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Book Watching Nostalgia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefanie Armbruster
  • Publisher : transcript Verlag
  • Release : 2016-09-30
  • ISBN : 3839435099
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Watching Nostalgia written by Stefanie Armbruster and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is nostalgia in television? How far does a nostalgic text trigger nostalgic emotions? And how are nostalgic series received by different audience groups? Stefanie Armbruster uses an interdisciplinary approach as analytical and theoretical basis. Her detailed analyses identify nostalgia in reruns, remakes and period dramas such as "Knight Rider" or "Mad Men". Focus group discussions with German and Spanish viewers give new insights into its reception. The in-depth study helps to understand the interrelation of nostalgic texts and nostalgic reception better and explores a decisive part of a phenomenon that is omnipresent in our current TV landscape.

Book Knight Nostalgia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joey W. Hill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-02-15
  • ISBN : 9781942122708
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Knight Nostalgia written by Joey W. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join us for a three-story revisit with our beloved Knights of the Board Room characters!Conqueror's Fantasy - many people have talked about wanting to get deeper into the head of Matt Kensington, and spend more time with him and Savannah. Years ago, in a character interview, Matt mentioned that he was going to take Savannah to a private island resort which was dedicated to BDSM lifestylers. On their last night there, he brings to life a specific, long-held fantasy of Savannah's.Girls' Day Out - In Hostile Takeover, Ben made a serious misstep. While I can't remember where it was proposed, somewhere along the line it was suggested he make amends by taking all the K&A women out for a shopping trip. This will be what happened during that trip.The Card Game - Some of you have pointed out that Dana and Rachel never had their "board room" initiation as Savannah and Cass did. In The Card Game, the men decide to hold a late night poker game around the table, with two very attractive centerpieces who have to do whatever the man who wins each winning hand commands. With some very interesting results...

Book Little Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins

Download or read book Little Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins written by Julia Cresswell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins includes 1,000 word histories arranged by theme, from food to phobias, and from universe to love. Featuring words with interesting or surprising origins, including dates of origin and an account of each word's derivation, it is an irresistible collection and the perfect gift for word lovers.

Book False Fables and Exemplary Truth

Download or read book False Fables and Exemplary Truth written by E. Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.

Book The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Download or read book The Knight of the Burning Pestle written by Francis Beaumont and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a fresh new edition of the most important play by one of Shakespeare’s most creative contemporaries. Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a free-wheeling, satirical romp through the world of early modern theatre. Hilarious, outrageous, and unpredictable, Beaumont’s comedy confounded its first audiences, but has since been recognized as a rare comedic gem from the golden age of English playmaking.

Book Disability and Knighthood in Malory   s Morte Darthur

Download or read book Disability and Knighthood in Malory s Morte Darthur written by Tory Pearman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights’ movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory’s book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text’s fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text’s multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the "hoole book" that Malory envisions. The Morte, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses.

Book Fernsehen  Europ  ische Perspektiven

Download or read book Fernsehen Europ ische Perspektiven written by Elizabeth Prommer and published by Herbert von Halem Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Für den vorliegenden zweisprachigen Band (deutsch/englisch) haben sich Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus acht europäischen Ländern mit den Produktionskontexten, der Entwicklung von neuen Genres und einer neuen Fernsehästhetik, aber auch mit Publikumsperspektiven beschäftigt, um so eine Vielfalt an europäischen Perspektiven auf das alte und gleichzeitig neue Medium Fernsehen zu bieten. Vor dem Hintergrund von Digitalisierung, Globalisierung, Second- und Multi-Screen-Umgebungen und der ständigen zeitlichen und räumlichen Verfügbarkeit der bewegten Bilder schreibt sich das Fernsehen mit seinen multiplen Facetten kontinuierlich weiter. Es reflektiert dabei aktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und verleibt diese ein. Das Fernsehen mit seiner populären Anziehungskraft ist dabei sowohl nationales als auch transnationales Phänomen. Dies ist Anlass, sich mit dem Medium Fernsehen aus einer aktuellen und europäischen Perspektive zu beschäftigen.

Book In Nomine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathan Neuharth
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1365655849
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book In Nomine written by Nathan Neuharth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nostalgia in Print and Performance  1510   1613

Download or read book Nostalgia in Print and Performance 1510 1613 written by Harriet Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the importance of popular literature in promoting and shaping medieval nostalgia in early modern England.

Book Orienting Virtue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bethany Williamson
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2022-10-18
  • ISBN : 0813947626
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Orienting Virtue written by Bethany Williamson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean for a nation and its citizens to be virtuous? The term "virtue" is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century British literature, but its definition is more often assumed than explained. Bringing together two significant threads of eighteenth-century scholarship—one on republican civic identity and the mythic legacy of the freeborn Briton and the other on how England’s global encounters were shaped by orientalist fantasies— Orienting Virtue examines how England’s sense of collective virtue was inflected and informed by Eastern empires. Bethany Williamson shows how England’s struggle to define and practice national virtue hinged on the difficulty of articulating an absolute concept of moral value amid dynamic global trade networks. As writers framed England’s story of exceptional liberties outside the "rise and fall" narrative they ascribed to other empires, virtue claims encoded anxieties about England’s tenuous position on the global stage, especially in relation to the Ottoman, Mughal, and Far Eastern empires. Tracking valences of virtue across the century’s political crises and diverse literary genres, Williamson demonstrates how writers consistently deployed virtue claims to imagine a "middle way" between conserving ancient ideals and adapting to complex global realities. Orienting Virtue concludes by emphasizing the ongoing urgency, in our own moment, of balancing competing responsibilities and interests as citizens both of nations and of the world.

