Author: Arthur Meeker, Jr.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Ivory Mischief
Author: Arthur MeekerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Two beautiful sisters are involved in court intrigue and scandal in 17th-century France.
The Ivory Mischief
Author: Arthur MeekerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Two beautiful sisters are involved in court intrigue and scandal in 17th-century France.
Akissi: Tales of Mischief
Author: Marguerite AbouetPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 191117147X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"utterly unputdownable"—The New York Times A Kirkus Best Book of 2018, Akissi: Tales of Mischief brings together the first volume of the hilarious and heartfelt Akissi comics by Marguerite Abouet, the award winning author of Aya of Yop City. Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are trying to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost ends up in a frying pan, and she's nothing but a pest to her older brother Fofana. But Akissi is a true adventurer, and nothing scares her away from hilarious escapades in her modern African city. Jump into the laugh-out-loud misadadventures of Akissi in these girls-will-be-girls comics, based on author Margeurite Abouet's childhood on the Ivory Coast.
The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter
Author: Lana A. WhitedPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826215499
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors, including magic and fantasy works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Monica Furlong, Jill Murphy, and others, as well as previous works about the British boarding school experience. Other chapters explore the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. In her new epilogue, Lana A. Whited brings this volume up to date by covering Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The Ambivalent Internet
Author: Whitney PhillipsPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509501282
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play. Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional, generative or destructive. Online expression is, instead, all of the above. This ambivalence, the authors argue, hinges on available digital tools. That said, there is nothing unexpected or surprising about even the strangest online behavior. Ours is a brave new world, and there is nothing new under the sun – a point necessary to understanding not just that online spaces are rife with oddity, mischief, and antagonism, but why these behaviors matter. The Ambivalent Internet is essential reading for students and scholars of digital media and related fields across the humanities, as well as anyone interested in mediated culture and expression.
The Apophthegms of the Ancients
Author: Desiderius ErasmusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Routledge Library Editions: Lord Byron
Author: VariousPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131719876X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1864
Book Description
This set reissues 7 books on the Romantic poet Lord Byron originally published between 1957 and 2005. The volumes examine Byron’s poetry, his poetic development, and his social and private life. Lord Byron’s epic satiric poem Don Juan is examined by some of the leading scholars of Romanticism.
Wisconsin Library Bulletin
Author: Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture
Author: John ClubbePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351162144
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sully's Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with his discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait's provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Receiving most attention are Thomas Lawrence and Sully, his American counterpart. The author gives the fullest account to date of Sully's career and his relation to English influences and to figures prominent in the early-nineteenth-century American imagination, among them, Washington, Fanny Kemble, Lafayette, Joseph Bonaparte, and Nicholas Biddle. Byron is discussed as an icon of the young American Republic whose Jubilee year coincided with Sully's initial work on the poet's portrait. Later chapters offer a close reading of the portrait, arguing that Sully has given a visual interpretation truly worthy of his celebrated, controversial, and famously handsome subject.