Download or read book The Doppelganger Princess written by Kimberly Vogel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is not well in the royal court. King Francis' health is failing. While the three councilman wait to see whether he will recover or die, rumors develop in the palace. The woman behind the princess' veil might not be the true heir. Councilman Simon seeks the truth. Councilman Henry seeks to place the princess on the throne - by whatever means necessary. Councilman Herbert only wishes to keep the kingdom of Upper Tsubasa from falling apart no matter what changes occur. Away from the palace the rest of the Tsubasans are also just trying to survive. If the princess has been replaced by another, where did she go? And if so, can she survive long enough to return before her father's death?
Download or read book The Doppelg nger written by Andrew J. Webber and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-06-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkäs (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal - but nonetheless significant - manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siècle and transfer to the silent screen. The book features an introduction to the practice and theory underlying the use of the Doppelgänger, with particular reference to psychoanalysis, followed by chapters on Jean Paul, Hoffmann, Kleist, poetic realism (Droste-Hülshoff, Keller, Storm) and modernism (Kafka, Rilke, Hoffmannsthal, Schnitzler, Meyrink, Werfal). This study shows that the often underestimated figure of the double may provide a key to the epistomological, aesthetic and psychosexual structures of the texts it visits and revisits, with a particular focus on its effects in the fields of vision and language.
Download or read book The Doppelg nger written by Dimitris Vardoulakis and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents literature as the double of philosophy. This relation is historically rooted in the genesis of the doppelgänger as literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity: the term doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality, and human agency. This critique prefigures late twentieth century extrapolations of the subject as decentered. From this perspective, the doppelgänger has a family resemblance to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This book examines authors such as Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot, and Alexandros Papadiamantes and philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida to show how the doppelgänger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature.
Download or read book The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life written by William Brandt and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in New Zealand and in the UK, Brandt's hilarious first novel about life, love, and the film business delves into the mind and mystery of the modern adult male.
Download or read book Ruby Red written by Kaitlyn Cumpsty-Fowler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Princess The Pauper written by Caylen McQueen and published by Caylen McQueen. This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barmaid Kitt is so poor, she can't even afford a new pair of slippers. She dreams of a better life, far away from the slums she's always known. She never expected to get abducted by Captain Francis Doon, a notorious sky pirate who swears she's the missing princess. Runaway Princess Lyneah fled her castle to escape her mother, a queen gone mad. On her search for a savior, she is mistaken for a penniless barmaid. For unknown reasons, the princess and pauper are nearly identical. And they're about to trade places. The Princess & The Pauper is a swashbuckling steampunk adventure with a dash of romance. The first three books of the Belles & Bullets series are included.
Download or read book Hegira written by Greg Bear and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A minor classic. A small book but with big characters . . . and great ideas” from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Dinosaur Summer (SF Reviews). The planet Hegira is the universe’s melting pot. Hundreds of tribes in dozens of cities intermingle in the vast uncharted territory. The only thing holding the people together are the massive Obelisks, the chronicles of all the truths and falsehoods each tribe has brought to Hegira. Young Bar‐Woten is in search of knowledge and he knows the key to the truth about his homeland is contained in the writings of the Obelisks. With his fellow companions, Bar‐Woten must travel through Hegira’s exotic cities to discover the lies within the words of thousands.
Download or read book Craving Supernatural Creatures written by Claudia Schwabe and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the portrayal of German fairy-tale figures in contemporary North American media adaptations.
Download or read book Storytelling written by Josepha Sherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably similar with each rendition, highlighting the values and concerns of the host culture. Examining the stories and the oral traditions associated with different cultures offers a unique view of practices and traditions."Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore" brings past and present cultures of the world to life through their stories, oral traditions, and performance styles. It combines folklore and mythology, traditional arts, history, literature, and festivals to present an overview of world cultures through their liveliest and most fascinating mode of expression. This appealing resource includes specific storytelling techniques as well as retellings of stories from various cultures and traditions.
Download or read book The Assassin s Truth written by Kimberly Vogel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the future seems bright for Prince Leonidas and his future bride Chrisanna, dark forces plot against them. The young country of Everly has many enemies, despite overcoming their past as a bandit state. The young royal couple will be protected, but whether the guard will hold is to be seen. Some of the servants in the royal mansion have secrets that can kill.
Download or read book Double Trouble written by Eran Dorfman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed, is a widespread phenomenon that has significant influence on our lives. It is an inherent key element of human subjectivity whose functions, forms, and effects have not yet gained the serious consideration they merit. Drawing on literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and combining a personal story with theoretical interventions, Double Trouble develops a novel understanding of the double and human subjectivity in the last two centuries. It begins with the singular and narcissistic double of Romanticism and gradually moves to the multiple doubles implicated by Postmodernism. The double is what defies unicity and opens up the subject to multiplicity. Consequently, it gradually emerges as a bridge between the I and the Other, identity and difference, philosophy and literature, theory and praxis.
