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Dos chicas de Shanghai

Dos chicas de Shanghai

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 403

Esta historia nos abre una nueva ventana a un mundo asombroso. Cuajada de detalles históricos y maravillosos personajes, Dos chicas de Shanghai es una novela sobre la complejidad de los sentimientos que anidan en el seno de la familia y marcan el destino de las personas. Hacia el año 1937, Shanghai está considerada el París del continente asiático. En la sofisticada y opulenta ciudad, donde conviven mendigos, millonarios, gángsters, jugadores y artistas, la vida sonríe a las hermanas Pearl y May Chin, hijas de un acaudalado hombre de negocios. De temperamentos casi opuestos, las dos son hermosas y jóvenes y, pese a haber sido criadas en el seno de una familia de valores tradicionales, viven con la sola preocupación de asimilar lo que llega de Occidente. Visten a la última moda y posan para los artistas publicitarios, que ven en el retrato de las hermanas la proyección de los sueños de prosperidad de todo un país. Pero cuando la fortuna familiar sufre un golpe irreversible, el futuro de Pearl y May se tiñe de precariedad e incertidumbre. Con los bombardeos japoneses a las puertas de la ciudad, las hermanas iniciarán un largo viaje que las llevará a California, donde ...

Muñecas chinas

Muñecas chinas

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 435

Una de las autoras más importantes de corte femenino a nivel mundial vuelve con este particular homenaje a la amistad de tres mujeres que ha sido avalado, de forma unánime, por la crítica especializada de EE. UU., convirtiéndose en un best seller inmediato. Lisa See, la aclamada autora de El abanico de seda, Dos chicas de Shanghái y Sueños de felicidad (Bruguera, 2012) ha conseguido el reconocimiento mundial por su maestría a la hora de retratar las intrincadas relacionesentre mujeres, siempre marcadas por el hilo invisible del destino. Pero nunca antes había ahondado en la amistad de tres mujeres. Ahora nos ofrece la fascinante historia de tres chicas de muy distinto origen que, entre 1938 y 1948, luchan juntas por cumplir sus sueños en el club más glamuroso de San Francisco, hastaque el ataque japonés de Pearl Harbor, tan lejos de ellas, pone en peligro sus ambiciones, y hasta sus vidas, cuando una traición inesperada lo cambia todo.

Summary of Lisa See's On Gold Mountain

Summary of Lisa See's On Gold Mountain

Autor: Everest Media,

Número de Páginas: 78

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Fong Dun Shung was a herbalist who traveled from village to village teaching people about the importance of balancing their qi. He was given a free trip to the Gold Mountain, and his sons were promised jobs. #2 Fong Dun Shung was a Chinese doctor who helped the Chinese workers on the railroad when they got sick. He was ministering to a woman with boils when the scout asked if he would like to go to the Gold Mountain to help the Chinese laborers when they got sick. #3 Fong Dun Shung, traveling to Canton, China, in 1862, was one of the first Chinese merchants to go there and sell products to the Europeans. He was a successful Gold Mountain man, and he hoped to become the headman of his village. #4 When Fong Dun Shung and his two sons arrived in San Francisco, they were confused and lost. There were no immigration procedures or customs officials. They were told they would be met by someone, but they didn’t know who.

El abanico de seda

El abanico de seda

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 332

Esta novela es una ventana a un mundo asombroso, lejano y desconocido, un retrato vivo de la vida de unas mujeres extraordinarias que dejará en el lector una impresión difícil de olvidar. En una remota provincia de China, las mujeres crearon hace siglos un lenguaje secreto para comunicarse libremente entre sí: el nu shu. Aisladas en sus casas y sometidas a la férrea autoridad masculina, el nu shu era su única vía de escape. Mediante sus mensajes, escritos o bordados en telas, abanicos y otros objetos, daban testimonio de un mundo tan sofisticado como implacable. El año 2002, la autora de esta novela viajó a la provincia de Huan, cuna de esta milenaria escritura fonética, para estudiarla en profundidad. Su prolongada estancia le permitió recoger testimonios de mujeres que la conocían, así como de la última hablante de nu shu, la nonagenaria Yang Huanyi. A partir de aquellas investigaciones, Lisa See concibió esta conmovedora historia sobre la amistad entre dos mujeres, Lirio Blanco y Flor de Nieve. Como prueba de su buena estrella, la pequeña Lirio Blanco, hija de una humilde familia de campesinos, será hermanada con Flor de Nieve, de muy diferente ascendencia...

Sueños de felicidad

Sueños de felicidad

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 340

Una historia reconfortante de amor heroico entre una madre y una hija... Ningún escritor ha evocado mejor la voz y el corazón de la cultura china. La novela más impactante de Lisa See hasta la fecha. La aclamada escritora Lisa See retoma en Sueños de felicidadla historia de las hermanas Pearl y May, de Dos chicas de Shanghái, y Joy, la tenaz hija de diecinueve años de la primera. Joy, todavía abrumada por los secretos familiares que acaba de descubrir, huye a Shanghái a comienzos de 1957 para buscar a su padre biológico, el artista Z. G. Li, de quien May y Pearl estuvieron enamoradas antaño. Deslumbrada por él, y cegada por el idealismo y los desafíos que plantea la realidad, Joy se sumerge en la Nueva Sociedad de la China roja, ajena a los peligros del régimen comunista. Pearl, desolada por la huida de Joy y aterrada por su seguridad, está decidida a salvar a su hija cueste lo que cueste. Desde la atestada ciudad hasta aldeas remotas, Pearl se enfrenta a viejos demonios y a retos casi insuperables mientras sigue a Joy, abrigando la esperanza de la reconciliación. Sin embargo, cuando los periplos de Joy y Pearl por fin convergen, uno de los episodios más trágicos...

Filles de Shanghai

Filles de Shanghai

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 395

Chine, 1937. Shanghai est le joyau de l’Asie, ville lumière, colorée et tumultueuse, abritant millionnaires et mendiants, patriotes et révolutionnaires, artistes et seigneurs de guerre. C’est aussi là que vivent les sœurs Chin, Pearl et May, magnifiques jeunes femmes, aisées et rebelles, aux tempéraments pourtant opposés. Mais l’insouciance s’arrête brutalement pour les deux sœurs le jour où leur père, ruiné, décide de les vendre à des Chinois de Californie, venus chercher des épouses en Chine. Alors que les bombes japonaises s’abattent sur leur ville natale, une nouvelle vie commence à Los Angeles pour les jeunes femmes. Pearl et May tentent de s’adapter au rêve américain, elles cherchent l’amour et la célébrité tout en bravant le racisme qui sévit aux États-Unis à cette époque. Best-seller en cours de traduction dans 40 pays, Filles de Shanghai est une histoire de sœurs, complices et amies inséparables, partageant les mêmes rêves et espoirs, mais aussi rongées par la jalousie et la rivalité. Lisa See est passée maître dans l’art de raconter les vies de femmes hors du commun. « Lisa See est douée. Avec Filles de Shanghai, elle...

EL PABELLON DE LAS PEONIAS

EL PABELLON DE LAS PEONIAS

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 0

Después de cautivar a cientos de miles de lectores con El abanico de seda -la fascinante historia del nushu , el lenguaje secreto de las mujeres-, Lisa See abre una ventana a un mundo asombroso, donde la riqueza de la vida cotidiana se mezcla con el lado más místico de la cultura china. En la China del siglo XVII, los manchúes se han alzado con el poder tras derrocar a la dinastía Ming. Ajena al cataclismo político, la joven Peonía vive con su próspera familia en una hermosa casa junto al Lago del Oeste de Hangzhou. Educada de forma exquisita para convertirse en una esposa dócil y culta, Peonía espera emocionada la celebración de su decimosexto cumpleaños. Numerosos invitados asistirán a la representación de la famosa ópera El pabellón de las peonías en el jardín de su casa y ella conocerá finalmente al joven que sus padres han elegido para desposarla. Sin embargo, la noche de la función, Peonía vislumbra entre los asistentes a un hombre apuesto y elegante, que despertará en ella una oleada de nuevas e irresistibles emociones.

The Structural Design of Language

The Structural Design of Language

Autor: Thomas S. Stroik , Michael T. Putnam

Número de Páginas: 209

Although there have been numerous investigations of biolinguistics within the Minimalist Program over the last ten years, many of which appeal to the importance of Turing's Thesis (that the structural design of systems must obey physical and mathematical laws), these studies have by and large ignored the question of the structural design of language. They have paid significant attention to identifying the components of language - settling on a lexicon, a computational system, a sensorimotor performance system and a conceptual-intentional performance system; however, they have not examined how these components must be inter-structured to meet thresholds of simplicity, generality, naturalness and beauty, as well as of biological and conceptual necessity. In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax - the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system - must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems. As simple as this novel design is, it provides, as Stroik and Putnam demonstrate, radical new insights into what the human language faculty is, how language emerged in the species, and how language...

La mémoire du thé

La mémoire du thé

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 441

Sud-ouest de la Chine, années 1990. À la Source de Printemps, sur le mont Nannuo, la culture du thé rythme la vie des habitants depuis toujours. Loin de connaître les progrès sans précédent qui se propagent au reste du pays, les Akha perpétuent des méthodes de récolte archaïques et des principes religieux très strictes. Li-yan, première personne de sa famille à savoir lire et écrire, rejette les traditions qui ont jusqu’alors façonné son existence. Sur le point de débuter la formation qui fera d’elle la prochaine sage-femme de la vallée, elle décide de poursuivre ses études malgré les réticences de la communauté. Malheureusement, lorsqu’elle doit faire face à une grossesse non désirée, la loi akha tombe, et Li-yan n’a d’autre choix que tout abandonner – jusqu’à son enfant, qu’elle dépose sur les marches d’un orphelinat, accompagnée d’une galette de thé. Les années passant, le souvenir de cette tragédie la hante, tandis qu’à des milliers de kilomètres, une jeune femme se lance à la recherche de ses racines... Ils en parlent : « L'histoire est passionnante, pleine de drames, de beaux rebondissements, d'émotion, mais aussi...

Fleur de Neige

Fleur de Neige

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 291

Dans la Chine du XIXe siècle, le destin de deux jeunes filles est lié à tout jamais. Fleur de Lis, fille de paysans, et Fleur de Neige, d’origine aristocratique, sont nées la même année, le même jour, à la même heure. Tous les signes concordent : elles seront laotong, âmes sœurs pour l’éternité. Les deux fillettes grandissent, mais si leur amour ne cesse de croître, la vie s’acharne à les séparer. Alors que la famille de Fleur de Neige tombe en disgrâce et que la jeune fille contracte le mariage le plus infamant qui soit, Fleur de Lis, par son union, acquiert reconnaissance et prospérité. L’amitié sacrée des deux femmes survivra-t-elle au fossé que le destin a creusé entre elles ?

China Mysteries

China Mysteries

Autor: Jeffrey C. Kinkley

Número de Páginas: 224

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press that China was heading toward a more democratic future. It was during this second Sino-Western honeymoon that authors in the US, Canada, France, the UK, and elsewhere began writing mystery fiction set in contemporary China in their regional languages. These “China mysteries”—crime, detective, and mystery thriller novels that take place in China but were not written or published there—formed a new genre of popular fiction that highlighted the world’s hopes and fears after Tiananmen. The multinational and multicultural writers of China mysteries, among them ex-PRC nationals like Qiu Xiaolong, Zhang Xinxin, and Diane Wei Liang, converged on the China Mainland to negotiate political and cultural complexities through crime fiction plotlines. Their books emerged from Western lineages of the modern novel and popular genre fiction—with Chinese contributions—and depended on Western commercial publishing models shaped ...

