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Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling

By: Melanie Abrantes

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Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling

By: Melanie Abrantes

Whittle a beautiful spoon, comb, pair of dice, and more with this fresh introduction to a folksy craft. Carve modernizes a mindful hobby that people have turned to for generations to help them slow down, relax, and connect with the outdoors. Choose from a dozen projects with bespoke details, all are designed to be useful at home or while camping. And because these objects are small, they require only a few hours and a tool or two to complete. You'll also learn how to choose the right knife and wood, helpful information on techniques and safety, and tips for refining, personalizing and maintaining your piece. Whether you're headed to the woods or just to the porch, this pocket-sized guide will have you carving your own unique designs in no time.

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Clarkson Potter

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0451498968

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9780451498960

Rachilde and French Women's Authorship

From Decadence to Modernism

By: Melanie Hawthorne

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Rachilde and French Women's Authorship

From Decadence to Modernism

By: Melanie Hawthorne

Under the assumed name Rachilde, Marguerite Eymery (1860?1953) wrote over sixty works of fiction, drama, poetry, memoir, and criticism, including Monsieur Vänus, one of the most famous examples of decadent fiction. She was closely associated with the literary journal Mercure de France, inspired parts of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and mingled with all the literary lights of the day. Yet for all that, very little has been written about her. Melanie C. Hawthorne corrects this oversight and counters the traditional approach to Rachilde by persuasively portraying this "eccentric" as patently representative of the French women writers of her time and of the social and literary issues they faced. Seen in this light, Rachilde's writing clearly illustrates important questions in feminist literary theory as well as significant features of turn-of-the-century French society. ø Hawthorne arranges her approach to Rachilde around several defining events in the author's life, including the controversial publication of Monsieur Vänus, with its presentation of sex reversals. Weaving back and forth in time, she is able to depict these moments in relation to Rachilde's life, work, and times and to illuminate nineteenth-century publishing practices and rivalries, including authorial manipulations of the market for sexually suggestive literature. The most complete and accurate account yet written of this emblematic author, Hawthorne's work is also the first to situate Rachilde in the broader social contexts and literary currents of her time and of our own.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803224028

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9780803224025

Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling

By: Melanie Abrantes

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Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling

By: Melanie Abrantes

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130

Publisher

Clarkson Potter

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0451498968

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9780451498960

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Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling

Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling

Rachilde and French Women's Authorship

Rachilde and French Women's Authorship

Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling

Carve: A Simple Guide to Whittling

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