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Book Gaby s Penance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aline Lesage
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2006-05
  • ISBN : 0595394876
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Gaby s Penance written by Aline Lesage and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after her parish priest imposed an unusual penance, a penance she has at last fulfilled, Gabrielle Chevalier returns from Paris to her home in Quebec aware that while the Church may have forgiven her, she has not forgiven herself.

Book Gabrielle and Arawn s Penance

Download or read book Gabrielle and Arawn s Penance written by Zachary Chopchinski and published by Books and Bow Ties Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming of Age Portal Fiction Adventure Series - USA Today Bestselling Science Fantasy Author Gabrielle had faced death before... But she hadn't faced this. Gabrielle is thrown into the middle of Germany during World War II. But it's not the Nazis she's after. When Gabrielle learns that Arawn is pulling the strings, she becomes the hunter. Determined to finally take down the god of the underworld, Gabrielle teams up with some of the world's most dangerous killers. Is Gabrielle strong enough to battle a god? Or will death finally catch up to her? *** Keywords: fantasy books, fantasy, fantasy stories, paranormal fantasy books, fantasy series, series books, portal book, portal stories, portal story, mythology, paranormal fantasy books, gods and goddesses, strong women, Bestselling Young Adult Fantasy Series, Coming-of-age, Science Fantasy, Action Adventure, Portal Fantasy, books for teens, books for girls, YA reader, best book, time travel books, time travel series, nazi germany, world war II, world war 2

Book Veiled Desires

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen Sabine
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2013-08
  • ISBN : 0823251659
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Veiled Desires written by Maureen Sabine and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingrid Bergman's engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a "complete understanding" of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naive? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires--a unique full-length, in-depth study of nuns in film--Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. She provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns on screen by showing how the films dramatize these women's Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.

Book Reconciliation s

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna R. Quinn
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2009-04-01
  • ISBN : 0773576738
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Reconciliation s written by Joanna R. Quinn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconciliation(s) considers the definition of the concept of reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dialogue that arises from the attempts to situate reconciliation within a theoretical and analytical framework. Contributing authors champion competing definitions, but all agree that it plays an important role in building relationships of trust and cohesion. The essays in this book also consider the nature and utility of reconciliation in a number of contexts, evaluating both its function and efficacy.

Book The United States Catalog Supplement  January 1918 June 1921

Download or read book The United States Catalog Supplement January 1918 June 1921 written by Eleanor E. Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book T P  s Weekly

Download or read book T P s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gabrielle of the Lagoon

Download or read book Gabrielle of the Lagoon written by W. H. Myddleton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting romance novel by Arnold Safroni Middleton set in the Solomon Isles of the South Sea. Hillary is a ship's apprentice running away from his former crew. He flees to Papua New Guinea where he hopes to enjoy the uneventful life of a tropical paradise. That is until he meets Gabrielle Everard, a young woman of mixed race who lives with her father, a former sailor himself. Hillary is smitten with her and would do anything to be with her. That is all threatened when a series of events leads to Gabrielle being kidnapped by a shady figure called Rajah Koo Macah. It is up to Hillary to rescue Gabrielle...

Book Fran  ois Ozon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Asibong
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2021-06-15
  • ISBN : 1526162679
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Fran ois Ozon written by Andrew Asibong and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in paperback for the first time, this is a full-length study of the films of François Ozon, director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les amants criminels. Andrew Asibong’s passionate and critical analysis focuses on the extent to which Ozon’s seemingly light touch never ceases to engage with the fundamentally weighty issue of existential transformation, a transformation that affects both his protagonists and his audiences. A central question emerges: what is at stake, cinematically, ethically and politically, in Ozon’s alternatively utopian and cynical flirtation with the construction and deconstruction of contemporary social relations. Revealing Ozon as a highly adept ‘fan’ of a whole range of thought, literature and cinema, Asibong places the precocious French auteur in an intellectual yet highly accessible critical framework, allowing Ozon’s importance for a thoroughly postmodern filmgoing generation to be given the attention it deserves.

Book Not Speaking

Download or read book Not Speaking written by Norma Clarke and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Families are places of love, care, and fun; also of anger, anxiety, and quarrels. Not Speaking tells the story of a Greek matriarch, Rena, and her English children in post-war London and the present. It begins with Rena’s move out of a flat in St John’s Wood owned by her son Nicky Clarke, and the family disagreement that erupted. Moving through the London slums of Blackfriars, Greece under Nazi occupation, the Old Kent Road, Elephant and Castle, and the world of Mayfair hairdressing, this is a tale of enrichment and fame, infidelity and its consequences. And in the end, it has a message: every family is unique and all families are the same. * 'Wonderfully evocative – funny, illuminating and moving.' Jenny Uglow

Book Strategies of Resistance in the Dramatic Texts of North African Women

Download or read book Strategies of Resistance in the Dramatic Texts of North African Women written by Laura Chakravarty Box and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents the first broad analysis of Maghrebian women's dramatic literature undertaken in English. The book considers sixty-five plays and works of performance art by they twenty-eight women dramatists from the Maghreb.

