Greed: A Sisters of Sin: Femme Fatale Series
Greed: A Sisters of Sin: Femme Fatale Series

Author: D A Nelson

Publisher: D A Nelson Author

Published: 2022-07-05

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0992616484

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Berlin. Present Day. It’s a fact of life that opposites attract. So, when SOS assassin Alex Greir, aka Greed, bumps into Nick Walker in a Berlin nightclub, sparks begin to fly. An MI6 agent, Nick’s been sent by the British Government to infiltrate the Sisters. But, one look at the beautiful Alex and he’s smitten. He’s got a new mission now: to tame the feisty blonde and make her his own. However, the gorgeous Alex has other ideas. She’s no pushover for a handsome face. Then she finds out who he really is… …And all hell breaks loose. Gripping, sexy and electrifying, this is the story of Greed. She’s bent on stopping the plot to destroy the Sisters, whilst falling for the enemy. Can she stop the attacker from striking again? And will she and Nick survive long enough to persuade the Sisters that he’s changed sides?

Greed
Greed

Author: Sisters Of Sin

Publisher: D a Nelson

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781916352063

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Berlin. Present Day. It's a fact of life that opposites attract. So, when SOS assassin Alex Greir, aka Greed, bumps into Nick Walker in a Berlin nightclub, sparks begin to fly. An MI6 agent, Nick's been sent by the British Government to infiltrate the Sisters. But, one look at the beautiful Alex and he's smitten. He's got a new mission now: to tame the feisty blonde and make her his own. However, the gorgeous Alex has other ideas. She's no pushover for a handsome face. Then she finds out who he really is... ...And all hell breaks loose. Gripping, sexy and electrifying, this is the story of Greed. She's bent on stopping the plot to destroy the Sisters, whilst falling for the enemy. Can she stop the attacker from striking again? And will she and Nick survive long enough to persuade the Sisters that he's changed sides?

Literature and Fascination
Literature and Fascination

Author: Sibylle Baumbach

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-30

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1137538015

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Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Author: Robert Miklitsch

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0252096517

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Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle. But a new generation of writers is pushing aside the fog of cigarette smoke surrounding classic noir scholarship. In Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir, Robert Miklitsch curates a bold collection of essays that reassesses the genre's iconic style, history, and themes. Contributors analyze the oft-overlooked female detective and little-examined aspects of filmmaking like love songs and radio aesthetics, discuss the significance of the producer and women's pulp fiction, and investigate topics as disparate as Disney noir and the Fifties heist film, B-movie back projection and blacklisted British directors. At the same time the writers' collective reconsideration shows the impact of race and gender, history and sexuality, technology and transnationality on the genre. As bracing as a stiff drink, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands writes the future of noir scholarship in lipstick and chalk lines for film fans and scholars alike. Contributors: Krin Gabbard, Philippa Gates, Julie Grossman, Robert Miklitsch, Robert Murphy, Mark Osteen, Vivian Sobchack, Andrew Spicer, J. P. Telotte, and Neil Verma.

Imagining the Byzantine Past
Imagining the Byzantine Past

Author: Elena N. Boeck

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1316381234

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Two lavish, illustrated histories confronted and contested the Byzantine model of empire. The Madrid Skylitzes was created at the court of Roger II of Sicily in the mid-twelfth century. The Vatican Manasses was produced for Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria in the mid-fourteenth century. Through close analysis of how each chronicle was methodically manipulated, this study argues that Byzantine history was selectively re-imagined to suit the interests of outsiders. The Madrid Skylitzes foregrounds regicides, rebellions, and palace intrigue in order to subvert the divinely ordained image of order that Byzantine rulers preferred to project. The Vatican Manasses presents Byzantium as a platform for the accession of Ivan Alexander to the throne of the Third Rome, the last and final world-empire. Imagining the Byzantine Past demonstrates how distinct visions of empire generated diverging versions of Byzantium's past in the aftermath of the Crusades.

Sexual Personae
Sexual Personae

Author: Camille Paglia

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1991-08-20

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 0679735798

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The fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched the exceptional career of one of our most important public intellectuals—"a remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit" (The Washington Post). Is Emily Dickinson “the female Sade”? Is Donatello’s David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists—as well as conservatives—fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerrilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since Egyptians invented beauty—making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilization and daemonic nature. With 47 photographs.

Evil by Design
Evil by Design

Author: Elizabeth Kolbinger Menon

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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'Evil be Design' documents the search for the origins of the iconic 'femme fatale'. This text uses popular sources to make the critical link between the femme fatale and the rise of feminism.

The New York Public Library Literature Companion
The New York Public Library Literature Companion

Author: New York Public Library

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13:

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This is the first one-volume reference book to organize & discuss literature by topic rather than alphabetical order, providing information in a reader-friendly format.

The Monstrous-Feminine
The Monstrous-Feminine

Author: Barbara Creed

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-04

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1136750754

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In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.With close reference to a number of classic horror films including the Alien trilogy, T