Bøger af Maria Finn

"This approachable PNW foraging cookbook celebrates both pleasure of the wilderness--outdoor entertaining, wild food harvesting, and wildcrafting--as well as simple, rustic recipes you can create from the bounty of it, with chapters on foraging in the woods (chanterelles and truffles, anyone?), fields (wild blackberries and fiddlehead ferns), and beaches (kombu seaweed and mussels)"--

Maria Finn''s husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then she cried. Then she signed up for tango lessons. It turns out that tango has a lot to teach about understanding love and loss, about learning how to follow and how to lead, how to live with style and flair, take risks, and sort out what it is you really want. As Maria''s world begins to revolve around the friendships she makes in dance class and the milongas (social dances) she attends regularly in New York City, we discover with her the fascinating culture, history, music, moves, and beauty of the Argentine tango. With each new dance step she learns-the embrace, the walk, the sweep, the exit-she is one step closer to returning to the world of the living. Eventually Maria travels to Buenos Aires, the birthplace of tango, and finds the confidence to try romance again.  As exhilarating as the dance itself, the story whirls us into the center of the ballroom dancing craze. And buoyed by the author''s humor and passion, it imparts surprising insights about how to get on with life after you''ve lost in love.  

This study is the first practice based Ph.D. of its kind in Denmark, developed within the academic frames of the University of Copenhagen, but in close collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen. Having been developed by a visual artist the interplay between the production of art works and theoretical reflections has been especially productive since it has revealed to unexpected academic perspectives. The study investigates the relationship between literature and film, and the significance of the still within the film. The study includes three adaptations of literature to film, the first is Ingmar Bergman¿s Sommaren med Monika, based on a novel by Per Anders Fogelström. Here the focus is on the composition of stills, drawing on Roland Barthes¿s ideas on photography and the film still. The others are Orson Welles¿ adaptation of The Trial, based on Franz Kafkäs celebrated novel, and Michelangelo Antonioni¿s Blow-Up, which takes a short story by Julio Cortázar as its starting point.