Love Letter In Cuneiform

Author : Tomáš Zmeškal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300186975
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Letter in Cuneiform written by Tomáš Zmeškal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a leading voice in the vibrant literary scene of today's Czech Republic, a love story rooted in the atrocities of the past and tethered to fading hopes for the future Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomás Zmeskal's stimulating novel focuses on one family's tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. Kveta chooses to marry Josef over their mutual friend Hynek, but when her husband is later arrested and imprisoned for an unnamed crime, Kveta gives herself to Hynek in return for help and advice. The author explores the complexities of what is not spoken, what cannot be said, the repercussions of silence after an ordeal, the absurdity of forgotten pain, and what it is to be an outsider. In Zmeskal's tale, told not chronologically but rather as a mosaic of events, time progresses unevenly and unpredictably, as does one's understanding. The saga belongs to a particular family, but it also exposes the larger, ongoing struggle of postcommunist Eastern Europe to come to terms with suffering when catharsis is denied. Reporting from a fresh, multicultural perspective, Zmeskal makes a welcome contribution to European literature in the twenty-first century.

Author : Steven Payne
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477113606
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Letters: Great Literary Romances written by Steven Payne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hands of a genius a love letter can become a great, even an immortal work of literature in its own right. Love Letters: Great Literary Romances examines the lives of great writers (John Keats; Franz Kafka; Leonard Woolf), a celebrated composer (Leoš Janácek) and two great lovers of mediaeval Europe (Abelard and Heloise) to see their turbulent and sometimes tormented romantic lives played out in the passionate declarations of love in the letters they wrote.

Author : J. T. Merydew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Letters of Famous Men and Women of the Past and Present Century written by J. T. Merydew and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Radner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019161761X
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture written by Karen Radner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore, define, and to some extent look beyond the boundaries of the written word, using Mesopotamia's clay tablets and stone inscriptions not just as 'texts' but also as material artefacts that offer much additional information about their creators, readers, users and owners.

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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1939-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

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Total Pages : 794 pages
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Download or read book Brick and Clay Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J.T. Merydew
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 1142256065
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Letters of Famous Men and Women of the Past and Present Century written by J.T. Merydew and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 742 pages
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Download or read book Brick written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Veronika Pehe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805394096
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Velvet Retro written by Veronika Pehe and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a “retro” fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

Author : Anna Tiziana Drago
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110989492
Total Pages : 367 pages
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Download or read book Ancient Love Letters written by Anna Tiziana Drago and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the form of love letters and erotic letters in Greek and Latin up to the 7th Century CE, encompassing both literary and documentary letters (the latter inscribed and on papyrus), and prose and poetry. The potential for, and utility of treating this large and diverse corpus as a ‘genre’ is examined. To this end, approaches from ancient literary criticism and modern theory of genre are made; mutual influences between the documentary and the literary form are sought; and origins in proto-epistolary poetic texts are examined. In order to examine the boundaries of a form, limit cases, which might have less claim to the label ‘love letter’, are compared with more clear-cut examples. A series of case studies focuses on individual letters and letter-collections. Some case studies situate their subjects within the history and literary evolution of the love letter, using both intertextuality and comparative approaches; others placing them in their cultural and historical contexts, particularly uncovering the contribution of epistolarity to erotic discourse, and to the history of sexuality and gender in diverse eras and locations within Classical to Late Antiquity.