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Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom

By: Claire Fontaine

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Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom

By: Claire Fontaine

The first English-language publication of writings by the collective artist Claire Fontaine, addressing our complicity with anything that limits our freedom. This anthology presents, in chronological order, all the texts by collective artist Claire Fontaine from 2004 to today. Created in 2004 in Paris by James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale, the collective artist Clare Fontaine creates texts that are as as experimental and politically charged as her visual practice. In. these writings, she uses the concept of “human strike” and adopts the radical feminist position that can be found in Tiqqun, a two-issue magazine cofounded by Carnevale. Human strike is a movement that is broader and more radical than any general strike. It addresses our inevitable subjective complicity with everything that limits our freedom and shows how to abandon these self-destructive behaviors through desubjectivization. Human strike, Claire Fontaine writes, is a subjective struggle to separate from the inevitable harm we do to ourselves and others simply by living within postindustrial neoliberalism. Human Strike is the first English-language publication of Claire Fontaine's influential and important theoretical writings.

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Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom

By: Claire Fontaine

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Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom

By: Claire Fontaine

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Vaux and Versailles

The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France

By: Claire Goldstein

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Vaux and Versailles

The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France

By: Claire Goldstein

Goldstein shows how the connection between Vaux and Versailles is at the heart of classical style. She retraces the roots of Versailles in Fouquet's short-lived experiment, and destabilises any easy understanding of the court of the Sun King as the origin of French national style.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812240588

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9780812240580

Silken Threads Tangled Webs

By: Claire Montgomery

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Silken Threads Tangled Webs

By: Claire Montgomery

Silken Threads, Tangled Webs" continues Lucinda's story. Previously in "Tarnished Lives, Tainted Dreams," we learned how she and her brothers had grown up in a dysfunctional home. Lucinda had been forced into a relationship with an older man who could have been useful to her father. Following his death, she had given birth to twin boys. Denied further contact with her maternal and paternal relations, she made two lifelong friends, met and married Francis StClair, and gave birth to two more children. The marriage failed, mostly because of Lucinda's unrealistic expectations from marriage. Her father had disappeared, shortly after his release from prison, her mother and brothers disowned her, but a mysterious letter had brought her to France, where she made some shocking discoveries about the past. What was Marcus's terrible secret, and why did Lucinda's mother and brothers go to such extreme lengths to make sure she never contacted her Trehearne relations?

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1496984668

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From Radical Jesus People to Virtual Religion

The Family International

By: Claire Borowik

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From Radical Jesus People to Virtual Religion

The Family International

By: Claire Borowik

The Family International (formerly the Children of God) emerged from the radical fringe of the Jesus People Movement in the late 1960s to establish a new religious movement with communities in ninety countries. Characterized from its early days by controversy due to its unconventional version of Christianity, countercultural practices, and high level of tension with society, the Family International created a communal society that endured for four decades. The movement's reinvention in 2010 as an online community offers insights into the dynamic nature of new religious movements, as they strategically adapt to evolving social contexts and emergent issues, and the negotiations of belief and identity this may entail. The Family International's transformation from a radical communal movement to a deradicalized virtual community highlights the novel challenges alternative religions may face in entering the mainstream and attaining legitimacy within the increasingly globalized context of online information dissemination in virtual spaces.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009037374

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All That Sparkles

By: Claire Boston

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All That Sparkles

By: Claire Boston

Imogen Fontaine is living every girl's dream. She is a fashion designer for her family's haute couture label, lives in a mansion, has a great circle of friends and is the apple of her father's eye. Everything is perfect. Until the day that Christian, the boy at the center of her childhood heartbreak, walks back into her life. From there her life starts to unravel, as long-kept secrets are revealed. Imogen learns that her past was built on lies and betrayal, shattering the illusion of her perfect existence. She must seek out the truth if she has any hope of forging a new path for herself and discovering true freedom. But can she convince Christian that there is a place for him in her new life?

