Traveling On One Leg

Author : Herta Müller
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810116413
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling on One Leg written by Herta Müller and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist of Herta Muller's Traveling on One Leg is Irene, a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from Romania to Germany. The novel focuses on Irene's relationship with three men: Franz, whom she met in Romania and who was unwilling to respond to her love for him; Stefan, a friend of Franz's; and Thomas, a bisexual bookseller in perpetual crisis. Despite being born to a German family, Irene's place in Germany is as a recent emigre and an unassimilated Romanian German. She feels neither longing for Romania nor any comfort in her newly adopted Germany. Politically and socially isolated, Irene moves within the emotional orbit of these three men, while at the same time moving between West Berlin, Marburg, and Frankfurt, taking a dissonant journey within strange yet familiar territory. Characterized by the same sense of profound isolation found in Muller's The Land of Green Plums (see page 20), Traveling on One Leg is a poignant exploration of exile, homeland, and identity.

Author : Mei Zhang
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143783815
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels Through Dali: with a leg of ham written by Mei Zhang and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Velvet-red meat patterned with seams of fat like the finest Dali marble. Time has done its work.’ Zhang Mei has always cherished the ham from her native province of Yunnan, China. Growing up in Dali on the banks of the Xi’er River, Mei relished the morsels of ham her father would toss into a dish of spicy green peppers and onions. Over time she learned that the true magic of Yunnan ham lies not just in its salty-sweet taste, produced by an intricate curing process, but also in its ability to bring people together and carry on a time-honoured way of life. Now a successful entrepreneur, Mei returns to her childhood home, finds a leg of ham and travels with it through the cultural and culinary cradle of Dali. Her edible companion becomes a calling card that takes her into the history and traditions of the region and unveils the unique stories and recipes of those who call it home.

Author : Kara Reilly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137597836
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre written by Kara Reilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies. It explores company and directorial approaches to adaptation through analysis of the work of Kneehigh, Mabou Mines, Robert Le Page and Katie Mitchell. It then moves on to look at the transformation of the novel onto the stage in the work of Mitchell, and in The Red Badge of Courage, The Kite Runner, Anne Frank, and Fanny Hill. Next, it examines contemporary radical adaptations of Trojan Women and The Iliad. Finally, it looks at five different approaches to postmodern metatheatrical adaptation in early modern texts of Hamlet, The Changeling, and Faustus, as well as the work of the Neo-Futurists, and the mash-up Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella. Overall, this comprehensive study offers insights into key productions, ideas about approaches to adaptation, and current debates on fidelity, postmodernism and remediation.

Author : Bernd Stiegler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608115X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling in Place written by Bernd Stiegler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn’t travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required—the luxury of armchair travel is accessible to us all. In Traveling in Place, Bernd Stiegler celebrates this convenient, magical means of transport in all its many forms. Organized into twenty-one “legs”—or short chapters—Traveling in Place begins with a consideration of Xavier de Maistre’s 1794 Voyage autour de ma chambre, an account of the forty-two-day “journey around his room” Maistre undertook as a way to entertain himself while under house arrest. Stiegler is fascinated by the notion of exploring the familiar as though it were completely new and strange. He engages writers as diverse as Roussel, Beckett, Perec, Robbe-Grillet, Cortázar, Kierkegaard, and Borges, all of whom show how the everyday can be brilliantly transformed. Like the best guidebooks, Traveling in Place is more interested in the idea of travel as a state of mind than as a physical activity, and Stiegler reflects on the different ways that traveling at home have manifested themselves in the modern era, from literature and film to the virtual possibilities of the Internet, blogs, and contemporary art. Reminiscent of the pictorial meditations of Sebald, but possessed of the intellectual playfulness of Calvino, Traveling in Place offers an entertaining and creative Baedeker to journeying at home.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transportation Plan for the National Capital Region written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the D.C. mass transportation plans. Includes Interim Report of the Joint Commission To Study Passenger Carrier Facilities and Services in the Washington Metropolitan Area, Feb. 1956 (p. 309-362)

Author : Scott Speck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119643104
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ballet For Dummies written by Scott Speck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome technique. Ballet For Dummies is for anyone who wants to enjoy all that the dance forms offers – as an onlooker who wants to get a leg up on the forms you're likely to see or as an exercise enthusiast who understands that the practice of ballet can help you gain: More strength Greater flexibility Better body alignment Confidence in movement Comfort through stress reduction Infinite grace – for life From covering the basics of classical ballet to sharing safe and sensible ways to try your hand (and toes) at moving through the actual dance steps, this expert reference shows you how to: Build your appreciation for ballet from the ground up. Choose the best practice space and equipment. Warm up to your leap into the movements. Locate musical options for each exercise. Look for certain lifts in a stage performance. Tell a story with gestures. Picture a day in the life of a professional ballet dancer. Identify best-loved classic and contemporary ballets. Speak the language of ballet. Today you can find a ballet company in almost every major city on earth. Many companies have their own ballet schools – some for training future professionals, and others for interested amateurs. As you fine-tune your classical ballet technique – or even if you just like to read about it – you'll become better equipped to fully appreciate the great choreography and many styles of the dance. Ballet For Dummies raises the curtain on a world of beauty, grace, poise, and possibility! P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you’re probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Ballet For Dummies (9780764525681).

Author : Andrea Boucher
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449636128
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movement Discovery: Physical Education for Children written by Andrea Boucher and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Stars! Doody's Book Review Creative, challenging, and interesting physical education lessons in pre-schools and elementary schools are essential. Movement Discovery: Physical Education for Children is designed to change traditional thinking in physical education and bring a breath of fresh air to movement lessons. Written to help early childhood and elementary school teachers value simple, strenuous, and enjoyable activity, this text provides the foundation they'll need to give such experiences to young children. This text includes: background information to provide an understanding of why programs are as they are information about child development and skill development to give guidance to teachers material to start an on-going Movement Discovery program that capitalizes on the innate human urge to discover ones' physical capacities and enjoy them Movement Discovery encourages teachers to provide challenging yet gratifying physical education lessons. If students can derive satisfaction in their increase in skill, and if these skills have a link with their future education and the world in which they live, there is a good possibility that activity will continue throughout life.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind and Body written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Gymnasia and Athletic Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: