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Author : Amanda Lee Koe
Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis Delayed Rays of a Star by : Amanda Lee Koe
Download or read book Delayed Rays of a Star written by Amanda Lee Koe. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amanda Lee Koe
Release : 2019-07-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Delayed Rays of a Star by : Amanda Lee Koe
Download or read book Delayed Rays of a Star written by Amanda Lee Koe. This book was released on 2019-07-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women--Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl--cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene Dietrich, who would wend her way into Hollywood as one of its lasting icons; Anna May Wong, the world's first Chinese American star, playing bit parts while dreaming of breaking away from her father's modest laundry; and Leni Riefenstahl, whose work as a director of propaganda art films would first make her famous--then, infamous. From this curious point of intersection, Delayed Rays of a Star lets loose the trajectories of these women's lives. From Weimar Berlin to LA's Chinatown, from a bucolic village in the Bavarian Alps to a luxury apartment on the Champs-Élysées, the different settings they inhabit are as richly textured as the roles they play: siren, victim, predator, or lover, each one a carefully calibrated performance. And in the orbit of each star live secondary players--a Chinese immigrant housemaid, a German soldier on leave from North Africa, a pompous Hollywood director--whose voices and viewpoints reveal the legacy each woman left in her own time, as well as in ours. Amanda Lee Koe's playful, wry prose guides the reader dexterously around murky questions of identity, complicity, desire, and difference. Intimate and clear-eyed, Delayed Rays of a Star is a visceral depiction of womanhood--its particular hungers, its oblique calculations, and its eventual betrayals--and announces a bold new literary voice.
Author : Heather M. O'Brien
Release : 2021-09-15
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Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Like the Delayed Rays of a Star by : Heather M. O'Brien
Download or read book Like the Delayed Rays of a Star written by Heather M. O'Brien. This book was released on 2021-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like the delayed rays of a star" contemplates the role of the gaze in photography while attempting to pierce the propaganda surrounding US-centric perceptions of Beirut. The work immerses the viewer into the photographer's domestic space through sun-drenched portraits from her Ottoman-era home. The images aim to question the misplaced anxieties of what it means to grow up in a post 9/11 image landscape, to live and work in Lebanon, and give birth to one's first child in Beirut on August 4th--the same day as the catastrophic 2020 Beirut explosion. The photographs confront this rhetoric and conditioned fear by documenting a confluence of "perfume, smoke, fruit, flowers, baking bread, and exhaust fumes" with the subtleties of passing time ruptured by light; these nuanced moments draw inward, decentering the authorial lens, intentionally shifting how mediated photographs affect one's community. In moments charged by Beirut's 2019 rebellion, economic collapse, the pandemic, and the most recent 2020 blast, this publication seeks to resist the narrative tropes of the Western gaze by asking us, "Will there ever be another way to see Beirut?"
Author : Costantino Maeder
Release : 2005-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Outside-in, Inside-out by : Costantino Maeder
Download or read book Outside-in, Inside-out written by Costantino Maeder. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of the Iconicity series is like its predecessors devoted to the study of iconicity in language and literature in all its forms. Many of the papers turn the notion of iconicity 'inside-out', some suggesting that 'less-is-more'; others focus on the cognitive factors 'inside' the brain that are important for the iconic phenomena that are produced in the 'outside' world. In addition this volume includes a paper related to iconicity in music and its interaction with language. Other papers range from the theoretical issues involved in the evolution of language, to those that offer many 'inside-out' claims, such as claiming that nouns are derived from pronouns, and as such should more properly be called 'pro-pronouns'. Also, this volume includes perhaps the first English-language analysis of the iconic aspects of sound symbolism in a prayer from the Koran. This is a truly interdisciplinary collection that should turn some of the notions of iconicity in language and literature 'outside-in' and 'inside-out'.
Author : Paul ZINDEL
Release : 1991
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Book Synopsis A Star for the Latecomer by : Paul ZINDEL
Download or read book A Star for the Latecomer written by Paul ZINDEL. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
