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"Sponsored by The Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan."
Author : Suzanne Buffam
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780996982702
"Sponsored by The Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan."
Author : Horacio Quiroga
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438794938
Author : Peter Greenaway
Publisher : Dis Voir Editions
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Script of Greenaway's 1995 film, The pillow book, which was made as an homage to the 10th century story by Sei Shōnagon entitled Makura no sōshi, on which it is loosely based.
Author : Rebecca Vizard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781938461279
Once Upon A Pillow is the first book to highlight a designer making luxury pillows from antique textiles. Features an extensive glossary of sewing, stitching, and textile terms and categories. Once Upon a Pillow features a stunning collectionof pillows and accessories designed by Rebecca Vizard. Celebrated for herinnovative use of rare antique textiles -- from the embroidered metallicthreads of ecclesiastical vestments to Venetian Fortuny draperies and CentralAsian suzanis --her designs present a perfect balance of art and materialculture. A favorite of designers and a discerning public, her pillows andaccessories adorn some of America's finest homes. An early childhoodfascination with textiles eventually led her to create pillows from her growingpersonal collection of rare textiles and, when Neiman Marcus placed its firstorder in 1999, B VIZ Design was officially launched. While her collectingforays frequently take her abroad, she returns to her Louisiana roots and itsrich history and tradition of decorative arts for inspiration. In addition toMs. Vizard's home, rooms in a range of styles and periods by such top flightdesigners as Gerrie Bremermann, Barry Dixon, Suzanne Kasler and Matthew PatrickSmyth are included to illustrate embroidery, applique, tapestry, needlepoint, Fortuny, damask and brocade and suzani and ethnic pillows. A selection ofaccessories from lighting, gifts and dog wear of Fortuny fabric is alsohighlighted and an annotated textile glossary is included. Early in her career, whileworking on interior design projects from New York to New Orleans, RebeccaVizard noticed a void in the pillow market. Discovering a niche for antiquetextiles, Vizard focused on designing these one of a kind pillows for clients, and in the process employed many local seamstresses. Soon pillows sold toNeiman Marcus and other exclusive stores. Her pillows frequently grace thecovers of national publications, such as House Beautiful, Veranda, Elle Decor, Traditional Home, and Architectural Digest.
Author : Aidan Chambers
Publisher : Random House
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1407098365
Subtitled The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together. She chooses the old and famous Japanese book, 'The Pillow Book' by Sei Shonagon, as a model in order to include all kinds of things she has already written as well as the episodes and thoughts she has now as she compiles her book. She tells of her mother (who died when Cordelia was 5) of her father and her aunt Doris (who marry when she is 16), of her love for William Blacklin, the boy with whom she chooses to have her first sex - and with whom she falls deeply in love. She writes about Julie Martin her teacher who helps her spiritually, describes her love affair with an older married man and her terrifying sexual experience with an unbalanced young man who is obsessed with her. The book includes thoughts on being a women, on poetry, music, reading and writing, on being pregnant and finally of her marriage to William. This Is All is an anthology, written in six 'books' of Cordelia's adolescent life, by turns funny, poignant, sad, exciting, fascinating ironic and truthful about topics that parents often do not tell their children. It is a richly entertaining and challenging read.
Author : Gergana Ivanova
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231547609
An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized within Japanese literature for reasons including the gender of its author, the work’s complex textual history, and its thematic and stylistic depth. In Unbinding The Pillow Book, Gergana Ivanova offers a reception history of The Pillow Book and its author from the seventeenth century to the present that shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions. Ivanova examines how and why The Pillow Book has been read over the centuries, placing it in the multiple contexts in which it has been rewritten, including women’s education, literary scholarship, popular culture, “pleasure quarters,” and the formation of the modern nation-state. Drawing on scholarly commentaries, erotic parodies, instruction manuals for women, high school textbooks, and comic books, she considers its outsized role in ideas about Japanese women writers. Ultimately, Ivanova argues for engaging the work’s plurality in order to achieve a clearer understanding of The Pillow Book and the importance it has held for generations of readers, rather than limiting it to a definitive version or singular meaning. The first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shōnagon, Unbinding The Pillow Book sheds new light on the construction of gender and sexuality, how women’s writing has been used to create readerships, and why ancient texts continue to play vibrant roles in contemporary cultural production.
Author : Barbara Lazar
Publisher : Headline
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755389285
I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained in the ancient warrior arts of the samurai. But it is through the power of storytelling that she learns to fight her fate, twisting her life onto a path even she could not have imagined...
Author : Marcia G Riley
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780578731995
Much to his parents' dismay, three-year-old Matt doesn't want to sleep alone in his own bed. One night he is visited by the Pillow Fairy, and his magical journey begins. Soon Matt realizes that sleeping in his own bed-all by himself, can be a fun and rewarding experience. "Dedicated to all the mommies and daddies who never sleep alone", Marcia G. Riley uses her own family's personal story to enchant small readers and help families deal with the common and difficult issue of getting children to go to sleep alone, and stay in their own beds-all night long. It has been used by parents, grandparents, therapists and pediatricians. As one doctor said, "It is a picture book for parents." Even if you do not have a sleep issue, your little one will love Marcia's flowing prose and beautiful illustrations by Joni E. Patterson. The Pillow Fairy has become a family treasure, a book that stays on the shelf long after it is no longer needed, Go to www.thepillowfairy.net to read more.
Author : Jorge Argueta
Publisher : Children's Book Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780892391653
Poems for children that evoke the wonder of childhood in rural El Salvador include the relationship with a caring father and the author's confusion and delight in his new urban home.
Author : Laura Gehl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0425288269
A lonely man tries to buy a pillow . . . and ends up with a new best friend in this silly and sweet doggy tale, perfect for fans of Officer Buckle and Gloria. Dogs make good pillows, don't they? A clever pup ends up in a cozy home, and she'll do anything to stay there. She impersonates everything the lonely homeowner needs--a pillow, a footstool, a jacket. But in the end, being herself works best. Laura Gehl's spare, humorous text and New Yorker cartoonist Christopher Weyant's expressive characters will leave young readers giggling and begging for more.