Author: William HowittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe
Author: William HowittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe: Constituting a Complete History of the Literature of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, Etc
Author: William HowittFriendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200
Author: Lars HermansonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004401210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this book, Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking affected social identity and political behaviour. With examples taken from eleventh- and twelfth-century northern Europe, the author investigates why friendship was praised both by brotherhoods of aristocratic warriors and by brethren within monastery walls. Social and political functions rested on personal connections rather than a strong central state in the High Middle Ages. This meant that friendship was an important pragmatic instrument for establishing social order and achieving success in the game of politics.
Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
Author: Joseph LuzziPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300151780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination.
What Life was Like in Europe's Golden Age
Author: Time-Life BooksPublisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Examines the ideas and events surrounding the new religious freedom, commerce and culture that embraced Northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe
Author: William HowittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A Summer in Northern Europe
Author: Selina BunburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Bend in the Stars
Author: Rachel BarenbaumPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1538746271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
All the Light We Cannot See meets The Nightingale in this literary WWI-era novel and epic love story of a brilliant young doctor who races against Einstein to solve one of the universe's great mysteries. In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce, headstrong Miri on the verge of becoming one of Russia's only female surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Before they have time to make their choice, war is declared and Vanya goes missing, along with Miri's fiancé. Miri braves the firing squad to go looking for them both. As the eclipse that will change history darkens skies across Russia, not only the safety of Miri's own family but the future of science itself hangs in the balance. Grounded in real history -- and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914 -- A Bend in the Stars offers a heart-stopping account of modern science's greatest race amidst the chaos of World War I, and a love story as epic as the railways crossing Russia.
Mona
Author: Pola OloixaracPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374722080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
"Both a wicked satire of the literary élite and an exploration of art and violence . . . Terrifying, brilliant, and dangerous." —The New Yorker Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for “the most important literary award in Europe,” Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged—and mostly male—competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won’t stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.
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Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description