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Book Synopsis Make the Night Hideous by : Pauline Greenhill
Download or read book Make the Night Hideous written by Pauline Greenhill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quête (a request for a treat or money in exchange for the noisy performance) and/or pranks. Up to the first decades of the twentieth century, charivaris were for the most part enacted to express disapproval of the relationship that was their focus, such as those between individuals of different ages, races, or religions. While later charivaris maintained the same rituals, their meaning changed to a welcoming of the marriage. Make the Night Hideous explores this mysterious transformation using four detailed case studies from different time periods and locations across English Canada, as well as first-person accounts of more recent charivari participants. Pauline Greenhill's unique and fascinating work explores the malleability of a tradition, its continuing value, and its contestation in a variety of discourses.
Book Synopsis Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by : David Foster Wallace
Download or read book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men written by David Foster Wallace and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' a dark, hilarious series of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the absurd, the surprising, and the illuminating from every situation. This collection will enthrall DFW fans, and provides a perfect introduction for new readers.
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Download or read book The Connection of Disease with Habits of Intemperance written by Charles Willsie and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota by : Isaac Atwater
Download or read book History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota written by Isaac Atwater and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Temple Bar written by George Augustus Sala and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Familiar Quotations by : John Bartlett
Download or read book Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson and Twenty Great Battles by : John McElroy
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Download or read book Summer Isles of Eden written by Frank Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis City of Dreadful Night by : Lee Siegel
Download or read book City of Dreadful Night written by Lee Siegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lee Siegel went to India to do research for a book on Sanskrit horror literature, a friend in New Delhi told him about an itinerant teller of ghost and vampire tales, a man with clusters of amulets around his neck and a silk top hat with peacock plumes on his head. Siegel set out in search of the old man—called Brahm Kathuwala—to hear his stories and to learn about his uncommon life. But what started out as a study of other people's stories became a compelling story itself. City of Dreadful Night is an astonishing work of fiction, a tangle of tales that transports the reader from the Medieval India of magicians, witches, and vampires, through the British India of Brahm Kathuwala's childhood, into the chaos and political terror of contemporary India. Vividly recreating Indian literary and oral traditions, Siegel weaves a web of possession, reincarnation, and magical transformation unlike any found in the Western tradition. Flesh-eating demons, Rajiv Gandhi's assassin, even Bram Stoker and Dracula populate the serpentine narrative, which intermingles stories about the characters with the terrifying tales they tell. Siegel pursues Brahm Kathuwala from the ghastly lights of the cremation ground at Banaras through villages all over north India. Brahm's life story is revealed through countless tales along the way. We learn that he was raised, and abandoned, by two mothers—one the destitute floor sweeper who bore him; the other her employer, a wealthy Irish woman who read and reread to him the story of Dracula. We hear of his marriage to the daughter of a cremation ground attendant, his battles against her demonic possession, and their painful parting. We come to understand the daily life and motivations of this "horror professional," who uses terrifying tales to ward off the evil he himself fears. This unorthodox book is more than a story; it blends scholarship, fantasy, travelogue, and autobiography—fusing and overlapping historical accounts and newscasts, literary texts and films, dreams and nocturnal tales. Siegel uses imagination to explore the relation of real terror to horror fiction and to contemplate the ways fear and disgust become thrilling elements in stories of the macabre. This book is the product of Siegel's deep knowledge of both Indian and Western literary and philosophical traditions. It is also an attempt to come to grips with the omnipresence of political and religious terror in contemporary India. Shocking, original, beautifully written, City of Dreadful Night offers readers a captivating immersion in the wonder and terror of India, past and present.
Book Synopsis The Book of Literature by : Richard Garnett
Download or read book The Book of Literature written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry by : Alexander Pope
Download or read book The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry written by Alexander Pope and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
