Автор: Kracht Christian Название: Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas ISBN: 0374175241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374175245 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 14100.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
One of "Publishers Weekly"'s Ten Best Books of 2015 One of "Huffington Post"'s "18 Best Fiction Books of 2015" An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago, in German New Guinea. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. Christian Kracht's "Imperium" uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. Engelhardt is at once a pitiable, misunderstood outsider and a rigid ideologue, and his misguided notions of purity and his spiral into madness presage the horrors of the mid-twentieth century. Playing with the tropes of classic adventure tales such as "Treasure Island" and "Robinson Crusoe," Kracht's novel, an international bestseller, is funny, bizarre, shocking, and poignant. His allusions are misleading, his historical time line is twisted, his narrator is unreliable--and the result is a novel that is a cabinet of mirrors, a maze pitted with trapdoors. Both a provocative satire and a serious meditation on the fragility and audacity of human activity, "Imperium" is impossible to categorize and utterly unlike anything you've read before.
Автор: Kracht C. Название: Ferien fur immer ISBN: 342312881X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783423128810 Издательство: DtV Цена: 3410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Kracht Benjamin R. Название: Kiowa Belief and Ritual ISBN: 1496200535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496200532 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 62700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that focused on the neighboring Kiowas. During two months, graduate students compiled more than 1,300 pages of single-spaced field notes derived from cross-interviewing thirty-five Kiowas. These eyewitness and first-generation reflections on the horse and buffalo days are undoubtedly the best materials available for reconstructing pre-reservation Kiowa beliefs and rituals. The field school compiled massive data resulting in a number of publications on this formerly nomadic Plains tribe, though the planned collaborative ethnographies never materialized. The extensive Kiowa field notes, which contain invaluable information, remained largely unpublished until now.
In Kiowa Belief and Ritual, Benjamin R. Kracht reconstructs Kiowa cosmology during the height of the horse and buffalo culture from field notes pertaining to cosmology, visions, shamans, sorcery, dream shields, tribal bundles, and the now-extinct Sun Dance ceremony. These topics are interpreted through the Kiowa concept of a power force permeating the universe. Additional data gleaned from the field notes of James Mooney and Alice Marriott enrich the narrative. Drawing on more than thirty years of field experiences, Kracht’s discussion of how Indigenous notions of power are manifested today significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions.
Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau, a force permeating the universe that was accessible through vision quests. Following the end of the Southern Plains wars in 1875, the Kiowas were confined within the boundaries of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache (Plains Apache) Reservation. As wards of the government, they witnessed the extinction of the bison herds, which led to the collapse of the Sun Dance by 1890. Though prophet movements in the 1880s had failed to restore the bison, other religions emerged to fill the void left by the loss of the Sun Dance. Kiowas now sought daudauthrough the Ghost Dance, Christianity, and the Peyote religion.
Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines the historical and sociocultural conditions that spawned the new religions that arrived in Kiowa country at the end of the nineteenth century, as well as Native and non-Native reactions to them. A thorough examination of these sources reveals how resilient and adaptable the Kiowas were in the face of cultural genocide between 1883 and 1933. Although the prophet movements and the Ghost Dance were short-lived, Christianity and the Native American Church have persevered into the twenty-first century. Benjamin R. Kracht shows how Kiowa traditions and spirituality were amalgamated into the new religions, creating a distinctive Kiowa identity.
Автор: Andriessen Paula Название: de Kracht Om Alles Te Overwinnen ISBN: 1291422277 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291422276 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kracht Matthew, Spadoni Gina Название: Succulent Serenity: A Coloring Book ISBN: 0692592210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692592212 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
After many thousands of hours editing and evaluating manuscripts as an agent and freelance editor, Elizabeth Kracht noticed many of the manuscripts had similar issues and began to keep a list. Every manuscript has a weak point, even those closest to ready. Agents and editors decline manuscripts because the dialogue was too stilted, the voice seemed off for the genre, because of unsympathetic protagonists, lack of structure, formatting, and countless other reasons.
But here's the thing: many of these problems are easy to fix.
Arranged as an a to z guide to various aspects of manuscript preparation, Kracht offers a brief summary of how to go about assessing that aspect and then provides a few points for review or quick reference, set up to be a checklist. The dozens of topics covered include the expected (dialogue; pacing; passive language; punctuation; query letters; subheads; timeline; voice) as well as areas that many first-time authors haven't considered, such as agency guidelines; audience; chapter arcs; rejection; uniformity; and world building. Appropriate for writers of both fiction and nonfiction, the book includes examples to illustrate and inspire. Kracht also offers strategies for revisions and suggestions of where to go for more support on many of the topics, including online forums and courses to be explored.
Автор: Kracht Christian Название: The Dead ISBN: 1250214963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250214966 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 10420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"A great Faustian fable, and a literary endeavor of historical ingenuity that we now may start to characterize as Krachtian." --Karl Ove Knausgaard
The follow-up to Christian Kracht's acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year), The Dead mines the feverish early years of the Nazis' rise to power for a Gothic tale of global conspiracy, personal loss, and historical entanglements large and small. In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil N geli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware that N geli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective--to create a monumental, modernist, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come. Meanwhile, in Japan, the film minister Masahiko Amakasu intends to counter Hollywood's growing influence and usher in a new golden age of Japanese cinema by exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of N geli's film-star fianc e and a strangely thuggish, pistol-packing Charlie Chaplin--as well as the first stirrings of the winds of war--soon complicates both Amakasu's and N geli's plans, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom. The Dead is the beautiful, brilliant, and utterly mad novel that Thomas Mann would have written had he known the East like Yukio Mishima and loved his adopted Hollywood with the gusto of Nathanael West. --Joshua Cohen The Dead is a story of love and sadness in times when the weak were broken by the unforgiving ideologies of fascism and National Socialism . . . I read The Dead twice in a row, first for the story and then for the beauty of the prose. --Sj n
Автор: Christian Kracht Название: Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten ISBN: 3423138920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783423138925 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8070.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
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