Wherever they go, anyone who visits Barcelona today will come across the works of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), the architect who has attracted art-lovers from all over the world to Spain. It was there, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works. Raised during the Industrial Revolution, Gaudi strove to distinguish and reaffirm the identity of his native Catalonia as Spain and the rest of Europe modernized. Early neo-Gothic designs were the stepping-stone to the mature, original style that came to be synonymous with his name. Incorporating bold colors and odd bits of material into his designs, Gaudi created inspiring, visionary buildings and helped establish Barcelona (most notably with the still-unfinished Sagrada Familia cathedral) as a city of the world.

English summary: Genre studies have so far paid little attention to the Arab essay, although Arabic authors have certainly been productive in the field. This study describes the 'Arab Essay' as a distinct literary genre, traces its progression and illustrates the characteristics of this genre. With the emergence of journalism in the Arab world, the essay became a popular genre at end of the 19th century. Many intellectuals used this form of text in order to analyze political and social changes, debate social and political issues in public, or in order to experiment with different literary styles. The rise of the newspaper provided the authors with a broad audience, yet this new medium also called for a new way of writing and a new vocabulary that would do justice to the issues of the time. German description: Die Gattungsforschung hat den arabischen Essay bisher wenig beachtet, obwohl die arabischen Autoren auch auf diesem Gebiet durchaus produktiv waren. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt den "arabischen Essay" als eine eigene literarische Gattung, zeichnet seine Entwicklung nach und verdeutlicht was diese Gattung ausmacht. Mit der Entstehung des Journalismus in der arabischen Welt wurde der Essay Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zu einem popularen Genre. Zahlreiche Intellektuelle bedienten sich dieser Textform, um politische und gesellschaftliche Umbruche zu analysieren, offentliche Diskurse uber soziale und politische Frage zu fuhren oder literarisch zu experimentieren. Das Aufkommen der Zeitung bescherte den Autoren eine breite Offentlichkeit, doch forderte dieses neue Medium auch eine neue Art zu schreiben und einen neuen Wortschaft, der den Themen der Zeit gerecht wurde.

Imagination Ablaze William Blake's spectacular illustrations to The Divine Comedy Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul's path towards salvation. In the last few years of his life, Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827) produced 102 illustrations for Dante's masterwork, from pencil sketches to finished watercolors. Like Dante's sweeping poem, Blake's drawings range from scenes of infernal suffering to celestial light, from horrifying human disfigurement to the perfection of physical form. While faithful to the text, Blake also brought his own perspective to some of Dante's central themes. Today, Blake's illustrations, left in various stages of completion at the time of his death, are dispersed among seven different institutions. This TASCHEN edition brings these works together again, alongside key excerpts from Dante's masterpiece. Two introductory essays consider Dante and Blake, as well as other major artists who have been inspired by The Divine Comedy, including Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Dore, and Auguste Rodin. With a close reading of Blake's illustrations, and many close-ups to allow the most delicate of details to dazzle, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, punishment, revenge, and redemption. About the series: Bibliotheca Universalis-- Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.Bookworm's delight -- never bore, always excite!

POMPEII RECONSTRUCTED Book With DVD Italy, Archeolibri. 2007. (ISBN: 9788895512235) Hardcover, Spiral Bound. 46 private and public buildings with a photo of toadya and a folding overlay sketch of an artists impression of the building as it was. - an arcaheological guide of Pompeii reconstructed as it was in its original magnificence and as it is today. with Herculaneum and Villa Jovis on Capri.

Cuando las luces del estudio se apagan, la vida de las estrellas comienza. Acompanenos a descubrir, a traves de estas paginas, los recuerdos mas intimos de sus estrellas favoritas, los momentos preciados de su infancia, los dias compartidos en familia que jamas olvidaran y aquellos memorables instantes que les inspiran alegria, nostalgia, ternura y les hacen brotar lagrimas en sus ojos. Este es el momento de entrar en sus hogares, compartir un espacio en sus mesas, ver sus fotografias familiares y probar sus deliciosas recetas caseras. Es una travesia colmada de colores, olores, musica, tradiciones, sentimientos y reflexiones que nos llevan, desde cada uno de sus caminos, a un mismo destino: el corazon. En este conmovedor libro, las estrellas de Telemundo -- Jorge Bernal, Maria Antonieta Collins, Leticia Coo, Alfonso Poncho de Anda, Jose Diaz-Balart, Erick Elias, Candela Ferro, Alejandro Felipe Flores, Vanessa Hauc, Mauricio Islas, Natasha Klauss, Jeannette Lehr, Jessi Losada, Christian Meier, Penelope Menchaca, Aylin Mujica, Monica Noguera, Mauricio Ochmann, Ana Maria Polo, Catherine Siachoque, Natalia Streignard y Miguel Varoni -- les abren las puertas de su hogar para ofrecerles inspiracion, diversion y mucho sabor. Entren en estas paginas y celebren con nosotros

In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing Italy fills this gap. The book introduces readers to films and documentaries by recognised women directors such as Cristina Comencini, Wilma Labate, Alina Marazzi, Antonietta De Lillo, Marina Spada, and Francesca Comencini, as well as to filmmakers whose work has so far been undeservedly ignored. <br><br>Through a thematically based analysis supported by case studies, Luciano and Scarparo argue that Italian women filmmakers, while not overtly feminist, are producing work that increasingly foregrounds female subjectivity from a variety of social, political, and cultural positions. This book, with its accompanying video interviews, explores the filmmakers' challenging relationship with a highly patriarchal cinema industry. The incisive readings of individual films demonstrate how women's rich cinematic production reframes the aesthetic of their cinematic fathers, re-positions relationships between mothers and daughters, functions as a space for remembering women's (hi)stories, and highlights pressing social issues such as immigration and workplace discrimination. <br><br>This original and timely study makes an invaluable contribution to film studies and to the study of gender and culture in the early twenty-first century.

