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Hace 5 días · In the opening pages of Sayers’s book Gaudy Night, protagonist Harriet Vane sit in her 44 Mecklenburg Square apartment, deliberating over whether or not to attend her college gaudy (aka reunion). There is no mention of Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own, ...
Hace 1 día · Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/ s ɛər z / SAIRZ; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French.She worked as an advertising copywriter between 1922 and ...
Hace 4 días · 2016. ‘The First Feminist Murder Mystery? The Gender Politics of Higher Education in Dorothy L. Sayers’ Gaudy Night (1935)’ 2016. ‘Surface Enjoyment and Critical Distance: Readerly Pleasures in Akhenaten and The Monkey’s Mask’ 2015. ‘The Eloquent Listener: Language, Sound and the Act of Listening through Modernist Texts ...
Hace 3 días · The titles have not held up as well as I would have liked BUT Jill Paton Walsh has carried on with the series with four terrific titles where Lord Peter and Harriet grow old together. In The Late Scholar, Lord Peter is in his 60s, and they return to the Oxford of Gaudy Night. (Full series at the Ramsey County Library, kindle and paper editions.
Hace 3 días · One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) [1] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
Hace 1 día · Re: George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: Once more, we find ourselves plunged into Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle.. Debord (1931–1994), a favorite French intellectual of the espresso-and-resistance crowd, published the above book in 1967, popularizing its assertion that the public perception of “being” had devolved into a “spectacular” set of mere distracting ...
Hace 2 días · Saturday Night Fever. When, with great fireworks displays. the masses celebrate the dark, stuff themselves with beer and sausage. and throw up loudly in the park. When they check, in glove compartments, if all the condoms are still there, and the coupés collect their dents. from crashing in the headlights’ glare.
