny day in Berlin as I sat in an U-Bahn that passed along the broken graffiti-smeared Berlin Wall, thinking how it had locked people in—like the Iron Curtain—and how many suffered and died behind those walls that had cut through lives and loves, leaving trails of guilt and sin on all sides. And then I thought about punishments, such as witch hunts and dungeons and prisons and wars. Seeing the devastation through a foggy window, I hoped that the train was speeding into a new and better age . . .
Author : Astrida Barbins-Stahnke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514426285
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book How Long Is Exile? written by Astrida Barbins-Stahnke and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of Book I How Long is Exile? The Song and Dance Festival of Free Latvians widowed Milda Arajs had taken a new direction in her life. She had decided to break solidarity with her mainstream ethnic community and make good her promise to her daughter Ilga that they would make a "pilgrimage" to Soviet Latvia at Christmas time (1983) and welcome the baby Krijanis, born to American Mara and Latvian Igors, as the symbol of a new era. Also, Milda had chosen to give herself to Peteris Vanags, the one-armed veteran she encountered in the Esslingen DP camp after the war. (Story in Book IIOut of the Ruins of Germany.) They married shortly before the momentous trip, and soon thereafter Milda joined him in Washington, D.C. For a decade they lived happily, making up for lost years of forbidden longing and desireuntil the Soviet Union fell, and the Kingdom of Exile felt the shocks and afershocks. Unbeknown to herself, Milda's Christmas trip behind the Iron Curtain, with all its revalations, was her first step on her Long Road Home. Also, that trip at the height of American women's liberation movement, marked her adult coming of age and becoming the ruler of her life. Released from domestic bonds, she struck out on her own and challenged her mind to higher things. When Peter, in the late 1980s, was asked to join Radio Free Europe in Munich, Milda saw her Road clearly winding its way back to Latvia. This, naturally threatened the marriage. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the Road become bumpy, even trecherous. Afraid and out of step, Peter seemed to lag behind, while Milda hurried forward now that the iron curtain was swept away. With firm steps she returned to her homeland; she reunited with her sister Zelda and reclaimed their parents' apartment. Peter complied and came up with the money, but, as if lost, he often went off by himself, afraid of being watched and pursued until he could not walk anymore. After his death and after the guarded secrets were revealed, Milda took her last steps on The Long Road Home alone. Exile was over, but the sense of exile was imbedded in Milda's mind forever, and it was heavy. She felt the weight most poignantly as she watched fireworks grace the skies at elaborate festivals, where strangers celebrated, frolicking and singing to her unknown songs, and young people rush about in search for passages to new lands, where the grass seemed greener and fame and fortune beckened from clouds with silver linings. As a participant in that, so called exile state, I began writing my version of the experience after the Milwaukee festival, filtering it through the consciousness of my main character Milda Berziņa-Arajs, who, coming out of mourning for her husband Karlis Arajs, arrives at the festival, ready to turn a new leaf in her life. During the four days with like-minded people, interesting events, and common recollections of her childhood, the war and post-war experiences in a displaced persons' camp flash before her in a swirling kaleidescope and, at the end, throws her in the direction she did not plan to go. Book II captures the mood after the fall of the USSR. The ethnic communitiesthe Kingdom of Exileis shaken, and the people awake as if from a deep sleep. Milda suddenly becomes active; she makes crucial decisions and switches from an outdated romantic into a realist as she returns home, meets her estranged sister and the country she had left behind. As she tries to find her place in it, she understands that exile is a state of mind; it is a state where half the world's population liveslike sheuprooted by tyranny and wars. Yet she and other displaced persons go on living and finding pleasure in art, poetry, song, and in each otherthough with a sad, melancholy smile.
Author : Ivana Hostová
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527500802
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Identity and Translation Trouble written by Ivana Hostová and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides providing a thorough overview of advances in the concept of identity in Translation Studies, the book brings together a variety of approaches to identity as seen through the prism of translation. Individual chapters are united by the topic and their predominantly cultural approach, but they also supply dynamic impulses for the reader, since their methodologies, level of abstraction, and subject matter differ. The theoretical impulses brought together here include a call for the ecology of translational attention, a proposal of transcultural and farcical translation and a rethinking of Bourdieu’s habitus in terms of František Miko’s experiential complex. The book also offers first-hand insights into such topics as post-communist translation practices, provides sociological insights into the role politics played during state socialism in the creation of fields of translated fiction and the way imported fiction was able to subvert the intentions of the state, gives evidence of the struggles of small locales trying to be recognised though their literature, and draws links between local theory and more widely-known concepts.
Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824085476
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (854 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 392 pages
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Author : Margherita Albisetti
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Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Castagnola towards liberty written by Margherita Albisetti and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. 20: Aufnahmegebäude Lugano, mit Tram 1910-1915.
Author : Jānis Rainis
Publisher : [Västeras, Sweden] : Ziemelblazma
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Joseph and His Brothers written by Jānis Rainis and published by [Västeras, Sweden] : Ziemelblazma. This book was released on 1965 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam Robbins Dexter
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ISBN 13 : 9780807762349
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (623 download)
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Author : Michael Strmiska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096132
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Modern Paganism in World Cultures written by Michael Strmiska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive study available of neo-pagan religious movements in North America and Europe. Modern Paganism in World Cultures collects the work of specialists in religion, folklore, and related fields to provide a comprehensive treatment of the movement to reestablish pre-Christian religions. Detailed accounts of the belief systems and rituals of each religion, along with analysis of the cultural, social, and political factors fueling the return to ancestral religious practice, make this a rich, singular resource. Scandinavian Asatru, Latvian Dievturi, American Wicca—long-dormant religions are taking on new life as people seek connection with their heritage and look for more satisfying approaches to the pressures of postmodernism. The Neopagan movement is a small but growing influence in Western culture. This book provides a map to these resurgent religions and an examination of the origins of the Neopagan movement.
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Total Pages : 1074 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Steven Serafin
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century Eastern European Writers written by Steven Serafin and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2000 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.
Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135616779
Total Pages : 1951 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 1951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable survey and reference resource It is hard to imagine a more needed and more useful literary reference work than this one, which gives students and readers quick access to the lives and work of a wide range of notable female writers from England and the Continent, from Aphra Behn to Emily Bronte, from Simone de Beauvoir to Isak Dinesen, from Bridget of Sweden to Hannah Arendt. Writers in more than 30 languages are included: French, Czech, Greek, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Serbian, Catalan, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, and more. Covers 1,500 years and all major genres Going back 15 centuries, the Encyclopedia covers the authors of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, criticism, social commentary, feminist manifestos, romances, mysteries, memoirs, children's literature, biography, and other genres. In signed entries, some of which are mini-essays, experts in the field examine writers' lives and achievements, comment on individual works, place artistic efforts in historical context, provide insights and analyses, and present more information than can be easily found elsewhere without undertaking more exhaustive research. Each entry is followed by a bibliography of primary works. Indexed by language, nationality, genre, and century. Spotlights the interesting lives of notable writers In these pages students and readers will meet hundreds of interesting women writers who made lasting contributions to the intellectual and popular culture of their countries while often leading fascinating lives, among them: * AGATHA CHRISTIE , who wrote her first book in response to her sister's demand for a detective story that was harder to solve than the popular fiction of her day, and whose work has been translated in more languages than Shakespeare's. * HILDEGARD VON BINGEN , the 12th-century German mystic, who wrote profusely as a prophet, a poet, a dramatist, a physician, and a political moralist, often communicated with popes and princes, and exerted a tremendous influence on the Western Europe of her time * MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, whose 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus became a literary sensation around the world * ILSE BLUMENTHAL-WEISS, one of the few concentration camp survivors to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust in German verse * LINA WERTMULLER, who in addition to her work in films, has written plays for the stage and a novel, and who once was a member of a short-lived puppet theater that staged the works of Kafka. Special features: Ideal for quick reference and student research * Multicultural-covers over 30 languages and 15 centuries * Includes many contemporary writers * Provides essential biographic data on each writer * Each entry is followed by a chronological listing of the writer's published book-length works * Offers critical evaluations of major works * Indexes help find writers by country...research by time period...survey genres...focus on languages
Author : Marcus van Epe
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300548835
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sea Sky Soil: An Introduction to Waincraft written by Marcus van Epe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book in the Waincraft series will introduce the reader to the newly founded tradition known as Waincraft. Throughout this book are sections covering the Five Cosmological Beings, the Three Worlds, a rich religious and celebratory calendar cycle, and the basics of the Four Elements of Waincraft. Also included are detailed appendices containing information on the pantheon.
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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Aspazija, Her Life and Her Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Clute
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312198695
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantasy written by John Clute and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Author : Andrew Ezergailis
Publisher : Bohlau Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Die baltischen Provinzen Russlands zwischen den Revolutionen von 1905 und 1917 written by Andrew Ezergailis and published by Bohlau Verlag. This book was released on 1982 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
