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Masquerade

Autore: Dayane Bears

Numero di pagine: 389

Da un grande successo WATTPAD. Janet Wisteria Rion è tornata. Sono passati sette anni da quando è fuggita per andare a vivere a Parigi, nella speranza di riuscire a dimenticare l’uomo con il volto celato da una maschera di cui si era innamorata. Non è più la ragazza fragile di allora, è diventata una donna forte e ambiziosa, ha ottenuto un posto come insegnante al Berkeley College e sta per sposarsi. Ma il passato ha un modo perverso di tornare a galla. Masquerade la stava aspettando e basta un biglietto per trascinare di nuovo Janet negli abissi dell’ossessione per quell’uomo senza volto eppure così intimo, che ha un’ottima ragione per non mostrarsi. Janet si ritrova intrappolata in un pericoloso gioco di segreti, desideri torbidi e manipolazioni, mentre la ricerca della verità potrebbe avere un prezzo troppo alto. Un dark romance intenso e conturbante, il primo libro di una serie in cui amore e ossessione, vendetta e perdono non hanno più contorni definiti e si fondono in un disordine emotivo che ci porterà nei meandri più oscuri delle relazioni. #ENEMIESTOLOVERS #FAKEIDENTITY #FORBIDDENLOVE #SPICY #DARKROMANCE #LOVETRIANGLE #FAMILYPROBLEMS

Masquerade and Gender

Autore: Catherine A. Craft-fairchild

Numero di pagine: 205

Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele, and Fielding all insisted that masquerade allowed women to usurp the privileges of men. Female authors, however, often mistrusted these claims, perceiving that masquerade's apparent freedoms were frequently nothing more than sophisticated forms of oppression. Catherine Craft-Fairchild's work provides a useful corrective to Castle's treatment of masquerade. She argues that, in fictions by Aphra Behn, Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Frances Burney, masquerade is double-sided. It is represented in some cases as a disempowering capitulation to patriarchal strictures that posit female subordination. Often within the same text, however, masquerade is also depicted as an empowering defiance of the dominant norms for female behavior. Heroines who attempt to separate themselves from the image of womanhood they consciously construct escape victimization. In both cases,...

Masquerade and Civilization

Autore: Terry Castle

Numero di pagine: 420

Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary...

Masquerade and Identities

Autore: Efrat Tseëlon

Numero di pagine: 204

Masquerade, both literal and metaphorical, is now a central concept on many disciplines. This timely volume explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing and representing marginalised identities, and in undermining easy distinctions between 'true' identity and artifice. The book is interdisciplinary in approach, spanning a diverse range of cultures and narrative voices. It provides provocative and nuanced ways of thinking about masquerade as a tool for construction, and a tool for critique. The essays interrogate such themes as: *mask and carnival *fetish fashion *stigma of illegitimacy *femininity as masquerade *lesbian masks *cross-dressing in Jewish folk theatre *the mask in seventeenth and eighteenth century London and nineteenth century France *the voice as mask.

Masquerade

Autore: Deborah Bell

Numero di pagine: 289

In its conventional meaning, masquerade refers to a festive gathering of people wearing masks and elegant costumes. But traditional forms of masquerade have evolved over the past century to include the representation of alternate identities in the media and venues of popular culture, including television, film, the internet, theater, museums, sports arenas, popular magazines and a range of community celebrations, reenactments and conventions. This collection of fresh essays examines the art and function of masquerade from a broad range of perspectives. From African slave masquerade in New World iconography, to the familiar Guy Fawkes masks of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to the branded identities created by celebrities like Madonna, Beyonce and Lady Gaga, the essays show how masquerade permeates modern life.

Psychological Masquerade

Autore: Robert L. Taylor Md

Numero di pagine: 286

When faced with a patient whose psychological symptoms may stem from an organic, or medical, condition rather than psychology, how does the practitioner determine exactly which is the true case? To facilitate this process and give psychologists, social workers, and nurses a useable guide to assessment, Robert Taylor created Psychological Masquerade and has updated it to be the most complete handbook you will ever need in the field. New chapters on violent behavior, amnesia and dementia, sex obsession, and Munchausen-by-Proxy fill out the guide and numerous case studies help clarify diagnostic criteria and provide a welcome hands-on approach to caring for clients in this delicate balance. As a further enhancement of the text as assessment tool, self-tests for hypothetical cases are included as are specific clinical tests that aid in clue gathering. This is the perfect clinical guide for any practitioner who is likely to come into contact with psychological masquerade among their clients and will be a welcome addition to the practitioner's toolbox.

