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Author: Marissa Ann Publisher: Marissa Ann ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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Giovanni Catching a man beating the life out of a woman in a back alley doesn’t usually grab my attention. That is, unless that woman happens to be Raven. The waitress at the local diner. I don’t usually frequent the same establishment more than once if I can help it. It’s easier to stay hidden that way. Feeling this odd pull towards her, I try to fight it. But seeing her broken unleashes the rage inside that only her touch seems to calm. I’ll kill whoever did this, even if it kills me. Raven My life has never been my own. I ran away to a new city thinking I was small potatoes compared to everything else. I was wrong. HE wants me back. According to his thugs, he doesn’t care in what condition I return either. This time though, I’m not alone. This handsome as sin man that looks more dangerous than those I’ve run from. But when I look into his eyes, I feel pulled to him. When his hands touch mine, a spark ignites that just might consume us both. Will new found love save them? Or will it strike a fatal blow? Romantic Suspense, Hot Romance, Steamy Romance
Author: Marissa Ann Publisher: Marissa Ann ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 140
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Giovanni Catching a man beating the life out of a woman in a back alley doesn’t usually grab my attention. That is, unless that woman happens to be Raven. The waitress at the local diner. I don’t usually frequent the same establishment more than once if I can help it. It’s easier to stay hidden that way. Feeling this odd pull towards her, I try to fight it. But seeing her broken unleashes the rage inside that only her touch seems to calm. I’ll kill whoever did this, even if it kills me. Raven My life has never been my own. I ran away to a new city thinking I was small potatoes compared to everything else. I was wrong. HE wants me back. According to his thugs, he doesn’t care in what condition I return either. This time though, I’m not alone. This handsome as sin man that looks more dangerous than those I’ve run from. But when I look into his eyes, I feel pulled to him. When his hands touch mine, a spark ignites that just might consume us both. Will new found love save them? Or will it strike a fatal blow? Romantic Suspense, Hot Romance, Steamy Romance
Author: Marissa Ann Publisher: The Company ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Giovanni Catching a man beating the life out of a woman in a back alley doesn't usually grab my attention. That is, unless that woman happens to be Raven. The waitress at the local diner. I don't usually frequent the same establishment more than once if I can help it. It's easier to stay hidden that way. Feeling this odd pull towards her, I try to fight it. But seeing her broken unleashes the rage inside that only her touch seems to calm. I'll kill whoever did this, even if it kills me. Raven My life has never been my own. I ran away to a new city thinking I was small potatoes compared to everything else. I was wrong. HE wants me back. According to his thugs, he doesn't care in what condition I return either. This time though, I'm not alone. This handsome as sin man that looks more dangerous than those I've run from. But when I look into his eyes, I feel pulled to him. When his hands touch mine, a spark ignites that just might consume us both. Will new found love save them? Or will it strike a fatal blow?
Author: Brian Attebery Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317971477 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 228
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From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.
Author: Samuel Weber Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198872615 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 228
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In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed to during the period of Spanish rule. Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy, the first major study of the family in the seventeenth century, challenges this myth and explains how it came about. Based on research in the previously inaccessible Borromeo private papers, the volume details the Borromeo's increasing involvement with, and dependence on, the patronage of the kings of Spain. At the center of the analysis are the ways in which one family sought to rationalize and conceal this controversial relationship in the face of popular opposition to their methods of buying their way into political power. As their self-seeking behavior came under scrutiny, the clients of successive minister-favorites reinvented themselves as paternalist courtiers committed to delivering good governance for the subject populations under their rule. In doing so, the book offers new perspectives on broader questions: through a case study of three brothers from a representative noble family, it explains a major shift in aristocratic power in the seventeenth century, uncovering how dissimulation and subterfuge became central to the preservation of social privilege in an age of unprecedented threats to established power from below. Steeped in sociological and anthropological research on elite power, this captivating story from seventeenth-century Italy tells us much about the reproduction of social inequality in our own times.
Author: Katharine Cleland Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501753487 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 131
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Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author: Michael Ewans Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474239099 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 352
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In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett, it illustrates exactly how opera functions as dramatic form. Grounded in close analyses of performances of thirty scenes and five whole operas by first-rate singers and celebrated directors, Performing Opera provides readers with an appreciation of the unique challenges and skills required by performers and directors. It will assist them in their own performance and equip them with detailed knowledge of works most commonly featured in the repertoire. In the first part of the book the analysis progresses from scenes in which the singers are silent, via arias and monologues, duets and confrontations, up to ensembles. Wider issues are subsequently addressed: encounters with offstage events, encounters with the numinous, characterization, and the sense of inevitability in tragic opera.
Author: Axel Englund Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520974700 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 275
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The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel’s Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart’s peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fiancé to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagner’s wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower maidens in elaborate Japanese rope bondage? Opera, it would appear, has developed a taste for sadomasochism. For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operas—from Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini, and beyond—in whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understand this phenomenon, approaching the contemporary visual code of perversion as a lens through which opera focuses and scrutinizes its own configurations of sex, gender, power, and violence. The emerging image is that of an art form that habitually plays with an eroticization of cruelty and humiliation, inviting its devotees to take sensual pleasure in the suffering of others. Ultimately, Deviant Opera argues that this species of opera fantasizes about breaking the boundaries of its own role-playing, and pushing its erotic power exchanges from the enacted to the actual.
Author: Katalin Nun Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135187487X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 296
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While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and ideas by using literary figures and motifs that he could assume his readers would have some familiarity with. This dimension of his thought has served to make his writings far more popular than those of other philosophers and theologians, but at the same time it has made their interpretation more complex. Kierkegaard readers are generally aware of his interest in figures such as Faust or the Wandering Jew, but they rarely have a full appreciation of the vast extent of his use of characters from different literary periods and traditions. The present volume is dedicated to the treatment of the variety of literary figures and motifs used by Kierkegaard. The volume is arranged alphabetically by name, with Tome I covering figures and motifs from Agamemnon to Guadalquivir.
Author: Esther Meynell Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Time's Door" by Esther Meynell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Burton D. Fisher Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing ISBN: 0977132013 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 136
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A comprehensive guide to Mozart's DON GIOVANNI, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.
Author: Marissa Ann
Author: Marissa Ann
Author: Marissa Ann
Author: Brian Attebery
Author: Samuel Weber
Author: Katharine Cleland
Author: Michael Ewans
Author: Axel Englund
Author: Katalin Nun
Author: Esther Meynell
Author: Burton D. Fisher