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The tale was intimately bound up with attempts to "aggrandise the spiritual prestige and temporal revenues" of the local cathedral. [8] Thus the vivid "carnality" of the miraculous tale of martyrdom could be deployed as easily to enhance the worldly prominence of the Church as to refute heretical doctrine by reaffirming the spiritual legitimacy ...
The magazine's critical summary reads: "Reviewers acknowledged the novel’s slow pace with words like “languorous” (NY Times Book Review) and “languid and reflective” (Observer). One critic found it dull and too similar to Hollinghurst’s previous works. For most, though, it is an elegant achievement worthy of the author’s ...
The term derives from carnal, meaning "of the flesh", and the Biblical usage of the verb know/knew, a euphemism for sexual conduct.. One examples of this usage is in the first part of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, which describes how Adam and Eve conceived their first child:
Carnography (also carno [1]) refers to excessive or extended scenes of carnage, violence, and gore in media such as film, literature, and images. [2] [3] The term carnography—a portmanteau of the words carnage and pornography [3] —was used as early as 1972 in Time magazine's review of David Morrell's book First Blood, upon which the Rambo film series is based. [4]
The Fires of Spring is the second book and first novel published by American author James A. Michener. [1] Usually known for his multi-generational epics of historical fiction, The Fires of Spring was written as a partially autobiographical bildungsroman in which Michener's proxy, young orphan David Harper, searches for meaning and romance in pre-World War II Pennsylvania.
Book Summary 1: 1–8: September 1 – October 27, 2017 Ready Player One – Ernest Cline: Bestselling novel, set in a dystopian future where a young man immerses himself in a virtual reality world based on 1980s popular culture and partakes in a competition for fame and fortune. 2: 9–16: January 26 – March 23, 2018 Armada – Ernest Cline
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer.It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a convoluted sequence of relationships and literary endeavours.
The book fell into obscurity for several decades before being rediscovered by Alice Walker in 1975. [19] Because of Hurston's unique style and use of "frame stories" inside Mules and Men , it was generally popular with common people who found the story more approachable than other anthropologies of the time.