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Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
by Simone ChessThis volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.
Maleantes: Historias reales de estafadores, asesinos, rebeldes e impostores
by Patrick Radden KeefeTras No digas nada y El imperio del dolor, Patrick Radden Keefe explora los límites, a menudo imperceptibles, entre lo legal y lo ilegal, a través de doce retratos reales protagonizados por maleantes de medio mundo LIBRO DE LA SEMANA POR EL PERIÓDICO «Keefe hahecho carrera sumergiéndose en personajes fascinantes, en eso es el mejor. [...] En Maleantes regresa con su altísimo rigor periodístico y la misma pasión de siempre por desvelar misterios, con un resultado inconfundible».New York Times Book Review «Un narrador virtuoso».The Washington PostCon el fascinante estilo que le caracteriza, Patrick Radden Keefe ofrece en este libro una compleja panorámica del lado oscuro del ser humano. Aquí retrata, entre otros personajes, al traficante de armas Monzer al-Kassar, apodado «el príncipe de Marbella» y perseguido incansablemente por un agente de la D.E.A., a la controvertida «abogada del diablo» que lucha contra la pena de muerte representando a los peores criminales, al Chapo Guzmán y su vida tras huir de una prisión de alta seguridad, o al célebre delincuente holandés William Holleeder y los esfuerzos de su propia hermana para lograr su encarcelación. Maleantes recoge doce perfiles de estafadores, truhanes, asesinos y rebeldes, gente que nada a contracorriente y cuya vida excepcional, para bien y para mal, invita al lector a reflexionar sobre temas como la esencia del mal, del poder, del crimen y de la corrupción, pero también sobre el coraje de quienes decidieron enfrentarse a ellos. La crítica ha dicho... «Una obra rigurosa y literaria. [...] Honesto y escrupuloso, [Radden Keefe] es la cara y la cruz del periodismo».Marta Ailouti, El Cultural «Lo ha vuelto a hacer. Una no-ficción que se lee como un thriller y se sigue como la trama de una película. [...] La recomiendo mucho».Glòria Aznar, Diari de Tarragona «El catálogo de personajes que desfilan por aquí es digno del Hollywood más oscuro: crímenes, sí, pero también con glamur y carisma».Adrià Puértolas, El Nacional «El periodista narrativo más prestigioso de su generación».Gonzalo Suárez, El Mundo«Un conjunto de relatos con afán literario, como la antología de cuentos de un escritor con voluntad de estilo; solo que aquí prima la verdad, y los hechos de los relatos se ciñen a un concienzudo fact checking».José S. de Montfort, The Objective«La magnífica prosa de investigación de Keefe tiene elementos propios de la crónica literaria y podría recordar un poco a Gay Talese en el sentido de ser un periodista de raza que guarda el deseo de llegar al fondo de la cuestión en lo que tenga entre manos y una gran vocación de observador».Toni Montesinos, La Razón «Con su envidiable manera de mirar y contar, dibuja retratos depersonajes tan paródicos como crueles, estúpidos e insanos, tiernos y horribles. Talento y rigor».Carlos Zanón, La Vanguardia «Un nuevo libro de Keefe significa dejarlo todo y bajar las persianas; estarás pasando páginas durante horas».Los Angeles Times«Maleantes no es solo la muestra de lo buen periodista que es su autor, sino del inmenso poder del reportaje como género. Quizá el mayor don que tiene Keefe como escritor es la comodidad con la que se mueve en terrenos ambiguos, un recordatorio oportuno de que las cosas no son nunca blancas o negras».Toronto Star «Un espectacular libro de periodismo en mayúsculas».Irish Independent
La maleta de mi padre
by Orhan Pamuk«¿Por qué escribe? ¡Escribo porque me sale de dentro!»Orhan Pamuk El premio Nobel de literatura Orhan Pamuk nos habla en estos discursos de su amor por la literatura. Orhan Pamuk fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2006. En la entrega oficial del galardón, Pamuk leyó «La maleta de mi padre», un emocionante discurso que habla de la naturaleza de la escritura, del amor a los libros y del propósito de la literatura. Acompañan a este discurso otros dos textos igualmente pronunciados con motivo de la recepción de premios: «El autor implícito», discurso que leyó en abril de 2006 al recibir el premio Puterbaugh, otorgado por la revista norteamericana World Literature, trata de la psicología del autor, de la aventura que supone ser escritor y de la necesidad de serlo. «En Kars y en Frankfurt», discurso pronunciado al recibir el Premio de la Paz de la Unión de Libreros Alemanes en 2005, estudia la posibilidad que tiene el novelista de ponerse en el lugar de otros y las consecuencias políticas de una capacidad tan humana. «Dos años antes de morir, mi padre me entregó una pequeña maleta llena con sus notas, manuscritos y cuadernos.»Orhan Pamuk
