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  • Between Women

    Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

    de Sharon Marcus ...
    Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus ... Leer más

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  • The Drama of Celebrity

    de Sharon Marcus ...
    A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely ... Leer más

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  • Antidemocracy in America

    Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

    Series series Public Books Series
    On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the ... Leer más

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  • Think in Public

    A Public Books Reader

    Series series Public Books Series
    Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished ... Leer más

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  • A Toronto Story

    de Sharon Marcus ...
    From the early sixties to the mid-eighties this highly reflective novel, set frequently in downtown Toronto, traces events in the lives of Jennie Weber and Bill Corelli, the protagonists whose story imprints itself against this unambiguous skyline. Jennie devotes herself to supporting Bill’s career as a musician, a classical musician who is suddenly caught by the delirium of performance in a ... Leer más

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  • The Boatman's Holiday: A Fable

    de Sharon Marcus ...
    When the boatman ferrying souls of the dead across the river is on holiday, we linger on the far shore of hell, sweat and study the terrain. For that reason we move slow motion through the novel, a frieze of images projected by memory and desire, ghosts haunting the past activated by the imminence of the future. Like an ancient fable the story unwinds on that far shore, who will be plunged into ... Leer más

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  • The Sufi Experience

    de Sharon Marcus ...
    A tradition on the nature of consciousness offers a platform to build an ascent to the revelations of divine wisdom, mysteries as irrelevant to the molecules and atoms of science as they are to the assumptions of psychology. It is a systematic analysis based on presumptions of faith in God and the determination to make that faith deeper and deeper, based in fact, on the longing and hunger of the ... Leer más

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  • The Next Step: A Sufi Primer

    de Sharon Marcus ...
    This is the voyage of the soul which moves in its own direction, away from the world to planes of inner light where truth is its own resonance and grace a flood of bliss. We have our own mystery locked in the secrets of the soul, secrets which can be told, although the mystery will unfold only in revelation, the experience which comes as its own verification. Here we are not talking about anything ... Leer más

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  • Sufi: A Commentary

    de Sharon Marcus ...
    Not revelation, but the accent, the flavor of revelation, this commentary offers a description or analysis of the mysteries at the heart of Sufi experience. The true study of Sufism does not begin in a book or in scholarly investigations because this is an inner pursuit, a path which lies within that must be examined experientially by anyone who has a hunger to know what must be known, and that ... Leer más

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    The Drama of Celebrity

    de Sharon Marcus ...
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    This audiobook narrated by Olivia Vinall provides a bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew ... Leer más

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    Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

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