Digital Masquerade

Autore: Jia Tan

Numero di pagine: 208

"Highlighting the often-neglected queer presence in Chinese feminist movements, Digital Masquerade charts the formation of a new wave of rights feminism and queer activism in post-millennial China and the co-constitutive role of digital technology as assemblage and entanglement in the articulation of feminism, queerness, and rights"--

Masquerade and Femininity

Autore: Urszula Chowaniec , Ursula Phillips , Marja Rytkönen

Numero di pagine: 267

Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers introduces the reader to the diversity of women’s writing in Poland and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries in the light of the notion of masquerade. The present articles scrutinize particular works by women writers (Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia, Irina Odoevtseva, Vera Pavlova, Narcyza Żmichowska, Maria Komornicka, Irena Krzywicka and others) and the strategies of masquerading female experience. Taken together, the articles draw attention to the feeling of an inexpressible gap between the living body (and its everyday life experience of pain and suffering or happiness and pleasure) and the culturally constructed, powerfully imposed code of expression that readily makes use of various masks, guises and acts of pretending, applied especially cleverly in literary works. The concept of masquerade illuminates the complexity of what we call “femininity” by combining two sides of the divide: the real feelings and the constructed expressions. This volume uses both feminist and non-feminist approaches to women’s writing and sheds new light on the themes of femininity, woman’s identity, experience,...

The Modernist Masquerade

Autore: Colleen Mcquillen

Numero di pagine: 299

Masked and costume balls thrived in Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during a period of rich literary and theatrical experimentation. The first study of its kind, The Modernist Masquerade examines the cultural history of masquerades in Russia and their representations in influential literary works. The masquerade's widespread appearance as a literary motif in works by such writers as Anna Akhmatova, Leonid Andreev, Andrei Bely, Aleksandr Blok, and Fyodor Sologub mirrored its popularity as a leisure-time activity and illuminated its integral role in the Russian modernist creative consciousness. Colleen McQuillen charts how the political, cultural, and personal significance of lavish costumes and other forms of self-stylizing evolved in Russia over time. She shows how their representations in literature engaged in dialog with the diverse aesthetic trends of Decadence, Symbolism, and Futurism and with the era's artistic philosophies.

Masquerade Balls in Regency Britain

Autore: Anne Glover

Numero di pagine: 241

Regency masquerades blended lavish spectacle, fashion, and social identity across Britain and its empire. The 18th-century masquerade didn’t die at the dawn of the new century. Instead, spectacle helped these risqué events achieve new grandeur. From indoor balloon displays to lavish food and wine, masquerades in the early 1800s were hyper-real sites of consumption. Dressed in dominoes, character costumes, and fancy dress, the fashionable and titled of London society flocked to these events in the hundreds to thousands to entertain and be entertained. Amidst the bacchanalian, motley events were signs and symbols that masquerade balls were about more than a good time. In the first comprehensive look at early 19th-century British masquerades, Glover uses primary sources to identify venues, décor, performers, costumes, and other details about public and private masquerades. Masquerades flourished from London to far-flung imperial strongholds. Comparing the details over the long Regency, Glover teases out common themes and then examines them through the lens of national identity, cultural appropriation, and gender. This research sheds new light on Regency people, culture, and...

New World Masquerade

Autore: Pasquale De Marco

Numero di pagine: 154

**New World Masquerade** is the definitive guide to the world of vampires. In this comprehensive book, you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about these enigmatic creatures, from their history and origins to their culture and beliefs. You will meet the different clans of vampires, each with their own unique powers and weaknesses. You will learn about the vampire's relationship with humanity, and you will explore the challenges and dangers that face them in the modern world. **New World Masquerade** is packed with information, including: * The history of vampires, from their origins in ancient mythology to their portrayal in modern popular culture * The different clans of vampires, including the Brujah, Gangrel, Malkavian, Nosferatu, and Toreador * The vampire's relationship with humanity, including their feeding habits and their need for secrecy * The challenges and dangers that face vampires in the modern world, including the threat of vampire hunters Whether you are a fan of vampire fiction or simply curious about the creatures of the night, **New World Masquerade** is the perfect book for you. It is a comprehensive guide to the world of vampires, and it will answer...

Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Autore: Helene Carol Weldt-basson

Numero di pagine: 238

Contemporary Latin American fiction establishes a unique connection between masquerade, frequently motivated by stigma or trauma, and social justice. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines philosophy, history, psychology, literature, and social justice theory, this study delineates the synergistic connection between these two themes. Weldt-Basson examines fourteen novels by twelve different Latin American authors: Mario Vargas Llosa, Sergio Galindo, Augusto Roa Bastos, Fernando del Paso, Mayra Santos-Febres, Isabel Allende, Carmen Boullosa, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Marcela Serrano, Sara Sefchovich, Luisa Valenzuela, and Ariel Dorfman. She elucidates the varieties of social justice operating in the plots of contemporary Latin American novels: distributive, postmodern/feminist, postcolonial, transitional, and historical justices. The author further examines how masquerade and disguise aid in articulating the theme of social justice, why this is important, and how it relates to Latin American history and the historical novel.

The lion's masquerade: a sequel to The peacock 'at home', by a lady [C.A. Dorset. In verse]. A facs. reprod. of the ed. of 1807. With an intr. by C. Welsh

Autore: Catherine Ann Dorset

Numero di pagine: 42

Masquerade

Autore: Alfred F. Young

Numero di pagine: 440

"Masquerade" is the remarkable story of a woman who fought in the American revolution as a man--and got away with it.

De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade

Autore: Patrick Bridgwater

Numero di pagine: 188

De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade is what has long been needed, a study of Thomas De Quincey's Gothic and Gothic-related texts by a Germanist working on Gothic and specializing in Anglo-German literary relations. Variously identified as Gothic Hero, Gothic Parasite, and author of a Gothick sport, De Quincey is the dark horse of Gothicism, for while his work has, increasingly, been associated with Gothic, not one of the recent companions to Gothic so much as mentions his name. Definitions of what is meant by 'Gothic' have changed, of course, and are still evolving, claiming more territory all the time, but Gothic specialists also have their blind spots, of whom De Quincey is one. One reason for this state of affairs will be the fact that in his work the Gothic is interwoven with the German, to which modern English studies all too often turn a blind eye. In this timely study of his work in relation to Gothic convention the author addresses the question of De Quincey's reputed knowledge of German 'Gothic' Romantic literature and the related question of supposed German influences on his Gothic work, and shows that his fiction is not less but more original than has been thought. The texts ...

Masquerade in Nigeria

Autore: George Onyeke

Numero di pagine: 292

The Masquerade

Autore: Susan Richards Shreve

Numero di pagine: 196

The 4 Walker children are confused and angry when their father is accused of embezzlement.

Fatty ills and their masquerades

Autore: Ephraim Cutter

Numero di pagine: 236

A Regency Christmas Treat: Moonlight and Mistletoe / A Mistletoe Masquerade

Autore: Louise Allen

Numero di pagine: 393

Two of your favourite Christmas Regency stories from Louise Allen!

Summer Masquerade

Autore: Donna Ball

Numero di pagine: 198

Psing as her young cousin, Annabelle goes to Brighton where matchmaking relatives introduce her to Devon Lanson. Though the young people detest the meddling of their elders, they are attracted to each other.

The Masquerade

Autore: Robert Hillyer

Numero di pagine: 54

Magnificent Masquerade

Autore: Charles Keats

Numero di pagine: 304

Love's Masquerade

Autore: Violet Hamilton

Numero di pagine: 308

When Leslie Danforth tries to repel the attentions of an unwanted suitor, she is rescued by Marcus Kingsly, who offers her pseudonymous authorship of a column in The Times London. And when Marcus and Leslie later learn of a plot to murder the Prince Regent, glorious intrigue, romance, and adventure ensue.

New Orleans Masquerade

Autore: Arthur Burton La Cour

Numero di pagine: 410

Masquerade in Black

Autore: William T. Leonard

Numero di pagine: 460

Chronicles the 400-year history of whites in blackface.

The Eternal Masquerade

Autore: Herbert Dennis Bradley

Numero di pagine: 300

The Religio-medical Masquerade

Autore: Frederick William Peabody

Numero di pagine: 208

The Cave (a Comedy in Three Acts) and The Womans̕ Masquerade (a Comedy in One Act)

Autore: Nora Del Smith

Numero di pagine: 56

The Masquerade

Numero di pagine: 422

Modern French Songs: Gavotte of the masquerade

Autore: Philip Hale

Numero di pagine: 172

Masquerade

Autore: Jo Van Ammers-küller

Numero di pagine: 256

Christmas Masquerade

Autore: Debbie Macomber

Numero di pagine: 196

The Manly Masquerade

Autore: Valeria Finucci

Numero di pagine: 332

Analyzes how the body was constructed and politicized in early modern Italy by exploring literary discourses of the period - plays, novellas, travel journals, poems, etc.