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Download or read book Vina's Quest written by Irene Lebeter and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vina West, a spirited beauty from the town of Penguin, Tasmania, grew up cherishing the love of her adoptive parents. When adulthood beckons, she finds herself in the bustling streets of Melbourne, building a life filled with friendships. But it's Tasmania's pull that brings her back, and an unexpected discovery that sends her on a journey across oceans to Glasgow in search of her roots. In the heart of Scotland, Vina not only traces her family's secrets and connections, but also stumbles upon Philip Dawson, a charming Glasgow lawyer. In art galleries and age-old streets, a budding romance unfolds as Vina unravels the past. With a newfound half-sister, a nephew, and a love story she hadn't dared to dream of, Vina finds herself intertwined between two worlds. A heartfelt journey that will take you from the serene shores of Tasmania to the historic heart of Scotland, VINA'S QUEST is a tale of discovery, love, and family ties that cross continents.
Book Synopsis (Con)fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions by : Robert Alan Neustadt
Download or read book (Con)fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions written by Robert Alan Neustadt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicting Identities and Multiple Masculinities takes as its focus the construction of masculinity in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages until the fifteenth century, crossing from pre-Christian Scandinavia across western Christendom. The essays consult a broad and representative cross section of sources including the work of theological, scholastic, and monastic writers, sagas, hagiography and memoirs, material culture, chronicles, exampla and vernacular literature, sumptuary legislation, and the records of ecclesiastical courts. The studies address questions of what constituted male identity, and male sexuality. How was masculinity constructed in different social groups? How did the secular and ecclesiastical ideals of masculinity reinforce each other or diverge? These essays address the topic of medieval men and, through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, significantly extend our understanding of how, in the Middle Ages, masculinity and identity were conflicted and multifarious.
Book Synopsis (Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions by : Robert Neustadt
Download or read book (Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions written by Robert Neustadt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call (con)fusing signs, the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that are often explained away in the vague name of postmodern fragmentation. ( Con)Fusing Signs explores the techniques, consequences and purposes for this type of fragmentation. This study reassesses the much discussed crisis of representation through an analysis of the complexity of political critique in areas as diverse (and related) as postmodernity, military dictatorship and postcolonialism. This book explores the manner in which multimedia artists Diamela Eltit, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Guillermo G-mez-Pe-a articulate political critiques through textual (con)fusion while paradoxically underscoring their inability to get outside of discourse.
Book Synopsis Vina: A Brooklyn Memoir by : Joseph C. Polacco
Download or read book Vina: A Brooklyn Memoir written by Joseph C. Polacco and published by Compass Flower Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Polacco has written a wonderful tribute to his mother, Vina, and in the process has learned about himself. This memoir is told with humor, and is a tale of extended family in Brooklyn headed by the author's mother, the kind and big-hearted Vina. It's all about the family, the neighborhood, and most of all about Vina. She is beautiful, selfless, a creative designer and knows how to laugh and make others laugh. She is a master of Italian cuisine, admired for her original recipes, which are willingly shared. What more could anyone want in a Mom? More to the point which of us would not want to claim Vina as Mom? And all the characters in the memoir willingly testify that they love Vina and claim her as their own. The author has a love of--and knack for—foreign language and dialects. In New York City, specifically Brooklyn, the whole world can be found in this one place. And you'll find Joe Polacco and Vina in this melting pot. But be careful not to melt down as you laugh through the pages while commemorating those who have passed before, and after, Vina.
Book Synopsis (Con)fusing Signs by : Robert Alan Neustadt
Download or read book (Con)fusing Signs written by Robert Alan Neustadt and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Determinations written by Neil Larsen and published by Verso. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In essays that engage the current theoretical parlances of 'ambivalence', 'hybridity' and the 'subaltern', Larsen concludes with a critical reassessment of Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities.
Book Synopsis Jewish Writers of Latin America by : Darrell B. Lockhart
Download or read book Jewish Writers of Latin America written by Darrell B. Lockhart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish writing has only recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural phenomenon in Latin American literature. Nevertheless, the majority of students and even Latin American literary specialists, remain uninformed about this significant body of writing. This Dictionary is the first comprehensive bibliographical and critical source book on Latin American Jewish literature. It represents the research efforts of 50 scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Israel who are dedicated to the advancement of Latin American Jewish studies. An introduction by the editor is followed by entries on 118 authors that provide both biographical information and a critical summary of works. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico-home to the largest Jewish communities in Latin America-are the countries with the greatest representation, but there are essays on writers from Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Cuba.
Download or read book Sarmiento written by Cyril Albert Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Julio Cortázar by : Carlos J. Alonso
Download or read book Julio Cortázar written by Carlos J. Alonso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1998 collection of essays on the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.
Download or read book Vina V. Hub Electric Co., Inc written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghosts written by César Aira and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ghosts revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominium building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place, but one teenage girl becomes the most curious. Her questions about the ghosts get so intense that her mother in a chilling splitsecond realizes her daughter's life hangs in the balance
Book Synopsis The Clock Chimed Midnight by : Irene Lebeter
Download or read book The Clock Chimed Midnight written by Irene Lebeter and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of seventeen, Elinor Bonnington's life changes as she sails from the sunny shores of Australia to the rugged heart of Scotland, leaving behind a budding romance with Michael. Resentment festers within her; Elinor blames her mother for their decision, and what happens on the ship strengthens her feeling of resentment. But fate has a way of mending broken paths, as an old school friend and a rewarding secretarial job carve a new direction for Elinor in Scotland. Love blooms anew, ushering in a family, embraced with its shares of joys and hurdles. As the years roll by, a thin thread of connection to Melbourne lives on through her cherished friend, Dot. Irene Lebeter's THE CLOCK CHIMED MIDNIGHT is a family saga filled with love, loss, and rediscovery against the evocative backdrops of Scotland and Australia.
Download or read book Maddie written by Irene Lebeter and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping her past, eighteen-year-old Maddie arrives in Glasgow. Poor and lonely, she's determined to make a new start but is frightened to trust anyone. An opportunity at a new life opens for her after she is befriended by the Kingston family; an opportunity she grasps with gratitude and clings to tenaciously. And then, a new man enters her life ... and maybe - just maybe - there is a light at the end of the tunnel after all. But is she ready to leave her past behind and reach lasting happiness? Set in mid-20th century Glasgow, Irene Lebeter's MADDIE is the story of one girl's journey to bring peace, normality and happiness to her turbulent life.
Book Synopsis Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church by : Methodist Episcopal Church
Download or read book Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church written by Methodist Episcopal Church and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recounting Cultural Encounters by : Marija Knežević
Download or read book Recounting Cultural Encounters written by Marija Knežević and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions reprinted in this book highlight some of the wide ranging ways in which the issues of culture and identity can be approached in a literary text, while focusing on the ways in which cultural encounters have been changing both the world and its reflection in literature. The beginning of the twenty first century is an appropriate time to repay careful attention to these issues. Understanding how our perception of the Other changes with the concept of the world we inhabit, we want to emphasize the rising importance of fostering cultural pluralism and global understanding. Having based their research on widespread readings in academia, such as deconstruction, post-colonialism, post-modernism, new historicism, and narratology, the authors of these papers proceed by addressing the metaphor of travel as one of the strongest metaphors for the evolution of mankind, especially if considered under the light of the historically and politically imposed opposition between the progressive western and the static eastern or African societies. However, as the end of the imperialist era brought about poignant awareness of cultural relativism, as well as deconstruction of the great narrative of progress, facing the Other as an unconceptualized entity became a major moral concern of a modern traveller. It is pronounced that this concern should be textually testified to dramatize the human inability to avoid verbal appropriation of the other. The final question we seek to answer is whether the era of advanced technology and globalisation, along with a post-modern ironical attitude to hyper realities and textual transparencies, has rendered the sphere of the text the only available point of concern of contemporary literature and thought in general. ... For its argumentation strongly founded in recent literary studies and humanities in general, its interdisciplinary nature and its focus on the actual global problems of abrupt cultural change and exchange, its heightened understanding of the necessity of coexistence of differences in a changing world, its spirit of tolerance, and its international spirit in general, we assume this collection will not only attract academic literary scholars but will also appeal to the general reading public.
Book Synopsis Music in Star Trek by : Jessica Getman
Download or read book Music in Star Trek written by Jessica Getman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek. This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across decades and media, offering the first sustained look at the role of music in shaping this influential series. The chapters in this edited collection consider how the aural, visual, and narrative components of Star Trek combine as it constructs and deconstructs the utopian and dystopian, shedding new light on the series’ political, cultural, and aesthetic impact. Considering how the music of Star Trek defines and interprets religion, ideology, artificial intelligence, and more, while also considering fan interactions with the show’s audio, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of music, media studies, science fiction, and popular culture.
Download or read book Heritage Quest written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
