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Author: Dornford Yates Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755145216 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
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These comic stories are set during World War I and the period just after, when the genteel world of Edwardian England had changed beyond recognition. We encounter the madcap adventures of a group of well-to-do young people as they career across Europe from Madeira to Macedonia fighting heinous villains and solving mysteries.
Author: Dornford Yates Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755145216 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
Book Description
These comic stories are set during World War I and the period just after, when the genteel world of Edwardian England had changed beyond recognition. We encounter the madcap adventures of a group of well-to-do young people as they career across Europe from Madeira to Macedonia fighting heinous villains and solving mysteries.
Author: 吉田兼好 Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231112550 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 244
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The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his "Essays, " written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs.
Author: David Quint Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691186464 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 209
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This book offers a radically new reading of Don Quijote, understanding it as a whole much greater than the sum of its famous parts. David Quint discovers a unified narrative and deliberate thematic design in a novel long taught as the very definition of the picaresque and as a rambling succession of individual episodes. Quint shows how repeated motifs and verbal details link the episodes, often in surprising and heretofore unnoticed ways. Don Quijote emerges as a work that charts and reflects upon the historical transition from feudalism to the modern times of a moneyed, commercial society. In Part One of the novel, this change is measured in a shift in the nature of erotic desire, and we find Don Quijote torn between his love for Dulcinea and his hopes to wed for wealth and social advancement. In Part Two, Don Quijote himself changes from anarchic madman to a gentler, wiser hero--a member of a middle class in the making. Throughout, Cervantes meditates on the literary form that he is inventing as a response to modernity, questioning the novel's relationship to other genres and the place of heroism and imagination within stories of everyday life. A new and coherent guide through the maze-like structure of Don Quijote, this book invites readers to appreciate the perennial modernity of Cervantes's masterpiece---a novel that confronts times not so distant from our own.
Author: Dornford Yates Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 1842329715 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
Book Description
These comic stories are set during World War I and the period just after, when the genteel world of Edwardian England had changed beyond recognition. We encounter the madcap adventures of a group of well-to-do young people as they career across Europe from Madeira to Macedonia fighting heinous villains and solving mysteries.
Author: Virginia Krause Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874138351 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 244
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"Throughout this study, idleness is shown to be a key element of self-presentation beginning with the figure of the idle aristocrat. The extravagant display of a life of leisure made Gilles de Rais the icon of aristocratic idleness. But even the hardworking humanist was anxious to assume a studied posture of idleness. If both figures were eager to display idleness, it was because oisivete was an important source of what modern theorists have termed symbolic capital. Finally, the Renaissance also saw the birth of a new figure of the "idler": the consumer of leisure. For it was leisure itself along with chivalric and amorous adventure that was consumed by the readers of the popular Amadis series. At once a commodity and form of capital, idleness (otium) clearly belonged to the realm of social exchanges ostensibly reserved for affairs (negotium)."--BOOK JACKET.
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