La maleta de mi padre (Flash Ensayo #Volumen)
by Orhan Pamuk«¿Por qué escribe? ¡Escribo porque me sale de dentro!» Orhan Pamuk El premio Nobel de literatura Orhan Pamuk nos habla en estos discursos de su amor por la literatura. Orhan Pamuk fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2006. En la entrega oficial del galardón, Pamuk leyó «La maleta de mi padre», un emocionante discurso que habla de la naturaleza de la escritura, del amor a los libros y del propósito de la literatura.Acompañan a este discurso otros dos textos igualmente pronunciados con motivo de la recepción de premios: «El autor implícito», discurso que leyó en abril de 2006 al recibir el premio Puterbaugh, otorgado por la revista norteamericana World Literature, trata de la psicología del autor, de la aventura que supone ser escritor y de la necesidad de serlo. «En Kars y en Frankfurt», discurso pronunciado al recibir el Premio de la Paz de la Unión de Libreros Alemanes en 2005, estudia la posibilidad que tiene el novelista de ponerse en el lugar de otros y las consecuencias políticas de una capacidad tan humana. «Dos años antes de morir, mi padre me entregó una pequeña maleta llena con sus notas, manuscritos y cuadernos.»Orhan Pamuk
Malhar class 6 - NCERT: मल्हार ६वीं कक्षा - एनसीईआरटी
by Rashtriy Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishadपुस्तक "मल्हार" कक्षा 6 के विद्यार्थियों के लिए हिंदी की पाठ्यपुस्तक है, जो राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा नीति 2020 के तहत विद्यार्थियों के समग्र विकास पर केंद्रित है। इसमें भाषा की सृजनात्मकता, तार्किक चिंतन, और सांस्कृतिक चेतना को बढ़ावा देने वाले विषयों को सम्मिलित किया गया है। पुस्तक का उद्देश्य विद्यार्थियों में रचनात्मकता, स्वतंत्र चिंतन, और सामाजिक मूल्यों का विकास करना है। इसमें साहित्य, इतिहास, कला, और समाज से जुड़े विविध विषयों पर आधारित पाठ दिए गए हैं। "मल्हार" में गतिविधियाँ और अभ्यास विद्यार्थियों को संवाद और लेखन कौशल को मजबूत करने में मदद करते हैं। यह पाठ्यपुस्तक विद्यार्थियों को उनके जीवन और अनुभवों से जोड़ने का प्रयास करती है, जिससे उनकी भाषाई और सृजनात्मक क्षमता का विकास हो सके।
Malicious Objects, Anger Management, and the Question of Modern Literature
by Jörg KreienbrockWhy do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object’s recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against human desires and wishes rather than disappear into automatic, unconscious functionality, the breakdown is experienced not as something neutral but affectively—as rage or as outbursts of laughter. Such emotions are always psychosocial: public, rhetorically performed, and therefore irreducible to a “private” feeling. <p><p> By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, Kreienbrock reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them.
Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade
by Holly K. Craig Julie A. WashingtonMalik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade synthesizes a decade of research by the authors, Holly Craig and Julie Washington, on the oral language and literacy skills of African American children from preschool to fifth grade. Their research has characterized significant influences on the child's use of AAE and the relationship between AAE and aspects of literacy acquisition. The research has also led to the characterization of other nondialectal aspects of language development. The outcome has been a culture-fair, child-centered language evaluation protocol.This very readable volume will be important to students, clinicians, and teachers, learning about and working with, African American children. The book has direct relevance to academic planning, clinical decision-making, curriculum development, and educational policymaking.
Malinowski amongst the Magi: The Natives of Mailu [1915/1988]
by MalinowskiA reissue of Malinowski's first field monograph, containing historical and theoretical material. This edition includes a major essay by Michael Young who draws on Malinowski's diary, unpublished notebooks and letters.
Mallarme's Sunset: Poetry at the End of Time
by Barnaby NormanThe writings of the great Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) were to become uniquely influential in twentieth century literary criticism. For critics and philosophers such as Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, Mallarme's name came to represent a rupture in literary history, and an opening of literature onto a radically new kind of writing. Through close readings of key works, Norman retraces Mallarme's trajectory as a poet, showing in particular how he positioned his work in relation to Hegel's Aesthetics. Analysing the motif of the sunset Norman argues that Mallarme situated his work at the conclusion of the history of art, in Hegelian terms, and it is this that made him so interesting for Blanchot and Derrida. Their readings, born of their wish to subvert Hegel's totalizing impulse, give rise to an entirely new view of works now almost universally seen as masterpieces.
Mallory: A Mysterious Profile (Mysterious Profiles #11)
by Carol O'ConnellThe New York Times–bestselling author discusses her crime-solving hacker heroine, &“surely one of the genre&’s oddest and most interesting creations&” (Chicago Tribune). When the NYPD detective and sociopath known simply as Mallory made her series debut, John Sandford called her &“one of the most interesting new characters to come along in years.&” A homeless wild child who was taken in by a New York City cop and grew up to follow in his footsteps, she possesses a skill set—including a talent for computer hacking—that allows her to track down her prey like no one else. In this insightful essay, author Carol O&’Connell shares fascinating insights about her origins, her psychology, and her strikingly different sense of right and wrong. &“Mallory is not your usual plucky and generally wholesome mystery solver. Jane Marple would probably cross the street to avoid making eye contact with her.&” —The Washington Post Book World &“Mallory is a marvelous creation.&” —Jonathan Kellerman, New York Times–bestselling author of the Alex Hunter novels
Malory's Originality: A Critical Study of Le Morte Darthur
by R. M. LumianskyOriginally published in 1964. The book presents a commentary on Le Morte d'Arthur that illuminates Malory's literary aims and techniques. The author brings to bear several hitherto unused source materials on Malory's work and offers new analyses of his authorial purposes. Lumiansky argues that Malory wrote a single unified book rather than eight separate tales. The source of Malory's story is an Old French romance known as the Suite du Merlin. Lumiansky traces Malory's originality through Malory's treatment of the main generic features of the Suite du Merlin.
Maltese: Descriptive Grammar (Descriptive Grammars #14)
by Marie Azzopardi-Alexander Albert BorgFocusing primarily on Standard Maltese, the authors clarify many areas which, until now, remain undefined, with emphasis on syntax and intonation. English loanwords continue to find their way into Standard Maltese, especially as the Maltese inhabitants become increasingly bilingual, and the variations are studied, as well as their morphological behavior. The book describes the syntactic, morphological and phonological structure of Maltese as one integrated linguistic system composed of different strands (Arabic, Romance and English).
Malvina: by Sophie Cottin (Chawton House Library: Women's Novels #21)
by Marijn S KaplanOften linked to the works of early Romanticism, Sophie Cottin's Malvina (1803) was a bestselling sentimental novel. First published in France, the English translation by Elizabeth Gunning – a prolific novelist in her own right – allowed Cottin’s book to achieve success internationally. This is the first modern scholarly edition of Malvina.
Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theatre (Studies in Modern Drama)
by Sarah Bay-ChengMama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde theaters. This book addresses the growing interest in Stein's theater by offering the first detailed analyses of her major plays, and by considering them within a larger history of avant-garde performance. In addition to comparing Stein's plays and theories to those generated by Dadaists, Surrealists, and Futurists, this study further explores the uniqueness of Stein via these theatrical movements, including discussions of her interest in American life and drama, which argues that a significant and heretofore unrecognized relationship exists among the histories of avant-garde drama, cinema, and homosexuality. By examining and explaining the relationship among these three histories, the dramatic writings of Stein can best be understood, not only as examples of literary modernism, but also as influential dramatic works that have had a lasting effect on the American theatrical avant-
Mama’s Boy: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture
by Roel van den OeverIn postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual development of her children, in particular her sons. Deemed worst of all was the outcome of homosexuality, since the period saw an intense policing of sexual deviance. van den Oever zooms in on four instances of the cultural representation of Momism: The Grotto, by Grace Zaring Stone, Suddenly Last Summer, by Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth, to offer new commentary on canonical texts, a particular moment in American culture, and future reading strategies.
The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba: A Critical Edition (New World Studies)
by James J. O'KellyIn late 1872, the New York Herald named James J. O’Kelly its special correspondent to Cuba, to cover what would later be known as the Ten Years’ War. O’Kelly was tasked with crossing Spanish lines, locating the insurgent camps, and interviewing the president of the Cuban republic, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. O’Kelly became a political lightning rod when, after fulfilling his mission, he was arrested, court-martialed, and threatened with execution in Spanish Cuba. For the book that followed, The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba, O’Kelly assembled edited versions of the eighteen dispatches he sent to the Herald, some written in the remotest imaginable places in the Cuban interior.The Mambi-Land constitutes the first book-length account of Cuba’s Ten Years’ War for independence from Spain (1868–1878) and provides a window on an understudied moment in U.S.-Cuba relations. More than recovering an important lost work, this critical edition draws attention to Cuba’s crucial place in American national consciousness in the post–Civil War period and represents a timely and significant contribution to our understanding of the complicated history of Cuba-U.S. relations.
Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives
by Mary K. DeshazerWhile breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer's book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category she refers to as mammographies, signifying both the imaging technology by which most Western women discover they have this disease and the documentary imperatives that drive their written and visual accounts of it. Mammographies argues that breast cancer narratives of the past ten years differ from their predecessors in their bold address of previously neglected topics such as the link between cancer and environmental carcinogens, the ethics and efficacy of genetic testing and prophylactic mastectomy, and the shifting politics of prosthesis and reconstruction. Mammographies is distinctive among studies of contemporary illness narratives in its exclusive focus on breast cancer, its analysis of both memoirs and photographic texts, its attention to hybrid and collaborative narratives, and its emphasis on ecological, genetic, transnational, queer, and anti-pink discourses. DeShazer's methodology--best characterized as literary critical, feminist, and interdisciplinary--includes detailed interpretation of the narrative strategies, thematic contours, and visual imagery of a wide range of contemporary breast cancer memoirs and photographic anthologies. The author explores the ways in which the narratives constitute a distinctive testimonial and memorial tradition, a claim supported by close readings and theoretical analysis that demonstrates how these narratives question hegemonic cultural discourses, empower reader-viewers as empathic witnesses, and provide communal sites for mourning, resisting, and remembering.
Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton
by Blair HoxbyThis book explores what the commercial revolution of the seventeenth century meant to the greatest poet of the era, John Milton, and the broader literary tradition in which he worked. New economic ideas influenced a wide range of Milton's most famous writings as he and other authors engaged with the economic discourse of the age, reimagining ideas about self, community, and empire.
The Mammoth Book of Insults (Mammoth Books #456)
by Geoff TibballsNever be stuck for a wicked line again! - the ultimate collection of insultsHere is the biggest and best ever collection of insults and sharp retorts for when you just wish you could have thought of something faster. Editor Geoff Tibballs presents more than 5,000 come-backs, put-downs, snaps, insults, unadmiring quips and quotes, for every occasion. From the most elegant of studied insults to the wickedest of putdowns, from the language of the street to the literary, political, and entertainment worlds, from playground insults to sports, family and marriage jibes - here is every possible barb you could ever need, guaranteed to crack up all those around you. As an outsider, what do you think of the human race? Your mother's so fat, she has her own area code. Are your parents siblings? Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn't have given you worse advice. Is there no beginning to your talents? You'd be out of your depth in a puddle. Don't you need a licence to be that ugly? I'd like to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my arse. I'd love to go out with you but I have to worm my dog.
The Mammoth Book of Journalism
by Jon E. LewisThe newspaper has recorded and influenced modern history like nothing else on earth. From The Washington Post's exposure of Watergate, Tom Wolfe's 1960's social documentary in The Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test to Robert Fisk uncovering the slaugher at Chatila, all the articles included here are reportage from the frontline of life. The 100 dispatches collected here are reports which have caught most vividly the greatest events of the twentieth century, the editorials which have changed our thinking, the criticisms which have penetrated most deeply into contemporary culture. Most of all, they offer a snapshot of these modern times.
