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Charyn Jerome |
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Jerzy : a novel / / Jerome Charyn |
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New York, New York : , : Bellevue Literary Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Monografia |
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Mr. Chance -- Lana, 1969 -- Down on the farm, 1967 -- Little red -- Moses and Gavrila, 1944. |
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"Jerzy Kosinski was a great enigma of post-World War II literature. When he exploded onto the American literary scene in 1965 with his best-selling novel The Painted Bird, he was revered as a Holocaust survivor and refugee from the world hidden behind the Soviet Iron Curtain. He won major literary awards, befriended actor Peter Sellers (who appeared in the screen adaptation of his novel Being There), and was a guest on talk shows and at the Oscars. But soon the facade began to crack, and behind the public persona emerged a ruthless social climber, sexual libertine, and pathological liar who may have plagiarized his greatest works. Jerome Charyn lends his unmistakable style to this most American story of personal disintegration, told through the voices of multiple narrators--a homicidal actor, a dominatrix, and Joseph Stalin's daughter--who each provide insights into the shifting facets of Kosinski's personality. The story unfolds like a Russian nesting doll, eventually revealing the lost child beneath layers of trauma, while touching on the nature of authenticity, the atrocities of WWII, the allure of sadomasochism, and the fickleness of celebrity."-- Page [4] of cover. |
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UNINA9910784942903321 |
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Jowitt Claire |
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The culture of piracy, 1580-1630 : English literature and Seaborne crime / / Claire Jowitt |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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1-315-24037-8 |
1-282-65759-3 |
9786612657597 |
0-7546-9912-9 |
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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Crime in literature |
Pirates in literature |
Politics and literature - England - History - 16th century |
Politics and literature - England - History - 17th century |
Privateering - History - 16th century |
Privateering - History - 17th century |
Commerce in literature |
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First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Subversive Pirates? Representations of Purser and Clinton, 1583-1639; 2 The Uses and Abuses of 'Piracy': Discourses of Mercantilism and Empire in Accounts of Drake's 'Famous Voyage', 1580-1630; 3 'Et in Arcadia Ego': Piracy and Politics in Prose Romance, 1580-1603; 4 Pirates and Politics: Drama of the 'Long 1590's'; 5 Jacobean Connections: Piracy and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Romance; 6 Politics and Pirate Typology in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's Late Jacobean Pirate Drama; Bibliography; Index |
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By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the hard-to-distinguish privateer), The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, |
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international relations, and contemporary politics. The first book-length treatment of the cultural impact of Renaissance piracy, this study underlines how despite its transgressive nature, piracy can be seen as a key mechanism which served to connect peoples and regions. |
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