Literature 1997, Part 1

Literature 1997, Part 1

Autor: Astronomisches Rechen-institutari

Número de Páginas: 1746

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts is devoted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. Two volumes are scheduled to appear per year. Volume 67 records 10,903 papers covering besides the classical fields of astronomy and astrophysics such matters as space flights related to astronomy, lunar and planetary probes and satellites, meteorites and interplanetary matter, X rays and cosmic rays, quasars and pulsars. The abstracts are classified under more than one hundred subject categories thus permitting quick surveying of the bulk of material published on the same topic within six months. For instance, this volume records 119 papers on minor planets, 155 papers on supernovae, and 554 papers on cosmology.

Ancestry magazine

Ancestry magazine

Número de Páginas: 64

Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.

My Sweet Lisa

My Sweet Lisa

Autor: Anne Louise Bannon

Número de Páginas: 210

Finally, it's real love... Now what? Lisa Wycherly's surprise birthday party ends in a terrifying disaster when she's kidnapped off the street. Her partner, Sid Hackbirn, is so devastated that he loses his interest in sleeping around - the one thing keeping the two of them apart. The kidnapping gets messy enough when it comes to light that the kidnappers got the wrong target. There's also a defecting KGB agent playing games with the CIA, who are involved with the Colombian kidnappers. Then Lisa's recovery sets in motion a whole other set of challenges as she and Sid deal with her trauma and try to get the KGB agent under control, only to find that Sid's randy past will continue to haunt them. The only thing worse? Figuring out how to be a couple.

The Island of Sea Women

The Island of Sea Women

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 400

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will ...

Call Me Lisa

Call Me Lisa

Autor: Gayle Siebert

Número de Páginas: 200

Grade 12 looks promising. Lisa has new friends. She's adopted a rescue horse and has taken up the discipline of dressage. She even has a hot boyfriend. But things soon start to fall apart. Dressage is more challenging than she expected. Her boyfriend shows no signs of coming home after his summer job on a ranch. Her best friend has gone completely boy-crazy. Her parents aren't getting along. Worst of all, the bullies she thought she vanquished las year are back, just as nasty as ever. Grade 12 doesn't look so promising after all.

À l'Ouest de la Montagne

À l'Ouest de la Montagne

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 472

Alors que David Stark ouvre un cabinet d’avocats à Pékin, son amante, la détective Liu Hulan, reçoit un message urgent d’une de ses vieilles amies. Celle-ci la supplie d’enquêter sur la mort suspecte de sa fille, employée dans une fabrique de jouets que le nouveau client de David, Tartan Enterprises, s’apprête à acquérir. Infiltrée dans l’usine, Hulan se retrouve confrontée à un passé qu’elle tente de fuir depuis longtemps, tandis que toutes les pistes désignent le client de David. Avec son habileté habituelle et sa connaissance incomparable de la culture chinoise, Lisa See nous livre un roman captivant sur les paradoxes d’une société fascinante. Une plongée magistrale dans la Chine contemporaine.

Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

Autor: Sheng-mei Ma

Número de Páginas: 192

This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flight from itself; Asia’s stunning self-transformation is haunted by self-alienation. The chapters discuss a wealth of topics, including Asianness, Orientalism, and Asian American identity, drawing on a variety of pop culture sources from The Matrix Trilogy to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This book forms an analysis of the new idea of Asian Diaspora that cuts across area, ethnicity, and nation, incorporating itself into the contemporary global culture whilst retaining a distinct Asian flavor. Covering the mediums of literature, film, and visual cultures, this book will be of immense interest to scholars...

National Library of Medicine Audiovisuals Catalog

National Library of Medicine Audiovisuals Catalog

Autor: National Library Of Medicine (u.s.)

