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Caught Between the Lines
Caught between the Lines examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Challenging the conventional approach to the nineteenth-century trope of "civilization versus barbary," which was intended to criticize the social and ethnic divisions within Argentina in order to create a homogenous society, Carlos Riobó traces the various versions of colonial captivity legends. He argues convincingly that the historical conditions of the colonial period created an ethnic hybridity--a mestizo or culturally mixed identity--that went ag...
Bespoke Men's Shoes
Shoes are the basis for a good appearance. Handmade bespoke shoes guarantee well-being with every step and are at the same time a perfect example of a sustainable product. Because bespoke shoes are still made exclusively in handicraft businesses today. No matter where and how big the workshop is, the working techniques, tools and raw materials are the same everywhere. Every craftsman has only one goal: the perfect shoe for his customer - whether boots, patent leather shoes or slippers. "Bespoke Men's Shoes" shows how a pair of shoes are made in the workshop of the Berlin bespoke shoemaker Korbinian Ludwig Hess is created - in all details, from raw lasts to finished polished shoes. In addition, the book offers a lot of interesting facts about shoe topics, fit and shoe care and provides important information and addresses for everyone who dreams of bespoke shoes.
Rethinking Fascism
This book takes up the stimuli of new international historiography, albeit focusing mainly on the two regimes that undoubtedly provided the model for Fascist movements in Europe, namely the Italian and the German. Starting with a historiographical assessment of the international situation, vis-à-vis studies on Fascism and National Socialism, and then concentrate on certain aspects that are essential to any study of the two dictatorships, namely the complex relationships with their respective societies, the figures of the two dictators and the role of violence. This volume reaches beyond the time-frame encompassing Fascism and National Socialism experiences, directing the attention also towa...
Faulkner’s Ethics
This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner’s fiction, this study draws on The Methods of Ethics, the magnum opus of the utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. While Faulkner’s Ethics does not claim that Faulkner read Sidgwick’s work, this book traces Faulkner’s moral sensitivity. It argues that Faulkner’s language is a moral medium that captures the ways in which people negotiate the ethical demands that life places on them. Tracing the contours of this evolving medium across six of the author’s major novels, it explores the basic precepts set out in The Methods of Ethics with the application of more recent contributions to moral philosophy, especially those of Jacques Derrida and Derek Parfit.
Possible Worlds
This volume reevaluates and overturns the assumed hierarchical relationship between original text and translation with an approach that places source and target texts as equal. Combining the translation strategy of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the theoretical approaches of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, and the exponents of Possible World Theory, the author examines Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Franz Kafka's short stories in detail. Rather than considering what may be lost in translation, this study focuses on why we insist on maintaining a border between the textual phenomena of "translation" and "original" and argues for a mutually enriching dialogue between two texts.
Atlas of Extraterrestrial Zones
32 unusual and fascinating extraterrestrial encounters that explores the places and portals between our world and theirs, with illustrated maps for each location (Book 2 of the bestselling Atlas series) Where is the best place to meet kind and peaceful aliens? How do we communicate with intelligent interstellar life forms, socialize with Martians, and avoid unwanted close encounters of the third kind? These and other answers to ET mysteries are captured in the thirty-two stories in the Atlas of Extraterrestrial Zones, where maps direct readers to the portals that open up between the worlds, a geography of strange events that covers the entire earth, demonstrating how widespread the phenomenon is. Learn about locations of extraterrestrial sightings, hidden bases, secret embassies, and long-lost traces of thousand-year-old passages. From the UFO port of Arès to the underground center of Area 51, from the crash at Roswell to setting up the SETI program, this atlas lists, for the first time, the meeting points between earthlings and these mysterious extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs).
Atlas of Dream Lands
A keepsake collection of maps depicting legendary and real places for the lover of literature, history, and cartography. This exploration of the "Mythical Elsewhere" explores a wide array of places, from the well known to the obscure, through the eyes of historians, explorers, conquerors, and writers across the ages. Lose yourself in the past as you travel to such destinations as Troy, the Mughal Empire, the Congo, the river Nile, El Dorado, and many more across the globe: Europe: Candia, Kythira, Ogygia, Troy Asia: Cathay, Cipangu, Colchis, the Mughal Empire, Golconda, Kafiristan, the Land of the Cimmerians, Taprobana, Tartary Africa: Barbary Coas, Cape Bojador, Congo, Meroë, Mutapa, the L...
Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory
Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter.
Contradictory Woolf
Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring the theme of contradiction in Virginia Woolf's writing.
Atlas of Lost Paradises
Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth. "Paradises got off to a bad start early on. The one the Bible had arranged had to rapidly close its pearly gates when its first two occupants, Adam and Eve, had misbehaved." According to Gilles Lapouge, paradise is a paradoxical creation of our imagination, blending hope and nostalgia. Historically, mankind has sought to fashion a paradise, which could be accessed during its lifetime: ideal cities, cities made of glass and steel, castles of freedom, etc. This atlas embarks us upon a journey across civilizations, through the exploration of 27 real or fictional places, including • gardens of the Middle Ages • Atlantis • the castles of King Ludwig II • Oceana • Pitcairn Island • city of Manoa • Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang Each place is illustrated with a specially designed map in a graphic style that has become the hallmark of this Atlas series.
