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In this collection, an international team of contributors contests the conventional critical view of modernism as a transnational or supranational entity. They examine relationships between modernist poetry and place, and foreground issues of region and space, nation and location in the work of poets such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. The book brings the work of major canonical writers into juxtaposition with more neglected modernists such as Basil Bunting and Dylan Thomas, writers whose investment in the concepts of region and nation, it is argued, contributed to their relative marginalization.
First full study of the use made by Renaissance writers of the past
in their prose fiction. Davis's study could scarcely be more timely
or invigorating. SEAN KEILEN, College of William and Mary.
Williamsburg VA A majority of the fiction composed in England in
the second half of the sixteenth century was set inthe past. All
the major prose writers of the period (Thomas Lodge, Sir Philip
Sidney, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Deloney, Robert Greene) produced
historical fiction, with settings ranging from the ancient world
(as in Sidney's Arcadia) to the time of Henry VIII (in Nashe's The
Unfortunate Traveller). Yet while studies of the historical drama
of the period abound, the historical bias of prose fiction has so
far escaped any sort of sustained critical consideration.
Renaissance Historical Fiction is the first book-length study of
this important topic. It argues for the complex ways in which these
prose fictions engage with an idea of the past, and of their power
to destabilize some of our dominant models for understanding the
period of 'the Renaissance'. The wide range of texts discussed
includes Lodge's Robin the Devil; Greene's Ciceronis Amor; John
Lyly's Euphues and his England; and the anonymous Famous History of
Friar Bacon. In addition, a chapter apiece is devoted to three key
authors (Sidney, Deloney and Nashe) whose work best represents the
imaginative richness and thematic complexity of the historical
fiction of the late sixteenth century. Alex Davis is Lecturer in
English at the University of St Andrews.
A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone
poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its
three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth,
politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts
discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T.
S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens,
William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, as well as key
movements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance.
This book also addresses the impact of both World Wars on
experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in
disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism. The
collection concludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the
inheritance of modernism in recent writing on both sides of the
Atlantic.
In this 2000 collection, an international team of contributors
contest the conventional critical view of modernism as a
transnational or supranational entity. They examine relationships
between modernist poetry and place, and foreground issues of region
and space, nation and location in the work of poets such as Ezra
Pound, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore. The book brings the work
of major canonical writers into juxtaposition with more neglected
modernists such as Basil Bunting and Dylan Thomas, writers whose
investment in the concepts of region and nation, it is argued,
contributed to their relative marginalisation. These essays offer a
fascinating perspective on contemporary valuations of modernism
through their investigation of some of the Anglo-American locations
of modernism, and assess the regional and nationalist affiliations
of modernist poetry. The Locations of Literary Modernism maps a
topography of poetic modernism that is quite different from what
had hitherto been accepted as comprehensive.
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of
modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts.
The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and
sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The
chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and
movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive
overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of
modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical
poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose
importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy,
poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the
Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often
thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to
understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating
responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their
dialogue with the arts and with each other.
Ukulele Basics is a landmark ukulele method for young beginners.
Carefully designed for use in both individual- and group-learning
contexts, Ukulele Basics supports players and teachers through the
early stages of learning, providing the ideal foundation for
budding musicians. From how to hold your ukulele, through basic
chords and strumming patterns, to playing accompaniments and simple
tunes, this carefully paced method provides a complete resource for
aspiring players. Suitable for absolute beginners aged 6+ Gradually
introduces key musical concepts, tab and stave notation, simple
chords and strums and tunes to pluck Online audio of demos for all
songs and chords as well as numerous backing tracks Notes for
teachers and tips for parents/carers to download. Detailed lesson
plans for selected songs can be found below
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of
modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts.
The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and
sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The
chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and
movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive
overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of
modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical
poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose
importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy,
poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the
Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often
thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to
understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating
responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their
dialogue with the arts and with each other.
If you're writing one of several applications that call for
asynchronous programming, this concise hands-on guide shows you how
the async feature in C# 5.0 can make the process much simpler.
Along with a clear introduction to asynchronous programming, you
get an in-depth look at how the async feature works and why you
might want to use it in your application.
Written for experienced C# programmers--yet approachable for
beginners--this book is packed with code examples that you can
extend for your own projects.Write your own asynchronous code, and
learn how async saves you from this messy choreDiscover new
performance possibilities in ASP.NET web server codeExplore how
async and WinRT work together in Windows 8 applicationsLearn the
importance of the await keyword in async methodsUnderstand which
.NET thread is running your code--and at what points in the
programUse the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP) to write
asynchronous APIs in .NETTake advantage of parallel computing in
modern machinesMeasure async code performance by comparing it with
alternatives
HORROR HAS A HUMAN FACE . . . In a world over-run with vampires,
werewolves and zombies, No Monsters Allowed goes back to the very
roots of horror - humanity itself. The vile acts of our fellow men
and women, the fears that hide in our own minds, the nightmares
that inhabit our everyday lives . . . You'll find all this and more
in this collection of 20 stories. Featuring stories from: ALLEN
ASHLEY, KEITH BROOKE, JEFF GARDINER, STUART HUGHES, AMELIA MANGAN,
GARY MCMAHON, ANNA TABORSKA, and many more...
A reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric
culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what it
says about contemporary attitudes to the medieval. Chivalry and
Romance in Renaissance England offers a reinterpretation of the
place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and
seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this
reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval
generally. Received wisdom has it that both chivalric culture and
the literature of chivalry - romances - were obsolete by the time
of the Renaissance, an understanding epitomised by the figure of
Don Quixote, the reader of chivalric fictions whose risible
literary tastes render him absurd. By way of contrast, this study
finds evidence for the continued vitality and relevance of
chivalric values at all levels of sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century society, from the court entertainments of
Elizabeth I to the civic culture of London merchants and artisans.
At the same time, it charts the process by which, throughout the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the chivalric has been firstly
exclusively identified with the medieval and then transformed into
a virtual shorthand for 'pastness' generally. ALEX DAVIS is
lecturer in English, University of St Andrews.
An incisively argued collection of essays which sets out to look
afresh at the landscape of Irish poetry in the 1930s.
Greetings, player, and prepare yourselves for a journey unlike any
other - a journey through the world of games. Enter a realm where a
man falls in love with a playing card and a game of Scrabble has
deadly consequences, a place where reality and virtual reality blur
into one and the same. In these pages, the moves of a chess piece
can signal the difference between life and death, rioting has
become a huge national sport and the players lose themselves in
games of their own devising. Featuring stories by Allen Ashley,
Adam Craig, Charlie Fish, Diotima Sophia, Sandra Unerman, Jay
Wilburn, Jason D Wittman and many more.
For the first time collected together, the best weird fiction from
Morpheus Tales, the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine!
Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the
Morpheus Tales archives to create the fourth collected volume of
the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark". Featuring
fiction by Gary Budgen, Alex Davis, James Everington, R. K.
Gemienhardt, Dean M. Drinkel, Michael W. Garza, John S. Barker,
Brick Marlin, Kurt Fawver, John F. D. Taff, Charles A. Muir, Martin
Slag, Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf, Deborah Walker, Cate Caldwell,
Richard Smith, Alex Gonzalez, Erik T. Johnson, Brian Kutco, Heather
Smith, John Morgan. Established horror best-sellers rub shoulders
with rising stars and newcomers in this diverse collection of short
weird fiction.
This book uses the approach of a cookbook. Each recipe provides the
reader with easy step-by-step descriptions of the actions necessary
to accomplish a specific task. It is designed to present what often
appear as extremely complicated techniques as a series of
simple-to-follow recipes, allowing readers to achieve high uptimes
on their MySQL servers. This book is targeted at system
administrators or database administrators who have basic
familiarity with Linux, the shell, and MySQL. The typical user will
be able to get MySQL installed and working, but needs practical
guidance to make it highly available.
AI is being touted as the biggest disruptor of legal services in
living memory. Claims that "100,000 legal roles are to become
automated", and "robots will replace lawyers in the next 20-30
years" mean that the trend cannot be ignored. In December 2016,
ARK's best-selling Robots in Law - a vendor neutral primer on what
artificial intelligence could do in legal services was published.
This was written as a snapshot of how things stood at that point in
time. It was early days for AI in legal, so it wasn't about
implementation or adoption but about technological developments and
possible uses. A year later, this book focuses on how firms have
begun to adopt and use AI, providing detailed insight into the
different practice areas or functions that AI has been used to
drive efficiencies. The book is designed to help law firms learn
lessons from previous implementations and consider which technology
would be right for them to adopt.
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Irish Studies (Paperback, New)
Alex Davis, Andrew Hadfield, Eve Patten, John Goodby; John Goodby
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R1,713
Discovery Miles 17 130
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Offering an introduction to Irish culture and society, this
glossary serves as a routemap for undergraduates to further study.
It contains around 400 short and accessible explanations of the key
events, figures and concepts in Irish studies since the pre-modern
period. From "the Abbey Theatre" and "Bloody Sunday" to "Viking
Invasions" and "Oscar Wilde", this glossary gives an
interdisciplinary overview of Irish culture and society and offers
directions for further reading. Covering literary terms, traditions
and movements as well as Irish history, politics, music and art,
the entries are fully cross-referenced and assume no prior
knowledge making this a useful source of information for students
of Irish studies.
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