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The Moche civilization (Spanish pronunciation:; alternatively, the Moche culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru [1] [2] from about 100 to 800 AD during the Regional Development Epoch. While this issue is the subject of some debate, many scholars contend ...
The book's narrator is Eliezer, an Orthodox Jewish teenager who studies the Talmud by day, and by night "weep[s] over the destruction of the Temple". To the disapproval of his father, Eliezer spends time discussing the Kabbalah with Moshe [ a ] the Beadle , caretaker of the Hasidic shtiebel (house of prayer).
A Woman's Story (Une femme), A Man's Place, and Simple Passion were recognised as The New York Times Notable Books, [21] and A Woman's Story was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. [22] Shame was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, [ 23 ] I Remain in Darkness a Top Memoir of 1999 by The Washington Post , and The Possession ...
As skilled artisans, the Moche were a technologically advanced people. They traded with distant peoples such as the Maya. What has been learned about the Moche is based on the study of their ceramic pottery; the carvings reveal details of their daily lives. The Larco Museum of Lima, Peru, has an extensive collection of such ceramics.
Bakhtin calls this transposition the carnivalization of literature. [1] Although he considers a number of literary forms and individual writers, it is François Rabelais , the French Renaissance author of Gargantua and Pantagruel , and the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky , that he considers the primary exemplars of carnivalization ...
The Fall of the Stone City (Albanian: Darka e gabuar) is a 2008 novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.Apart from winning the Rexhai Surroi Prize for the best book of the year, in Kosovo [1] the novel was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2013.
His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. His next novel, Atomised, published in 1998, brought him international fame as well as controversy. Platform followed in 2001. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
Aspects of the Novel is a book based on a series of lectures delivered by E. M. Forster at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927, in which he discusses the English language novel. By using examples from classic texts, he highlights what he sees as the seven universal aspects of the novel, which he defined as: story, characters, plot, fantasy ...