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Masquerade

Autor: Vincent L. Wimbush

Número de Páginas: 209

Continuing his project of critical analysis of the scriptural formation of culture, Vincent L. Wimbush has gathered in this book essays by scholars of various backgrounds and orientations who focus in different registers on the theme of masquerade as the “play-element” in modern culture. Masquerade functions as a window onto the mimetic performances, dynamics, arrangements, psycho-logics, and politics (“scripturalizing”) by which the “made-up” becomes fixed or one among our realities (scripturalization). Modern-world racialization (and its attendant explosions into racialisms and racisms) as the hyper-scripturalization of difference in human flesh (registered in psychosocial relations as a type of “scripture”) is argued in this book to be one of the most consequential examples and reflections of masquerade and thereby one of the primary impetuses behind, and determinants of, the shape of the realities of modernities. The open window onto these realities is facilitated by touchstone references to—not exhaustive treatment of—a now famous eighteenth-century life story, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written ...

Digital Masquerade

Autor: Jia Tan

Número de Páginas: 208

"Highlighting the often-neglected queer presence in Chinese feminist movements, Digital Masquerade charts the formation of a new wave of rights feminism and queer activism in post-millennial China and the co-constitutive role of digital technology as assemblage and entanglement in the articulation of feminism, queerness, and rights"--

Masquerade and Femininity

Autor: Urszula Chowaniec , Ursula Phillips , Marja Rytkönen

Número de Páginas: 267

Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers introduces the reader to the diversity of women’s writing in Poland and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries in the light of the notion of masquerade. The present articles scrutinize particular works by women writers (Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia, Irina Odoevtseva, Vera Pavlova, Narcyza Żmichowska, Maria Komornicka, Irena Krzywicka and others) and the strategies of masquerading female experience. Taken together, the articles draw attention to the feeling of an inexpressible gap between the living body (and its everyday life experience of pain and suffering or happiness and pleasure) and the culturally constructed, powerfully imposed code of expression that readily makes use of various masks, guises and acts of pretending, applied especially cleverly in literary works. The concept of masquerade illuminates the complexity of what we call “femininity” by combining two sides of the divide: the real feelings and the constructed expressions. This volume uses both feminist and non-feminist approaches to women’s writing and sheds new light on the themes of femininity, woman’s identity, experience,...

Masquerade and Civilization

Autor: Terry Castle

Número de Páginas: 420

Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary...

Masquerade and Identities

Autor: Efrat Tseëlon

Número de Páginas: 204

Masquerade, both literal and metaphorical, is now a central concept on many disciplines. This timely volume explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing and representing marginalised identities, and in undermining easy distinctions between 'true' identity and artifice. The book is interdisciplinary in approach, spanning a diverse range of cultures and narrative voices. It provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinking about masquerade as a tool for construction, and a tool for critique. The essays interrogate such themes as: *mask and carnival *fetish fashion *stigma of illegitimacy *femininity as masquerade *lesbian masks *cross-dressing in Jewish folk theatre *the mask in seventeenth and eighteenth century London and nineteenth century France *the voice as mask.

The Modernist Masquerade

Autor: Colleen Mcquillen

Número de Páginas: 299

Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period of rich literary and theatrical experimentation. The first study of its kind, The Modernist Masquerade examines the cultural history of masquerades in Russia and their representations in influential literary works. The masquerade's widespread appearance as a literary motif in works by such writers as Anna Akhmatova, Leonid Andreev, Andrei Bely, Aleksandr Blok, and Fyodor Sologub mirrored its popularity as a leisure-time activity and illuminated its integral role in the Russian modernist creative consciousness. Colleen McQuillen charts how the political, cultural, and personal significance of lavish costumes and other forms of self-stylizing evolved in Russia over time. She shows how their representations in literature engaged in dialog with the diverse aesthetic trends of Decadence, Symbolism, and Futurism and with the era's artistic philosophies.

Masquerade Balls in Regency Britain

Autor: Anne Glover

Número de Páginas: 241

Regency masquerades blended lavish spectacle, fashion, and social identity across Britain and its empire. The 18th-century masquerade didn’t die at the dawn of the new century. Instead, spectacle helped these risqué events achieve new grandeur. From indoor balloon displays to lavish food and wine, masquerades in the early 1800s were hyper-real sites of consumption. Dressed in dominoes, character costumes, and fancy dress, the fashionable and titled of London society flocked to these events in the hundreds to thousands to entertain and be entertained. Amidst the bacchanalian, motley events were signs and symbols that masquerade balls were about more than a good time. In the first comprehensive look at early 19th-century British masquerades, Glover uses primary sources to identify venues, décor, performers, costumes, and other details about public and private masquerades. Masquerades flourished from London to far-flung imperial strongholds. Comparing the details over the long Regency, Glover teases out common themes and then examines them through the lens of national identity, cultural appropriation, and gender. This research sheds new light on Regency people, culture, and...

New World Masquerade

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 154

**New World Masquerade** is the definitive guide to the world of vampires. In this comprehensive book, you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about these enigmatic creatures, from their history and origins to their culture and beliefs. You will meet the different clans of vampires, each with their own unique powers and weaknesses. You will learn about the vampire's relationship with humanity, and you will explore the challenges and dangers that face them in the modern world. **New World Masquerade** is packed with information, including: * The history of vampires, from their origins in ancient mythology to their portrayal in modern popular culture * The different clans of vampires, including the Brujah, Gangrel, Malkavian, Nosferatu, and Toreador * The vampire's relationship with humanity, including their feeding habits and their need for secrecy * The challenges and dangers that face vampires in the modern world, including the threat of vampire hunters Whether you are a fan of vampire fiction or simply curious about the creatures of the night, **New World Masquerade** is the perfect book for you. It is a comprehensive guide to the world of vampires, and it will answer...

Psychological Masquerade

Autor: Robert L. Taylor Md

Número de Páginas: 286

When faced with a patient whose psychological symptoms may stem from an organic, or medical, condition rather than psychology, how does the practitioner determine exactly which is the true case? To facilitate this process and give psychologists, social workers, and nurses a useable guide to assessment, Robert Taylor created Psychological Masquerade and has updated it to be the most complete handbook you will ever need in the field. New chapters on violent behavior, amnesia and dementia, sex obsession, and Munchausen-by-Proxy fill out the guide and numerous case studies help clarify diagnostic criteria and provide a welcome hands-on approach to caring for clients in this delicate balance. As a further enhancement of the text as assessment tool, self-tests for hypothetical cases are included as are specific clinical tests that aid in clue gathering. This is the perfect clinical guide for any practitioner who is likely to come into contact with psychological masquerade among their clients and will be a welcome addition to the practitioner's toolbox.

Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Autor: Helene Carol Weldt-basson

Número de Páginas: 238

Contemporary Latin American fiction establishes a unique connection between masquerade, frequently motivated by stigma or trauma, and social justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines philosophy, history, psychology, literature, and social justice theory, this study delineates the synergistic connection between these two themes. Weldt-Basson examines fourteen novels by twelve different Latin American authors: Mario Vargas Llosa, Sergio Galindo, Augusto Roa Bastos, Fernando del Paso, Mayra Santos-Febres, Isabel Allende, Carmen Boullosa, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Marcela Serrano, Sara Sefchovich, Luisa Valenzuela, and Ariel Dorfman. She elucidates the varieties of social justice operating in the plots of contemporary Latin American novels: distributive, postmodern/feminist, postcolonial, transitional, and historical justices. The author further examines how masquerade and disguise aid in articulating the theme of social justice, why this is important, and how it relates to Latin American history and the historical novel.

The Petro-state Masquerade

Autor: Ryan Cecil Jobson

Número de Páginas: 234

A historical and ethnographic study of the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Examining the past, present, and future of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil and gas industries, anthropologist Ryan Cecil Jobson traces how a model of governance fashioned during prior oil booms is imperiled by declining fossil fuel production and a loss of state control. Despite the twin-island nation’s increasingly volatile and vulnerable financial condition, however, government officials continue to promote it as a land of inexhaustible resources and potentially limitless profits. The result is what Jobson calls a “masquerade of permanence” whereby Trinbagonian state actors represent the nation as an interminable reserve of hydrocarbons primed for multinational investment. In The Petro-state Masquerade, Jobson examines the gulf between this narrative crafted by the postcolonial state and the vexed realities of its dwindling petroleum-fueled aspirations. After more than a century of commercial oil production, Trinidad and Tobago instructs us to regard the petro-state as less a permanent form than a fragile relation between fossil fuels and sovereign...

The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade

Autor: Meghan Kobza

Número de Páginas: 169

This Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. Constructing the object biography of the domino through material, visual, and written sources will bring together various experiences of the masquerade and expand the existing geographical, chronological, and socio-economic scope of the entertainment beyond the masquerade event itself. This Element will examine the domino's physical and figurative movements from the masquerade warehouse, through eighteenth-century fashionable society, and into print and visual culture. It will draw upon masquerade warehouse records, newspapers, manuscripts, prints, and physical objects to establish a comprehensive understanding of the domino and how it reflected contemporary experiences of the real and imagined masquerade. Analysing the domino through interdisciplinary methodologies illustrates the impact material and visual sources can have on reshaping existing scholarship.

Mimicry, Crypsis, Masquerade and other Adaptive Resemblances

Autor: Donald L. J. Quicke

Número de Páginas: 576

Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance Full colour Covers everything from classic examples of Batesian, Mullerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human behavioural and microbial molecular deceptions Highlights areas where additonal work or specific exeprimentation could be fruitful Includes, animals, plants, micro-organisms and humans

The lion's masquerade: a sequel to The peacock 'at home', by a lady [C.A. Dorset. In verse]. A facs. reprod. of the ed. of 1807. With an intr. by C. Welsh

Autor: Catherine Ann Dorset

Número de Páginas: 42

De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade

Autor: Patrick Bridgwater

Número de Páginas: 188

De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade is what has long been needed, a study of Thomas De Quincey's Gothic and Gothic-related texts by a Germanist working on Gothic and specializing in Anglo-German literary relations. Variously identified as Gothic Hero, Gothic Parasite, and author of a Gothick sport, De Quincey is the dark horse of Gothicism, for while his work has, increasingly, been associated with Gothic, not one of the recent companions to Gothic so much as mentions his name. Definitions of what is meant by 'Gothic' have changed, of course, and are still evolving, claiming more territory all the time, but Gothic specialists also have their blind spots, of whom De Quincey is one. One reason for this state of affairs will be the fact that in his work the Gothic is interwoven with the German, to which modern English studies all too often turn a blind eye. In this timely study of his work in relation to Gothic convention the author addresses the question of De Quincey's reputed knowledge of German 'Gothic' Romantic literature and the related question of supposed German influences on his Gothic work, and shows that his fiction is not less but more original than has been thought. The texts ...

Masquerade

Autor: Alfred F. Young

Número de Páginas: 440

"Masquerade" is the remarkable story of a woman who fought in the American revolution as a man--and got away with it.

Masquerade in Nigeria

Autor: George Onyeke

Número de Páginas: 292

The Masquerade

Autor: Susan Richards Shreve

Número de Páginas: 196

The 4 Walker children are confused and angry when their father is accused of embezzlement.

Fatty ills and their masquerades

Autor: Ephraim Cutter

Número de Páginas: 236

A Regency Christmas Treat: Moonlight and Mistletoe / A Mistletoe Masquerade

Autor: Louise Allen

Número de Páginas: 393

Two of your favourite Christmas Regency stories from Louise Allen!

The Masquerade

Autor: Robert Hillyer

Número de Páginas: 54

Summer Masquerade

Autor: Donna Ball

Número de Páginas: 198

Psing as her young cousin, Annabelle goes to Brighton where matchmaking relatives introduce her to Devon Lanson. Though the young people detest the meddling of their elders, they are attracted to each other.

Magnificent Masquerade

Autor: Charles Keats

Número de Páginas: 304

Love's Masquerade

Autor: Violet Hamilton

Número de Páginas: 308

When Leslie Danforth tries to repel the attentions of an unwanted suitor, she is rescued by Marcus Kingsly, who offers her pseudonymous authorship of a column in The Times London. And when Marcus and Leslie later learn of a plot to murder the Prince Regent, glorious intrigue, romance, and adventure ensue.