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Author | : Robin Z. Arkus |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684703727 |
Life has been a wild and wonderful ride for Mallory Hill. That is, up until her husband's sudden death, leaving her to carry on alone with the life they had created together. After months of running with the wrong crowd, dating inappropriate men, and listening to conflicting advice from her gang of girlfriends, Mallory is finally ready for a major lifestyle change. With a big birthday fast approaching, she jets off to Thailand for some much needed celibacy and sobriety. But as she is just on the verge of a breakthrough, she encounters the man of her dreams. Best intentions fly out the window and romance races in through the door. Mallory's story flits between the exotic Far East, lusty London, and the romantic south of France where she anguishes over her decisions. Is she ready to abandon her married lover, her Sugar Daddy and her Hollywood heartthrob? Impulsive passion, foolish decisions, broken promises. Will they ever end?
Author | : Walter B. Pitkin |
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Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Short story |
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Author | : Cornelius Castoriadis |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780262531559 |
This is one of the most original and important works of contemporaryEuropean thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today. This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe today. Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis of the unique character of the social-historical world and its relations to the individual, to language, and to nature. He argues that most traditional conceptions of society and history overlook the essential feature of the social-historical world, namely that this world is not articulated once and for all but is in each case the creation of the society concerned. In emphasizing the element of creativity, Castoriadis opens the way for rethinking political theory and practice in terms of the autonomous and explicit self-institution of society.
Author | : Isaac Kaufman Funk |
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Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Parapsychology |
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Author | : Doris G. Bargen |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082485733X |
Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G. Bargen emphasizes the thematic importance of Japan’s complex polygynous kinship system as the domain within which courtship occurs. Heian courtship, conducted mainly to form secondary marriages, was driven by power struggles of succession among lineages that focused on achieving the highest position possible at court. Thus interpreting courtship in light of genealogies is essential for comprehending the politics of interpersonal behavior in many of these texts. Bargen focuses on the genealogical maze—the literal and figurative space through which several generations of men and women in the Genji moved. She demonstrates that courtship politics sought to control kinship by strengthening genealogical lines, while secret affairs and illicit offspring produced genealogical uncertainty that could be dealt with only by reconnecting dissociated lineages or ignoring or even terminating them. The work examines in detail the literary construction of a courtship practice known as kaimami, or “looking through a gap in the fence,” in pre-Genji tales and diaries, and Sei Shōnagon’s famous Pillow Book. In Murasaki Shikibu’s Genji, courtship takes on multigenerational complexity and is often used as a political strategy to vindicate injustices, counteract sexual transgressions, or resist the pressure of imperial succession. Bargen argues persuasively that a woman observed by a man was not wholly deprived of agency: She could choose how much to reveal or conceal as she peeked through shutters, from behind partitions, fans, and kimono sleeves, or through narrow carriage windows. That mid-Heian authors showed courtship in its innumerable forms as being influenced by the spatial considerations of the Heian capital and its environs and by the architectural details of the residences within which aristocratic women were sequestered adds a fascinating topographical dimension to courtship. In Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan readers both familiar with and new to The Tale of Genji and its predecessors will be introduced to a wholly new interpretive lens through which to view these classic texts. In addition, the book includes charts that trace Genji characters’ lineages, maps and diagrams that plot the movements of courtiers as they make their way through the capital and beyond, and color reproductions of paintings that capture the drama of courtship.
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Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1872 |
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Author | : Sherwin Cody |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Short stories |
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Author | : Sherwin Cody |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Short stories |
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Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Connecticut |
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