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Today the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul seems a haphazard aggregate of modest buildings no longer capable of conveying imperial power. Yet it is at once the most celebrated of all Islamic palaces and the least understood. Gülru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic otherness of the East. She relocates the Topkapi in its historical context, a context that included not only the circumstances of its patronage, but the complex interaction of cultural practices, ideologies, and social codes of recognition.
Necipoglu focuses on the imperial iconograpy of palatial forms that lack monumentality, axiality, and rational-geometric planning principles to decipher codes of grandeur that are no longer obvious to the modern observer. She reconstructs the architectural and ceremonial impact of the palace through a step-by-step tour of its buildings, demonstrating how the palace was experienced as a processional sequence of separate courts and seemingly disjointed architectural elements that were nevertheless integrated into a coherent whole by passage through time and space.
Far more than an analysis of the architectural program of the palace, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power raises questions and provides answers to fundamental concerns about the ideology of absolute sovereignty, the interplay between architecture and ritual, and the changing perceptions of a building through the centuries, a building that drew upon a wide range of Palatine traditions, mythical, Islamic, Turco-Mongol, Romano-Byzantine, and Italian Renaissance.
Gülru Necipoglu is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Fine Arts Department at Harvard University.
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More than 5 stars!.......2001-12-10
This is a very well written historical analysis. Necipoglu takes the Palace as an object to be used to explain/understand the Ottoman State in this period and does not leave out the architectural forms. Attention paid to detail is makes this book very valuable. Beyond that her fluent writing style makes reading this into fun.
A must-have for anyone interested in Ottoman history. Necipoglu does not talk to a specific audience in her writing and I think that exactly makes her writing so fluent. Nevertheless she accomplishes to transmit knowledge and maybe even gives us a glimpse into how knowledge is acquired with her amazing research ability.
Enjoy!
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Title: Architecture, Ceremonial and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.
Author: Priscilla P. Soucek
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Title: Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. (book reviews)
Author: Howard Crane
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Had we but time enough ... and money, all of our creative dreams could be realized. Enter Artists & Writers Colonies, which contains detailed listings for some 200 opportunities that provide "the time, space, or money for you to work on creative projects that the conditions of your everyday life prevent you from completing." The listings include application requirements, provisos, facility descriptions, and historical information about the colonies. One residency program (the Anderson Center) is located at the former home of the man who discovered the process of puffing cereal grains; another (the Watershed Center) offers free brick clay to artists. While Nebraska's Art Farm requires 15 hours of labor a week from its residents, New York Mills requests that its residents share their creativity with the local, rural community. Sheds at the Norcroft writing retreat come equipped with thesauruses and rocking chairs; artists at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center work in "hay lofts, barns, and on outdoor patios."
When the author of the first edition of this book was unable to do a second, a group of hard-working interns jumped in. They did a fine and diligent revision, though one can't help wondering whether a more experienced editor would have gotten more out of the six writers and artists whose essays about their artist-colony experiences accompany the book's listings. Regardless, the book succeeds at its ultimate goal, which is to inform artists and writers about the opportunities available to them, so they can approach the colonies best suited to their needs. Still, say the authors, no matter how well you plan your creative immersion, "there will certainly be surprises." Not to worry: "the unexpected can be a source of inspiration." --Jane Steinberg
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Artists & Writers Colonies contains detailed information about more than 260 programs from across the United States and overseas. Residencies and retreats, fellowships and grants, colonies and creative spaces—they're all here, well-researched and cross-referenced. Artists & Writers Colonies lists all the information any artist—beginner or professional—needs in order to find the perfect place to pursue the most ambitious of creative endeavors.
Artists & Writers Colonies will be an invaluable resource for anyone who craves or needs the time, space, and community support to take his or her work to a new level. The perfect place for any artist to escape from the routines and demands of daily life—from a quiet weekend in the woods to a year-long residency program—is in its pages.
Artists & Writers Colonies includes programs for architects, ceramists, writers, poets, photographers, painters, sculptors, performance artists, composers, filmmakers, potters, media artists, scholars, storytellers, journalists, and more.
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Good for beginner artists.......2007-01-04
I was not very impressed by this book as it was more elementary than I expected. It is however, a great resource for artists that have little experience with composition. The book shows both good and poor composition examples and of a variety of subjects too.
