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This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to the Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek epistolographers. Published in Venice in 1499 by Aldus Manutius, the Aldine edition was the first printed edition of most of the thirty-six Greek letter collections that it contains. As such, it embodies the intersection between the medieval epistolary anthologies that predated it and the printed editions of Greek epistolographic collections that followed, which were primarily based on its text. In recent decades, the Aldien edition has been the subject of important works, which have sought to analyse its contents and sources. This issue explores the Aldine edition from three perspectives: its relationship to the epistolary collections found in medieval manuscripts, its relationship to the printed editions that followed it and its legacy and value for the modern scholar studying Ancient Greek epistolography.
Tristana is a novel where love, hate and power converge into a triangle of domination and frustration.Galdós', following the ideas of the Free Teaching Institution, intervened in the arena of the debate around the emancipation of women and their incorporation into the public sphere. Tristana, a young woman subjected to the rule of the tyrannical Don Lope, idealistically tries to find her purpose on life but she ends trapped by the rules of a world dominated by men who only see her as the object of their desire. Written in an experimental manner that defies the boundaries of theatre, epistolary and novel genres, Galdós' displays the purest nature of his characters by presenting their contradictions, weaknesses and virtues. He uses a deliberately ambiguous style that seeks to address fundamental questions regarding the unbalances of a Madrid in times of turbulence, but leaves the reader to draw their own meaning. ;
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Tristana is a novel where love, hate and power converge into a triangle of domination and frustration.Galdós', following the ideas of the Free Teaching Institution, intervened in the arena of the debate around the emancipation of women and their incorporation into the public sphere. Tristana, a young woman subjected to the rule of the tyrannical Don Lope, idealistically tries to find her purpose on life but she ends trapped by the rules of a world dominated by men who only see her as the object of their desire. Written in an experimental manner that defies the boundaries of theatre, epistolary and novel genres, Galdós' displays the purest nature of his characters by presenting their contradictions, weaknesses and virtues. He uses a deliberately ambiguous style that seeks to address fundamental questions regarding the unbalances of a Madrid in times of turbulence, but leaves the reader to draw their own meaning.
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Grace Porter is a 30-something year old library tech who is captivated by the life of the famous pilot, Amelia Earhart. After her partner of seven years leaves her unexpectedly, Grace finds herself in Newfoundland, where Amelia took off for both transatlantic flights. Reeling in grief, she starts writing letters to Amelia—her friend, her hero, her mentor, her confidante—who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. Just as she begins to piece her life back together, Grace learns she is pregnant and begins excavating her own history and building her personal strength, by digging up bits of inspiration in the biographical remains of another. Out of fear of losing herself in motherhood, Grace becomes fixated on Amelia’s final flight around the equator. The terrifying charge of her third trimester also coincides with new conspiracy theories about Amelia’s disappearance and a scientific search for Amelia’s remains on a tiny South Pacific island. Consumed by the anxiety of finding out what actually happened to Amelia during her final moments, Grace goes on one last pilgrimage.
This is an epistolary natural education book about Chinese solar terms. With the 24 solar terms as the time frame, written in the form of letters, the book describes the subtle changes in nature in a year via letters on different solar terms.
A novel for all of us who have ever wanted to put our lost love into words. A cathartic journey into the soul of what it means to have loved and to have lost and to undertake the extremes of finding that one true someone. A travel log of emotions, people, and places that goes beyond the world of logic to immerse us in a mystical realm that turns the unimaginable into the possible.
The lost letters of Jane Eyre and Anna Karenina mirrors the soul of the protagonists in the homonymous works of Charlotte Brontë and Leon Tolstoy. In this epistolary dialogue, Anna portrays herself escaping from the novel to reveal the secrets of her adulteries and her erratic pursuit of ideal love, while Jane is more agreeable, but never ceases to be critical of the world she lives in. Each line shines with the passionate impressions the two women share about their loves, travels, social and artistic lives... There is, in addition, an ominous murder that Jane will try to solve relying on her wit. These letters forge a friendship between two friends who will never see each other despite their fervent desire to do so, and reveal what life was like –both in Russian and in English society– at a time of great technical and social transformation. This is an imaginary correspondence that honors the memory of Jane and Anna, representatives of a vanished universe that lives on in modern desires and fears. The authors, Eugenia Tusquets and Marga Iriarte, have had the wisdom and courage to brilliantly recreate an unconventional epistolary that will fascinate admirers of the two famous novels, Jane Eyre and Anna Karenina. This book plucks every woman labeled eccentric and indecorous from obscurity. Editorial Funambulista, 2021 288 Pages Format: Paperback ISBN: 9788412237177 Language: Spanish Asunto: Biografías literarias
Peter the Venerable's extensive literary legacy includes poems, a large epistolary collection, and polemical treatises. The first of his four major polemics targeted a Christian heresy, the Petrobrussians (Against the Petrobrusians); the rest took aim at Jews and Saracens. Catholic University of America Press has published his Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews. This present volume will make available in their entirety Peter the Venerable's twin polemics against Islam - A Summary of the entire heresy of the Saracens and Against the sect of the Saracens - as well as related correspondence. These works resulted from a sustained engagement with Islam begun during Peter's journey to Spain in 1142-43. There the abbot commissioned a translation of sources from the Arabic, the so-called Toledan Collection, that include the Letter of a Saracen with a Christian Response (from the Apology of [Ps.] Al-Kindi ); Fables of the Saracens (a potpourri of Islamic hadith traditions); and Robert of Ketton's first Latin translation of the whole of the Qur'an. Thanks to Peter's efforts, from the second half of the twelfth century Christians could acquire a far better understanding of the teachings of Islam, and Peter may rightly be viewed as the initiator of Islamic studies in the West.
