Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, & Ex-Countries

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she’s still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender. The Dead Ladies Project is an account of that journey—but it’s also much, much more. Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of key locations in its literary map, of places that have drawn writers who needed to break free from their origins and start afresh. As she reflects on William James struggling through despair in Berlin, Nora Barnacle dependant on and dependable for James Joyce in Trieste, Maud Gonne fomenting revolution and fostering myth in Dublin, or Igor Stravinsky starting over from nothing in Switzerland, Crispin interweaves biography, incisive literary analysis, and personal experience into a rich meditation on the complicated interactions of place, personality, and society that can make escape and reinvention such an attractive, even intoxicating proposition. Personal and profane, funny and fervent, The Dead Ladies Project ranges from the nineteenth century to the present, from historical figures to brand-new hangovers, in search, ultimately, of an answer to a bedrock question: How does a person decide how to live their life?

© 2024 The University of Chicago Press (E-bog): 9780226278599

Release date

E-bog: 31. maj 2024

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Journey from the North: A Memoir Storm Jameson
  2. Exiles Michael J. Arlen
  3. Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story Evan I. Schwartz
  4. At the Source: A Writer's Year Gillian Clarke
  5. Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020 Fred D'Aguiar
  6. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George Lewis Prentiss
  7. Essays In Little Andrew Lang
  8. Iconoclasm David Freedberg
  9. The Unknown Masterpiece: 1845 Honoré de Balzac
  10. The Endless Periphery: Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto's Italy Stephen J. Campbell
  11. The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea Charles de Brosses
  12. The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family Gail Lumet Buckley
  13. The Face: Cartography of the Void Chris Abani
  14. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature Ula Lukszo Klein
  15. Movie Quotes for Special Occasions: Toasts and Tributes for Weddings, Graduations, Birthdays and All of Life's Special Moments James Scheibli
  16. Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands Stella Halkyard
  17. Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame Martin Bailey
  18. Greece in the Bronze Age Emily Townsend
  19. A Quick Ting On: Plantain Rui Da Silva
  20. Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights Greg Truman
  21. Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice Jonathan Rees
  22. The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal Lily Koppel
  23. The Fetterman Massacre: Fort Phil Kearny and the Battle of the Hundred Slain Dee Brown
  24. Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540–1866 Theda Perdue
  25. The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  26. History of Woman Suffrage (Vol. 1-6): Complete Edition Various
  27. Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America Brian P Owensby
  28. The Analytical Poet: Ada Lovelace and the Genesis of the Digital Age Azhar ul Haque Sario
  29. Jogging: A Love Story Sandra Hochman
  30. We Are But Nothing/ No somos nada Fernando Sdrigotti
  31. Chasing Down the Dawn: Stories From The Road Jewel
  32. Plays: Exploring Feminist Themes in Groundbreaking Dramatic Works Susan Glaspell
  33. Either You're In or You're in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their Father Noah Miller
  34. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through T Fleischmann
  35. Low Art, High Craft and Exquisite Spatulas: Destroying the barriers that separate us from art and from each other Mike Craghead
  36. Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People Erica Abrams Locklear
  37. City of Discontent: An Interpretive Biography of Rachel Lindsay Mark Harris
  38. Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands Jacqueline Keeler
  39. Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions Kirsten Sword
  40. A Society Clown: Reminiscences: A Victorian Clown's Entertaining Memoirs: Satire, Laughter, and Society in the Gilded Age George Grossmith
  41. Jack and Jill Went Up to Kill: A Book of Zombie Nursery Rhymes Michael P. Spradlin

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet