[PDF] Adulterous Nations eBook

Author : Tatiana Kuzmic
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810133997

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In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, along with August Šenoa’s The Goldsmith’s Gold and Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis—can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family. In each example, an outsider figure is responsible for the disruption experienced by the family. Kuzmic deftly argues that the hopes, anxieties, and interests of European nations during this period can be discerned in the destabilizing force of adultery. Reading the work of Šenoa and Sienkiewicz, from Croatia and Poland, respectively, Kuzmic illuminates the relationship between the literature of dominant nations and that of the semicolonized territories that posed a threat to them. Ultimately, Kuzmic’s study enhances our understanding of not only these five novels but nineteenth-century European literature more generally.

Author : Tatiana Kuzmic
Publisher : ProQuest
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN : 9780549909569

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The dissertation examines the figure of the adulterous heroine of the nineteenth-century European novel as a symbol of national anxieties. The gendering of a nation or a nation-like collectivity as female has a long history, evident in expressions such as "Mother Earth" or "Mother Russia" and in myths considered foundational to modern European literature, such as Europa's abduction by Zeus or the Hebrew prophets' personification of Israel as an adulterous woman. The nineteenth century realist novel, written from within the newly emerged category of the nation-state, is especially rich in intersections of gender relations and national belonging, and it is no coincidence that adultery appears as the prevalent topic. Set in the 1830s milieu of the First Reform Bill and the Catholic Question, the love triangle in George Eliot's Middlemarch explores national boundaries through a romantic Polish rebel, who not only wins the girl, but a seat in Parliament by the end of the novel. Fontane's Effi Briest, by contrast, is set in the recently unified Germany, where Poland is too close to home to be romanticized. Effi's slighted husband, a high ranking official in Bismarck's service, kills his rival in an old-fashioned duel, while the shamed Effi returns to her parents' house, where she falls ill and dies. Lev Tolstoy's Anna Karenina reveals the anxieties of an empire stretched in too many directions. The Eastern Crisis is symbolized through the heroine's mangled body and her grieving lover's joining of the volunteer movement against Turkey, while Levin offers a solution to blurring boundaries by withdrawing into the country. August Senoa's The Goldsmith's Gold allegorizes Croatian political conflicts by placing the hero in a love triangle between a peasant girl, who represents the embodiment of both sexual and national purity, and a wealthy blond Germanic femme fatale, who breaks up the impending union of the first two.

Author : J. P. Haygood
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category :
ISBN : 1434329151

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Drew Phillips is a modern day prophet whose only desire is to travel from town to town in his crusades helping people and healing the sick. He had no idea that when he called a beautiful young cancer victim forward for healing that it would change his life forever. Sam Hogue was the youngest Assistant Director in the history of the C.I.A. and he had just been handed the job of stopping an assassination attempt against the President. He knew was this was not a group of loose knit amateurs but professionals, well funded and better connected politically than he was. As you read this story you will see how time and fate twist these two very different men together. Drew refuses to work for the C.I.A. until Sam reaches into his bag of "Dirty Tricks" and forces the issue. When Drew decides to use his calling as a prophet to save the life of the President, his heart starts pumping red white and blue and not even Sam was ready for what Drew would see! Who would have ever suspected that the wealthiest oil Sheik in the world would have such a diabolical plot that if not stopped it would forever change the fate of the world and launch "The Caliphate". As you read this book don't be surprised if you feel this is non-fiction. Some of the early edits were done by government employees and retired military officers and they were shaken by the elements of truth found within the pages. I will let you decide what is fiction and what is not.

Author : Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher :
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :

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Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".

Author : Dorothy Kelley Patterson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 4412 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 143361538X

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The Study Bible for Women will equip you to reach deep into God’s Word. Perhaps the single most powerful aspect of this Bible are the “threads” of specialized study thoughtfully woven throughout, pointing you to God’s larger story and allowing the Holy Spirit to write His revealed truths on your heart. In The Study Bible for Women, you’ll join a host of other women, all academically trained in the original languages of the Bible and passionate about God’s Word, for an intimately deep dive into Scripture that will equip you to unlock the riches and majesty of His Word, and ignite a passion to mentor others in your life to do the same. The Study Bible for Women includes the full text of the Holman Christian Standard Bible, a clear, contemporary English translation that's faithful to the original languages of the Bible. Features include extensive commentary notes, word studies, answers to hard questions, doctrinal notes, Biblical womanhood articles, character profiles, Written on My Heart applications, extensive book introductions, presentation pages, in-text maps, charts & timelines, full-color maps section and concordance.

Author : Terry Swift
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1489741429

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The book of Revelation is meant to be understood or revealed. The word revelation means to reveal, to uncover. But it cannot be understood by a man without the indwelling Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives keys to understanding the book both in Revelation and in other teachings of scripture. The Spirit lets us know when the book was written - by facts presented in the book. That is important in discovering when the fulfillment of the book took place. The Spirit also tells us the Revelation was of things that “must soon take place.” This phrase governs our understanding in the fulfillment of the whole Revelation. Again, the teaching of prophecies were all to be fulfilled within the “generation of Jesus”. These prophecies were to and “must soon take place” in the book. There are seven keys I have followed in understanding the book of Revelation. You can understand the book of revelation also by following the keys the Spirit has left for us. God blesses us in multiple ways in opening His book - the Revelation. May he bless you fully in that effort through his Spirit. May you come to understand his Revelation.

Author : Narendra Subramanian
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804790906

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The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life. Nation and Family is the most comprehensive study to date of the public discourses, processes of social mobilization, legislation and case law that formed India's three major personal law systems, which govern Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. It for the first time systematically compares Indian experiences to those in a wide range of other countries that inherited personal laws specific to religious group, sect, or ethnic group. The book shows why India's postcolonial policy-makers changed the personal laws they inherited less than the rulers of Turkey and Tunisia, but far more than those of Algeria, Syria and Lebanon, and increased women's rights for the most part, contrary to the trend in Pakistan, Iran, Sudan and Nigeria since the 1970s. Subramanian demonstrates that discourses of community and features of state-society relations shape the course of personal law. Ruling elites' discourses about the nation, its cultural groups and its traditions interact with the state-society relations that regimes inherit and the projects of regimes to change their relations with society. These interactions influence the pattern of multiculturalism, the place of religion in public policy and public life, and the forms of regulation of family life. The book shows how the greater engagement of political elites with initiatives among the Hindu majority and the predominant place they gave Hindu motifs in discourses about the nation shaped Indian multiculturalism and secularism, contrary to current understandings. In exploring the significant role of communitarian discourses in shaping state-society relations and public policy, it takes "state-in-society" approaches to comparative politics, political sociology, and legal studies in new directions.