"Sikur të isha djalë" (If I Were a Boy) is a pioneering Albanian epistolary novel that captures the essence of a young woman's rebellion against the strictures of a deeply patriarchal society. Penned by Haki Stërmilli in 1936, this compelling narrative is presented through a series of diary entries belonging to its protagonist, Dija. Through Dija's eyes, readers are offered an intimate glimpse into the trials and tribulations faced by women in Albania during the early 20th century, a time when the nation's social fabric was heavily influenced by rigid gender norms and expectations. Originally written in the Gheg dialect, the novel stands as a historical testament to the linguistic and cultural landscape of Albania at the time. This edition brings the story to life for contemporary audiences through a meticulous translation into modern Albanian by Dritan Kiçi. Stërmilli's work is more than just a novel; it is a bold critique of the gender disparities that plagued Albanian society, encapsulated through the poignant and personal reflections of its heroine. The translation preserves the novel's raw emotion and poignant insights, making "If I Were a Boy" not only a significant piece of Albanian literature but also a timeless narrative that resonates with contemporary discussions on gender and society. It offers readers a unique opportunity to explore the historical context of gender dynamics in Albania, making it an invaluable addition to the canon of feminist literature.
LAURA SOLOMON was Joint-Winner of the inaugural international Proverse Prize (2009) with her novella, Instant Messages, subsequently published by Proverse Hong Kong in 2010. Also published by Proverse are Hilary and David (an epistolary novel) (2011) and The Shingle Bar Sea Monster and Other Stories (2012). Of Solomon, Maggie Gee wrote, when Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, United Kingdom, "Witty, clear-edged, both lemon-sharp and seductive, Laura Solomon is a writer to watch." Solomon has published two novels in New Zealand, Black Light (1996) and Nothing Lasting (1997). Her short story collection Alternative Medicine was published in the UK in 2008. Her first poetry collection, In Vitro, was first published in 2011 by Headworx (New Zealand). Her plays have been produced at the Wellington (New Zealand) Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (UK). Among other writing prizes, she has twice won a prize in the Bridport (UK) International Short Story Competition. Her short story, "Sprout", first published in the Bridport Anthology, 2004, and then by Flame Books in the UK, was translated into Czech by Olga Walló and appeared in krásná in the Czech Republic in 2011. Born in New Zealand, Solomon spent nine years in London before returning to New Zealand in 2007. She has an honours degree in English Literature (Victoria University, 1997) and a Master's degree in Computer Science (University of London, 2003). She has travelled internationally for her work in IT, including working in Norway, for Fast Search and Transfer, now owned by Microsoft.
The present volume is a "reader's edition" of 1 Clement, an important early Christian epistolary writing in Greek that probably dates from the late first century CE. The volume is designed for rapid reading and for classroom use. On each left-facing page is printed a running, sequential section of the Greek text. Next to that, on each right-facing page, are recorded all of the more unusual words in that section of Greek text, with dictionary form, part of speech, and definition(s). All of the more common words in that same section of Greek text are included in a comprehensive glossary at the end of the book. This system, then, is designed so that the reader of the Greek text will not have to stop to look up every unusual Greek word in a printed or online dictionary. He or she will simply have to look to the facing page. Such constant lookups in a printed or online dictionary are tedious and time-consuming, and have little pedagogical value. Since in the present edition the words recorded on the right-facing page are not parsed, the reader is still faced with the challenge of parsing the word and determining its place in the overall structure of the sentence. It is this process that does serve a useful pedagogical purpose, and the present system preserves the challenge of this process. The introduction to the volume covers (1) 1 Clement’s genre, date, setting in life, purpose, sources, and main themes; (2) the compositional outline of the book; (3) the book’s authorship, history of reception, and textual attestation; (4) discussion of the present “reader’s edition”; (5) a list of scriptural quotations and allusions; and (6) a comprehensive bibliography on the text of 1 Clement.