Book Philosophical Chaucer

Download or read book Philosophical Chaucer written by Mark Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended mediation on agency, autonomy and practical reason. This philosophical aspect of Chaucer's interests can help us understand what is both sophisticated and disturbing about his explorations of love, sex and gender. Partly through fresh readings of the Consolation of Philosophy and the Romance of the Rose, Miller charts Chaucer's position in relation to the association in the Christian West between problems of autonomy and problems of sexuality and reconstructs how medieval philosophers and literary writers approached psychological phenomena often thought of as distinctively modern. The literary experiments of the Canterbury Tales represent a distinctive philosophical achievement that remains vital to our own attempts to understand agency, desire and their histories.

Book How to Play Video Games

Download or read book How to Play Video Games written by Matthew Thomas Payne and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building? From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving technological reality. Unlike other media technologies, video games demand engagement like no other, which begs the question—what is the role that video games play in our lives, from our homes, to our phones, and on global culture writ large? How to Play Video Games brings together forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts. Read about avatars in Grand Theft Auto V, or music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. See how Age of Empires taught a generation about postcolonialism, and how Borderlands exposes the seedy underbelly of capitalism. These essays suggest that understanding video games in a critical context provides a new way to engage in contemporary culture. They are a must read for fans and students of the medium.

Book Restoring the Temple of Vision

Download or read book Restoring the Temple of Vision written by Marsha Keith Schuchard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-04-07 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the early Jewish, Scottish, and Stuart sources of "ancient" Cabalistic Freemasonry that flourished in Écossais lodges in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on architectural, technological, political, and religious documents, it provides real-world, historical grounding for the flights of visionary Temple building described in the rituals and symbolism of "high-degree" Masonry. The roots of mystical male bonding, accomplished through progressive initiation, are found in Stuart notions of intellectual and spiritual amicitia. Despite the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty in 1688 and the establishment of a rival "modern" system of Hanoverian-Whig Masonry in 1717, the influence of "ancient" Scottish-Stuart Masonry on Solomonic architecture, Hermetic masques, and Rosicrucian science was preserved in lodges maintained by Jacobite partisans and exiles in Britain, Europe, and the New World.

Book If Wishes Were Horses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joey W. Hill
  • Publisher : Story Witch Press
  • Release : 2016-02-18
  • ISBN : 1942122373
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book If Wishes Were Horses written by Joey W. Hill and published by Story Witch Press. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Wylde didn't move from Chicago to a small town to get involved with a man. Particularly one like Justin Herne, a man too mesmerizing to be in a place like Lilesville. To make matters worse, Sarah is the new police chief and Herne runs a sex shop. She doesn’t care that the locals call it a “women’s sensuality shop” or that Herne is considered a respectable citizen. She’s keeping her eye on him. The only problem is, Justin is more than happy to stay within viewing distance. When a ritual murder draws them together on a case, she finds that maintaining a professional distance isn’t going to be an option.

Book Arcane Chaos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joey W. Hill
  • Publisher : Story Witch Press
  • Release : 2022-06-15
  • ISBN : 1951544218
  • Pages : 463 pages

Download or read book Arcane Chaos written by Joey W. Hill and published by Story Witch Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Death pays a visit to Ramona’s shop, it seems only polite to invite him in. Particularly when he has intense green eyes and can kiss like that… A Grim Reaper knows how and when every living thing will die. But Silas can’t see Ramona’s death. It’s one of many reasons the Chaos witch intrigues him. But when a dire threat to a single soul calls him away, it reveals something is out to destroy the order of life and death in the world. The only one who might be able to help him untangle the snarl of Fates’ loom might be the woman whose power—the very make of her soul—is the antithesis of order. If they survive the evil that wants to destroy everything that matters to them both, Ramona wonders if she’s finally found the male who won’t run from who and what she is. Suddenly the term “Death is the only certainty in life,” isn’t a threat—it’s a promise.

Book At Her Will

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joey W. Hill
  • Publisher : Story Witch Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1951544315
  • Pages : 11 pages

Download or read book At Her Will written by Joey W. Hill and published by Story Witch Press. This book was released on with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I dreem [sic] of kneeling…for her.” It’s a simple sentence carved on a school maintenance shed wall, but it’s a message a Domme can’t ignore. Especially when Vera meets the man who wrote it, and he’s nothing like any submissive she’s encountered before. Rev is a janitor at a middle school, and possesses a singing voice that “calls the soul home” in his family’s church. He’s the most spiritually mature and intuitive person Vera has met, a man good at caring for others; the kids at his school, his church congregation, and his family. But the relationship he yearns for with a woman is a challenge to his family’s understanding, and their control over his life’s path. While only a Mistress with a strong spiritual compass herself can help him reconcile the two, only he can bring her the love Vera feels like she’s waited two lifetimes to have.

Book The Mark of the Vampire Queen

Download or read book The Mark of the Vampire Queen written by Joey W. Hill and published by Story Witch Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’ll pay the cost to his soul to keep her safe... Now that Jacob belongs to Lady Lyssa completely, the need to protect her from her world has grown. Being viewed as property might challenge his soul’s integrity, but Jacob knows Lyssa needs everything he can give her. For her, he will be a warrior, a friend and a lover. A man who will serve her in all ways, even if he has to betray the priceless treasure of her love.