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JACK ENGELHARD, author of the international best seller INDECENT PROPOSAL says: "Cassell writes it straight and his most noticeable skill is his ability to take us with him wherever he goes."
Author : John W. Cassell
Publisher : Inkwater Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2008-12
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ISBN : 1592993966
JACK ENGELHARD, author of the international best seller INDECENT PROPOSAL says: "Cassell writes it straight and his most noticeable skill is his ability to take us with him wherever he goes."
Author : Arlene S. Skolnick
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1993-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465019243
Was there really a golden age of the family in the 1950s—or ever? This penetrating history of the American family mounts a withering criticism of the “culture of nostalgia” that clouds current debate and offers a plan for reconstituting the American family dream.
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679645721
“Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.”—Time One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal. Praise for Couples “Couples [is] John Updike’s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ingenious . . . If this is a dirty book, I don’t see how sex can be written about at all.”—Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times Book Review
Author : Andrew Mattison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135860661
This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have in common the idea that the difficulty of the relationship of reciprocity that poetic subjects often expect from their environment destabilizes those subjects’ understanding, not only of environment, but of themselves. The study explores destabilization as it affects aspects of the poem from Adam’s sense of the landscape of Eden and the meaning of the Fall itself, to the relationship the ambiguous landscapes of Paradise Lost create between Adam and Eve, the poet and the reader; all of whom are struggling to make sense of the same problematically described places. To a surprisingly large extent, the description of prelapsarian Eden and the events that go on within it have in common a failed attempt to understand the nature of the surroundings. In observing the centrality and difficultly of this poetic discourse of place, the problem of place is found at the very heart of the Fall.
Author : Sir Archibald Strong
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 1921
Category : English literature
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Author : John W. Cassell
Publisher : Inkwater Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781592993208
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Page : 926 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : Kenneth Little
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789206472
There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.
Author : Peter C. Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107379563
The New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the centre of Milton studies by showing how analysing irresolvable questions – religious, philosophical and literary critical – transforms interpretation and enriches appreciation of his work. The New Milton Criticism encourages scholars to embrace uncertainties in his writings rather than attempt to explain them away. Twelve critics from a range of countries, approaches and methodologies explore these questions in these new readings of Paradise Lost and other works. Sure to become a focus of debate and controversy in the field, this volume is a truly original contribution to early modern studies.