Author: Eugene Manlove RhodesPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Desire of the Moth
Author: Eugene Manlove RhodesPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Desire of the Moth
Author: Champa BilwakeshPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1937357805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A fifteen-year-old widow runs across a bridge to catch a train bound for Trichi. Sowmya is running away to make sense of the events that had seized her body and her mind, and had ripped apart her world. She is determined to flee her destiny of numbing isolation within her community, the Brahmins of the Thanjavur district in South India. Her plans pivot when she meets a devadasi--an aging dancer--in her compartment. When the woman Mallika opens her drawstring bag and buys Sowmya her dinner, Sowmya recognizes what she needs to overcome her own condition, that of a young woman in possession of a thin cotton sari, a head shorn clean, and little else. She asks Mallika how she too can achieve that kind of power--the power to open a bag and pull out money. Thus begins Sowmya's transformation in the city by the sea, Madras, which is in the grip of its own political and social changes while India is struggling to seize its independence from the imperial British raj. Here she learns the beauty of dance from Mallika, and the sweetness and agony of falling in love with a married man. The cinema brings unimagined opportunities and all the power and riches that she could desire, but it also consumes her relentlessly. When a letter arrives, Sowmya begins her quest to regain everything that had been lost when she once lived in that small village tucked into a little bend of the Kaveri River. Hear Champa Bilwakesh reading from Desire of the Moth here: http://voicethread.com/myvoice/#thread/5863247/30058528/31699244
Frankenstein
Author: Mary ShelleyPublisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131708996
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Mary Shelley S Frankenstein, True To Early Nineteenth-Century Romanticism, Provides A Chilling Account Of The Con-Sequences Of Tampering With Nature And Of Transgressing Human Limits To Knowledge. Like Prometheus, The Greek Mythological Figure Who By Creating Man Consigned Both Himself And His Creation To Eternal Suffering, The Scientist Victor Frankenstein And The Unnamed Monster He Creates Are Doomed To Untold Misery And Lonely Deaths. A Brilliant Reflection Of Life In A Turbulent Period Of European History, Frankenstein Synthesizes Fundamental Philosophical, Ideological And Spiritual Concerns And Is A Subject Of Constant Critique And Review In The Light Of New Interests.
The desire of the moth, by Capel Vane
Author: Ellen AllportA Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Thomas P. AdlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In 'A Streetcar Named Desire: The Moth and the Lantern' Thomas P. Adler provides a provocative analysis of one of Tennessee William's classic plays.
Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch AppletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Living Age
Author: The Academy
Author: Unmastered
Author: Katherine AngelPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1846146674
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Unmasteredis a new kind of book that allows us to think afresh about desire. Incisive, moving, and lyrical, it opens up a larger space for the exploration of feelings that can be difficult to express. Touching on experiences of desire and pleasure, as well as grief and pain, the book probes the porousness between masculine and feminine, thought and sensation, self and culture, power and pliancy. Katherine Angel reflects on the history of her own feelings, on her encounters and beliefs, and shows how our lives can be shaped by sexuality and feminism; by the words we use, and the stories we tell. The result is a book letting light into places that are often dark and constrained - a searching, erotic work that shifts in meaning and resonance even as it is read.
A World of Words
Author: Michael J. S. WilliamsPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822307808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A World of Words offers a new look at the degree to which language itself is a topic of Poe's texts. Stressing the ways his fiction reflects on the nature of its own signifying practices, Williams sheds new light on such issues as Poe's characterization of the relationship between author and reader as a struggle for authority, on his awareness of the displacement of an "authorial writing self" by a "self as it is written," and on his debunking of the redemptive properties of the romantic symbol.