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Bantilly Publishing

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1925696006

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Have Mother, Will Travel

A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World

By: Claire Fontaine,Mia Fontaine

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Have Mother, Will Travel

A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World

By: Claire Fontaine,Mia Fontaine

A mother, a daughter, and a life-changing adventure around the world . . . Their bestselling memoir, Come Back, moved and inspired readers with the story of Mia Fontaine's harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire's, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now it's a decade later and Claire and Mia each face a defining moment in her life, and a mother-daughter relationship that has frayed around the edges. At fifty-one, Claire's shed her identity as Mia's savior but realizes that, oops, she forgot to plan for life after motherhood; Mia, twenty-five and eager to step outside her role as recovery's poster child, finds adult life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Determined to transform themselves and their relationship once again, the pair sets off on a five-month around-the-world adventure. What awaits them is an extraordinary, often hilarious journey through twenty cities and twelve countries—one that includes mishaps, mayhem, and unexpected joys, from a passport-eating elephant to a calamitous camel ride around the Pyramids—and finally making peace with their tumultuous past in the lavender fields of France, where they live for the last four months of the trip. Seeing how self-possessed and community-minded twentysomethings are in other countries broadens Mia's perspective, helping her grow, and grow up. Claire uses the trip to examine her broken relationship with her own mother, a Holocaust survivor, and to create a vision for her second act. Watching her mom assess half a century of life, Mia comes to know her as Claire has always known Mia—as all mothers know their daughters—better than anyone else, and often better than themselves. Wiser for what they've learned from women in other cultures, and from each other, they return with a deepened sense of who they are and where they want to go—and with each embracing the mature friendship they've discovered and the profound love they share. Alternating between Claire and Mia's compelling and distinct voices, Have Mother, Will Travel is a testament to the power and beauty of the mother-daughter relationship, one that illuminates possibilities for our own lives.

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Harper Collins

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0062109634

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Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution

Gender, Genre, and History Writing

By: Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

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Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution

Gender, Genre, and History Writing

By: Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

In Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille explores Lucy Hutchinson's historical writings and the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which, although composed between 1664 and 1667, were first published in 1806. The Memoirs were a best-seller in the nineteenth century, but largely fell into oblivion in the twentieth century. They were rediscovered in the late 1980s by historians and literary scholars interested in women's writing, the emerging culture of republicanism, and dissent. By approaching the Memoirs through the prism of history and form, this book challenges the widely-held assumption that early modern women did not - and could not - write the history of wars, a field that was supposedly gendered as masculine. On the contrary, Gheeraert-Graffeuille shows that Lucy Hutchinson, a reader of ancient history and an outstanding Latinist, was a historian of the English Revolution, to be ranked alongside Richard Baxter, Edmund Ludlow, and Edward Hyde.

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Oxford University Press

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0192672029

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 7

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 7

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040248136

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Language as Symbolic Power

By: Claire Kramsch

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Language as Symbolic Power

By: Claire Kramsch

Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality.

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Meet Me in Barefoot Bay

2-in-1 Edition with Barefoot in the Sand and Barefoot in the Rain

By: Roxanne St. Claire

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Meet Me in Barefoot Bay

2-in-1 Edition with Barefoot in the Sand and Barefoot in the Rain

By: Roxanne St. Claire

Fall in love with two "lovely, lush, and layered" beach romances from a renowned New York Times bestselling author (Kristan Higgins) — together for the first time in print! Barefoot in the Sand When a hurricane roars through Lacey Armstrong's home, she decides the rubble is a chance to finally achieve her dreams. Nothing is going to distract her from running her own hotel—not even the hot, younger architect eager to work alongside her. Both have experienced heartbreak in the past, but after meeting Lacey, Clay Walker can't imagine his life without her. Clay has until the end of the project to build Lacey's trust in their future together—one that will last forever. Barefoot in the Rain When scandal strikes for celebrity life coach Jocelyn Bloom, she hides in the one place no one would think to search: Barefoot Bay. But her hometown is nothing like she remembers. Her father is a shell of the man he once was, and Will Palmer, the man who broke her heart, is his caretaker. Jocelyn's return brings back old feelings for them both, but her presence also unearths the turmoil that once led to her leaving. Jocelyn has guided countless clients to happiness-but can she and Will learn to let go of their own past to find a sunny new future together?

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Forever

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1538737981

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The Texan Quartet (Books 1-4) Omnibus

By: Claire Boston

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The Texan Quartet (Books 1-4) Omnibus

By: Claire Boston

The Texan Quartet is a light, contemporary romance which follows four friends. There's a rockstar romance, a reconnection with an old love, a reluctant heroine and journalist after a story.

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192569612X

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Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe

By: Claire L. Carlin

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Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe

By: Claire L. Carlin

The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.

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Springer

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0230522610

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Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific

By: Claire Cronin,Lia Kent,JoAnne Wallis

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Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific

By: Claire Cronin,Lia Kent,JoAnne Wallis

Over the last two decades, civil society has helped catalyse responses to the legacies of violent conflicts and oppressive political regimes in Asia and the Pacific. Civil society has advocated for the establishment of criminal trials and truth commissions, monitored their operations and pushed for take-up of their recommendations. It has also initiated community-based transitional justice responses. Yet, there has been little in-depth examination of the breadth and diversity of these roles. This book addresses this gap by analysing the heterogeneity of civil society transitional justice activity in Asia and the Pacific. Based upon empirically grounded case studies of Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Fiji, this book illustrates that civil society actors can have different - and sometimes competing - priorities, resources and approaches to transitional justice. Their work is also underpinned by diverse understandings of 'justice'. By reflecting on the richness of this activity, this book advances contemporary debates about transitional justice and civil society. It will also be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners working on Asia and the Pacific.

