Wang in Love and Bondage

Wang in Love and Bondage PDF Author: Wang Xiaobo
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791470664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China.

Wang in Love and Bondage

Wang in Love and Bondage PDF Author: Wang Xiaobo
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791470664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China.

Kink

Kink PDF Author: R.O. Kwon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982110228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A New York Times Notable Book Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. A Most-Anticipated book of 2021 as selected by * Marie Claire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Cosmopolitan * Time * The Millions * The Advocate * Autostraddle * Refinery29 * Shape * Town & Country * Book Riot * Literary Hub * Kink is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors. The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates, therapists’ offices, underground sex clubs, and even a sex theater in early-20th century Paris. While there are whips and chains, sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires, as portrayed by some of today’s most exciting writers.

Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage PDF Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513288253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 573

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Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by his experiences as an orphan and young student, Maugham composed his masterpiece. Adapted several times for film, Of Human Bondage is a story of tragedy, perseverance, and the eternal search for happiness which drives us as much as it haunts our every move. Orphaned as a boy, Philip Carey is raised in an affectionless household by his aunt and uncle. Although his Aunt Louisa tries to make him feel welcome, William proves an uncaring, vindictive man. Left to fend for himself most days, Philip finds solace in the family’s substantial collection of books, which serve as an escape for the imaginative boy. Sent to study at a prestigious boarding school, Philip struggles to fit in with his peers, who abuse him for his intelligence and club foot. Despite his struggles, he perseveres in his studies and chooses his own path in life, moving to Heidelberg, Germany and denying his uncle’s wish that he attend Oxford. As he struggles to become a professional artist, Philip learns that one’s dreams are often unsubstantiated in the world of the living. Of Human Bondage is a tale of desire, disappointment, and romance by a master stylist with a keen sense of the complications inherent to human nature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

Canetti and Nietzsche

Canetti and Nietzsche PDF Author: Harriet Murphy
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791431344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Book Description
This first full-length study investigates the profound implications of the peculiarly original sense of humor found in Elias Canetti's single novel--a facetiousness, understood in a Nietzschean sense, as a revolutionary aesthetic.

A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing

A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing PDF Author: Rudolf G. Wagner
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 079145181X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 541

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Book Description
Presenting the commentary of the third-century sage Wang Bi, this book provides a Chinese way of reading the Daodejing, one which will surprise Western readers.

Wang in Love and Bondage

Wang in Love and Bondage PDF Author: Wang Xiaobo
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791470657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Book Description
The first English translation of work by Wang Xiaobo, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China.

Somber Lust

Somber Lust PDF Author: Yair Mazor
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791453087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
A comprehensive study of Israel’s most internationally celebrated writer.

Shmuel's Bridge

Shmuel's Bridge PDF Author: Jason Sommer
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1623545129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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A moving memoir of a son’s relationship with his survivor father and of their Eastern European journey through a family history of incalculable loss. Jason Sommer’s father, Jay, is ninety-eight years old and losing his memory. More than seventy years after arriving in New York from WWII-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the lives of millions of Jews who were affected by Nazi terror. Observing this loss, Jason vividly recalls the trip to Eastern Europe the two took together in 2001. As father and son travel from the town of Jay’s birth to the labor camp from which he escaped, and to Auschwitz, where many in his family were lost, the stories Jason’s father has told all his life come alive. So too do Jason’s own memories of the way his father’s past complicated and impacted Jason's own inner life. Shmuel's Bridge shows history through a double lens: the memories of a growing son’s complex relationship with his father and the meditations of that son who, now grown, finds himself caring for a man losing all connection to a past that must not be forgotten.

Memoirs of a Terrorist

Memoirs of a Terrorist PDF Author: Sally Patterson Tubach
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791430057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Memoirs of a Terrorist is a gripping experimental novel about a young woman raped at the age of fifteen by her father. Having repressed this crime from her conscious awareness, Megan Lloyd's short intense life becomes a quest for sexual and human identity. A privileged daughter from suburban southern California, the heroine writes about early periods of her life in revolutionary Berkeley as well as later events in Malibu, Dallas, Munich, and finally, Paris. Her failure to bring the repressed crime to consciousness reveals a tragic blind spot from which emerges the sexual bondage murder of her lover in a Munich hotel. The heroine's internal story is told by her fragmentary diaries and stories that her father retrieves after her death as a suspected terrorist in Europe. As he approaches his own death years later, Arthur Lloyd attempts to comprehend his daughter by analyzing her texts, and finally confesses his crime to the reader. Thus two narrative voices, one male and one female, intersect, clash, and reinforce each other in this rich and complex text that weaves a tale of sexual violence and portrays quests for insight and redemption.

Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism

Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism PDF Author: Nicholas S. Brasovan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143846455X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Book Description
Addresses Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi’s neo-Confucianism from the perspective of contemporary ecological humanism. In this novel engagement with Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Fuzhi (1619–1692), Nicholas S. Brasovan presents Wang’s neo-Confucianism as an important theoretical resource for engaging with contemporary ecological humanism. Brasovan coins the term “person-in-the-world” to capture ecological humanism’s fundamental premise that humans and nature are inextricably bound together, and argues that Wang’s cosmology of energy (qi) gives us a rich conceptual vocabulary for understanding the continuity that exists between persons and the natural world. The book makes a significant contribution to English-language scholarship on Wang Fuzhi and to Chinese intellectual history, with new English translations of classical Chinese, Mandarin, and French texts in Chinese philosophy and culture. This innovative work of comparative philosophy not only presents a systematic and comprehensive interpretation of Wang’s thought but also shows its relevance to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of ecology. Nicholas S. Brasovan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas.