Haunted Empire

2020-09-15 Literary Criticism

Author : Valeria Sobol
Release : 2020-09-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 593/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Haunted Empire written by Valeria Sobol. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted Empire shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity. Valeria Sobol argues that the persistent presence of Gothic tropes in the literature of the Russian Empire is a key literary form that enacts deep historical and cultural tensions arising from Russia's idiosyncratic imperial experience. Her book brings together theories of empire and colonialism with close readings of canonical and less-studied literary texts as she explores how Gothic horror arises from the threatening ambiguity of Russia's own past and present, producing the effect Sobol terms "the imperial uncanny." Focusing on two spaces of the imperial uncanny—the Baltic north/Finland and the Ukrainian south—Haunted Empire reconstructs a powerful discursive tradition that reveals the mechanisms of the Russian imperial imagination that are still at work today.

Haunted Empire

2014-03-18 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Yukari Iwatani Kane
Release : 2014-03-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 272/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Haunted Empire written by Yukari Iwatani Kane. This book was released on 2014-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs’s death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs’s vision and keep the company moving forward. Steve Jobs's death raised one of the most pressing questions in the tech and business worlds: Could Apple stay great without its iconic leader? Many inside the company were eager to prove that Apple could be just as innovative as it had been under Jobs. Others were painfully aware of the immense challenge ahead. As its business has become more complex and global, Apple has come under intense scrutiny, much of it critical. Maintaining market leadership has become crucial as it tries to conquer new frontiers and satisfy the public's insatiable appetite for "insanely great” products. Based on over two hundred interviews with current and former executives, business partners, Apple watchers and others, Haunted Empire is an illuminating portrait of Apple today that offers clues to its future. With nuanced insights and colorful details that only a seasoned journalist could glean, Kane goes beyond the myths and headlines. She explores Tim Cook’s leadership and its impact on Jobs’s loyal lieutenants, new product development, and Apple’s relationships with Wall Street, the government, tech rivals, suppliers, the media, and consumers. Hard-hitting yet fair, Haunted Empire reveals the perils and opportunities an iconic company faces when it loses its visionary leader.

Haunted by Empire

2006-05-05 Family & Relationships

Author : Ann Laura Stoler
Release : 2006-05-05
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 249/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Haunted by Empire written by Ann Laura Stoler. This book was released on 2006-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection that rethinks the connection between the intimate and United States colonial and postcolonial histories./div

Ghost Empire

2009-02-24 History

Author : Philip Marchand
Release : 2009-02-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 756/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ghost Empire written by Philip Marchand. This book was released on 2009-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle. This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost North American legacy. After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, La Salle was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. The vast land beyond Quebec that he claimed for France could have become — but for a few twists of history — an alternative North America: a French-speaking, Catholic empire in which native peoples would have played a prominent role. Marchand probes the intriguingly flawed character of La Salle and recounts the astonishing history of the Jesuit missionaries, coureurs de bois, fur traders, and soldiers who followed on his heels, and of the Indian nations with whom they came into contact. He also reports on the survivals of this diaspora from late-night bars, battle reenactments, parish churches, and wayside restaurants from Montreal to Venice, Louisiana. And throughout he draws on memories of his own Catholic childhood in Massachusetts to interpret the lingering attitudes, fears, hopes, and iconography of a people who, more deeply than most, feel the burdens and the ironies of history.

Haunted New York

2005 Body, Mind & Spirit

Author : Cheri Revai
Release : 2005
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Haunted New York written by Cheri Revai. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 60 frightening tales. Covers all regions of the state.

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