Número de Páginas: 492
Embedded Systems Handbook

Embedded Systems Handbook

Autor: Richard Zurawski

Número de Páginas: 1161

Embedded systems are nearly ubiquitous, and books on individual topics or components of embedded systems are equally abundant. Unfortunately, for those designers who thirst for knowledge of the big picture of embedded systems there is not a drop to drink. Until now. The Embedded Systems Handbook is an oasis of information, offering a mix of basic a

La mort scarabée

La mort scarabée

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 356

Aux États-Unis et en Chine, la justice est en ébullition. À Pékin, le fils de l’ambassadeur américain est retrouvé assassiné dans les glaces d’un lac. Au large de la Californie, c’est le cadavre du fils d’un dignitaire chinois qui est découvert à bord d’un cargo clandestin. L’affaire est d’une telle importance que David Stark, assistant du procureur général, part à Pékin pour travailler aux côtés de Liu Hulan, inspectrice au ministère de la Sécurité publique, qu’il a aimée douze ans plus tôt. Leur enquête les mènera sur la piste d’un trafic aussi lucratif que celui de l’héroïne et les entraînera dans les lieux les plus insolites d’un pays plein de mystères et de surprises.

Asian American Literature

Asian American Literature

Autor: Keith Lawrence

Número de Páginas: 549

Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students is an invaluable resource for students curious to know more about Asian North American writers, texts, and the issues and drives that motivate their writing. This volume collects, in one place, a breadth of information about Asian American literary and cultural history as well as the authors and texts that best define it. A dozen contextual essays introduce fundamental elements or subcategories of Asian American literature, expanding on social and literary concerns or tensions that are familiar and relevant. Essays include the origins and development of the term "Asian American"; overviews of Asian American and Asian Canadian social and literary histories; essays on Asian American identity, gender issues, and sexuality; and discussions of Asian American rhetoric and children's literature. More than 120 alphabetical entries round out the volume and cover important Asian North American authors. Historical information is presented in clear and engaging ways, and author entries emphasize biographical or textual details that are significant to contemporary young adults. Special attention has been given to pioneering authors from...

Sur les rives du dragon

Sur les rives du dragon

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 395

L’inspectrice Liu Hulan est appelée pour enquêter sur une mort suspecte : le corps d’un archéologue américain a été retrouvé non loin du Barrage des Trois-Gorges, sur un site archéologique voué à disparaître une fois la construction achevée. Ce lieu intéresse également son mari, l’avocat américain David Stark, qui cherche à découvrir l’auteur d’un vol sans précédent. En effet, l’artefact manquant pourrait prouver que la Chine est la plus ancienne civilisation du monde ayant survécu à ce jour. Peu à peu, les pistes se brouillent et s’entremêlent. S’ils veulent élucider ces mystères, Hulan et Stark devront unir leurs forces – et affronter par la même occasion le séisme intime qui bouleverse leur vie et leur relation...

The Mona Lisa Vanishes

The Mona Lisa Vanishes

Autor: Nicholas Day

Número de Páginas: 289

A “witty thriller” (The New York Times) for middle-grade readers about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world—and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. SIBERT MEDAL WINNER • BOSTON GLOBE—HORN BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, NPR, The New York Public Library, The Chicago Public Library, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves—and detectives—of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, ...

The Digital Transformation of the European Border Regime

The Digital Transformation of the European Border Regime

Autor: Paul Trauttmansdorff

Número de Páginas: 193

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the digitisation processes of Europe’s border regime. It shows how sociotechnical imaginations of future borders drive forward the expansion of databases in the European governance of mobility. With a focus on the European Union Agency eu-LISA, one of the most significant and rapidly advancing actors in the digital border regime, the book serves as a gateway to understanding the key agents, visions, technologies and practices at work. Asking broader questions about exclusion, discrimination, violence and mobility rights, this is an original contribution to our understanding of future borders in Europe.

Le Cercle de Lady Tan

Le Cercle de Lady Tan

Autor: Lisa See

Número de Páginas: 391

Histoire captivante sur la solidarité féminine, Le Cercle de Lady Tan est la réinterprétation triomphale de la vie d’une femme médecin qui a marqué la dynastie Ming, et qui retentit encore remarquablement aujourd’hui.

Culture's Software

Culture's Software

Autor: Dorota Brzozowska , Władysław Chłopicki

Número de Páginas: 445

When Geert Hofstede famously defined culture as collective programming of the mind, the definition broadly referred to culture as such, including all the layers in his “onion” model. The title of this volume, Culture’s Software, represents a development of this original idea and was inspired by none other than Professor Hofstede himself. He used this phrase over thirty years later when lecturing to an international group of scholars gathered in Poland to debate the idea of cultural communication styles, which has, in recent years, been fruitfully discussed from a fresh perspective by scholars working within cognitive and cultural linguistics. The debate has given rise to this book, which will inspire further research into this fascinating subject.

