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Lauded essayist takes to the high seas in hot pursuit of elusive birds,
artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor.
"Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood may be my favorite."
—Jonathan Franzen
Charles Hood is on a boat, wearing at least two life jackets as he
scans the sky for seabirds and plumbs the depths of his—and
our—relationship with the vast Pacific Ocean. Winner of the Foreword
INDIES Book of the Year for his collection of essays A Salad Only the
Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature, Hood now brings his
irrepressible curiosity to the lives of petrels, frigate birds, sea
snakes, and flying fish. During our voyage, he resurrects Melville's
journey on tempestuous seas to San Francisco, takes us into the
storm-tossed minds and paintings of J. M. W. Turner and Winslow Homer,
and surfaces the trauma—still reverberating—to ocean and family
ecologies alike from World War II. As sharp and witty as ever, Hood
also turns his scrutiny on a more personal history, navigating murky
waters of harm and forgiveness, love and entrapment. Full of wonder,
joy, and terror at the shared capacity of the ocean and the humans on
its edges to nurture life and damage it irreparably, this book is a
vessel, seaworthy and transportive.
The Cambridge Companion to Grotius offers a comprehensive overview
of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) for students, teachers, and general
readers, while its chapters also draw upon and contribute to recent
specialised discussions of Grotius' oeuvre and its later reception.
Contributors to this volume cover the width and breadth of Grotius'
work and thought, ranging from his literary work, including his
historical, theological and political writing, to his seminal legal
interventions. While giving these various fields a separate
treatment, the book also delves into the underlying conceptions and
outlooks that formed Grotius' intellectual map of the world as he
understood it, and as he wanted it to become, giving a new
political and religious context to his forays into international
and domestic law.
Collects more than sixty foundational documents from student
protest from the frontlines of revolution Few people know that
student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the
infamous student movements of Western Europe and the U.S. in the
1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university
students authored colonial agendas and anti-colonial critiques. In
fact, Central American students were key actors in shaping ideas of
nation, empire, and global exchange. Bridging a half-century of
student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more
than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador,
and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos,
letters, and pamphlets. Available for the first time in English,
these rich texts help scholars and popular audiences alike to
rethink their preconceptions of student protest and revolution. The
texts also illuminate key issues confronting social movements
today: global capitalism, dispossession, privatization,
development, and state violence. Key Features Makes available for
the first time to English-language readers a diverse archive of
more than sixty foundational documents and ephemera accompanied by
an introduction, section introductions and further reading Expands
the geographic scope of anti-colonial movement scholarship by
presenting anti-colonial thought in the most contentious decades of
the 20th century from a region peripheral even within anti-colonial
and postcolonial studies Advances anti-colonial and postcolonial
studies by taking urban students as critical actors and so
recasting thematics of the peasantry, the rural/urban divide, and
religion Suggests a new social movement chronology beyond the
so-called "Global 1968," or the common notion that student
movements peaked in May 1968 in Paris, New York City, Berkeley, and
Mexico City
American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural
characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix
cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to
cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to
prosper in the twenty-first century. Through the complex inner
lives of working-class characters, Bonnie Jo Campbell illustrates
the desperation of post-industrial America, where wildlife, jobs,
and whole ways of life go extinct and the people have no choice but
to live off what is left behind.
Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek
culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first
full-length examination of its significance from Homer to the
Hellenistic period. She demonstrates that wonder was an important
term of aesthetic response and occupied a central position in
concepts of what philosophy and literature are and do. She also
argues that it became a means of expressing the manner in which the
realms of the human and the divine interrelate with one another;
and that it was central to the articulation of the ways in which
the relationships between self and other, near and far, and
familiar and unfamiliar were conceived. The book provides a
much-needed starting point for re-assessments of the impact of
wonder as a literary critical and cultural concept both in
antiquity and in later periods. This title is available as Open
Access on Cambridge Core.
In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Science does not know its debt
to imagination," words that still ring true in the worlds of health
and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of
modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we
depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of
medicine-to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and
to make groundbreaking discoveries. We know a great deal about the
empirical aspects of medicine, but we know far less about what the
medical imagination is, what it does, how it works, or how we might
train it. In The Medical Imagination, Sari Altschuler argues that
this was not always so. During the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, doctors understood the imagination to be directly
connected to health, intimately involved in healing, and central to
medical discovery. In fact, for physicians and other health writers
in the early United States, literature provided important forms for
crafting, testing, and implementing theories of health. Reading and
writing poetry trained judgment, cultivated inventiveness,
sharpened observation, and supplied evidence for medical research,
while novels and short stories offered new perspectives and sites
for experimenting with original medical theories. Such imaginative
experimentation became most visible at moments of crisis or novelty
in American medicine, such as the 1790s yellow fever epidemics, the
global cholera pandemics, and the discovery of anesthesia, when
conventional wisdom and standard practice failed to produce
satisfying answers to pressing questions. Throughout the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, health research and practice relied on a
broader complex of knowing, in which imagination often worked with
and alongside observation, experience, and empirical research. In
reframing the historical relationship between literature and
health, The Medical Imagination provides a usable past for
contemporary conversations about the role of the imagination-and
the humanities more broadly-in health research and practice today.
