Автор: Devine, Thea Название: Sensation (Kpd) ISBN: 0758204035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780758204035 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Angilee Rosslyn, a Southern debutante, has been brought to London by her ruthless father to make a profitable marriage to the Viscount Wroth. But after a night of passion with Angilee, the lustful Kyger sets out to save her and destroy the diabolical secret society that will stop at nothing to make her their pawn.
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A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures
This is how Emmanuel Carrere, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk in Ukraine, the idol of the Soviet underground; a bum, then a multimillionaire's butler in Manhattan; a fashionable writer in Paris; a lost soldier in the Balkans; and now, in the fantastic shambles of postcommunism, the elderly but charismatic leader of a party of young desperadoes. He sees himself as a hero; you might call him a scumbag: I suspend my judgment on the matter. It's a dangerous life, an ambiguous life: a real adventure novel. It is also, I believe, a life that says something. Not just about him, Limonov, not just about Russia, but about all our history since the end of the Second World War."
So Eduard Limonov isn't fictional-but he might as well be. This pseudobiography isn't a novel, but it reads like one: from Limonov's grim childhood to his desperate, comical, ultimately successful attempts to gain the respect of Russia's literary intellectual elite; to his immigration to New York, then to Paris; to his return to the motherland. "Limonov" could be read as a charming picaresque. But it could also be read as a troubling counternarrative of the second half of the twentieth century, one that reveals a violence, an anarchy, a brutality, that the stories we tell ourselves about progress tend to conceal."
Автор: Mariaconcetta, Costantini Название: Sensation and professionalism in the victorian novel ISBN: 3034315880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034315883 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 17108.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the extent to which four sensation novelists responded to the Victorian theorizing of professionalism. A crucial period of redefinition of the professional ideal, the third quarter of the nineteenth century also witnessed the rise and the decline of the sensation novel, a scandalous and electrifying form that challenged aesthetic and socio-cultural standards. Owing to their controversial position in the literary marketplace, novelists like Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charles Reade and Ellen Wood developed a keen interest in professional issues, which occupy centre stage in their 1850s-70s narratives. By drawing on a variety of sociological, cultural and philosophical theories, Costantini skilfully assesses the ideological implications of the genre’s fictionalization of professionalism. She shows how sensation novelists provocatively represented the challenges faced by both elite and rising professionals, who are used as narrative vehicles for thorny discourses on authorship, ethicality, aestheticism and sociocultural identity.
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