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Christian spirituality --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Literature, Medieval --- Women in literature. --- Women in the Catholic Church --- Catholic women --- Women and literature --- Littérature médiévale --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans l'Eglise catholique --- Femmes catholiques --- Femmes et littérature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Dorothea, --- Kempe, Margery, --- Ward, Mary, --- Cary, Elizabeth, --- Catholics --- Sources. --- Littérature médiévale --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Kempe, Margery --- Dorothea von Montau --- Ward, Mary --- Cary, Elizabeth --- History. --- Femmes --- Femmes et religion --- Femmes dans l'Église catholique --- Dans la littérature --- 16e siècle --- Biographies --- Angleterre (GB) --- Literature --- Religion --- Writers --- Biography --- Book
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In Boccaccio's innovative text, ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize their collective life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace guides the reader through their one hundred novelle, which explore both new and familiar conflicts from private and public spheres of life with unprecedented subtlety, urgency and humour. He emphasises the relationship between Decameron and the precocious vitality of Florentine culture in Boccaccio's time. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text particularly on Chaucer and the novel.
Boccaccio, Giovanni --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Boccaccio, Giovanni,
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Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike’s deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News’ Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talk show featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing that only looks good on the radio. In what is sure to be a much-talked-about exploration of distinctly modern subjects, one of the sharpest minds of our time delves into some of life’s most delicious topics.
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The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. And this is David Foster Wallace's towering, brilliant, hilarious and deeply moving final novel.
American literature --- Roman américain --- Service civil (service national)
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