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ANU Press

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1760463299

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9781760463298

Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900

New Approaches to Recipe Literature

By: Claire Burridge

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Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900

New Approaches to Recipe Literature

By: Claire Burridge

Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied texts by not only analysing their practical usability, but by also re-evaluating these writings in the light of osteological evidence. Could those individuals with access to the manuscripts have used them in the context of therapy? And would they have wanted to do so? In asking these questions, this book unpacks longstanding assumptions about the intended purposes of medical texts, offering a new perspective on the relationship between medical knowledge and practice.

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BRILL

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9004466177

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A Crown of Ivy and Glass

By: Claire Legrand

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A Crown of Ivy and Glass

By: Claire Legrand

Full of high stakes and detailed fantasy worldbuilding with interesting mythology for readers." —Library Journal New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn, Claire Legrand, makes her stunning adult debut with A Crown of Ivy and Glass, a lush, sweeping, steamy forbidden romance series starter that's perfect for fans of Bridgerton and A Court of Thorns and Roses. Lady Gemma Ashbourne seemingly has it all. She's young, gorgeous, and rich. Her family was Anointed by the gods, blessed with incredible abilities. But underneath her glittering façade, Gemma is deeply sad. Years ago, her sister Mara was taken to the Middlemist to guard against treacherous magic. Her mother abandoned the family. Her father and eldest sister, Farrin—embroiled in a deadly blood feud with the mysterious Bask family—often forget Gemma exists. Worst of all, Gemma is the only Ashbourne to possess no magic. Instead, her body fights it like poison. Constantly ill, aching with loneliness, Gemma craves love and yearns to belong. Then she meets the devastatingly handsome Talan d'Astier. His family destroyed themselves, seduced by a demon, and Talan, the only survivor, is determined to redeem their honor. Intrigued and enchanted, Gemma proposes a bargain: She'll help Talan navigate high society if he helps her destroy the Basks. According to popular legend, a demon called The Man With the Three-Eyed Crown is behind the families' blood feud—slay the demon, end the feud. But attacks on the Middlemist are increasing. The plot against the Basks quickly spirals out of control. And something immense and terrifying is awakening in Gemma, drawing her inexorably toward Talan and an all-consuming passion that could destroy her—or show her the true strength of her power at last.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1728232007

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9781728232003

Picasso

The Blue and Rose Periods

By: Claire Bernardi,Laurent Le Bon,Marilyn McCully,Stéphanie Molins,Emilia Philippot

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Picasso

The Blue and Rose Periods

By: Claire Bernardi,Laurent Le Bon,Marilyn McCully,Stéphanie Molins,Emilia Philippot

Anlässlich des großen Picasso-Jubiläumsjahres rund um den 50. Todestag des Künstlers, wird der spektakuläre Band zu den frühen Gemälden und Skulpturen Pablo Picassos neu aufgelegt. Die Bilder aus der sogenannten Blauen und Rosa Periode bis hin zum frühen Kubismus, die zwischen 1901 und 1907 entstanden, sind allesamt Meilensteine auf Picassos Weg zum berühmtesten Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts. 2019 zeigte die Fondation Beyeler in ihrer bis dato hochkarätigsten Ausstellung rund 80 Meisterwerke aus renommierten Museen und Privatsammlungen. Sie zählen nicht nur zu den kostbarsten Kunstwerken überhaupt, sondern auch zu den schönsten und emotionalsten der Moderne. Der Band macht damit das Frühwerk des Ausnahmekünstlers auf einmalige Art und Weise erlebbar.

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Hatje Cantz Verlag

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3775755799

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9783775755795

Shopping in Ancient Rome

The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate

By: Claire Holleran

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Shopping in Ancient Rome

The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate

By: Claire Holleran

This volume provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network in ancient Rome and investigates the diverse means by which goods were sold to consumers in the city. Holleran places Roman retail trade within the wider context of its urban economy and explores the critical relationship between retail and broader environmental factors.

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Oxford University Press

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019969821X

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Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond

By: Claire Sotinel

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Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond

By: Claire Sotinel

The papers presented here explore in various ways the interactions between clerics and the society in which Christian churches put down roots in Late Antiquity. Some of these complex processes, involved in the christianization of the Late Roman world, form the theme of the first three sections. Amongst other aspects, the essays in these sections examine the Three Chapters controversy and the participation of lay and clerical protagonists in it, the social standing of Italian bishops (including their use of lay personnel and their economic impact), and a comparison of pagan and Christian places of worship. The essays included in the last section deal with communication in Late Antiquity. They present the first results of a long-term project on the changing role of information during the last centuries of the Roman world. Eight papers in the volume are published in English for the first time.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000951448