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The Artist's Guide to Composition
Frank Webb
Manufacturer: David & Charles
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a book for all artists.......2003-10-05
This is a book about good composition. A good composition is not only stereotyped proportions or perspectives.
A good painting is the fruit of patient composition planning combined with painting skills.Improvisation can never get better results than carefull study and research.
This book will help the serious student to break through the composition barrier.
The author, in the preface ,recommends : "This book should be read, marked, learned and inwardly digested by re-reading."
A wonderfull book!!
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great for submitters.......1999-03-17
This book is great if you're looking for a career in submitting cartoons , articles, etc. It gives a list of addresses, amount of pay and phone numbers its great!
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- Writers and Artists Yearbook
- British Market (Mentor at www.AuthorsSociety.org)
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Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2001 (Writers' and Artists' Yearbook)
A&C Black
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Writers and Artists Yearbook.......2002-05-26
I found the book invaluable. A friend of mine bought it for me for my birthday. I moved to Canada. Trying to negotiate the international book publishing market from Canada has been very difficult. When I was in England I just looked up the publishing agents or literary agents and off I went... into the post with my manuscript, but here, I find that things are so tricky over the internet and you can't look up information fast enough to get started. It can take all day and still you don't know if you have connected with a good agent. Writers and Artists Yearbook is a gold star in my book and always will be. I need my Writers and Artists Yearbook - but I left it in England. I miss it so much and need a new one. Please send me one to Canada soon...
Barbara
British Market (Mentor at www.AuthorsSociety.org).......2001-11-09
This desktop reference contains hundreds of pages of information that writers and artists need for their professional work. The hints and tips are useful especially for newcomers or beginners.
Although the book provides details of U.S. agents and publishers, it doesn't cover other U.S. information that would have been useful, for example, literature festivals, prizes, etc. UK information is covered reasonably well. Recommended for artists and writers interested primarily in the British market.
Only in the UK.......2001-05-25
This looks like it would be a very useful book -- if you live and work in England, Ireland, or elsewhere in the United Kingdom. It specifically does NOT include information pertinent to the United States.
For the UK and Ireland, it lists newspapers and magazines, book publishers and packagers, TV/film/radio resources, publishers of poetry and plays, literary agents, societies, prizes and festivals. It also has chapters on writers and the Internet, copyright and libel, finance for writers and artists, art and illustration, and photo and picture research.
It is a practical and well-organized guide. But ONLY for the UK.
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- FINE YEARBOOK: WELL-VERSED AND VERY DYNAMIC
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Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2003: A Directory for Writers, Artists, Playwrights, Writers for Film, Radio and Television, Designers, Illustrators and Photographers (Writers' and Artists' Yearbook)
Manufacturer: A&C Black
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FINE YEARBOOK: WELL-VERSED AND VERY DYNAMIC.......2003-04-05
For those who already own the previous edition of this book, there is little here that should arouse your envy. However, for intending first-time buyers, there is a lot to gain by investing on this yearbook.
Its well-illustrated generous pages brim with assorted information. From writers to publishers, film makers to photographers, information is complete in this single-volume. They are well-presented too! The reasonable price-tag of this book ensured that it is affordable to anybody who may need it.
Regardless of its publication date, a typical "Writers' & Artists' Yearbook" takes the place of a mini-encyclopaedia. A good chunk of its information is timeless. Authors, journalists, historians, teachers, students, and many others would benefit from the authoritative information it provides. It is a capable reference, which should satisfy the quests of most versatile readers.
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Organized around the four Ps--Planning, Producing, Polishing, and Presenting.......2006-10-07
The planning section covers word clusters, venn diagrams, and outlines.
The producing section covers building paragraphs, dialogue, clarity, passive voice, headings, audience, citing sources, footnotes, generalizations, and an interesting "use of poet's tools" section. The poet's tools include metaphors, similes, imagery, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, and rhyming patterns. I especially appreciated the footnotes part of this section as it was very thorough and is usually not covered in pre-college style books. The end of the producing section covers writing plays and scripts, which was interesting to me.
The polishing section covers common grammar mistakes, punctuation, verb tenses, spelling mistakes, and word misuse. I found this section very well-done and thorough.
The presenting section covers uniform formatting, spacing, pagination, tables, headings, sections, and an extremely thorough coverage of bibliographies and citations.
