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Turpitude
Turpitude, meaning baseness or depravity, can refer specifically to: *Moral turpitude, a legal concept in the United States *Gnostical turpitude, the crime of the protagonist in Vladimir Nabokov's ''Invitation to a Beheading'' *Turpitude Design, a computer game design firm started by American game designer Stieg Hedlund {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moral Turpitude
Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the United States and prior to 1976, Canada, that refers to "an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community". This term appears in U.S. immigration law beginning in the 19th century.A Crime Involving Moral Turpitude! What in the World is That? US immigration and visa lawyers in London The concept of "moral turpitude" might escape precise definition, but it has been described as an "act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellowmen, or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man." The classification of a crime or other conduct as constituting moral turpitude has significance in several area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invitation To A Beheading
''Invitation to a Beheading'' (russian: Приглашение на казнь, lit=''Invitation to an execution'') is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov. It was originally published in Russian from 1935 to 1936 as a serial in '' Sovremennye zapiski'', a Russian émigré magazine. In 1938, the work was published in Paris, with an English translation following in 1959. The novel was translated into English by Nabokov's son, Dmitri Nabokov, under the author's supervision. The novel is often described as Kafkaesque, but Nabokov claimed that at the time he wrote the book, he was unfamiliar with German and "completely ignorant" of Franz Kafka's work. Nabokov interrupted his work on '' The Gift'' in order to write ''Invitation to a Beheading'', describing the creation of the first draft as "one fortnight of wonderful excitement and sustained inspiration." Some scholars have argued that the central plot of ''Invitation to a Beheading'' has its roots in Chernyshevsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |