Автор: Medie Peace Adzo Название: His Only Wife ISBN: 1643751468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643751467 Издательство: Workman Цена: 17150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
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A Must-Read Novel: The New York Times Book Review * BuzzFeed * Marie Claire * Parade * Travel + Leisure * Ms. Magazine * Bustle * The Millions * Book Riot * Christian Science Monitor * HelloGiggles " A] mesmerizing debut novel." --The New York Times Book Review "A story that kept me tied to the page, told in masterful, seamless prose." --BuzzFeed "I love this book so much I turned the pages so fast . . . It's all about the search for independence and being true to yourself and who you really are." --Reese Witherspoon Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Afi knows who he is, of course--Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she is moved from her small hometown of Ho to live in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, a place of wealth and sophistication where she has days of nothing to do but cook meals for a man who may or may not show up to eat them. She has agreed to this marriage in order to give her mother the financial security she desperately needs, and so she must see it through. Or maybe not? His Only Wife is a witty, smart, and moving debut novel about a brave young woman traversing the minefield of modern life with its taboos and injustices, living in a world of men who want their wives to be beautiful, to be good cooks and mothers, to be women who respect their husbands and grant them forbearance. And in Afi, Peace Medie has created a delightfully spunky and relatable heroine who just may break all the rules.
Автор: Medie, Peace Adzo Название: His only wife ISBN: 0861540727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780861540723 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 17150.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty;
Автор: Medie Peace Adzo Название: His Only Wife ISBN: 1616209151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616209155 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding." Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious's house with his many wives and children. Then one day she is offered a life-changing opportunity--a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo, a man she doesn't truly know. She acquiesces, but soon realizes that Elikem is not quite the catch he seemed. He sends a stand-in to his own wedding, and only weeks after Afi is married and installed in a plush apartment in the capital city of Accra does she meet her new husband. It turns out that he is in love with another woman, whom his family disapproves of; Afi is supposed to win him back on their behalf. But it is Accra that eventually wins Afi's heart and gives her a life of independence that she never could have imagined for herself. A brilliant scholar and a fierce advocate for women's rights, author Peace Adzo Medie infuses her debut novel with intelligence and humor. For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Candice Carty-Williams, His Only Wife is the story of an indomitable and relatable heroine that illuminates what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world.
Автор: Judith Rice Rothschild Название: Narrative Technique in the Lais of Marie de France: Themes and Variations ISBN: 0807891398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807891391 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France`s narrative technique.
Автор: M. Elizabeth Maxfield Название: Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures: Raeto-Romance Bibliography; De Passione Judas, an Anglo-Norman Poem; and Seth, an Anglo-Norman Poem ISBN: 0807890022 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807890028 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Part one of this volume is a general, but selected, guide of annotated works on Raeto-Romance with special consideration of Romansh. Part two is De Passione Judas: An Anglo-Norman Poem. The poem is prefaced by an introduction describing it and relating its probable date of origin. Part three is Seth: An Anglo-Norman Poem.
Автор: Shannon Brownlee Название: The Status of the Reading Subject in the Libro de Buen Amor ISBN: 0807892289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807892282 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The undisputed masterpiece of fourteenth-century Spain by Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, affords a particularly privileged locus for the implementation of reader-response theory. As opposed to many medieval authors, Ruiz explicitly refuses to prescribe interpretation for his readership, a fact that has led to widely divergent critical readings of his fictional biography.
Автор: Simmons, Clare A. Название: Medievalist traditions in nineteenth-century bri - celebrating the calendar year ISBN: 1843845733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843845737 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 84480.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.
Автор: David Matthews, Michael Sanders Название: Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism `from below` in Nineteenth-Century Britain ISBN: 1843845784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843845782 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 84480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.
Автор: Morgan Powell Название: Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century: The Woman in the Mirror ISBN: 164189377X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641893770 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 199930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin tradition of the Church and Roman Antiquity. But what gave rise to the sudden interest in and legitimization of literature in these "vulgar tongues"? Until now, the answer has centred on the somewhat nebulous role of new female vernacular readers. Powell argues that a different appraisal of the same evidence offers a window onto something more momentous: not "women readers" but instead a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century. This woman is at the centre of a re-conception of Christian knowing, a veritable revolution in the mediation of knowledge and truth. By following this figure through detailed readings of key early works, Powell unveils a surprise, a new poetics of the body meant to embrace the capacities of new audiences and viewers of medieval literature and visual art.
This study investigates the influence of medieval liturgy on the literary work of Occitan poets during the 12th and 13th centuries. It focuses on the diverse effects emanating from metrical hymn structure, sacraments, prayers, and the veneration of the saints, and additionally explores the specific impact of liturgical metaphors on the language of the troubadours.
Автор: Gianluca Valenti Название: La liturgia del «trobar»: Assimilazione e riuso di elementi del rito cristiano nelle canzoni occitane medievali ISBN: 3110346230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110346237 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 223090.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This study investigates the influence of medieval liturgy on the literary work of Occitan poets during the 12th and 13th centuries. It focuses on the diverse effects emanating from metrical hymn structure, sacraments, prayers, and the veneration of the saints, and additionally explores the specific impact of liturgical metaphors on the language of the troubadours.
In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.
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