This is one of the Scholastic writing guides, which are very concise, take up little shelf space, but are presented clearly and in an easy-to-read manner suitable for children and adults.
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- Little Known Facts About Mr. Sinatra ... Very Interesting!
- Sinatra - King of Entertainment
- SINATRA FANS THIS IS A MUST!
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Sinatra: An Intimate Portrait of a Very Good Year
Richard B. Stolley
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ASIN: 1584792469 |
Book Description
Frank Sinatra famously shunned the press, yet in 1964, at the height of his career, he gave Life photographer John Dominis unprecedented access to his personal and professional life. Dominis shadowed Sinatra across the country for three months, generating more than 4,000 images of Ol' Blue Eyes, but only a few were used for the Life cover story. Featuring 150 of the most revealing of those pictures, almost all unpublished, this book creates a deeply personal portrait of the man behind the icon. Startling in their intimacy, these mesmerizing photographs offer a compelling portrait of America's greatest popular singer.
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Little Known Facts About Mr. Sinatra ... Very Interesting!.......2005-01-18
Photographer, John Dominis and former editor of Life Magazine, Richard B. Stolley, collaborated and came out with this interesting book about the world's most famous and charismatic singer, the legendary Frank Sinatra. In 1965, it was a very good year for the "Golden Boy" when he turned 50 and gave Dominis full access to his professional as well as his personal life for Life Magazine's cover story. Thirty-seven years later, Dominis and Stolley came out with this 144-page hardcover, which consists of numerous black and white photos of Sinatra with other movie and music celebrities. These photos were taken from Life magazine's archives and never-before published. It also includes some notable articles and anecdotes about his famous and celebrated life.
There are a lot of little known facts about him revealed in this fabulous book. Sinatra as described by friends and co-artists was perfectionist, fearless, kinetic, generous, attentive to details and had an acutely sensitive ears. According to his friend and musical partner for more than four decades, pianist Bill Miller, "he would pick the tunes himself and position them on the albums." This is a perfect example of his being attentive to details. Another fact is a reference to his famous song "Fly Me To The Moon" (also sung on the movie "Wall Street") with Count Basie & His Orchestra that made history when it was beamed to the U.S. astronauts as they landed on the moon for the first time in 1969.
According to Stolley, despite Sinatra's flamboyant lifestyle, he used bathroom potions and powders right off the drugstore shelf. And he was one of the biggest tippers in the world. He was always loyal to friends and usually courteous to strangers. He was a 'party animal' and slept only five hours a night. He turned on music, read a while and finally falls asleep. He listened to music, mostly classical and never his own records. These are just some of the many interesting and little known facts about Sinatra indicated in this book. Dominis is a very good photographer and his black and white images are all stunning and eye-catching. Stolley did a great job on the captions and articles and made them reader-friendly.
For Sinatra buffs, it goes without saying that if you are interested in his music, you'd also be interested to know more about his life. And this book will give you more insights about him that you'll find to be noteworthy. Likewise, please check out "The Sinatra Treasures" and "Sinatra: An Intimate Collection" for more interesting must-reads.
Sinatra - King of Entertainment.......2004-11-24
Francis Albert Sinatra....what more needs to be said. His music will live on as long as their is men loving women and women loving men. This book is fabulous. I read it all in 1 day and reread it again. You will love this book if your a Sinatra fan like me.
SINATRA FANS THIS IS A MUST!.......2003-02-20
I LOVE this book. It's a collectors item no doubt. Pics of Frank that you've never seen before. Classics with Frank and Jackie Gleason and Sammy Davis jr. Frank at his house, on the massage table, in private places never seen. You can tell he wasn't posing for these pics. All naturally which is why it is so unique. And the texts keeps you wanting to roll thru the book without putting it down. What a life he had! What a book this is!!
Michael Brandmeier
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Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture
Terry Eagleton
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Wuthering Heights (Scholastic Classics)
Emily Bronte
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- intriguing mystery, subtle psychological portrait
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Nelly's Version
Eva Figes
Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press
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NELLY'S VERSION is an ingenious thriller of identity, wrought with tension and wicked humor. The novel opens with Nelly checking into a hotel with no knowledge of her past, her real name, or the reason why she has a large amount of money in her handbag. Figes's well-crafted prose blends elements of a mystery novel with the linguistic games and fantastic imagination of Italo Calvino. She keeps the reader guessing until the end as to whether Nelly has suffered a great shock, is schizophrenic, or if the novel is simply a nightmarish vision of the world.