An investigation of interwar African American critiques of racism
and colonialism This volume re-publishes key texts produced by
African American anti-colonial activists between 1917-1937. Some of
these texts remain well-known, but many have disappeared from view
and are once again re-inserted in their original polemical
contexts. The context for these writings is the turbulent politics
of 'race' in the US in the interwar years and the emergence of a
particular 'race'/class politics. The framing of the material in
the book stresses those texts which are specifically concerned with
finding connections between the plight of African Americans and
those who suffer colonial oppression in order to emphasise the
dialectical nature of anti-colonial struggle. The intention of many
of these writers was to create a space for interracial class
politics. Despite, or because of, the complexities of negotiating
'race', class and colonialism, this material gives us access to an
historically specific attempt to create a 'race'/class politics
attuned to the challenges of confronting racism of the USA and
beyond. Key Features Introduces a powerful, but neglected,
tradition of African American anti-colonial writing Locates African
American anti-colonial writing of the interwar years in both a US
and global context Stresses the dialectical nature of the
relationship between anti-colonial politics and political activism
Reflects upon the relevance of interwar African American
anti-colonial writings to contemporary debates about racism and
neo-colonialism Emphasises the relationship between African
American politics and the Left during this period
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often
labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental
source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient
philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has
stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new
systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in
three ways from Hermann Diels's groundbreaking work, as well as
from later editions: it renders explicit the material's thematic
organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of
evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic
corpus; and it presents an overview of the reception of these
thinkers until the end of antiquity. Volume I contains introductory
and reference materials essential for using all other parts of the
edition. Volumes II-III include chapters on ancient doxography,
background, and the Ionians from Pherecydes to Heraclitus. Volumes
IV-V present western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to Hippo.
Volumes VI-VII comprise later philosophical systems and their
aftermath in the fifth and early fourth centuries. Volumes VIII-IX
present fifth-century reflections on language, rhetoric, ethics,
and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and conclude
with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama.
This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in
the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that
makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic
labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are
novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary.
Uncovers the life of Jane Cumming, who scandalized her
contemporaries with tales of sexual deviancy but also defied
cultural norms, standing up to male authority figures and showing
resilience. In 1810 Edinburgh, the orphaned Scottish-Indian
schoolgirl Jane Cumming alleged that her two schoolmistresses were
sexually intimate. The allegation spawned a defamation suit that
pitted Jane's grandmother, a member of the Scottish landed gentry,
against two young professional women who were romantic friends.
During the trial, the boundary between passion and friendship among
women was debated and Jane was viewed "orientally," as morally
corrupt and hypersexual. Located at the intersection of race, sex,
and class, the case has long been a lightning rod for scholars of
cultural studies, women's and gender history, and, given Lillian
Hellman's appropriation of Jane's story in her 1934 play The
Children's Hour, theater history as well. Frances B. Singh's
wide-ranging biography, however, takes a new, psychological
approach, putting the notorious case in the context of a life that
was marked by loss, separation, abandonment--and resilience.
Grounded in archival and genealogical sources never before
consulted, Singh's narrative reconstructs Cumming's life from its
inauspicious beginnings in a Calcutta orphanage through her
schooling in Elgin and Edinburgh, an abusive marriage, her
adherence to the Free Church at the time of the Scottish
Disruption, and her posthumous life in Hellman's Broadway play.
Singh provides a detailed analysis not only of the case itself, but
of how both Jane's and her teachers' lives were affected in the
aftermath.
An early gem from the creator of the Kurt Wallander series,
charting the life of a principled man through tragedy, heartbreak,
true love and the battle for a nation's soul. "A very engaging
portrait . . . There is a powerful lack of sentimentality to the
telling of the story [and] a lovely and genuinely moving love story
at the heart of the book." Liam Heylin, Irish Examiner At 3 p.m. on
a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast
in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead,
but they are mistaken. Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.
