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Author : Grace Llewellyn JONES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Historic Fantasy of Venice written by Grace Llewellyn JONES and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004651217
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a millennium of English and American fantasies of Venice: this collection of essays by leading critics in the field explores the continued and continuing fascination of travellers, writers, artists, theatre workers and film makers with the amphibious and ambiguous city in the lagoon. There is hardly another place in Europe that has become so much of a palimpsest, inscribed with the fantasies, the dreams and nightmares of generations of foreigners, and this turns Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds into a particularly pertinent case study of the ways cultural difference within Europe is experienced, enacted and constructed. The essays range across five centuries - from the Renaissance to our postmodern present, from Shakespeare and his contemporary Coryate to recent novels, detective fiction and films - and, in contrast to previous studies focussing on the Grand Tour, they emphasise more recent developments and how they continue or disrupt traditional ways of perceiving - or being blind to! - Venice.
Author : Margaret Plant
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083866
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Venice written by Margaret Plant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.
Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147514940
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Fantasy League written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of HEAT, TRAVEL TEAM and MILLION-DOLLAR THROW comes a story of every football kid’s dream come true. 12-year-old Charlie is a fantasy football guru. He may be just a bench warmer for his school's football team, but when it comes to knowing and loving the game, he's first-string. He even becomes a celebrity when his podcast gets noticed by a sports radio host, who plays Charlie's fantasy picks for all of Los Angeles to hear. Soon Charlie befriends the elderly owner of the L.A. Bulldogs -- a fictional NFL team -- and convinces him to take a chance on an aging quarterback. After that, watch out . . . it's press conferences and national fame as Charlie becomes a media curiosity and source of conflict for the Bulldogs general manager, whose job Charlie seems to have taken. It's all a bit much for a kid just trying to stay on top of his grades and maintain his friendship with his verbal sparring partner, Anna. Like the best Disney film in book form, like Moneyball for kids, Fantasy League is every football kid's dream scenario. “Lupica is the greatest sports writer for middle school readers.” –VOYA
Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317056310
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Venice written by Graham Holderness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. Graham Holderness focuses specifically on how that mythology was employed by Shakespeare to explore themes of conversion, change, and metamorphosis. Identifying and outlining the materials having to do with Venice which might have been available to Shakespeare, Holderness provides a full historical account of past and present Venetian myths and of the city's relationship with both Judaism and Islam. Holderness also provides detailed readings of both The Merchant of Venice and of Othello against these mythical and historical dimensions, and concludes with discussion of Venice's relevance to both the modern world and to the past.
Author : Laura Tosi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317001303
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Visions of Venice in Shakespeare written by Laura Tosi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical, political and economic questions that have been raised in the last few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well as symbolic landscape that needs to be explored in its multiple resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the later tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact that the issues raised in the Venetian plays are tremendously topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of early modern multiculturalism.
Author : Erin Maglaque
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721666
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Venice's Intimate Empire written by Erin Maglaque and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice’s Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family in the Venetian Mediterranean. Maglaque elaborates an intellectual history of Venice’s Mediterranean empire by examining how Venetian humanist education related to the task of governing. Taking that relationship as her cue, Maglaque unearths an intimate view of the emotions and subjectivities of imperial governors. In their writings, it was the affective relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, humanist teachers and their students that were the crucible for self-definition and political decision making. Venice’s Intimate Empire thus illuminates the experience of imperial governance by drawing connections between humanist education and family affairs. From marriage and reproduction to childhood and adolescence, we see how intimate life was central to the Bembo and Coppo families’ experience of empire. Maglaque skillfully argues that it was within the intimate family that Venetians’ relationships to empire—its politics, its shifting social structures, its metropolitan and colonial cultures—were determined.
Author : Mário S. Ming Kong
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 100073420X
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy written by Mário S. Ming Kong and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - INTELLIGENCE, CREATIVITY AND FANTASY were compiled with the intent to establish a multidisciplinary platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of research. The aim is also to foster the awareness and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design, Engineering, Social and Natural Sciences, and their importance and benefits for the sense of both individual and community identity. The idea of modernity has been a significant motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.
Author : Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher : Solaris
ISBN 13 : 1849979308
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Drowned Worlds written by Charlie Jane Anders and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise – good or bad. Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard’s The Drowned World, Sterling’s Islands in the Net, and Ryman’s The Child Garden; stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan has put together sixteen unique tales of deluged worlds and those who fight to survive and strive to live. Featuring fiction by Paul McAuley, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nina Allan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Christopher Rowe, Nalo Hopkinson, Sean Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, Rachel Swirsky, James Morrow, Charlie Jane Anders, Sam J. Miller and Catherynne M. Valente.
Author : Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fantasy and Reality in Eighteenth Century Venice written by Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beverly Reynolds
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146916213X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book The Unexpected Fantasy written by Beverly Reynolds and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sisters, Beth, Linda and Sandra, fantasized for years about someday just the three of them would go on a cruise. As young attractive widows, and with empty nests, their fantasy became a reality. However, the first night at sea, something occurred that would change their lives, quite the unexpected fantasy. They met three handsome and charming European men, whom they fondly called their three amigos. Join them on their ninety-two day fantasy voyage, and enjoy the ins and outs of cruising while visiting exotic ports-of-call. Experience their Bon Voyage!
Author : Jennifer Scappettone
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537743
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Killing the Moonlight written by Jennifer Scappettone and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by "killing the moonlight" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase. Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture—from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover—Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new. Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.
Author : Eldon Murphy
Publisher : Fir'shan Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1939363004
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (393 download)
Download or read book The Greater Darkness: A Dark YA Urban Fantasy Book With Vampires (Part of the Reflections Series of Books) written by Eldon Murphy and published by Fir'shan Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something powerful is stirring in the darkness. Something so ancient that even creatures who've been alive for hundreds of years have long since discounted this new threat as nothing more than myth. Geoffrey knows even less than most about this rising menace. His memories were all violently ripped away from him, leaving nothing of his past but dreams containing haunting glimpses of a beautiful girl. A chance encounter offers up a possible link to his past, but forces beyond his control are threatening to push him into the middle of a conflict that could sweep away everything, and everyone he’s been fighting so hard to protect. This time, saving the girl may very well cost Geoffrey his soul. Publisher's Note: The Greater Darkness is a dark YA Urban Fantasy book, and is one possible entry point into the books that make up the Reflections Universe. The Reflections Universe is a series featuring vampires, shape shifters, werewolves and more, which has been written so that it can be safely enjoyed by teens and adults alike. The Reflections Universe: Some stories are too full epic vampire goodness to fit into just one book! Keywords: Urban Fantasy, YA, Vampires, Werewolves, Paranormal, Action
Author : Eldon Murphy
Publisher : Fir'shan Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1939363101
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (393 download)
Download or read book A Darkness Mirrored: A Dark YA Urban Fantasy Novel With Vampires (Part of the Reflections Series of Books) written by Eldon Murphy and published by Fir'shan Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warrior, werewolf killer, slave, lover…vampire…murderer. Geoffrey was all of those things. He killed hundreds—possibly even thousands—of people without a single regret, but that's only part of the truth. For one person, Geoffrey was more than just a murderer—he was a father. More than just an orphan Geoffrey took in off the streets, Lucy became the woman Geoffrey sacrificed everything for. This is Lucy's story. Publisher's Note: A Darkness Mirrored is a dark YA Urban Fantasy book, and is one possible entry point into the books that make up the Reflections Universe. The Reflections Universe is an Urban Fantasy Series featuring vampires, shape shifters, werewolves and more, which has been written so that it can be safely enjoyed by teen and adult readers alike. Readers new to the Reflections Series should start with The Greater Darkness, one of several free young adult books available from Eldon under this and other pen names. The Reflections Universe: Some stories are too full of dark vampire goodness to fit into just one book! Eldon Murphy is an open pen name for Dean Murray, the successful author of multiple clean young adult paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and epic fantasy series which collectively have more than 480,000 copies in circulation. Keywords: Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, YA, Vampires, Werewolves, Dark Urban Fantasy, Vampire, Paranormal, Teen
Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750735
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Venice Noir written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drifter" by Emily Mandel was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa Scottoline Original stories by: Peter James, Emily St. John Mandel, Barbara Baraldi, Mike Hodges, Mary Hoffman, Maria Tronca, Matteo Righetto, Tony Cartano, Francesco Ferracin, Isabella Santacroce, Michelle Lovric, Francesca Mazzucato, Maxim Jakubowski, and Michael Gregorio. "Forget the magnificence of Venice's art, architecture, and music, and delve into this tour of the City of Water's murky depths...visions of a Venice not seen in tourist brochures." --Publishers Weekly "Editor Jakubowski does an excellent job of selecting a variety of stories that represent all strata of Venetian life, from tourists visiting for Carnevale to criminals running illegal operations in the bay...A must-read for lovers of Venice...the presence of a new and intriguing voices, many of them Italian, will pique the interest of international-mystery readers." --Booklist "Sex, food and real estate inspire 14 hot-blooded new takes on crime in the magical city of Venice...Rather than crimes of passion, this collection focuses on the passion of crime, painting its noir in robust tones rather than gritty gray." --Kirkus Reviews "Venice Noir, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, aims to shred through our preconceptions of this remarkable city. The 14 writers featured in this anthology of short stories take our travel brochure images of Venice and scatter them like confetti." --NY Journal of Books Maxim Jakubowski is a British editor and writer. Following a long career in book publishing, during which he was responsible for several major crime imprints, he opened London's mystery bookshop Murder One. He reviews crime fiction for the Guardian, runs London's Crime Scene Festival, and is an advisor to Italy's annual Courmayeur Noir in Festival. His latest crime novel is Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer, and he edits the annual Best British Mysteries series.
Author : Thomas Betteridge
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9781902806402
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Shakespearean Fantasy and Politics written by Thomas Betteridge and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why read Shakespeare? This work draws extensively on the work of Slavoj UZiUzek and other contemporary thinkers to discover the truths of Shakespeare's drama and relate them to contemporary issues within the discipline of English literature."
Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473377420
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Doge and the Dogaressa (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1818. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced in 1816, is 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', due to the fact that - some seventy-six years later - it inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. In the same vein, his story 'The Sandman' provided both the inspiration for Léo Delibes's ballet Coppélia, and the basis for a highly influential essay by Sigmund Freud, called 'The Uncanny'. (Indeed, Freud referred to Hoffman as the "unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature.") Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.
