![]() ![]() Certainly, Hänsel und Gretel embodied an influential perception of childhood that also animated late nineteenth-century French literary and political spheres. According to some Parisian critics, the opera's wildly successful representation of childhood explained its international success. Although Humperdinck's opera was a prime vehicle for perpetuating Franco-German cultural competition, a prominent strand of its Parisian reception emphasised transnational commonalities linking French and German cultural heritage – an emphasis facilitated by the fairy tale's nationalist ideologies. The critical discourse prompted by its Paris premiere provides an opportunity for exploring the political dynamics of nineteenth-century fairy tales and for elucidating the piece's considerable historical significance. Around 1900, Engelbert Humperdinck and Adelheid Wette's Hänsel und Gretel was one of the most widely performed operas in Europe. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future. ![]() ![]() It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Genre: Autobiography - Biography, History, Travel,ĭescription: Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, Keefe may be one of the best author-narrators alive today – this audiobook was impossible to put down. I'm calling it now: this title will win multiple awards. ![]() Patrick Radden Keefe’s investigative journalism about the Sackler family has a history, too he first published his findings in a 2017 New Yorker article, The Family That Built an Empire of Pain. Members of the Sackler family founded Purdue Pharma, the infamous maker of Ox圜ontin, a prescription drug that has fuelled an opioid epidemic across North America for the last twenty years. If you listen to this audiobook, prepare to feel angry. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama-baroque personal lives bitter disputes over. Every once in a while, I listen to work of narrative non-fiction so extraordinary, so outrageous, and so heartbreaking that I’m reminded that truth is stranger than fiction. Available to download on Libby as an eBook or audiobook. ![]() ![]() He pioneered a painterly approach to colour photography starting in the late 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Esquire and Harper's Bazaar before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh and moved to New York City in 1946. His complex and impressionistic photographs are as much about evoking an atmosphere as nailing the decisive moment. Leiter's images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. Now widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923-2013) remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. The first sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter's abundant archive of colour slides. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her academic interests range from bedouin folk traditions to modern Arab women’s writing. Her literary work has received international acclaim and has been translated into more than fifteen languages.Īl-Tahawy has also published two academic books, as well as numerous scholarly articles. ![]() She has published four novels, all of which have been translated into English: The Tent (AUC Press, 1998), Blue Aubergine (AUC Press, 2002), Gazelle Tracks (Garnet Publishing/AUC Press, 2009), and most recently, Brooklyn Heights (AUC Press, 2012), which received the 2010 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature and was shortlisted for the 2011 Arabic Booker Prize. In her work, al-Tahawy exposes the lives of bedouin women in lyrical prose. She completed a PhD in Arabic language and literature at Cairo University and immigrated to the United States in 2008. Al-Tahawy grew up in a traditional bedouin family-however, her father chose to educate his daughters. ![]() She is often recognized as the first Egyptian bedouin woman writer to publish modern Arabic literature and to provide an authentic glimpse into Egyptian bedouin life, particularly that of women. Miral al-Tahawy was born in 1968 to a bedouin family of the al-Hanadi tribe in the Egyptian Delta. ![]() ![]() Despite the intriguing premise, excessive back-story and rehashing of Gordon's sexual conquests (however accurately they might resemble Lord Byron's) can grow tiring. ![]() ![]() Shelly is Gordon's neighbor and childhood best friend, but his feelings for her have remained platonic while she has fallen in love with him Keats is Shelly's trusted friend, though there are only glimpses of that friendship. Most of the story consists of Keats relaying Gordon's past adventures, including being sexually abused by his nanny, publishing a YA vampire book, seducing many women-including his cousin and possibly his half-sister-and briefly joining a Greek terrorist squad. Following Shelly's apparent suicide, Gordon and Keats steal her ashes and, fleeing Shelly's sexually abusive father, they take a boat out on Lake Erie to fulfill her last wishes. Roth's imagining of poets Keats, Byron, and Shelly (a blending of Percy and Mary) in the present day centers almost exclusively on Byron, known as Gordon, despite being narrated by Keats. ![]() ![]() Discuss possible intervention strategies to improve driving safety outcomes.Compare risk factors for motor vehicle crashes across typically developing and TBI populations.List factors that increase motor vehicle crash risk.Describe methods used to understand risk behavior in the context of driving.Possible intervention strategies to improve driving safety outcomes will also be discussed.Īt the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: Learn about the impact distracted driving can have and methods used to understand risk behavior in the context of driving and factors that increase motor vehicle crash risk across typical development and TBI populations. The TRIP Lab research is focused on unintentional injury prevention and control with a strong focus on transportation-related issues from a cognitive and developmental perspective. Despina Stavrinos, Founder and Director of the Translational Research for Injury Prevention (TRIP) Laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving. Nearly 390,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving. The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year. ![]() ![]() Distracted driving includes anything that takes your attention away from the task of safe driving practices. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith graciously spoke with me while they were at the laundromat and we discussed the crafting of Homie, the surprising shapes of their poems, and how paradoxes of love and violence figure in the book. ![]() I would need to spend hours cooking an elaborate feast, large enough to feed all the characters of Smith’s world-and mine. To describe how deeply this book affected me I would need to sing. “With yo ugly ass,” Smith writes in “acknowledgments,” “at the end of the world, let there be you/ my world.” Tenderness, in these poems, is wedded to insult, love to violence. The poems in this book are surprising and fervent, emerging from all the joys, sorrows, and complexities of friendship, intimacy, and desire. Danez Smith’s third full-length collection, Homie, contains all the love and magnanimity that the poet-author of the National Book Award finalist collection Don’t Call Us Dead-is capable of. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gaughen, one of the renowned authors of her time. ![]() ![]() |a Robin Hood (Legendary character) |v Juvenile fiction. Gaughen is the first book in the series of Scarlet Series Audiobook by A. |a Will Scarlet shadows Robin Hood, with an unerring eye for finding treasures to steal and throwing daggers with deadly accuracy, but when Gisbourne, a ruthless bounty hunter, is hired by the sheriff to capture Robin and his band of thieves, Robin must become Will's protector risking his own life in the process. |a Includes bibliographical references and filmography. |a Untold story of the outlaw Robin Hood. Gaughen 24,309 ratings, 3.93 average rating, 2,861 reviews Open Preview Scarlet Quotes Showing 1-30 of 35 You are my whole heart, Scarlet. ![]() ![]() ![]() You’re inviting everyone to sit beside your characters in their car, at their office, and to slide between the tangled sheets and stay there until the sweat dries. When you wr ite a book, any book, you are giving the world a piece of yourself with it. “Two rival female journalists solving a mystery and, um, getting it on. The one where the beautiful crime-solving protagonists have steamy sex and no euphemisms were harmed in the process. So my boss, this boss, wants to read my book. Her ex-husband is a tub-thumping, dog-whistling former radio shock jock, a bastion of conservatism. She has a dyed, blonde-white bob, a love of fashion, a cutting tongue and a steely gaze that misses nothing. ![]() My boss at the mainstream newspaper where I work is 67 years old. Her post below shares some similarities with Inga Simpson’s and Tricia Dearborn’s, in that it delves into the complexities of revealing one’s lesbian/queer identity on the page. Lee is an award-winning newspaper journalist and in her 25-year career has lived in almost every state of Australia, covering courts, crime, entertainment, hard news, features and humour writing. ![]() ![]() Over October, we’re holding a focus on lesbian/queer Australian women writers, and this week we’re very happy to feature Lee Winter, who has just released her book The Red Files. ![]() |