Early Printed Books as Material Objects

Early Printed Books as Material Objects

Autor: Bettina Wagner , Marcia Reed

Número de Páginas: 381

The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and reception. Books printed in Europe in the 15th and 16th century still had much in common with manuscripts. They are not mere textual sources, but also material objects whose physical make-up and individual features need to be taken into account in library projects for cataloguing and digitization.

Expressions of a Poet

Expressions of a Poet

Autor: Tamika Davis

Número de Páginas: 232

Expressions of a Poet is a refreshing mixture of mind grabbing, heart touching, humorous poetry and short stories. As you go on from page to page you will encounter every emotion possible to mankind. It will make you laugh, cry, smile, think and understand. This book has something that everyone can relate to. Poetry and storiestouching on love, relationships, friendships, break ups and make ups, disappointments and accomplishments. Expressions of a Poet is sure to entertain and obtain your attention from beginning to end. There's an uplifting message in every page. Are you ready? Set? Go! Purchase this book and be blessed.

Literatures of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature

Literatures of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature

Número de Páginas: 383

The 2019 congress of the International Comparative Literature Association attracted many hundreds of scholars from all around the world to Macau. This volume contains a modest selection of papers to discuss the four hottest fields of the discipline: the future of comparison, the position of national and diaspora literature in the context of globalization, the importance of translation, and the concepts of world literature. The contributions cover huge geographical and cultural areas, but pay special attention to the connections between Western (both American and European) and Asian (especially Indian and East-Asian) literatures. The literatures of the world might be different but they are also connected.

Mark and Lisa

Mark and Lisa

Autor: Ruben Elizardo

Número de Páginas: 201

Lisa told Mark that she and two ladies from work won a four-day holiday trip to Myrtle Beach. For some good reason, Mark, after leaving early from work, runs into Martha, his one-time girlfriend from college, who happened to be Johns sister. Martha, it seemed, was there to feed the fish and tidy up Johns house. He invited Mark inside while she did the chores she had gone there to do for John. As Mark was standing by a small serving bar talking to Martha, he looked down and saw two verification tickets, one for an airline and another for a four-day hotel stay in Myrtle Beach. What shocked him were the names on the formsJohn Miller and Lisa Larson were on the airline reservation, while the hotel had them listed as John and Lisa Miller. John? Shes left me for John? My worst enemy? She knows hes the one that got me fired from a job I held for over twenty years, he thought.

Narratives of Diaspora

Narratives of Diaspora

Autor: W. Lim

Número de Páginas: 199

Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development of the literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, and Russell Leong, among others, this book captures the effects of international politics and globalization on Chinese American diasporic consciousness.

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Número de Páginas: 319

"Learn about the incredible saga of Leonardos Earlier Mona Lisa with this beautifully detailed, 240 page book that includes the historical background, scientific testing, forensic expertise and cutting-edge research in art authentication. It took 500 years to make the paintings story public when you read the book, you will understand why."-- Publisher's description.

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Autor: Dianne Hales

Número de Páginas: 336

"A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. No face has ever captivated so many for so long. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. This book rests on the premise that the woman in the Mona Lisa is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of the Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Dianne Hales has followed facts wherever she could find them -- from the Florence State Archives, to the squalid street where she was born, to the ruins of the convent where she died. Lisa Gherardini was a quintessential woman of her times, caught in a whirl of political upheavals, family dramas, and public scandals. Descended from ancient nobles, she gave birth to six children and died at age sixty-three. Her life spanned the most tumultuous chapters in the history of Florence, decades of war, rebellion, invasion, siege, and conquest--and of the greatest artistic outpouring the world has ever seen. Her story creates an extraordinary tapestry of Renaissance Florence, inhabited by...

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