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intriguing mystery, subtle psychological portrait.......2002-11-08
A frumpy middle-aged woman appears at a small town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no memories. The next two hundred pages are her and you together trying to figure out who she was and who she wants to be. The book is so gentle and subtle reminding one of Anita Brookner. The voice is mesmerizing. The story complusory reading.
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The ending's a little off but overall a good read.......2005-07-28
Purists will probably scream until their hair turns white but I thought this was actually a very good yarn. What happened to Heathcliff after he left Wuthering Heights? How did he become the gentleman he returned as?
It's a nicely woven tale, tying in how the Bronte sisters conceived their tales and connecting the dots between Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is just plain wicked--the warning he gives Linton against marrying Cathy is absolutely horrifying--and his origins, though predictable after a while, are intriguing.
Unfortunately I found it came apart a bit at the end, which after ping-ponging about and even making at attempt to give the fatal romance a happy ending ends on an ambiguous note that left me puzzled.
Haire-Sargeant plot a bit too daringýbut writing is superb........1998-03-11
Lin Haire-Sargeant almost created a masterpiece. If she had had a far-sighted editor, I think she would have made headlines in the world of literature. Her plot is quite daring, almost to a fault . . . but her highly excellent writing style makes every page a captivating work of art.
Imagine, Charlotte Bronte on a train reading Heathcliff's letter to Catherine 60 years later, forty years after he died . . . Heathcliff (at 18? yrs.) meeting Linton (and not killing him) at Mr. Are's estate . . . at the end of 3 years discovering he is the child of Rochester and Bertha! . . . taking and healing Catherine from her deathbed and going to live together in America for 5 (?) years . . . Linton burying a casket filled with stones instead of Catherine . . . Charlotte and Emily Bronte getting Heathcliff's manuscript from ancient Ms. Dean on her deathbed . . . and then going for a walk (while they taunt each other) past Wuthering Heights.
Again, the points of the plot mentioned above are almost too daring (other sections not mentioned are fascinating and credible: Heathcliff preventing a prize horse's destruction by taming it, etc.), but Haire-Sargeant pulled it off. What I really didn't like was the introduction. She should have offered the novel surrounded with more mystery-just let the reader become mesmerized by the writing. Then "maybe" (or maybe not) have an "postlogue."
Prior to Haire-Sargeant, I believed Bronte gives clues that it is critical Cathy & Heathcliff do not marry--because he is really her half-brother. But Haire-Sargeant has earned 1st stage, so I'll not argue.
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It's written to please.......1998-07-29
For those who have read "Wuthering Heights" and are left with a bitter-sweet feeling of a love lost, this book, "Heathcliff; Return to Wuthering Heights", will rekindle the belief of the hopeless romantic, that true love can conquer all. This book is written in very similar style as is "Wuthering Heights", which gives the illusionn of returning to that era. Most of the book deals with Heathcliff and how he came to his fortune and the adventures that happen to him during his absence from "Wuthering Heights". The development of his character is very dark, darker than is portrayed in "Wuthering Heights", but he feels all is justified in his ultimate goal to reclaim Cathy. The book is obviously written to please the "Wuthering Heights" reader who couldn't bear the fact that Heathcliff and Cathy never had a life together, much as "Scarlett" was written to please the readers of "Gone with the Wind&! quot; with the same concerns. But beyond that, the book is well written and the style stays consistent with the style of Emile Bronte's. It is an enjoyable read, makes the heart beat a little quicker, and brings to rest a story that has haunted many of us since our High School Literature classes.