Download or read book The Princess and the Fangirl written by Ashley Poston and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prince and the Pauper gets a Geekerella-style makeover in this witty and heartfelt novel for those who believe in the magic of fandom—now with an excerpt from Bookish and the Beast. Imogen Lovelace is an ordinary fangirl on an impossible mission: to save her favorite Starfield character, Princess Amara, from being killed off. On the other hand, the actress who plays Amara wouldn’t mind being axed. Jessica Stone doesn’t even like being part of the Starfield franchise—and she’s desperate to leave the intense scrutiny of fandom behind. Though Imogen and Jess have nothing in common, they do look strangely similar to one another—and a case of mistaken identity at ExcelsiCon sets off a chain of events that will change both of their lives. When the script for the Starfield sequel leaks, with all signs pointing to Jess, she and Imogen must trade places to find the person responsible. The deal: Imogen will play Jess at her signings and panels, and Jess will help Imogen’s best friend run their booth. But as these “princesses” race to find the script leaker—in each other’s shoes—they’re up against more than they bargained for. From the darker side of fandom to unexpected crushes, Imogen and Jess must find a way to rescue themselves from their own expectations...and redefine what it means to live happily ever after.
Download or read book The Master Key Keepers and the Doppelganger written by VL Levy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two thousand years ago, the sacred Ark of the Covenant mysteriously disappeared without a trace- prophesized to return to the people and be opened at some undisclosed date; symbolizing that the coming of the messiah is near. That time has now passed. Is the prophecy about to be fulfilled? If so, why is the Ark still missing? What will happen if the Ark is found and opened? More importantly, who among us in the modern day world, has God chosen to open it? Consider if you will, what you would do if Jesus, flanked by twelve great masters, mysteriously appeared before you, relaying that you were responsible for guarding and mastering the keys to the Ark of the Covenant? Armed with the knowledge that humanitys fate depended on their awareness that the prophecy was about to be fulfilled, would you have the courage to tell them why you were here? What if no one believed you? Every few hundred years or so, a messiah, messenger, or sage is sent to walk among the masses; assigned to fulfill a sacred mission that will alter the course of humanity forever. This time, a team was sent in to open the most sought after historical biblical artifact the world has ever known- the Ark of the Covenant! The Master Key Keepers and the Doppelganger is a compelling true story of one familys journey as they experience magic and miracles beyond their wildest imaginations! Find out how their mission will affect your future in this amazing book filled with page turning adventures! The time is much closer than you may think!
Download or read book Heroine Abuse written by Thomas Gaiton Marullo and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel, Netochka Nezvanova, written in 1849, remains the least studied and understood of the writer's long fiction, but it was a seedbed for many topics and themes that became hallmarks of his major works. Specifically, Netochka Nezvanova was the first in Dostoevsky's corpus to focus on the psychology of children and the first to feature a woman in a leading and narrative role. It was also the first work in Russian literature to deal with problems of the family. In Heroine Abuse, Thomas Marullo contends that Netochka Nezvanova also provides a striking example of what psychologists today call codependency: the ways—often deviant and destructive—in which individuals bond with people, places, and things, as well as with images and ideas, to cope with the vicissitudes of life. Marullo shows how, at age twenty-eight, Dostoevsky intuited and illustrated the workings of "relationship addiction" almost a century and a half before it became the scholarly focus of practitioners of mental health. The moral monsters, "infernal" women, children-adults, and adult-children who populate Netochka Nezvanova seek codependence in people, places, and things, and in images, ideas, and ideals to satiate cravings for love, dominance, and control, as well as to indulge in narcissism, sexual perversion, and other aberrant or alternative behaviors. (Indeed, in no other work would Dostoevsky examine such phenomena as pedophilia and lesbianism with such abandon.) Racing from tie to tie, bond to bond, and caught in a debilitating loop that they claim to detest, but sadomasochistically enjoy, the characters in Netochka Nezvanova wreak havoc on themselves and the world. They do so, moreover, with impunity, their addictions moving them from momentary exultation as self-styled extraordinary men and women, through prolonged darkness and despair, and once again, to old and new addictions for physical and emotional release. Readers of Heroine Abuse will see Netochka Nezvanova as a timeless model in depicting codependency in the world of the twenty-first century as it did in St. Petersburg in 1849. Marullo's original work will appeal to scholars and students of Russian and comparative fiction; to doctors, psychologists, and therapists; to laymen and women interested in relationship addiction; and, finally, to codependents and relationship addicts of all types.
Download or read book A Call to Arms written by Kimberly Vogel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the next ruler of Leldyna, Rae must continue to learn all she can about her homeland. Time flies by as she tours the land to meet the inhabitants. Upon her return a shock greets her in the form of an old law, marriage or disownment. Wary of the choices selected by the Council, Rae agrees. Another surprise awaits her then in the form of an old friend. Can Rae do what she needs without losing herself to her obligations or will she have to leave it all? Just when she thinks it's over another worse situation develops: pirates!
Download or read book Family Politics in Early Modern Literature written by Hannah Crawforth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in transformative moments of potential crisis – birth and death, maturation, marriage – moments when the family is negotiating its position within and through broader cultural frameworks, and when, as a result, family ‘politics’ become most apparent.
Download or read book Cinema Memory Modernity written by Russell J.A. Kilbourn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn provides a comparative theorization of the representation of memory in both mainstream Hollywood and international art cinema within an increasingly transnational context of production and reception. Focusing on European, North and South American, and Asian films, Kilbourn reads cinema as providing the viewer with not only the content and form of memory, but also with its own directions for use: the required codes and conventions for understanding and implementing this crucial prosthetic technology — an art of memory for the twentieth-century and beyond.
