Thomas Hardy in Context

Thomas Hardy in Context
Author: Phillip Mallett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2013-03-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521196485

This book covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works while providing a comprehensive introduction to his life and times.

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue
Author: Emmanuelle Pagano
Publisher: Peirene Press
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 190867055X

Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isn't your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn't going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in summer and the sequins found between the pages of a borrowed novel will make your fortune. Pagano's stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed of a rural French community with honesty and humour. A superb, cumulative collection from a unique French voice. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: This is a spellbinding web of stories about people on the periphery. Pagano makes rural France her subject matter. She invokes the closeness of a local community and the links between the inhabitants' lives. But then she reminds us how little we know of each other. 'Devastatingly beautiful.' Le Soir, Belgium 'A treasure hunt that you can follow from title to title...fine-tipped drawings of little bits of the world that attach themselves to each other imperceptibly.' Xavier Houssin, Le Monde 'Pagano succeeds because of the range of her insight and the skill with which she shifts register: from wistfulness to blunt force, or from fantasy to naturalism.' Chris Power, The Guardian 'Endlessly beautiful and poignant.' Le Monde books of the year 2012 'With animal writing, Emmanuelle Pagano invites herself to the side of rebels and solitaries.' Marine Landrot, Télérama

Domination And Defiance

Domination And Defiance
Author: Diane Elizabeth Dreher
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813159172

Shakespeare was clearly fascinated by the relationship between fathers and daughters, for this primal bond of domination and defiance structures twenty-one of his comedies, tragedies, and romances. In a conflict that is at once social and interpersonal, Shakespeare's fathers demand hierarchical obedience while their daughters affirm the new, more personal values upheld by Renaissance humanists and Puritans. In her penetrating analysis of this compelling relationship, Diane Dreher examines the underlying psychological tensions as well as the changing concepts of marriage and the family during Shakespeare's time. She points to the pain and conflict caused by sex role polarization. Shakespeare's possessive fathers tyrannize over their daughters, unwilling to relinquish their "masculine" power and control and leaving these young women with only two alternatives: paternal domination or defiance and loss of love. The logic of Shakespeare's plays repudiates traditional stereotypes, showing how women like Ophelia and Desdemona are destroyed by conforming to the passive Renaissance ideal. The book concludes with a consideration of Shakespeare's androgynous characters—dynamic women in doublet and hose, and fathers who become sensitive, caring, and empathetic. Shakespeare's balanced characters thus reconcile the polarities within themselves and bring greater harmony to their world. Domination and Defiance is the first book on this most provocative relationship in Shakespeare. Shedding new light on the complex father-daughter bond, character, and motivation, it makes a major contribution to literary studies.

Under the Mango Tree

Under the Mango Tree
Author: Valdene Mark
Publisher: Sugar Apple Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-08-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1735124435

Vee and Sanaa are the best of friends. Under a full mango tree, they play, dream, and plan for a future spent together, always. However, life can change quickly, and the girls must face the challenge of separation when Vee moves away. Join Vee and Sanaa as they learn how powerful friendship can be and how far it can reach.

Bamboo and the Greenwood Tree

Bamboo and the Greenwood Tree
Author: Miguel Anselmo Bernad
Publisher: Manila : Bookmark
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1961
Genre: Philippine literature (English)
ISBN:

Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth
Author: Jessica Andrews
Publisher: Sceptre
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781473682849

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain.A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world.Years later, as a young woman with unattainable ideals, she meets someone who calls everything into question, and is forced to confront episodes from her past. Their relationship takes her from London to Barcelona and the precipice of a new life, full of sensuality. Yet she still feels an uneasiness. In the sticky Mediterranean heat, among tropical plants and secluded beaches, she must decide what form her adult life should take and learn how to feel deserving of love and care.Milk Teeth is a novel about the joy and terror of taking risks and a search for bodily autonomy. Through Jessica Andrews' vivid and lyrical