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Shakespeare’s Suicides
Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare’s dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic characterisation. In particular, the book approaches suicide as a gendered phenomenon. By taking into account parameters such as onstage versus offstage deaths, suicide speeches or the explicit denial of final words, as well as settings and weapons, the study scrutinises the ways in which Shakespeare appropriates the convention of suicide and subverts traditional notions of masculine versus feminine deaths. It shows to what extent a gendered approach towards suicide opens up a more nuanced understanding of the correlation between gender and Shakespeare’s genres and how, eventually, through their dramatisation of suicide the tragedies query normative gender discourse.
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Narrating Empire and Domesticity in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Fiction classified as ‘neo-Victorian’ has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production. It is no coincidence that this most recent Victorian renaissance is taking shape in a climate of widespread empire nostalgia, with imperial-colonial legacies being relegated to a distant ‘elsewhere.’ In its critical re-visitations of the nineteenth century, neo-Victorianism has the potential to intervene in this often selective memory of Britain’s imperial past. Nevertheless, systematic re-readings of empire have so far played a comparatively minor role in neo-Victorian scholarly debate.This monograph addresses this lacuna by examining how neo-Victorianism negotiates constructions of empire in conjunction with the domestic. Drawing on a range of neo-Victorian novels as well as their Victorian intertexts and bringing these into dialogue with postcolonial theory, it asks how neo-Victorian fiction engages with, perpetuates, or subverts Victorian imaginaries of urban British ‘centres’ in opposition to remote imperial ‘margins.’ It examines why domesticity – broadly understood as ideologically charged concepts of family, home, and belonging based on formations of gender, sexuality, and class – can never be constituted independently of empire. In addition, the book raises questions regarding neo-Victorianism’s larger potentiality of narrating empire, suggesting that it is precisely the disorienting moments that constitute a characteristically neo-Victorian mode of exploring the entanglements of empire and domesticity.
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Marlene
A lush, dramatic biographical novel of one of the most glamorous and alluring legends of Hollywood's golden age, Marlene Dietrich-from the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the lush film studios of Hollywood, a sweeping story of passion, glamour, ambition, art, and war from the author of Mademoiselle Chanel. Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, Maria Magdalena Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage. When a budding career as a violinist is cut short, the willful teenager vows to become a singer, trading her family's proper, middle-class society for the free-spirited, louche world of Weimar Berlin's cabarets and drag balls. With her sultry beauty, smoky voice, seductive silk cocktail dresses, and androgynous tailored suits, Marlene performs to packed houses and becomes entangled in a series of stormy love affairs that push the boundaries of social convention. For the beautiful, desirous Marlene, neither fame nor marriage and motherhood can cure her wanderlust. As Hitler and the Nazis rise to power, she sets sail for America.Rivaling the success of another European import, Greta Garbo, Marlene quickly becomes one of Hollywood's leading ladies, starring with legends such as Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and Cary Grant. Desperate for her return, Hitler tries to lure her with dazzling promises. Marlene instead chooses to become an American citizen, and after her new nation is forced into World War II, she tours with the USO, performing for thousands of Allied troops in Europe and Africa. But one day she returns to Germany. Escorted by General George Patton himself, Marlene is heartbroken by the war's devastation and the evil legacy of the Third Reich that has transformed her homeland and the family she loved. An enthralling and insightful account of this extraordinary legend, Marlene reveals the inner life of a woman of grit, glamour, and ambition who defied convention, seduced the world, and forged her own path on her own terms.
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Marlena
Tell me what you can't forget,and I'll tell you who you are . . . Cat is fifteen and the lonely new girl in town. Until she meets her neighbour, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat is quickly lured into Marlena's roller-coaster orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blonde hair. Within one intense, obsessive year of friendship, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water in the woods nearby. Decades later, when a ghost from that pivotal year surfaces unexpectedly, Cat must try again to move on, even as the memory of Marlena calls her back. Marlena is a riveting, intelligent and brilliant novel from debut author Julie Buntin. 'If you loved The Girls, this is for you . . . totally addictive' Grazia
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Marlene
This West End and Broadway hit is set in Paris in the 1970s. Legendary screen and stage actress, Marlene Dietrich, now in her seventies, prepares for her evening performance.
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Marlene Dietrich's ABC's
From the wonderfully varied and witty mind of Marlene Dietrich comes an alphabetised collection of her most zany, honest, and heartfelt thoughts. Offering her take on a range of ideas, people, and items, Marlene Dietrich's ABC is an unprecedented glimpse into one of history’s brightest and most enigmatic stars. Nothing is too small or grand for Dietrich’s unique eye. From her entry for hardware store face=Calibri>– "I'd rather go to a hardware store than to the opera" face=Calibri>– to her entry for egocentric – "If he is a creative artist, forgive him" face=Calibri>– she transforms both the mundane and the mysterious into snapshots of her own spirit. Complete with photos from her vast career, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC is an unexpected and addicting treat.In this edition Marlene offers her unique blend of wit, a sometimes mordant humour, sensitivity and acute observations of the world as she has known it and, to some extent, been shaped it. By blending the absolutely practical with her whimsical, witty, poetic and sometimes moving observations, Dietrich creates in yet another field that special magic with which she has held the world enthralled for decades.
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Marlene Streeruwitz
Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als »Modell der Welt in Sprache« zugleich auch ästhetisch autonom. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren die Weiterschreibungen, Gegen- und Neukonstruktionen der außertextuellen Welt in den Prosatexten, Essays, Vorlesungen und crossmedialen Projekten der Autorin. In den Blick genommen wird das Welt- und Lebenswissen der Literatur, ihr Beitrag zu unserer Trauer und Resistenz, Erinnerungs- und Überlebensfähigkeit – zwischen Glück, Lust, Liebe, (Für )Sorge und Schmerz. Marlene Streeruwitz trägt – neben einem Gespräch mit den beiden Herausgeberinnen – einen Originalbeitrag sowie einen bisher ungedruckten poetologischen Essay zum Band bei.
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Marleen Gorris
Dutch director Marleen Gorris is known chiefly for two films: A Question of Silence (1982), her fiercely feminist first film, in which three women meet by chance in a women's clothing boutique and ritually murder its male owner; and Antonia's Line (1995), her fourth film and winner of the 1996 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which traces four generations of Antonia's female 'line' in the matriarchal community she establishes in postwar rural Holland. Both have been extensively discussed, though rarely together, and appear on university syllabuses. Her second Dutch language film, Broken Mirrors (1984), and her five films in English, however, have received far less, and in some cases no critical attention. Using feminist reformulations of ideas of vulnerability and resistance, this first book-length study of her films examines their revisionings of narrative, time and space, and the possibilities they present of other narratives, other subjectivities and other relationships.
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Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Guide
Chris Wade examines the films of the legendary Marlene Dietrich, from her early days in silent German cinema, through her iconic collaborations with director Josef von Sternberg and beyond. This illustrated movie guide includes pieces on such films as Morocco, The Blue Angel, Dishonoured, Shanghai Express, Blue Venus, Stage Fright, Witness to the Prosecution, Touch of Evil and many more.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich comes alive in these pages in all of her incarnations: as muse, artistic collaborator, bona fide film star, box-office poison, lover, wife and mother. Maria Riva’s biography has the depth, range and resonance of a novel and captures the conviction and passion of its remarkable subject.
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Honeypot Chronicles 1.5 Extra Sticky
R. Marlaan Rush is giving you another taste of raw sexiness in 1.5-Extra Sticky. Sometimes, the hired help can help you do more than just clean up and sometimes, things other than your body can use a massage! Come, take Extra Sticky's characters by the hand and let them lead you to ecstasy!
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![Trial of Robert Sawle Donnall, on Suspicion of Poisoning Mrs. Downing, His Mother in Law, Tried at Launceston, March 31, 1817, at the Lent Assize, for the County of Cornwall, Before the Hon. Sir Charles Abbott, Knt. [electronic Resource]](http://exclusivebooks.co.za/cdn/shop/products/9781014850447_d2ac0c2a-08f0-40b0-99da-80fb9565d618.jpg?height=645&pad_color=fff&v=1707372517&width=315)