The Mammoth Book of Journalism (Mammoth Books #380)
by Jon E. LewisThe newspaper has recorded and influenced modern history like nothing else on earth. From The Washington Post's exposure of Watergate, Tom Wolfe's 1960's social documentary in The Electric Cool-Aid Acid Test to Robert Fisk uncovering the slaugher at Chatila, all the articles included here are reportage from the frontline of life. These are the editorials that have changed our thinking and the criticisms that have penetrated most deeply into contemporary culture. Most of all, they offer a snapshot of these modern times.
Man and Animal in Severan Rome
by Steven D. SmithThe Roman sophist Claudius Aelianus, born in Praeneste in the late second century CE, spent his career cultivating a Greek literary persona. Aelian was a highly regarded writer during his own lifetime, and his literary compilations would be influential for a thousand years and more in the Roman world. This book argues that the De natura animalium, a miscellaneous treasury of animal lore and Aelian's greatest work, is a sophisticated literary critique of Severan Rome. Aelian's fascination with animals reflects the cultural issues of his day: philosophy, religion, the exoticism of Egypt and India, sex, gender, and imperial politics. This study also considers how Aelian's interests in the De natura animalium are echoed in his other works, the Rustic Letters and the Varia Historia. Himself a prominent figure of mainstream Roman Hellenism, Aelian refined his literary aesthetic to produce a reading of nature that is both moral and provocative.
Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Malinowski [1957]
by Bronislaw MalinowskiThis volume is a reassessment of Malinowski's work by a group of his former pupils and colleagues. A frank evaluation, not a eulogy, it examines the real and lasting importance of Malinowski's contribution to a range of subjects.
The Man behind the Beard: Deneys Schreiner, a South African Liberal Life
by Graham DominyDeneys Schreiner was an academic, a scientist and a man of strong liberal principles, with a good sense of humor and widespread interests in the sciences, arts and public affairs. In his steady way, he transformed the University of Natal and the community around it. Between the 1960s and 1980s, Schreiner supported and initiated several endeavors to promote constitutional futures other than those imposed by the apartheid government. One of the most significant was the Buthelezi Commission, which he chaired. This biography sets out the context of the times in which Schreiner lived and his life from his ancestors to his tenure as Vice-Principal. This book is created with extensive archival research, supported by interviews with family members, former colleagues, friends, and journalists. Schreiner was a man who made a considerable contribution to the struggle for democracy in South Africa. And then there is the story of his beard, once described as a potent symbol of his presence and implacable integrity. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.
The Man Behind the Book: Literary Profiles
by Louis AuchinclossTwenty-three biographical essays on writers admired by the National Medal of Arts–winning author of The Education of Oscar Fairfax.For Louis Auchincloss, life and letters are not two things but one. It therefore comes as no surprise that when he writes about writers, their lives are considered as closely as their works. He takes what today is a refreshingly unpopular position: that the artist and his art cannot be teased apart, that biography of criticism and criticism biography. For Mr. Auchincloss, it all boils down to that maxim of Buffon’s: “the style’s the man,” the man behind the book.The twenty-three writers discussed here are a mixed lot—English, American, and French; novelists, poets, and playwrights; Jacobeans, Victorians, and moderns—yet each has meant a great deal to Mr. Auchincloss as a reader and a writer. Some of them are classics, and familiar Auchincloss subjects: Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Ivy Compton-Burnett. Others, among them Prosper Merimee, Harold Frederic, and Amy Lowell, were famous once but are now obscure. In their cases it is Mr. Auchincloss’s self-described task “to explore the reasons for their fall from grace,” reasons that prove to be unfailingly personal as well as artistic. But as Mr. Auchincloss would rather praise and share than damn and dismiss, it is also his task “to seek the portions of their work that may still merit attention.”Alfred Kazin once noted that Mr. Auchincloss’s essays are marked by “perfect literary grace and wit.” These qualities have never been so evident as in this volume, an informal study of some of the author's favorite books and the fascinating artists behind them.