Lelias Kiss

Author : Laura Giannetti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099513
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lelia's Kiss written by Laura Giannetti and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lelia's Kiss, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the Italian Renaissance. Going beyond the traditional canon, Giannetti focuses her study on the social and cultural scripts found in a wide array of comedies of the period to reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles and their cultural construction in Renaissance society. Giannetti argues that the comedic dialogue and cross-dressing characters so prevalent in Italian Renaissance comedies played with the presuppositions of the day and engaged with contemporary social norms, expectations, and desires. Cross-dressing female characters reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles, and also present a vision of female empowerment. At the same time, cross-dressing male characters suggest a unique perception of the male life cycle that was more uncertain and contested than often assumed, and show more broadly how masculinity was also socially and culturally constructed. In discussing marriage, sexuality, and gender roles, the comedies deploy a social scripting that not only reflects and comments on the everyday life of the time, but also interacts with it with playful humor and revealing insight.

Author : Erin E. Keller
Publisher : JMS Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1634868463
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elias written by Erin E. Keller and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Thomas Doyle has been living a lonely, compartmentalized life ever since the death of his life partner, Aiden. He vowed never to let anybody get close to him again -- the pain of losing a loved one is too much to bear. Despite his vow, Thomas is lonely, and has a number of one-night stands, sexual encounters with unnamed men he doesn’t care to remember. Then he meets Elias. Elias Byrne knows the pain of abuse and rejection intimately. Unable to escape the clutches of his older brother, Elias dreams of someone to love, and of being loved in return. He admires Thomas, but the detective never pays him any notice. In a desperate attempt to get closer to him, Elias steals his wallet, then gives it back the next day. Pretty soon, Thomas feels a strong attraction to the fiery, arrogant, younger man. Elias intrigues him, but he resists his growing feelings because he doesn’t want to get hurt again. When Thomas rescues Elias from his abusive brother, can he also rescue them both from the loneliness that threatens to consume them? Can Elias conquer the detective’s hardened heart and find the love he always longed for? Or will Thomas stubbornly refuse to give himself another chance at love?

Author : George Graham Currie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman in Her Infinite Variety written by George Graham Currie and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonio Fogazzaro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leila written by Antonio Fogazzaro and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ayin Quijano
Publisher : Ayin Quijano
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bottoms Up, Boracay (Season 1 Habagat) written by Ayin Quijano and published by Ayin Quijano. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you get over someone? Get under someone else. Or so an islander tells her. When Alana’s world shatters for the first time after a breakup, she’s desperate for a way out of her personal hell to survive. So she quits her job and the city and runs to a place often called paradise, Boracay Island. Little did she know it’s habagat season, and the island is raining with men and possibilities. Suddenly, she discovers there’s more to life than swimming in tears. And when a hot guy or two offers a new liquid shot at love and happiness? She takes it, bottoms up! Never mind the spills. If you like Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love or are a fan of the Sex & the City series, then you will enjoy taking this journey with Alana as she learns to let go and live the best life in Boracay.

Author : Wendy Palmer
Publisher : Winterbourne Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0987451170
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domesticated Magic written by Wendy Palmer and published by Winterbourne Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mateo Taurasi and his family fled their island home when their people turned to sorcery. Mateo’s own magic is tame but it’s still banned in the Vaeringan Empire...and his family still use it every day in their cosy teahouse. The last thing they need is an Imperial barging in to catch them at it. Luckily, Jonas just wants to offer them a trade deal too good to resist. As hard as he tries, Mateo begins to find the cheerfully charming Jonas too good to resist, too. But an unfairly attractive Imperial is not Mateo’s only problem. Rumours of sorcery loose in the city mean trouble for the Taurasi. With Jonas caught up in the mess, Mateo must investigate. His family already lost their world once. Mateo can’t let them lose again. Not even if it costs him the man he really wishes he didn't have feelings for. c/w: explicit transm/m sex scenes

Author : Jayne Ann Krentz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743457226
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Waters written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2030-12-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deep Waters" combines suspense and romance in a story where a mysterious Pacific Rim consultant and a burned-out female CEO become sparring partners on a fishing pier crammed with secrets, danger, and hidden treasures. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Laura Giannetti
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801872570
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance written by Laura Giannetti and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, sex, and satirized or upturned gender roles and social stereotypes characterize the Latin comedies updated and translated into Italian that became popular in Italy at the turn of the 16th century. The translations are by and for scholars of literature and history, rather than for production or performance. There are explanatory notes, but no bibliography or index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Anne McAllister
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426858132
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Antonides Marriage Deal written by Anne McAllister and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek magnate Elias Antonides has single-handedly regained his family's fortune. So when his father gambles away a vital share he's furious! Elias now has a new business partner...stunning heiress Tallie Savas. Tallie's eager to prove herself, but she hasn't counted on Elias being so sexy. Elias has underestimated Tallie, and now wonders if he can make their business arrangement personal--as in marriage!

Author : Sionainn Bowles
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490751165
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coexistence written by Sionainn Bowles and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if dreams were real? What if you lived your dreams: if every time you slept, you lived another's life, seeing through another's eyes, and living someone else's experiences. Seeing the world you knew, but different- another existence overlapping our own, where we existed, but not as ourselves- in another time, in another dimension. When MyAnna learns her gift of "piggybacking" other lives through her dreams is just the beginning, before long she is set upon a dangerous course to save humanity. Given to the world as a guardian, she will soon develop powers beyond basic reasoning, hidden long ago within her dreams. Powers that in the wrong hands could destroy the world. And every world MyAnna ever loved. At the turn of the twenty-second century, the world is a place controlled by powerful totalitarian governments. Drones monitoring the regime driven, class-divided society; where money rules, beliefs are suppressed, and someone is always watching. In a time where there is little left to believe in but the power you have within yourself, MyAnna will have to risk all she has to save the world she never bothered to live in, and learn to live and love in her own reality.