Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1939-1969
Author | : Harold Acton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Harold Acton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Harold Mario Mitchell Acton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : David Emil Mungello |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1442215577 |
This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D.E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of Europe and North America. His groundbreaking study traces the lives of two dozen men, many previously unknown to have same-sex desire, who fled to China and in the process influenced perceptions of Chinese culture to this day. This escapism engendered casual sexual encounters, serious friendships, and substantive intellectual rela.
Author | : Harold Acton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Simon Joyce |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 0821417614 |
Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the "neo-Dickensian" novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a model of social interconnection and interdependence that has come under threat in today's politics and culture.
Author | : Anna Linzie |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2006-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1587296713 |
In this original and intriguing study, Anna Linzie examines three mid-twentieth-century texts never before treated as interrelated in a book-length work of literary criticism: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Alice B. Toklas's The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) and What Is Remembered (1963). Taking these three texts as intertexts or as an assemblage of the true story of Alice B. Toklas, Linzie challenges assumptions about primary authorship and singular identity that have continued to limit lesbian and feminist rereadings of autobiography as a genre and of Stein and Toklas as writers and historical figures.The True Story of Alice B. Toklas explores how the concept of autobiography as a primarily referential genre is challenged and transformed in relation to autobiographical texts written about the same person, the same life, but differently, by different writers, at different points in time. The concept of one true story is deconstructed in the process as Linzie modifies Homi K. Bhabha's “almost the same but not quite/not white” for the purposes of this particular study as “almost the same but not quite/not straight.” The investigation moves simultaneously on the planes of textuality and sexuality in order to provisionally articulate a “lesbian autobiographical subject” in Linzie's reading of these three texts.Linzie's study fills a gap in literary criticism where Stein's companion and her work have been more or less neglected, conceptualizing the Stein-Toklas sexual/textual relationship as fundamentally reciprocal. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas provides a new critical perspective on Toklas as indispensable to Stein's literary production, a cultural laborer in her own right, and a writer of her own books. Making a significant contribution to recent lesbian/feminist reconceptualizations of the genre of autobiography, this study will fascinate Stein and Toklas scholars as well as those interested in queer and autobiography studies.
Author | : Robert Greenfield |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0874130840 |
A kind of permanent expatriate, and a unique figure in American literature, Frederic Prokosch remains largely unknown in his own country. --Book Jacket.
Author | : S. T. Joshi |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810860018 |
This comprehensive bibliography of Gore Vidal charts his career and covers the span of his sixty years of writing-from his first novel, Williwaw, to his 2006 memoir Point to Point Navigation.
Author | : Shirley Ann Smith |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611475015 |
Imperial Designs is the first text in English dealing comprehensively with the Italian colonial experience in China. It confirms imperial policy and the rhetoric of conquest.
Author | : Ryan Martínez Mitchell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2022-11-03 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108585469 |
Recentering the World recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. Beginning in the Late Qing era, it shows how international law functioned as a channel for power relations, techniques of economic domination, as well as novel forms of resistance. The book also radically diversifies traditionally Eurocentric accounts of modern international law's origins, demonstrating how, by the mid-twentieth century, Chinese jurists had made major contributions to international organizations and the UN system, the international judiciary, the laws of armed conflict, and more. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book is a valuable guide to China's often conflicted role in international law, its reception and contention of concepts of sovereignty, property, obligation, and autonomy, and its gradual move from the 'periphery' to a shared spot at the 'center' of global legal order.