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The Drowned Muse
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Author : Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Modern Languages & Lite
Release Date : 2015
The Drowned Muse written by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and has been published by Oxford Modern Languages & Lite this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary Collections categories.
This book is the study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could, at first glance, seem quite ordinary. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled 'L'Inconnue de la Seine, ' the Unknown Woman of the Seine, and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. 'L'Inconnue' names the death mask of a girl who supposedly drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. Legend has it that the forensic scientist tending to the corpse awaiting identification on a block of ice at the Paris Morgue, was so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. The unknown girl, also called "The Mona Lisa of Suicide", has become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s and continues to reverberate today.
The Drowned Muse
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Author : Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Drowned Muse written by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Death categories.
'The Drowned Muse' charts the trajectory of representations of 'L'Inconnue de la Seine' in literature and the visual arts since the late 1890s and shows how the mask's metamorphoses track across the years provides points of negotiation through which to better understand modernity.
The Drowned Muse
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Author : Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-09-10
The Drowned Muse written by Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Drowned Muse is a study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could seem, at first glance, quite ordinary in the history of European culture. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled "L'Inconnue de la Seine," the Unknown Woman of the Seine, and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. Legend has it that the "Inconnue" drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The forensic scientist tending to her unidentified corpse at the Paris Morgue was supposedly so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. This unknown girl, also referred to as "The Mona Lisa of Suicide", has since become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s, and continues to reverberate today. Aby Warburg defines art history as "a ghost story for grown-ups." This study is similarly "a ghost story for grown-ups", narrating the aura of a cultural object that crosses temporal, geographical, and linguistic frontiers. It views the "Inconnue" as a symptomatic expression of a modern world haunted by the earlier modernity of the nineteenth century. It investigates how the mask's metamorphoses reflect major shifts in the cultural history of the last two centuries, approaching the "Inconnue" as an entry point to understand a phenomenon characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century modernity: the translatability of media. Doing so, this study mobilizes discourses surrounding the "Inconnue", casting them as points of negotiation through which we may consider the modern age.
The Drowned Book
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Author : Sean O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-06-18
The Drowned Book written by Sean O'Brien and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with Poetry categories.
With an introduction by Helen Dunmore Come for a walk down the river road, For though you're all a long time dead The waters part to let us pass The way we'd go on summer nights In the times we were children And thought we were lovers. The Drowned Book is a work of memory, commemoration and loss, dominated by elegies for those the author has loved and admired. Sean O'Brien's exquisite collection is powerfully affecting, sad and often deeply funny; but it is also a dramatically compelling book - disquieting, even - and full of warnings. As the book unfolds, O'Brien's verse occupies an increasingly dark, subterranean territory - where the waters are rising, threatening to overwhelm and ruin the world above. Winner of both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes, The Drowned Book is an extraordinary collection, a classic from one of the leading poets of our time.
Drowned Town
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Author : Jayne Moore Waldrop
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-26
Drowned Town written by Jayne Moore Waldrop and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-26 with Fiction categories.
"They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long." Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home and illuminates the joys and sorrows of a group of people bound together by western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes and the lakes that lie on either side of it. The linked stories are rooted in a landscape forever altered by the mid-twentieth-century impoundment of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and the seizing of property under the power of eminent domain to create a national recreation area on the narrow strip of land between the lakes. The massive federal land and water projects completed in quick succession were designed to serve the public interest by providing hydroelectric power, flood control, and economic progress for the region—at great sacrifice for those who gave up their homes, livelihoods, towns, and history. The narrative follows two women whose lives are shaped by their friendship and connection to the place, and their stories go back and forth in time to show how the creation of the lakes both healed and hurt the people connected to them. In the process, the stories emphasize the importance of sisterhood and family, both blood and created, and how we cannot separate ourselves from our places in the world.
The Deregulated Muse
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Author : Sean O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Deregulated Muse written by Sean O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Collections categories.
Published in 1998, Sean O'Brien's essays in The Deregulated Muse cover key poets and movements in British and Irish poetry since the 1960s, relating their work to politics, culture and history.
A Drowned Maiden S Hair
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Author : Laura Amy Schlitz
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2010-03-02
A Drowned Maiden S Hair written by Laura Amy Schlitz and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-02 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
"People throw the word 'classic' about a lot, but A Drowned Maiden's Hair genuinely deserves to become one." — Wall Street Journal Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the girl is as baffled as anyone. It seems the sisters need Maud to help stage elaborate séances for bereaved, wealthy patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the deception, playing her role as a "secret child," she is torn between her need to please and her growing conscience -- until a shocking betrayal makes clear just how heartless her so-called guardians are. Filled with tantalizing details of turn-of-the-century spiritualism and page-turning suspense, this lively historical novel features a winning heroine whom readers will not soon forget.
The Undrowned
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Author : K. R. Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2020-02-04
The Undrowned written by K. R. Alexander and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In too deadly. In too deep. Samantha and Rachel used to be friends. But then Rachel betrayed Samantha . . . and Samantha decided to make her life a living nightmare. Then one day, Sam and Rachel found themselves in a fight by a lake. Samantha pushed Rachel . . . and watched as Rachel fell back. And back. Into the water. And gone. No way to save her. No way she could be alive. The next day, Rachel shows up to school as if nothing happened. And now she's the one who wants to make her former friend's life a living nightmare . . .
Development Drowned And Reborn
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Author : Clyde Woods
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2017-07-01
Development Drowned And Reborn written by Clyde Woods and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance. Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers in this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development. Woods contributes to debates about the history and geography of neoliberalism. The book suggests that the prevailing focus on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Specifically, it observes that theories of neoliberalism have tended to overlook New Orleans as an epicenter where racial, class, gender, and regional hierarchies have persisted for centuries. Through this Blues geography, Woods excavates the struggle for a new society.
The Tenth Muse
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Author : Catherine Chung
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-06-06
The Tenth Muse written by Catherine Chung and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with Fiction categories.
'A young woman's battle for acceptance in a male-dominated world; her misadventures in love; and her torturous journey to track down her real parents in Germany' Mail on Sunday Best New Fiction From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But as she grows up and becomes a mathematician, she faces the most human of problems - who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition? On her quest to conquer the Riemann hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds both the lock and key to her identity, and to secrets long buried during World War II. Forced to confront some of the biggest events of the twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, Katherine strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics, reclaiming the voices of the women who came before her whose love of the language of numbers connects them across generations.