The Deathly Embrace

Author : Sheng-mei Ma
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816637119
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deathly Embrace written by Sheng-mei Ma and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American resistance to Orientalism -- the Western tradition dealing with the subject and subjugation of the East -- is usually assumed. And yet, as this provocative work demonstrates, in order to refute racist stereotypes they must first be evoked, and in the process the two often become entangled. Sheng-mei Ma shows how the distinguished careers of post-1960s Asian American writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Frank Chin, and David Henry Hwang reveal that while Asian American identity is constructed in reaction to Orientalism, the two cultural forces are not necessarily at odds. The vigor with which these Asian Americans revolt against Orientalism in fact tacitly acknowledges the family lineage of the two.

Author : Cassandra Hawke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937796785
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deathly Embrace written by Cassandra Hawke and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghost of Annie Dunsford is beautiful, passionate and deadly. Revenge is her goal. Sex is her weapon. Logan is her victim. Unless Paige and the unexpected passion he ahs found with her can save him...A surprise joint inheritance requires Logan and Paige to live together in the old haunted house for a year. It all seems simple enough. But it is not simple at all.The ghost of a murdered ancestor haunts the place. Out for revenge, the beautiful but deadly Annie Dunsford seduces Logan and their steamy passionate sexual encounters suck the life out of him leaving him sexually frustrated, drained and afraid to sleep alone.Logan's vulnerability sparks something deep in Paige's soul, and the sexual attraction simmering between them explodes into molten hot sex. The ghost is furious at the emotions developing between Logan and Paige, and they find themselves fighting for their lives. Their joint struggle to survive the ghost's fury and demands for justice brings them closer together and sparks an unexpected passionate new love. But is that love strong enough to save their lives from a spirit who wants only their deaths?

Author : George Frederick Shrady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Record written by George Frederick Shrady and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York Academy of Medicine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book The Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine written by New York Academy of Medicine and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438117132
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amy Tan written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Amy Tan.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789605318
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book The Function of Criticism written by Terry Eagleton and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this fragile culture brought on a crisis in criticism, whose history since the 18th century has been fraught with ambivalence and anxiety. Eagleton's account embraces Addison and Steele, Johnson and the 19-century reviewers, such critics as Arnold and Stephen, the heyday of Scrutiny and New Criticism, and finally the proliferation of avant-garde literary theories such as deconstructionism. The Function of Criticism is nothing less than a history and critique of the "critical institution" itself. Eagleton's judgements on individual critics are sharp and illuminating, which his general argument raises crucial questions about the relations between language, literature and politics.

Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of France in the New World written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496953
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Proper Study Of Mankind written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of Books Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his best essays in which his insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of today. The full (and enormous) range of his work is represented here, from the exposition of his most distinctive doctrine - pluralism - to studies of Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Churchill and Roosevelt. In these pages he encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern age: romanticism, historicism, Fascism, relativism, irrationalism and nationalism. His ideas are always tied to the people who conceived them, so that abstractions are brought alive. EDITED BY HENRY HARDY AND ROGER HAUSHEER AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDREW MARR

Author : Francis Parkman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book The Work of Francis Parkman: Pioneers of France in the New world written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Bowman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197540333
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Martial Arts written by Paul Bowman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Invention of Martial Arts examines the media history of what we now call 'martial arts' and argues that martial arts is a cultural construction that was born in film, TV and other media. It argues that 'martial arts' exploded into popular consciousness entirely thanks to the work of media. Of course, the book does not deny the existence of real, material histories and non-media dimensions in martial arts practices. But it thoroughly recasts the status of such histories, combining recent myth-busting findings in historical martial arts research with important insights into the discontinuous character of history, the widespread 'invention of tradition', the orientalism and imagined geographies that animate many ideas about history, and the frequent manipulation of history for reasons of status, cultural capital, private or public power, politics, and/or financial gain. In doing so, The Invention of Martial Arts argues for the primacy of media representation as key player in the emergence and spread of martial arts. This argument overturns the dominant belief that 'real practices' are primary, while representations are secondary. The book makes its case via historical analysis of the British media history of such Eastern and Western martial arts as Bartitsu, jujutsu, judo, karate, tai chi and MMA across a range of media, from newspapers, comics and books to cartoon, film and TV series, as well as television adverts and music videos, focusing on key but often overlooked texts such as adverts for 'Hai Karate', the 1970s disco hit 'Kung Fu Fighting', and many other mainstream and marginal media texts"--