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The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never
only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the
Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and
obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from
medieval times to the present, taking the reader from riverbank to
open ocean, from England to New Zealand, from the shore to the
depths. Read it and be hooked. Included are contributions from
Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Ota Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George
Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and dozens more.
Concentrating on the work of four major modernist authors Virginia
Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Samuel Beckett this book
examines the close links between modernist literature and the
philosophy of mind. By historicising the qualia debate and
situating it within its cultural and literary contexts, it stages
interventions into a range of academic debates: over the status of
'sensations' and 'sense data' within modernist fiction, over the
scope and possibility of 'neuroaesthetic' approaches to literary
criticism, and over the relationship between literature, philosophy
and technology in the modernist moment.
Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural
imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. The
bicycle enables us to feel a landscape, rather than just see it,
and in the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Day attempts
to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city whilst
exploring the relationship between bodies, bikes and geography.
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the William Hill Sports
Book of the Year 'Rich and joyous ...The book's quiet optimism
about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things
passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald
'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guardian 'I love Jon Day's
writing and his birds. A marvellous, soaring account' Olivia Laing
'[A] beautiful book about unbeautiful birds' Observer 'This is
nature writing at its best' Financial Times 'Awash with historical
and literary detail, and moving moments ... Wonderful' Telegraph
'Every page of this beautifully written book brought me pleasure'
Charlotte Higgins 'A vivid evocation of a remarkable species and a
rich working-class tradition. It's also a charming defence of a
much-maligned bird, which will make any reader look at our cooing,
waddling, junk-food-loving feathered friends very differently in
future' Daily Mail 'Endlessly interesting and dazzlingly erudite,
this wonderful book will make a home for itself in your heart'
Prospect As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used
to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved
away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in
moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it meant to feel at
home. Returning to his childhood obsession with the birds, he built
a coop in his garden and joined a local pigeon racing club. Over
the next few years, as he made a home with his young family in
Leyton, he learned to train and race his pigeons, hoping that they
might teach him to feel homed. Having lived closely with humans for
tens of thousands of years, pigeons have become powerful symbols of
peace and domesticity. But they are also much-maligned, and
nowadays most people think of these birds, if they do so at all, as
vermin. A book about the overlooked beauty of this species, and
about what it means to dwell, Homing delves into the curious world
of pigeon fancying, explores the scientific mysteries of animal
homing, and traces the cultural, political and philosophical
meanings of home. It is a book about the making of home and making
for home: a book about why we return.
A radical intervention into critical debates over the status of
sensation within modernist literature Offers novel and insightful
readings of key modernist authors within their philosophical
contexts Critiques a range of 'neuroaesthetic' approaches to
literary criticism Proposes new ways of thinking about the
relationship between philosophy, literature and technology within
modernist studies. Concentrating on the work of four major
modernist authors - Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and
Samuel Beckett - this book examines the close links between
modernist literature and the philosophy of mind. By historicising
the qualia debate and situating it within its cultural and literary
contexts, it stages interventions into a range of academic debates:
over the status of 'sensations' and 'sense data' within modernist
fiction, over the scope and possibility of 'neuroaesthetic'
approaches to literary criticism, and over the relationship between
literature, philosophy and technology in the modernist moment.
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