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'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ...Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ...Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched ...the definitive work on the ill-fated queen' CATHOLIC HERALD Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny. Antonia Fraser examines her influence over the king, Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her patronage of the arts which enhanced French cultural life, her imprisonment, the death threats made against her, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial (during which her young son was forced to testify to sexual abuse by his mother) and her eventual execution by guillotine in 1793.

Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history. They both faced accusations that they had transgressed social, gender and regional norms, and attempted to defend themselves against negative reactions to their behavior. Each queen engaged with the debates of her time concerning the place of women within their families, religion, politics, the public sphere and court culture and attempted to counter criticism of her foreign origins and political influence. The impeachment of Henrietta Maria in 1643 and trial and execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793 were also trials of monarchical government that shaped the English Civil Wars and French Revolution.

Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Cultural Studies. When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, FAMILY RESEMBLANCE is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft essays and examples of hybrid forms by 43 distinguished authors. In this study of eight hybrid genres including lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, prose poetry, performative, short-form nonfiction, flash fiction, and pictures made of words the family tree of hybridity takes delightful shape, showcasing how cross-genre works blend features from multiple literary parents to create new entities, forms that feel more urgent than ever in today's increasingly heterogeneous landscape. Introductions and an afterword discuss the importance and current popularity of hybridity in literature and culture and offer methods for teaching hybrid works. Intended for both scholarly and general readers, this seminal collection sparkles with inventiveness and creative zeal an essential guidebook to a developing field. Contributors: Kazim Ali Susanne Paola Antonetta Andrea Baker Jennifer Bartlett Mira Bartok Jenny Boully Julie Carr Katie Cortese Nick Flynn Sarah Gorham Arielle Greenberg Carol Guess Terrance Hayes Robin Hemley Takashi Hiraide Tung-Hui Hu Mark Jarman A. Van Jordan Etgar Keret Joy Ladin Miriam Libicki Bret Lott Stan Mack Sabrina Orah Mark Brenda Miller Ander Monson Maggie Nelson Amy Newman Gregory Orr Julio Ortega Jena Osman Kathleen Ossip Pamela Painter Craig Santos Perez Khadijah Queen David Shields Mary Szybist Sarah Vap Patricia Vigderman Julie Marie Wade Diane Wakoski Joe Wenderoth Rachel Zucker"

Boka handler om den franske revolusjonen i 1789-1799. Den viser hvordan denne revolusjonen skulle komme til å påvirke livene til mennesker i både Europa, Amerika, Afrika og Asia. Du får møte bl.a. Robespierre, Danton, Marat, Mirabeau, Marie-Antoinette og Ludvig 16.

ALLTID VELKLEDD VOLUM 2 For menn. Om klokker. Fasineres du av ørsmå tannhjul og millimetermekanikk? Liker du å ta deg godt ut? Ser du på klokken før skoene, når du treffer nye mennesker? Eier du et armbåndsur? Lurer du på hva klokken er? Gratulerer! Dette er boken for deg. Første bok av Alltid velkledd er blitt en stor suksess og er også utgitt på engelsk. Nå kommer oppfølgeren. Alltid Velkledd Volum 2 bygger videre på samme konsept, og med et spesielt fokus på klokker som brukes av militæret, regatta- og seilerklokker, tekniske og kompliserte klokker.

This book is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geography degree programmes worldwide. The summaries at the end of each section constitute essential reading for policy makers and planners. It provides a simple but masterly account, with a minimum of equations, of how the Earth s climate system works, of the physical processes that have given rise to the long sequence of glacial and interglacial periods of the Quaternary, and that will continue to cause the climate to evolve. Its straightforward and elegant description, with an abundance of well chosen illustrations, focuses on different time scales, and includes the most recent research in climate science by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It shows how it is human behaviour that will determine whether or not the present century is a turning point to a new climate, unprecedented on Earth in the last several million years.

Språket er Dansk-Norsk, som er vanlig på denne tiden.

The acclaimed author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII describes her life, from her betrothal as an unsophisticated, poorly educated fourteen-year-old girl to the future King Louis XVI, through her difficult marriage in the French court, to her courage in the face of revolutionaries who sent her to the guillotine twenty-three years later. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days recreates in compelling detail the short but intensely agonizing period of the ex-queen's incarceration in the Conciergerie, Her seventy-six days in this terrifying prison can only be described as the darkest and most horrific of the fallen queen's life, vividly recaptured in this richly researched history.

Nominee: YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens During the 1930s, Maud, an artist, discovers she has a psychic gift. The first signs manifest themselves in the royal gardens of the Trianon where gradually she understands that a woman from the beyond is attempting to communicate with her. The revelation is beyond belief: it is the ghost of Marie Antoinette appearing to her to share a terrible secret that has tormented her for centuries. After being guillotined, the Queen is said to have been thrown into a common grave but then exhumed and buried with her husband, Louis XVI, in the Saint-Denis basilica. Yet the ghost tells Maud that her remains are still in the pit on which a chapel stands today. The queen asks Maud to move her body to the right place so she can finally find peace and no longer haunt people. Part fantastic ghost story, part biography, this is a delicious beautifully illustrated look into French revolutionary history by the artist of the bestselling Girl in Dior. "

Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European historyStefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant world of the Trianon, and with her children. And in his account of 'The Revolution', he describes her resolve during the failed escape to varennes, her imprisonment in the Conciergerie and her final tragic destiny under the guillotine. Zweig's account has been the definitive biography of Marie Antoinette since its publication, inspiring Antonia Fraser and the recent film adaptation.Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he moved to London, where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity. He later moved on to Bath, taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War. With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.