Though crippled, Oskar finds the strength to go on living and
working. The Rock Blaster charts his long professional life - his
hopes and dreams, sorrows and joys. His relationship with the woman
whose love saved him, with the labour movement that gave him a
cause to believe in, and with his children, who do not share his
ideals. Henning Mankell's first published novel is steeped in the
burning desire for social justice that informed his bestselling
crime novels. Remarkably assured for a debut, it is written with
scalpel-like precision, at once poetic and insightful in its
depiction of a true working-class hero. Translated from the Swedish
by George Goulding
RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Gripping, emotional, utterly
engrossing' Lisa Ballantyne 'Stunning writing and wonderful nuanced
characterisation. I was hooked' Rosamund Lupton For fans of Maggie
O'Farrell and Celeste Ng, How It Ends is a sweeping and turbulent
drama about the anxieties of post-war Britain, where one strong and
inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the
cost... 1957: Within a year of arriving at an American airbase in
Suffolk, the loving, law-abiding Delaney family is destroyed. Did
they know something they weren't allowed to know? Did they find
something they weren't supposed to find? Only one girl has the
courage to question what really went on behind closed doors . . .
Hedy's journey to the truth leads her to read a manuscript that her
talented twin brother had started months before he died, a story
inspired by an experience in the forest surrounding the airbase
perimeter. Only through deciding to finish what her brother started
does Hedy begin to piece together what happened to her family. But
would she have continued if she'd known then what she knows now?
Sometimes, it's safer not to finish what you've started... Praise
for Saskia Sarginson: 'An intense and brooding read, with a
brilliantly claustrophobic sense of place' Sunday Mirror on How it
Ends 'An engrossing read with endearing characters thrust into
traumatic circumstances. It stayed with me long after the last
page' Lisa Ballantyne on How It Ends 'Outstandingly good. Part
thriller, part love story, I guarantee you will not be able to put
it down' Sun on The Twins 'Atmospheric, readable, beautifully
evoked' Sunday Mirror on Without You 'Stunning in its insight and
beautifully written' Judy Finnigan on The Twins 'This enthralling
read will keep you up long into the night' Ruth Ware on The Other
Me 'Inspirational and compelling' Candis Review on How it Ends 'A
stunning writer with deep insight into people, their thoughts and
behaviour' NZ Women's Weekly
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often
labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental
source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient
philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has
stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new
systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in
three ways from Hermann Diels's groundbreaking work, as well as
from later editions: it renders explicit the material's thematic
organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of
evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic
corpus; and it presents an overview of the reception of these
thinkers until the end of antiquity. Volume I contains introductory
and reference materials essential for using all other parts of the
edition. Volumes II-III include chapters on ancient doxography,
background, and the Ionians from Pherecydes to Heraclitus. Volumes
IV-V present western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to Hippo.
Volumes VI-VII comprise later philosophical systems and their
aftermath in the fifth and early fourth centuries. Volumes VIII-IX
present fifth-century reflections on language, rhetoric, ethics,
and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and conclude
with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama.
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Now thoroughly revamped with a diverse selection of poetic voices
from the last fifty years, this third edition of Rhian Williams's
bestselling book, The Poetry Toolkit guides readers through key
terms, genres and concepts that help them to develop a richer, more
sophisticated approach to reading, thinking and writing about
poetry. Combining an easy-to-use reference format with in-depth
practice readings and further exercises, the book helps students
master the study of poetry for themselves. As well as featuring
more contemporary voices, the 3rd edition of The Poetry Toolkit
includes an expanded practical section giving guidance on close
reading, comparative reading and advice on writing critically about
poetry. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website
offering audio recordings of poetry readings, weblinks and
overviews of key theoretical approaches to support advanced study.
Head to bloomsbury.com/Williams-the-poetry-toolkit for a host of
additional resources.
In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life—her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith—profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the connections between past and present and of human nature itself, combined with the extraordinary quality of her writing, sets her works far above the genre of "historical novels." This new translation by Tina Nunnally—the first English version since Charles Archer's translation in the 1920s—captures Undset's strengths as a stylist. Nunnally, an award-winning translator, retains the natural dialog and lyrical flow of the original Norwegian, with its echoes of Old Norse legends, while deftly avoiding the stilted language and false archaisms of Archer's translation. In addition, she restores key passages left out of that edition. Undset's ability to present a meticulously accurate historical portrait without sacrificing the poetry and narrative drive of masterful storytelling was particularly significant in her homeland. Granted independence in 1905 after five hundred years of foreign domination, Norway was eager to reclaim its national history and culture. Kristin Lavransdatter became a touchstone for Undset's contemporaries, and continues to be widely read by Norwegians today. In the more than 75 years since it was first published, it has also become a favorite throughout the world.
What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our
lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just
in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary
course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now
revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout
by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter.
The glossary and bibliography have been expanded, and new sections
explore unnatural narrative, retrograde narrative, reader-resistant
narratives, intermedial narrative, narrativity, and multiple
interpretation. With its lucid exposition of concepts, and
suggestions for further reading, this book is not only an excellent
introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an
invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range
of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society
and politics, journalism, autobiography, history, and still others
throughout the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
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