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Easy Cheese Boards

Arrangements, Recipes, and Pairings for Any Occasion

By: Claire Robin Adler

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Easy Cheese Boards

Arrangements, Recipes, and Pairings for Any Occasion

By: Claire Robin Adler

Create a feast for your eyes and taste buds with this easy guide to cheese boards A cheese board makes a tasty and elegant addition to any occasion. Whether you're putting together a party platter or a simple appetizer plate for two, all that's needed is this foolproof guide and a love of fromage. Easy Cheese Boards simplifies the art of cheese arrangement, explaining the process of selecting cheeses, preparing accompaniments, and plating a showstopping board. This cheese plate book includes: Step-by-step instructions—Learn how to build 30 exquisitely curated boards, and get tips for making each arrangement beautiful. A cheese glossary—Explore the styles and tastes of a variety of cheeses, including fresh, soft, hard, blue, and vegan. Get substitution and brand suggestions for building an inspired charcuterie board. Pairing suggestions—Complete a colorful cheese board with an array of delectable dips, spreads, and jams, as well as drink pairings and flavorful accompaniments like candied nuts and pickled fennel. Make impeccable cheese boards with help from this beginner-friendly guide.

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164739029X

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Coco Through the Looking Glass

By: Marie-Claire Patron

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Coco Through the Looking Glass

By: Marie-Claire Patron

Coco is a vivacious and enthusiastic romantic on a determined search for the one true love of her life. At about two times the age of a regular princess (or even more), she fearlessly pursues her fairy-tale ending by embracing the paradoxes and age-defying opportunities offered by the modern age. Bolstered by the notions that fifty is the new forty and divorced is the new single, she ventures into the medium of the internet, a space where all things old are excitingly renewed to search for the one. The fairyland of online dating proves to be populated by characters very much akin to those found in fairy tales of old. There are some trolls and other downright dastardly types and others of beastly appearance who turn out to be kindly. There are also some wily witches who try to trap and ensnare. Fortunately, the fairy godmothers (BFFs) mentored Coco through the Black Forest. So will she find the dashing Prince Charming and live happily ever after? Read on and see!

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Balboa Press

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1504312856

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Midcentury Suspension

Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II

By: Claire Seiler

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Midcentury Suspension

Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II

By: Claire Seiler

How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension—a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors and opaque horizons—shaped transatlantic literary forms and cultural expression in this singular moment. Rooted in extensive archival research in literary, print, and public cultures of the Anglophone North Atlantic, Claire Seiler’s account of midcentury suspension ranges across key works of the late 1940s and early 1950s by authors such as W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bowen, Ralph Ellison, and Frank O’Hara. Seiler reveals how these writers cultivated modes of suspension that spoke to the felt texture of life at midcentury. Running counter to the tendency to frame midcentury literature in the terms of modernism or of our contemporary, Midcentury Suspension reorients twentieth-century literary study around the epoch’s fraught middle.

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Columbia University Press

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0231550944

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The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

By: Claire Nettleton

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The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

By: Claire Nettleton

The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature traces the evolution of the relationship between artists and animals in fiction from the Second Empire to the fin de siècle. This book examines examples of visual literature, inspired by the struggles of artists such as Edouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Manette Salomon (1867), Émile Zola’s Therèse Raquin (1867), Jules Laforgue’s “At the Berlin Aquarium” (1895) and “Impressionism” (1883), Octave Mirbeau’s In the Sky (1892-1893) and Rachilde’s L’Animale (1893) depict vanguard painters and performers as being like animals, whose unique vision revolted against stifling traditions. Juxtaposing these literary works with contemporary animal theory (McHugh, Deleuze, Guattari and Derrida), zoo studies (Berger, Rothfels and Lippit) and feminism (Donovan, Adams and Haraway), Claire Nettleton explores the extent to which the nineteenth-century dissolution of the human subject contributed to a radical, modern aesthetic. Utilizing these interdisciplinary methodologies, Nettleton argues that while inducing anxiety regarding traditional humanist structures, the “artist-animal,” an embodiment of artistic liberation within an urban setting, is, at the same time, a paradigmatic trope of modernity.

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3030193454

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Janet Frame

By: Claire Bazin

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Janet Frame

By: Claire Bazin

An accessible close re-reading of Frame's novels and short stories from an autobiographical perspective. This study examines the whole of Janet Frame's output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of restorative prism inviting us to (re) read all her preceding works. It is the autobiography and its film version, An Angel at My Table (1990, directed by Jane Campion), that won her international fame. Frame's life is extraordinary, not only because she was spared a lobotomy by winning a prize for her collection of short stories, but also because writing from the 'rim of the farthest circle,' she provides food for thought for anyone interested in postcolonial and gender studies.

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Northcote House Pub Limited

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0746310560

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