Book The Literary Vision of Gabrielle Roy

Download or read book The Literary Vision of Gabrielle Roy written by Paula Gilbert Lewis and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gabriela Mistral s Struggle with God and Man

Download or read book Gabriela Mistral s Struggle with God and Man written by Martin C. Taylor and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. This volume provides both a detailed biography of the author and a careful analysis of her writing. Chronicling the personal, psychological, and social currents of Mistral's life and times, it addresses such topics as her finances, illness, and sexuality. Literary analysis considers the sacred and secular influences on Mistral's oevre, including Catholicism, the Hebraic tradition, Theosophy, and Buddhism. By recounting Mistral's intelligence and perseverance in overcoming her life's obstacles to reach the pinnacle of her field, this book establishes her as a model for Chileans and for humanity.

Book Methods of Critical Discourse Studies

Download or read book Methods of Critical Discourse Studies written by Ruth Wodak and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis, the fundamentals of how analysis works and examples from written texts, online data and images. This new edition: expands coverage of multimodality adds two new chapters on social media and analysis of online data supports learning with a guided introduction to each chapter includes a new and extended glossary Clearly written, practical and rigorous in its approach, this book is the ideal companion when embarking on research that focuses on discourse and meaning-making.

Book Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo Saxon England

Download or read book Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo Saxon England written by Jay Paul Gates and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished lawbreakers with harsh corporal penalties, such as execution, mutilation and imprisonment. Despite their severity, however, these penalties were not arbitrary exercises of power. Rather, they were informed by nuanced philosophies of punishment which sought to resolve conflict, keep the peace and enforce Christian morality. The ten essays in this volume engage legal, literary, historical, and archaeological evidence to investigate the role of punishment in Anglo-Saxon society. Three dominant themes emerge in the collection. First is the shift from a culture of retributive feud to a system of top-down punishment, in which penalties were imposed by an authority figure responsible for keeping the peace. Second is the use of spectacular punishment to enhance royal standing, as Anglo-Saxon kings sought to centralize and legitimize their power. Third is the intersection of secular punishment and penitential practice, as Christian authorities tempered penalties for material crime with concern for the souls of the condemned. Together, these studies demonstrate that in Anglo-Saxon England, capital and corporal punishments were considered necessary, legitimate, and righteous methods of social control. Jay Paul Gates is Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in The City University of New York; Nicole Marafioti is Assistant Professor of History and co-director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Contributors: Valerie Allen, Jo Buckberry, Daniela Fruscione, Jay Paul Gates, Stefan Jurasinski, Nicole Marafioti, Daniel O'Gorman, Lisi Oliver, Andrew Rabin, Daniel Thomas.

Book The Post Racial Mystique

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Squires
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2014-04-04
  • ISBN : 0814762891
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Post Racial Mystique written by Catherine Squires and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite claims from pundits and politicians that we now live in a post-racial America, people seem to keep finding ways to talk about race—from celebrations of the inauguration of the first Black president to resurgent debates about police profiling, race and racism remain salient features of our world. When faced with fervent anti-immigration sentiments, record incarceration rates of Blacks and Latinos, and deepening socio-economic disparities, a new question has erupted in the last decade: What does being post-racial mean? The Post-Racial Mystique explores how a variety of media—the news, network television, and online, independent media—debate, define and deploy the term “post-racial” in their representations of American politics and society. Using examples from both mainstream and niche media—from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media—Catherine Squires draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, political science, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America. She reveals the ways in which media texts cast U.S. history, re-imagine interpersonal relationships, employ statistics, and inventively redeploy other identity categories in a quest to formulate different ways of responding to race.

Book International Law and Society

Download or read book International Law and Society written by Laura A. Dickinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of international human rights law are largely unfamiliar with law and society scholarship, while the study of international human rights has remained at the margins of the law and society movement. International Law and Society: Empirical Approaches to Human Rights seeks to bridge this gap by presenting the work of a growing number of academics who are adopting a range of empirical approaches to international human rights. Drawn from the fields of anthropology, sociology, political science and law, the studies featured in this volume use a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze core issues of international law and human rights, such as compliance, the development of norms and the role of social movements.

Book Rhetoric in Neoliberalism

Download or read book Rhetoric in Neoliberalism written by Kim Hong Nguyen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines and applies classical and contemporary concepts of rhetorical theory and criticism to the context of late capitalism. Each contributor shows how discourse, its subjects, and power relations are irrevocably transformed by neoliberalism. The collection analyzes a range of discourses and phenomena in neoliberalism including: higher education reforms, computational culture, Occupy Wall Street protests, the activism of Warren Buffett, and the 9-11 Truth Movement. Together, these chapters explore the contemporary rhetorical production of homo economicus and the various ways in which neoliberalism has become a way of thinking, orienting, and organizing all aspects of life around economized metrics of individualized and individuated success. This book will be of use to students and scholars crossing the fields of media and communication, political science, and sociology.