Masquerades

Masquerades
Title Masquerades PDF eBook
Author Shane Leslie
Publisher
Pages 356
Release 1924
Genre Fantasy fiction, English
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Masquerade

Masquerade
Title Masquerade PDF eBook
Author Kit Williams
Publisher
Pages 40
Release 1980
Genre Fantasy
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On his way to deliver a splendid necklace to the Sun from the Moon, Jack Hare is diverted by a series of odd characters and when he finally reaches his destination he realizes that the necklace is missing. The reader is invited to answer several riddles and solve the mystery from clues given in the text.

Masquerades

Masquerades
Title Masquerades PDF eBook
Author Kate Novak
Publisher Wizards of the Coast
Pages 350
Release 2012-11-27
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0786964286

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When her hometown is overtaken by a crime syndicate, the daughter of a disgraced Harper agent fights to free the local merchants from their underground overlords When Alias crosses swords with the underlings of the cunning, heartless lord of Westgate’s criminal guild—known only as the Faceless—he vows to destroy her. Accepting the challenge to rid Westgate of the maleficent Night Masks, Alias gathers old allies and new: the saurial paladin Dragonbait, the halfling Olive Ruskettle, the street performer Jamal, the sage Mintassan, and the charismatic Victor Dhostar, son of Westgate’s governing official. Yet even as Alias thwarts the nefarious efforts of the Night Masks, she becomes ever more entangled in the web woven by The Faceless—a web whose silken threads are spun from intrigue, political machinations, and murder. Masquerades is the tenth book in a series of loosely-connected novels about the Harpers.

Postcolonial Masquerades

Postcolonial Masquerades
Title Postcolonial Masquerades PDF eBook
Author Niti Sampat Patel
Publisher Routledge
Pages 215
Release 2013-10-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1136537155

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Masquerades of War

Masquerades of War
Title Masquerades of War PDF eBook
Author Christine Sylvester
Publisher Routledge
Pages 246
Release 2015-05-22
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1317608909

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This collection explores the concepts and practices of masquerade as they apply to concepts and practices of war. The contributors insist that masquerades are everyday aspects of the politics, praxis, and experiences of war, while also discovering that finding masquerades and tracing how they work with war is hardly simple. With a range of theories, innovative methodologies, and contextual binoculars, masquerade emerges as a layered and complex phenomenon. It can appear as state deception, lie, or camouflage, as in the population-centric American warfare in Iraq that was sold as good for the local people, or the hidden violence Russian military forces used on each other and on local men in Chechnya. Masquerade can also be part of a people's war logic as exemplified by the Maoist movement in India. Yet masquerade can also be understood as a normal social mask that people don to foreground an identity or belief from one's cluttered repertoire in order to gain agency. Elements of masquerade can appear in texts that proclaim seemingly unequivocal positions while simultaneously yet subtly suggesting opposing positions. Masquerades of all kinds also seem ubiquitous in fieldwork research and in resistance movements in war zones. Perhaps masquerade, though, is ultimately the denial of death lurking behind the clarion call of security, a call that bolsters war by making militarized policing normal to secure populations from terrorists. These interpretations and others comprise Masquerades of War. This book will be of much interest to students of critical war studies, critical security, conflict studies and IR in general.

Masquerade and Civilization

Masquerade and Civilization
Title Masquerade and Civilization PDF eBook
Author Terry Castle
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 420
Release 1986
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780804714686

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Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.

Fatty ills and their masquerades

Fatty ills and their masquerades
Title Fatty ills and their masquerades PDF eBook
Author Ephraim Cutter
Publisher
Pages 228
Release 1898
Genre
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