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Fictions Of Embassy
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Author : Timothy Hampton
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Fictions Of Embassy written by Timothy Hampton and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Historians of early modern Europe have long stressed how new practices of diplomacy that emerged during the period transformed European politics. Fictions of Embassy is the first book to examine the cultural implications of the rise of modern diplomacy. Ranging across two and a half centuries and half a dozen languages, Timothy Hampton opens a new perspective on the intersection of literature and politics at the dawn of modernity. Hampton argues that literary texts-tragedies, epics, essays-use scenes of diplomatic negotiation to explore the relationship between politics and aesthetics, between the world of political rhetoric and the dynamics of literary form. The diplomatic encounter is a scene of cultural exchange and linguistic negotiation. Literary depictions of diplomacy offer occasions for reflection on the definition of genre, on the power of representation, on the limits of rhetoric, on the nature of fiction making itself. Conversely, discussions of diplomacy by jurists, political philosophers, and ambassadors deploy the tools of literary tradition to articulate new theories of political action.Hampton addresses these topics through a discussion of the major diplomatic writers between 1450 and 1700-Machiavelli, Grotius, Gentili, Guicciardini-and through detailed readings of literary works that address the same topics-works by Shakespeare, More, Rabelais, Montaigne, Tasso, Corneille, Racine, and Camoens. He demonstrates that the issues raised by diplomatic theorists helped shape the emergence of new literary forms, and that literature provides a lens through which we can learn to read the languages of diplomacy.
The Embassy Of Cambodia
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Author : Zadie Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-11-07
The Embassy Of Cambodia written by Zadie Smith and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Fiction categories.
Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work of fiction from Zadie Smith. 'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world -- in its dramatic as well as its quiet times -- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming . . . ' First published in the New Yorker, The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story that takes us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another. Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of Cambodia, which happens to be located in Willesden, north-west London, Zadie Smith's absorbing, moving and wryly observed story suggests how the apparently small things in an ordinary life always raise larger, more extraordinary questions. 'Its range is lightly immense... a fiction of consequences both global and heart-rendingly intimate' Guardian 'Smith serves up a smasher' Independent Playful... unexpected and absolutely right... Skips to a beat all of its own' Times Praise for NW: 'A triumph . . .modern London is explored in a dazzling portrait . . . every sentence sings' Guardian 'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be published this year' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph 'Absolutely brilliant . . . So electrically authentic, it reads like surveillance transcripts' Lev Grossman, TIME
Embassy
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Author : Stephen Coulter
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date : 1969
Embassy written by Stephen Coulter and has been published by Heinemann Educational Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
The Embassy House
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Author : Nicholas Proffitt
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 1987
The Embassy House written by Nicholas Proffitt and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Fiction categories.
Captain Jake Gulliver, a proud Green Beret veteran, is reduced to a CIA assassin in the notorious Operation Phoenix - deadly political clean-up work.
Diplomatic Tales
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Author : William S. Shepard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-04
Diplomatic Tales written by William S. Shepard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04 with Fiction categories.
Shephard first regales us with true diplomatic experiences, from Saigon to Athens, in "Consular Tales." Then, in "Foreign Service Tales" short stories bring every part of an embassy to life. We meet ambassadors, consuls, political and economic officers being appointed, doing their jobs, falling in and out of love, and even committing murder.
The London Embassy
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library
Release Date : 1983
The London Embassy written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Fiction categories.
The narrator, an American employee of the American Embassy in London, observes the British and their endless treasure trove of eccentricities on their home ground. And the Americans in the embassy are no less curious. There is the embassy Minister who is obsessed with rage at a male employee who wears an earring, an Arab who has come to London to rob a certain tomb, a woman who cycles all the way to Yorkshire to exact a peculiar revenge, and dozens of others who nurse some secret vagary.
Embassy Wife
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Author : Katie Crouch
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Embassy Wife written by Katie Crouch and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Fiction categories.
"A smart, sparkling novel that is one part social satire, one part travelogue . . . Comical and cool.” —Oprah Daily In Katie Crouch's thrilling novel Embassy Wife, two women abroad search for the truth about their husbands—and their country. Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s legal counsel but a secret agent in the CIA. The consummate embassy wife, she takes the newest trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda arrives in Namibia mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job so her husband, Mark, can have his family close by as he works on his Fulbright project. But once they’re settled in the sub-Saharan desert, Amanda sees clearly that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, has other reasons for returning. Back in the safety of home, the marriage had seemed solid; in the glaring heat of the Kalahari, it feels tenuous. And the situation grows even more fraught when their daughter becomes involved in an international conflict and their own government won’t stand up for her. How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruption can Persephone ignore? And what, exactly, does it mean to be an American abroad when you’re not sure you understand your country anymore? Propulsive and provocative, Embassy Wife asks what it means to be a human in this world, even as it helps us laugh in the face of our own absurd, seemingly impossible states of affairs.
Embassytown
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Author : China Miéville
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-05-06
Embassytown written by China Miéville and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-06 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world. Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes. Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts. And that is impossible.
Embassy
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Author : Leslie Waller
language : en
Publisher: Fontana Press
Release Date : 1987-01
Embassy written by Leslie Waller and has been published by Fontana Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01 with categories.
The Berlin Embassy
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Author : Michael Shea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Berlin Embassy written by Michael Shea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Berlin (Germany) categories.
The foreign embassies have moved from Bonn to Berlin. Caught in a range of tensions and negotiations, the British Ambassador and his Head of Chancery are forced into an alliance to maintain the compromises between internal rivalries and external crises, personal problems and professional demands.