Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Interreligious Encounters in Polemics Between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond

Author: Mercedes García-Arenal

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004401761

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This book focuses on polemical religious texts of Iberia's long fifteenth century, a period characterized by both social violence and cultural exchange. It highlights how polemical texts often reveal the interconnected nature of social and cultural intimacy, promoting dialogue and cultural transfer.

Memoirs of a Nun
Memoirs of a Nun

Author: Denis Diderot

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 1992-06-30

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history. Diderot's story of a novice held in a convent against her will and forced to undergo curious spiritual and sexual trials displays all the brilliance, icy wit, and worldliness of the Enlightenment at its best.

Aunt Tula
Aunt Tula

Author: Miguel de Unamuno

Publisher: Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1908343230

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Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary maternal figure for successive generations of children; some related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Trilogy
Trilogy

Author: Jon Fosse

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1628974214

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 Trilogy is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature in 2015.