Love's Second Spring
Love's Second Spring

Author: Gregory Roberts

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2015-12-21

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1682136817

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Some boundaries should never be crossed perhaps with good reason. Murron Buffington is the social studies supervisor of Boothbay Regional High School. At forty-two years old and recently divorced, Murron finds herself attracted to one of her staff members, twenty-six-year-old Dan Van Pelt. Murron discovers that they have many common interests and share the same core values. As Dan and Murron begin their romance, can they learn to love each other despite what has happened in their pasts? Will their relationship last?

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Author: Weasel

Publisher: Red Ferret Press

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781948712743

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Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film
Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film

Author: Timothy B. Cochran

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0429874693

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Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film focuses on the ways filmmakers treat music reflexively—that is, draw attention to what it is and what it can do. Examining a wide range of movies from the last thirty-five years including examples from Indiewood, teen film, and blockbuster cinema. The book explores two recurring ideas about music implied by foregrounded musical activity on screen: that music can be a potent means of sincere expression and genuine human connection and that music can enable transcendence of disenchantment and the mundane. The book covers eclectic critical terrain to highlight various layers of musical sincerity and transcendence in film, including the nineteenth-century aesthetics of E.T.A. Hoffmann, David Foster Wallace’s literary resistance to irony (sometimes called the New Sincerity), strategies of self-revelation in singer-songwriter repertoires, Lionel Trilling’s distinction between sincerity and authenticity, theories of play, David Nye’s notion of the American technological sublime, and Svetlana Boym’s writings on nostalgia. These lenses reveal that film is a way of perpetuating, revising, and critiquing ideas about music and that music in film is a potent means of exploring broader social, emotional, and spiritual desires.

The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr

Author: E.T.A. Hoffmann

Publisher: Lebooks Editora

Published: 2024-03-08

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 6558943387

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In E.T.A. Hoffmann's extraordinary novel, Opinions of the Cat Murr , the reader embarks on a fantastic journey through the routine activities of daily life in 19th century Germany. The confident and eclectic talents of Murr, a creature inspired by Hoffmann's own beloved cat, make him a true feline of the Renaissance, while Kriesler, Hoffmann's alter ego, is a character saturated with romantic sensibility. E.T.A. Hoffmann's strange tale evokes the supernatural, the operatic, the musical, and the psychiatric in a narrative populated by characters who cross the boundaries between madness and sanity, with a style that reflects this uncertainty. The work influenced a diverse group including Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Jung, and in many ways foreshadowed Freud's ideas about the mysterious. Opinions of the Cat Murr is a classic and is part of the famous collection: 1001 BOOKS to Read Before You Die.

A Midwinter's Tail
A Midwinter's Tail

Author: Lili Hayward

Publisher: Sphere

Published: 2023-10-12

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1408729547

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'A wonderful tale of love, loss and community with folklore and magic. I adored it!' LIZ FENWICK A town in need. An extraordinary cat. A season for miracles... It's nearly Christmas and committed Londoner, Mina Kestle, is close to signing a deal that will make her career and give her everything she's ever wanted. And then she receives a mysterious letter in the post along with an ancient key, sent by her long-estranged godfather . . . Davy Penhallow is an artist who lives on the tiny Cornish island of Morgelyn with only his pet cat, Murr, for company. Mina hasn't seen or heard from him in decades, but now it seems he wants her to look after his cottage - and his cat - while he recovers from a stroke in hospital. Mina doesn't know why Davy has written after all these years, but she intends to do what's right: sort out the cottage and the cat and then get back to London in time for her career-saving meeting, before everything she's built comes crashing down around her. But the more time Mina spends in the cottage, looking after Murr and remembering the magic of Cornish folklore, the harder it becomes for her to tear herself away. And when she discovers that a set of ruthless property developers are coming for Morgelyn, she realises she might be the only one who can stand in their way to save the island, Davy's cottage and Murr's home. As Christmas draws ever closer and echoes of the past - her own and the island's - wash up in her memory, Mina begins to unravel a generation of secrets... and discover what it is she has truly always wanted . . . The perfect magical read to cosy up with on chilly winter nights... WINNER of The Fantasy Hive's "Short and Sweet" award 2023