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Victorian Tales 35 - The Medusa Threat.

Author : Manuel Barreiros
Publisher : Victorian Tales Fourth Season
ISBN 13 : 9781795207904
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Tales 35 - The Medusa Threat. written by Manuel Barreiros and published by Victorian Tales Fourth Season. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PROFESSOR GIORGIU STOLE THE AMULET THAT COULD BRING BACK THE MEDUSA FROM THE CRYPT OF ST.EGOBERT IN VATTENLAND.SOON HE TESTED HER KILLING PEOPLE, NAMELY SOLDIERS. BUT SUDDENLY HE LOST CONTROL OF HER AND THE MEDUSA ESCAPED CONTINUING TO KILL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE.FATHER ANTON EXPLAINED WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE KING AND QUEEN OF VATTENLAND. THE QUEEN, DINA, ON HER TURN, TOLD THE STORY TO THE BRISTISH SECRET SERVICE (SIDNEY OREBAR, MORIA HUNTER AND AMELIA STAR), TO THE GERMAN ONE (MARION SHUSTER AND VON KULOV) AND TO THE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE (CONUT PAVEL).THEY REALIZED THAT MEDUSA WAS FROM EGYPTIAN ORIGIN.HER NAME WAS WADJET AND SHE HAD A TEMPLE IN LOWER EGYPT. PROFESSOR GIORGIU CAME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION AND TRAVELLED TO EGYPT TO PROPOSE A PARTNERSHIP TO THE MAHDI. THE BRITISH AND GERMAN SECRET SERVICES ALSO TRAVELLED TO EGYPT TO FIND THE MEDUSA. COUNT PAVEL GAVE THAT MISSION TO HIS AGENT IN CAIRO, SONIA. THE MAHDI AND THE PROFESSOR ASSUMED THE CONTROL OF THE MEDUSA AND HER SISTER AND PLANNED TO ELIMINATE THE KHEDIVE, IN THE OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE NEW CASINO OF CAIRO.SIDNEY AND HIS FRIENDS HAD A LITTLE TIME TO MAKE ABORT THIS COUP. ANOTHER GREAT ADVENTURE. ANOTHER GREAT VICTORIAN TALE

Victorian Poetry

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire

Author : Sarah Heaton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350087939
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire written by Sarah Heaton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages was no different. This volume covers nearly a thousand years of history, from Archaic Greece to the end of the Roman Empire, concentrating on what is now Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Among the key issues identified by its authors is the recognition that in any given society male and female hair tend to be opposites (when male hair is generally short, women's is long); that hair is a marker of age and stage of life (children and young people have longer, less confined hairstyles; adult hair is far more controlled); hair can be used to identify the 'other' in terms of race and ethnicity but also those who stand outside social norms such as witches and mad women. The chapters in A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity cover the following topics: religion and ritualized belief, self and society, fashion and adornment, production and practice, health and hygiene, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class and social status, and cultural representations.

Neo-Victorian Humour

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004336613
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Humour written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia

Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boys Keep Swinging

Author : Jake Shears
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501140140
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Boys Keep Swinging written by Jake Shears and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “exhilarating yet poignant account of one boy taking flight” (Shelf Awareness, starred review), one of rock music's most entrancing figures transforms the vividness of his musical world into an unforgettable literary account of overcoming the odds and finding his true voice. Long before hitting the stage as the lead singer of the iconic glam rock band Scissor Sisters, Jake Shears was Jason Sellards, a teenage boy living a fraught life, resulting in a difficult time in high school as his classmates bullied him and few teachers showed sympathy. It wasn’t until years later, while living and studying in New York City, that Jason would find his voice as an artist and, with a group of friends and musicians who were also thirsting for stardom and freedom, form the band Scissor Sisters. First performing in the smoky gay nightclubs of New York, then finding massive success in the United Kingdom, Scissor Sisters would become revered by the LGBTQ community, sell out venues worldwide, and win multiple accolades with hits like “Take Your Mama” and “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’,” as well as their cult-favorite cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.” “Brutally honest” (Elton John), candid, and courageous, Shears’s writing sings with the same powerful, spirited presence that he brings to his live performances. Boys Keep Swinging is “a wild, sexy, emotional ride through underground New York at the millennium. From the fringes to the top, it's a tale that speaks to the outsider in all of us” (Andy Cohen).

The Penelopiad

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571319009
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Penelopiad written by Margaret Atwood and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, inexplicably hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Now, Penelope and her chorus of wronged maids tell their side of the story in a new stage version by Margaret Atwood, adapted from her own wry, witty and wise novel. The Penelopiad premiered with the Royal Shakespeare Company in association with Canada's National Arts Centre at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in July 2007.

Five Quarts

Author : Bill B. Hayes
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0345456882
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Five Quarts written by Bill B. Hayes and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes Five Quarts something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy.” –Entertainment Weekly From ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where machines test blood for diseases and scientists search for elusive cures, Bill Hayes takes us on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by way of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies. Hayes also recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of five sisters and their monthly cycles to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man. As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man’s life, Five Quarts is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving.

Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Author : Laurie Lanzen Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism written by Laurie Lanzen Harris and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.

Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Bloom's Literary Criticism
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities written by Harold Bloom and published by Bloom's Literary Criticism. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities, presented in chronological order of publication.

Just A Kiss Away

Author : Jill Barnett
Publisher : BelleBooks
ISBN 13 : 1935661698
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Just A Kiss Away written by Jill Barnett and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 1991-09-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After arriving on a lush Pacific island, Eulalie Grace LaRue is to be finally reunited with the absent father she hasn't seen since childhood. Yet before her long dreamed-of meeting can take place, the lovely but pampered Southern belle is caught in the crossfire of a violent revolution and thrown into the rugged arms of American mercenary soldier Sam Forester. On the run in the jungle, this battle-scarred soldier of fortune hasn't a clue what to do with the naive blonde in his care. Survival is his top priority, but he can not resist Lollie's endearing, helpless, and laughable charm...or deny the growing attraction between them. Though Sam thrives on chance and risk, falling in love is the one chance he isn't willing to take. Powerless against the desire that consumes them both, Lollie surrenders to his passionate embrace. But when he dismisses her affections, she is determined to fight for him, to prove that in the steamy heat of paradise, two hearts can find the love of a lifetime.

A Concordance to The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Author : Richard M. Matovich
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Concordance to The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath written by Richard M. Matovich and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1986 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367857
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Journal of the History of Sexuality

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the History of Sexuality written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Difficult Men

Author : Brett Martin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143125699
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Difficult Men written by Brett Martin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th anniversary edition, now with a new preface by the author "A wonderfully smart, lively, and culturally astute survey." - The New York Times Book Review "Grand entertainment...fascinating for anyone curious about the perplexing miracles of how great television comes to be." - The Wall Street Journal "I love this book...It's the kind of thing I wish I'd been able to read in film school, back before such books existed." - Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and co-creator of Better Call Saul In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows on cable channels dramatically stretched television’s narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and creative ambition. Combining deep reportage with critical analysis and historical context, Brett Martin recounts the rise and inner workings of this artistic watershed - a golden age of TV that continues to transform America's cultural landscape. Difficult Men features extensive interviews with all the major players - including David Chase (The Sopranos), David Simon and Ed Burns (The Wire), David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood), Alan Ball (Six Feet Under), and Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) - and reveals how television became a truly significant and influential part of our culture.

The Dalhousie Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Dalhousie Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Borderlands

Author : Gloria Anzaldúa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879960954
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Borderlands written by Gloria Anzaldúa and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez and Norma Cantú. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences growing up near the U.S./Mexico border, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of borders as psychic, social, and cultural terrains that we inhabit and that inhabit us all. Drawing heavily on archival research and a comprehensive literature review while contextualizing the book within her theories and writings before and after its 1987 publication, this critical edition elucidates Anzaldúa's complex composition process and its centrality in the development of her philosophy. It opens with two introductory studies; offers a corrected text, explanatory footnotes, translations, and four archival appendices; and closes with an updated bibliography of Anzaldúa's works, an extensive scholarly bibliography on Borderlands, a brief biography, and a short discussion of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers. "Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez's meticulous archival work and Norma Elia Cantú's life experience and expertise converge to offer a stunning resource for Anzaldúa scholars; for writers, artists, and activists inspired by her work; and for everyone. Hereafter, no study of Borderlands will be complete without this beautiful, essential reference."--Paola Bacchetta