The Passion of Woo & Isolde

The Passion of Woo & Isolde

Author: Jennifer Tseng

Publisher: Rose Metal Press

Published: 2017-08-08

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781941628096

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Fiction. Winner of the 11th Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, chosen by contest judge Amelia Gray. A limited edition chapbook featuring two-color letterpress covers and specialty endsheets. THE PASSION OF WOO & ISOLDE scintillates with the thrall of the unknown and the forbidden, the immigrant and the exile. In each of these twenty-four very short fictions, novelist and poet Jennifer Tseng explores the limits and limitlessness of our ability to see. A museum worker meets her wife from a previous life in the form of a security guard; a mouse believes she and a lion share a covenant; newlyweds who speak two different languages make love without understanding one another. With its host of unforgettable characters, the collection accumulates into a work of elegance and daring from a writer whose intuitive leaps and emotional intelligence make her one of the most compelling voices writing across genres today.


The Twenty-Ninth Year

The Twenty-Ninth Year

Author: Hala Alyan

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1328511944

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Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses.


The Amorous Heart

The Amorous Heart

Author: Marilyn Yalom

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0465094716

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An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol from scripture and tapestry to T-shirts and text messages, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiquity The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to candy, pendants, the frothy milk on top of a cappuccino, and much else. How can we explain the ubiquity of what might be the most recognizable symbol in the world? In The Amorous Heart, Marilyn Yalom tracks the heart metaphor and heart iconography across two thousand years, through Christian theology, pagan love poetry, medieval painting, Shakespearean drama, Enlightenment science, and into the present. She argues that the symbol reveals a tension between love as romantic and sexual on the one hand, and as religious and spiritual on the other. Ultimately, the heart symbol is a guide to the astonishing variety of human affections, from the erotic to the chaste and from the unrequited to the conjugal.


Tristan and Isolde

Tristan and Isolde

Author: Richard Wagner

Publisher: Calder Publications Limited

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780714538495

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. "A Landmark in Musical History" is John Luke Rose's title for the introduction to this extraordinary piece of theatre. It belongs to the German tradition of mystical writing and a short note on the poem itself by Martin Swales and Timothy McFarland elucidates some of Wagner's literary techniques. Anthony Negus, who assisted Reginald Goodall on the WNO production of this opera, has contributed a penetrating analysis of the musical structure of the opera, while Patrick Carnegy assesses the remarkable solutions to staging an opera which some argue is best experienced with your back to the performers! In association with English National Opera.


Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater

Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater

Author: Wenying Xu

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1538157322

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A Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022 This book represents the culmination of over 150 years of literary achievement by the most diverse ethnic group in the United States. Diverse because this group of ethnic Americans includes those whose ancestral roots branch out to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. Even within each of these regions, there exist vast differences in languages, cultures, religions, political systems, and colonial histories. From the earliest publication in 1887 to the latest in 2021, this dictionary celebrates the incredibly rich body of fiction, poetry, memoirs, plays, and children’s literature. Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms, and authors. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this topic.


Hans Dieter Schaal

Hans Dieter Schaal

Author: Hans Dieter Schaal

Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 3930698862

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Hans Dieter Schaal worked on almost all important opera houses including those in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and Zurich. These projects served as vehicles for his extraordinarily expressive artistic powers, which he used to captivate the public.


Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Author: Arthur Groos

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0521431387

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Seven leading international writers discuss the genesis, libretto and music, and performance and reception history of Wagner's Tristan.


The Lives of the Novel

The Lives of the Novel

Author: Thomas G. Pavel

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0691165785

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Reprint. Originally published: Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, A 2013.