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- Real People and Actual Events
- Heathcliff Rises Above the Congressional Witch Hunt of Avant Garde Artists
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Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street
Hedwig Gorski
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Hedwig Gorski's memoir and archive of her pivotal 1978 avant-garde literary performance. Cover photo is by award- winning photographer, Lauren Piperno. Contains the full script for experimental verse drama "Booby, Mama!" and portions of Joy Cole's epistolary journal of the troupe and times in "Letter to Krystal," an intimate letter to her daughter. The conceptual art process behind Hedwig Gorskis 1978 avant-garde literary art Booby, Mama!, seems impossible to pull off. There was no money, and it used found text and street actors who were drunk, stoned, or filled with existential angst living on the fringes of society. The troupe members spent spring and summer in an abandoned house on Powell Street near Spellmans Bar, a local hamburger joint where Lucinda Williams and other gravel-road stars performed. Joy Cole, embodying the performance poems character Red Light, became artistic soul-mate, nemesis, and, eventually, Gorskis dearest departed friend. Portions of inebriated Coles epistolary journal document with candor and compassion how such mythic creations materialize and survive. Images by award-winning photographer, Lauren Piperno, letters, and other texts complete a performance artwork that stunned even the infamous world-weary bohemians and individualists engaged with Austins anything-goes Romantic Period. Altogether, it paints an atmospheric landscape of the town that summoned and intoxicated so many beloved dreamers and artists of the time toward intense self-actualization.
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Real People and Actual Events.......2007-02-27
The portrait of Austin, Texas, is much different than the one many people might have. So this is the milieu that spawned Stevie Ray Vaughn, Lucinda Williams, Daniel Johnston, Townes van Zandt, and Hedwig Gorski. Reality proves to be crazier than fiction. Fiction is so much more organized than this "pedestrian" theater art group was.
I was in conflict, fluctuating between agreeing with Plato's criticism of art and poetry, and contrasting the surreal mind set of the real folks and their bizarre ambitions and activities with other types of delusions that rule our lives. The whimsy of art and the possibility for stark honesty seem to have disappeared in social striving for political correctness over these past three decades. What a mind-trip it is to go back to these "innocent" times, post-hippie-dippie but pre-Reagan, when honest soul searching happened using invented methodology. I guess that is what they mean by Conceptual Art. We probably need the magic of exercising our free wills fully and the ideal of deep soul searching that late 19th century Romanticism was about. That is definitely a positive type of intoxication.
Reading the book makes me examine where I go wrong and how America got here from there in 1978. The sense of wonder, invention, and complete personal freedom seems almost vanished. Whether what the book documents is valid art, though, could be in question. Isn't art more than manifesting a concept? I have always wondered, too, if all experimental theater can be classified as avant-garde. The book doesn't really settle into any genre or category completely. It's verse drama, poetry, memoir, essay, performance art, literary art, and some theory. It also includes a short-short story. The Afterward defines Conceptual Art, but I still don't understand what that is.
The real people come through honestly, though, and their stories bring up divine ideas to investigate while being entertained and bewildered by this so-called cast of characters. They lived more intensely and honestly during the months the book documents than most of us dare. I would like to know what they are up to now. When is the sequel coming out?
Heathcliff Rises Above the Congressional Witch Hunt of Avant Garde Artists.......2007-02-13
What ever happened to the American avant-garde? To the freedom of interdisciplinary aesthetics? Avant-gardists, artists, poets and dramatists, are tucked away in academia. They used to be out and available in public before the Congressional witch hunts designed to demolish the National Endowment for the Arts. Republicans have been after NEA funds for military efforts since the 1980s. This book has been waylaid by this sublimation and archived before it ever made it to press, rumors have it. Wow! Here it is. Some of these people have died, but the work is alive and full of the spirit of experimentalism and American optimism and democracy of the sort unknown to the neo-cons. It is all-inclusive and promotes an egalitarian search for selfhood. That is probably why the nod to Romanticism--intoxication from the earnest and honest search for self. Austin, Texas, was once among the "bohemian trade routes" artists and musicians traveled between coasts. What a flashback to an American experience by American dreamers of the type retro-government tried to destroy. Avant-garde and experimental art are not dirty words except to those who exclude all except for the puritanical, anti-democratic, morally convoluted, politicians supporting the Bush presidency. Save America from their nightmare. Return democracy to the United States. (This political rant is not part of the book in any way. It reflects my own disappointments about our nation's current direction.) Anyway, taste the feelings of pure enthusiasm and honesty that prevailed before art was shackled or compartmentalized. All repressive regimes imprison or execute the artists, writers, intellectuals, and free-thinkers first. Where has the American avant-garde gone? Compare Heathcliff to what is labeled "experimental" or "avant-garde" since then.
We need a cultural revolution in USA. I read an article that called Hedwig Gorski the "American Mayakovsky." Both so-called "beloved" endearing but bewildering personalities, or something like that, it said.
This chapbook, Polish Gypsy with Ghost: And Special Guests, with audio record contains Roxy Gordon (Choctow Indian) with his band, Joy Cole, WOW!, and Hedwig Gorski in 1980s with East of Eden. It is a great find and progresses a few of the bunch in INTOXICATION outside of Austin city limits, and it is great to hear their voices. Joy Cole must have been the bomb. Wish there were more of her material avaialable, but I can't locate it. I would have loved being a fly on the wall when these two women, Gorski and Cole, were together!!!!!
Polish Gypsy with Ghost (Poets Media Projects, Vol. 4)
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Heathcliff: The Return to Wuthering Heights
Lin Haire-Sargeant
Manufacturer: Century
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Binding: Hardcover
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The new Katie John!.......1999-10-02
I have been a Katie fan since I was 9 and when I was 13 I found this book in the library and was so glad! I could identify with what Katie went thru as she begins Junior High and makes some mature changes. She begins to notice boys and then she has to choose which one is her Heathcliff! It is so good!
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Wuthering Heights
Manufacturer: Popular
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 159027010X |
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Readers of Victorian fiction must often have tripped up on seeming anomalies, enigmas, and mysteries in their favourite novels. Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster? Why does Dracula come to England rather than himself an invisible suit? Why does Sherlock Holmes, of all people, get the name of his client wrong? In Is Heathcliff a Murderer? (well, is he?) John Sutherland investigates 34 conundrums of nineteenth-century fiction. Applying these `real world' questions to fiction is not in any sense intended to catch out the novelists who are invariably cleverer than their most detectively-inclined readers. Typically, one finds a reason for the seeming anomaly. Not blunders, that is, but unexpected felicities and ingenious justifications. In Is Heathcliff a Murderer? John Sutherland, recently described by Tony Tanner as `a sort of Sherlock Holmes of literature', pays homage to the most rewarding of critical activities, close reading and the pleasures of good-natured pedantry.
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More fun with literary mysteries.......2006-04-26
Sutherland's books are great fun for fans of 19th century novels and literary nitpickers. He examines mysteries, plot holes, and unresolved questions in many classic novels. Sometimes Sutherland discovers an answer in the text or in history, other times the puzzles simply cannot be solved. Yet even in these cases, Sutherland can use the mystery to shed light on the writing and editing process. "Is Heathcliff a Murderer?", like the other books in this series, is a thoroughly enjoyable companion to the classic works of English literature.
A riveting (and educational!) read.......2001-08-28
Blame it on New Jersey public schools, if you like. I find they're always a handy scapegoat. Because - though I blush to confess it - I first came across Emily Bronte's classic tale of undying love and people with confusingly similar names, Wuthering Heights, when I saw the glamorous, romantic 1939 film of that story, and not when I read the actual grim and gritty 1847 novel. This may explain why, for a long time, when I thought of that novel's hero, Heathcliff, I thought of a heroic-looking, sad-eyed Laurence Oliver, and consequently held this famous brooder in rather high esteem. I do so no longer, and the reason why can be summed up in two words - John Sutherland. This professor and scholar has, in Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, put some of the greatest novels of Western literature under a microscope, and found out all of their inconsistencies and flaws. He looks at classic literature from a new perspective, asking intriguing questions about its novels, and offering solutions to the problems they raise - putting new spins onto books which most people probably feel that they already know inside out. I, for example, thought I knew something about the character of Heathcliff, until I read Sutherland's essay about him, and his various deeds and doings. After reading this book (which discusses works by Bronte, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and George Eliot, amongst many others) I can guarantee that you will look at some of your favorite books in an entirely new way - see depths, puzzles, and inconsistencies in them that you never saw before. I, for one, now greet Laurence Olivier's entrance on the screen in Wuthering Heights with a boo and a rather rude hand gesture, rather than a pinkening of cheek and a fluttering of lash. Such is the power of Is Heathcliff a Murderer?
Well, is he?.......2000-01-09
Of course not, but don't let the fact that I find that one essay of Sutherland's unconvincing deter you from buying this book. There are *so many* marvelous puzzles in this book besides that one inside. Is Helen Graham illegitimate? Was he Popenjoy? What is Jo sweeping? Read to find out.
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