On the day Arys turns eighteen, a large green envelope arrives from Athens. It contains a handwritten letter, filled with drawings and diagrams, that has been sent to her by her aunt. The letter’s tone in some ways feels like a farewell, and in its opening lines her aunt recalls some of her most treasured memories of Arys, including conversations and travels inspired by their shared passion for Greek mythology. Arys’s aunt reveals that over the course of her life she has faced many illnesses and, more importantly, a few pandemics like the one that has recently paralyzed the entire world. In fact, it’s the outbreak of covid-19 that has prompted her to write to her niece. She feels an urgency to do so because Arys represents the future...a future that finds itself sorely threatened. In turning to ancient myths and stories from Classical Greece, this epistolary novel explores various ways of approaching the meaning of life, as well as that of death. These two energies are mutually dependent upon each other, just as light relies on darkness to manifest itself in all its splendor. Arys’s aunt invites her niece to reflect upon the origin of plagues, pandemics, viruses, sickness – by situating them in a place we seldom explore. Pandora's Message is an inspiring text that utilizes simple direct language, akin to that of a fable, to transmit a fundamental, even lyrical, understanding of the fact that the Earth and its evolution are intrinsically related to what happens in the rest of the Universe. And that only from such a point of view will we manage to face the challenges that life presents us. If the letter is read in the heat of the covid-19 pandemic, it will help us to face the "monster," the Pestilence, in a different manner, more openly and optimistically.
In early March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York, teenager Geth Montego is fumbling with the present and uncertain about her future. She only has three friends: her best friend Tovah, who’s been acting weird ever since they started applying to college; Diego, who she wants to ask to prom; and the K-pop band BTS, because the group always seems to be there for her when she needs them (at least in her head). She could use some help now. Geth’s small city becomes one of the first COVID-19 containment zones in the US. As her community is upended by the virus and stirred up by the growing Black Lives Matter protests, Geth faces a choice and a question: Is she willing to risk everything to fight for her beliefs? And if so, what exactly does she believe in? C.J. Farley captures a moment in spring 2020 no teenager will ever forget. It sucks watching the world fall apart. But sometimes you have to start from zero.
The story of Jane Austen's links with the idyllic village of Adlestrop and Stoneleigh Abbey, the ancestral home of the two branch of the Leigh family, has not yet been fully told. Jane's mother, Cassandra, was a Leigh, a dynasty that boasted an Elizabethan Lord Mayor, ducal marriage alliances, a peerage granted by Charles I, eccentric Oxford luminaries, as well as the spectre of lunacy and bitter inheritance quarrels. Jane Austen visited Adlestrop at least three times and kept in constant touch with events there by letter. It wasi n Gloucestershire that she first heard of Humphry Repton wo was emplyed by the Leighs and saw at first hand how the 18th century craze for improvements totally changed the village. Jane Austen & Adlestrop opens up a fresh window on the author's life and experience and is also a portrayal of archetypal English village's journey through the last two hundred years.
Most of the forty-nine works in the book were specifically solicited from the writers I know in response to the question, “What makes you tingle as a lesbian?” Literally, the sensation of “slight prickles, stings, or tremors,” the excitement. I purposely didn’t give any more qualifiers to that prompts. I wanted the writers themselves to define the terms and enact them on the page. And while the word “tingle” is a homonym for the Tagalog word for “clitoris,” many of the pieces submitted were not about sex at all. But all the pieces are about a spark of recognition, whether at the beginning, the middle, or the end, that one loves a woman as a woman. Tingle is the flint. Here we are taking our stories of women loving women in our own hands and making ourselves visible on our own terms. When the initial thrill of desire is past, the tingle is ultimately the recognition that what we have found cannot remain in the dark—we must love and be loved in the light.
En esta obra se reúnen ocho estudios que recorren la historia de la literatura española desde la Edad Media hasta la actualidad, mostrando que una parte importante de nuestro pasado, la que representa a la mitad femenina de la población, debe tener cabida en los manuales, porque también tiene historia. A la crítica sobre el pasado, este libro suma la reflexión de dos escritoras presentes: Rosa Regás y Belén Gopegui. Ambas ponen el contrapunto de la conciencia creadora femenina en una actualidad.
