5 Ergebnisse.

As the world heads toward war, who can save France's greatest treasures? On a rainy night in New York City, Mason Wright receives a surprise visit from his old flame, Collette Moulie. Despite his misgivings, he agrees to help her and her father in a risky, and probably illegal plan to save the art treasures of France from a possible Nazi invasion. Mason immediately finds himself caught up in a world of fine art, stolen paintings, master forger...

As the world heads toward war, who can save France's greatest treasures? On a rainy night in New York City, Mason Wright receives a surprise visit from his old flame, Collette Moulie. Despite his misgivings, he agrees to help her and her father in a risky, and probably illegal plan to save the art treasures of France from a possible Nazi invasion. Mason immediately finds himself caught up in a world of fine art, stolen paintings, master forger...

September 1940In London, a high-level British Agent is found murdered in a safe house known only to the Intelligence service-the clues lead to a mysterious order of assassins, a list of targets-and to Mason Wright.Frank "Sully" Sullivan, an American working for British Intelligence, is responsible for finding the person who murdered his friend. Unsure of Mason's involvement, he wonders if he is the man responsible, or the group's next victim. ...

Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into ideas. In this wide-ranging, carefully argued study, Knapp explains the connection between personification and the aesthetics of the sublime.

Is there such a thing as a specifically literary discourse distinguishable from other modes of thought and writing? Drawing on work in the philosophies of language and action, Knapp presents a definition of "the literary", developing a defence of the notion of a uniquely literary mode of discourse.