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An arranged marriage. A brutal abduction. And a love so forbidden, it might consume them both.
Author : Lili St. Germain
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
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ISBN : 9781720581994
An arranged marriage. A brutal abduction. And a love so forbidden, it might consume them both.
Author : Lauren Weindling
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0817361014
"The proverb goes that "blood is thicker than water." But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe affections? Does this maxim presume that we can or should only love others biologically similar to ourselves? Are we nobler if we do, or somehow defective if we don't? "Thicker than Water" examines the roots of this belief by studying the omnipresent discourse of bloodlines and kindred relations in the literature of early modern Europe, specifically its role in the creation and maintenance of oppressive social structures. Lauren Weindling examines how drama from England, France, and Italy tests these assumptions about blood and love, exposing their underlying political function. Among the key texts that Weindling studies are Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, Pierre Corneille's Le Cid, Giambattista della Porta's La Sorella and its English analog, Thomas Middleton's No Wit/Help Like a Woman's, John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Machiavelli's La Mandragola. Each of these plays in some way offers an extreme limit case for these beliefs in plots of love, courtship, and marriage (e.g., blood feuds or incest). They also illustrate that blood functions not as a biological basis for affinities, but discursively. Moreover, they feature the voices of marginalized groups, unprivileged by this ideology, which present significant counterpoints to this bloody worldview. Those outsiders reveal that finding alternative vocabularies to the bloody discourse of elite groups is both extremely difficult and often ineffectual, further evidenced by their persistence today. Much critical work on blood has examined this discourse as it manifests onstage: as evidence of guilt, the product of violence, or in bleeding figures. This book, instead, examines the work that blood does unseen in its connection to discourses of love and kinship-arbitrating social and emotional connections between persons, and thus underwriting our deepest forms of social organization"--
Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : United States. Army Medical Service
Publisher :
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Blood
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1924
Category : English language
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Author : Alethea Wiel
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Travel
ISBN :
"The Story of Verona" by Alethea Wiel. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Dramatists, English
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Page : 1860 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Medicine
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Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 1845
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Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 2793 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1464920591
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