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Twisted Mountains is a collection of short stories set among the
summits of England, Scotland and Wales, from Ben Hope to the South
Downs. Each tells the story of someone who has their own reasons to
be in the mountains. From a vengeful student to obsessive hostel
owner, the wannabe biker to the Wainwright expert with a secret.
While the stories are varied in their subjects, all have mountains
at their heart and a dark humour running through them. Authored by
Tim Woods, Twisted Mountains provides a different take on the
characters you find in and around the mountains. Tim tells their
stories in the characters' varied voices, in ways that are
shocking, dark, funny and sad, sometimes all at once.
Taking in novelists from all over the globe, from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading lights of twentieth century fiction. Superb breadth of coverage and over 800 entries by an international team of contributors ensures that this fascinating and wide-ranging work of reference will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in modern fiction. Authors included range from Joseph Conrad to Albert Camus and Franz Kafka to Chinua Achebe. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists gives a superb insight into the richness and diversity of the twentieth century novel. eBook available with sample pages: 0203188020
November 22nd 1963, Dealey Plaza As a seminal event in late
twentieth-century American history, the Kennedy assassination has
permeated the American and world consciousness in a wide variety of
ways. It has long fascinated American writers, filmmakers and
artists, and this book offers an authoritative critical
introduction to the way the event has been constructed in a range
of discourses. It looks at a variety of historical, political and
cultural attempts to understand Kennedy's death. Representations
include: journalism from the time; historical accounts and memoirs;
official investigations, government reports and sociological
inquiries; the huge number of conspiracy-minded interpretations;
novels, plays and other works of literature; and the Zapruder
footage, photography, avant-garde art, and Hollywood films.
Considering the continuities and contradictions in how the event
has been represented, the author focuses on how it has been seen
through the lens of ideas about conspiracy, celebrity and violence.
He also explores how the arguments about exactly what happened on
22 November 1963 have come to serve as a substitute way of debating
the significance of Kennedy's legacy and the meaning of the 1960s
more generally. Key Features: * presents information about the
event itself, the cultural context of the period, and the
consequences of the event * considers the ways in which the event
has been represented in subsequent years in a variety of discourses
* includes an annotated bibliography and 10 B&W illustrations.
Ladybird Histories: British History is the ideal first reference
book for primary school children. Full of fascinating facts and
detailed drawings, this handy book will form an invaluable part of
any child's first reference library. It is packed with information
about topics children will learn at school, including the Romans,
the Tudors, and Victorian Britain. The book also includes a weblink
to a downloadable timeline of British history. If your children
enjoyed this title why not try British History: Kings and Queens.
'A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have
forfeited their history.' So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The
Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, and this provides the
overarching thematic concept for African pasts as a whole.
Colonialism for Africans is not an event encapsulated in the past,
but is a history whose repercussions and traumatic consequences are
still actively evolving in today's political, historical, cultural
and artistic scenes. African pasts examines African literatures in
English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they
represent African history through the twin matrices of memory and
trauma. Inextricably tied up with the historical conditions of
Africa's colonisation, charting the emergence of its independence,
and scrutinising Africa's contemporary neo-colonial and
postcolonial states as a legacy of the colonial past, African
literatures are continually preoccupied with exploring modes of
representation to 'work through' their different traumatic colonial
pasts. Among other issues, this book deals with literature in the
era of apartheid, the post-apartheid aftermath, metafictional
experiments in African fiction, gender representation in reaction
to the trauma of colonialism and 'imprisonment narratives'. African
pasts covers a wide range of African literatures (drawn from West,
East and Southern Africa) and a cross-section of genres - fiction,
poetry, prison-narratives, postcolonial theory - and embraces such
well-known writers as Soyinka, Coetzee, Ngugi and Achebe, and more
recent writers such as Nuruddin Farah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Achmat
Dangor, Etienne van Heerden, Zakes Mda, Gillian Slovo and Calixthe
Beyala.
This book situates Louis Zukofsky’s poetics, and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly, within a set of fundamental ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. Tim Woods makes a strong case for Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix, viewing Zukofsky’s poetry through the lens of the work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas. Building an ethical genealogy of American poetics leading from Zukofsky through the contemporary school of L•A•N•G•U•A•G•E poetry, Woods brings together modernism and postmodernism, ethics and aesthetics, to shed new light on our understanding of this neglected strain of modernist poetics.
The question of ethics has dominated recent developments within the
humanities. This volume brings together the most recent theories of
ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary
texts. Ethical and literary issues explored by the contributors
include biography, sensibility, national identity, feminism,
postcolonialism, religion, subjectivity and stylistics. Literary
authors and philosophers/theorists discussed range from Shakespeare
and Mary Shelley to Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie, and from
Kant and Coleridge to Derrida and Levinas.
The question of ethics has dominated recent developments within the
humanities. This volume brings together the most recent theories of
ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary
texts. Ethical and literary issues explored by the contributors
include biography, sensibility, national identity, feminism,
postcolonialism, religion, subjectivity and stylistics. Literary
authors and philosophers/theorists discussed range from Shakespeare
and Mary Shelley to Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie, and from
Kant and Coleridge to Derrida and Levinas.
'Postmodernism' became the buzzword of contemporary society in
the 1990s. Yet, even now, it still remains confusing and baffling
in its variety of defiinitions, contexts and associations.
"Beginning Postmodernism" aims to offer clear, accessible and
step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of
subjects. It encourages readers to explore how the debates about
postmodernism have emerged from basic philosophical and cultural
ideas, and to develop comparative connections and ideas from one
area to another.
With its emphasis firmly on 'postmodernism in practice', the book
contains questions designed to help readers understand and reflect
upon a variety of positions within the following areas of
contemporary culture: philosophy and cultural theory; architecture
and concepts of space; visual art, sculpture and material culture;
popular culture and music; film, video and television; and the
social sciences
This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of
Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns
in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for
perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical
matrix of modernism. Viewing Zukofsy's poetry through the lens of
the theoretical work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, Woods
argues for an ethical genealogy of American poetics leading from
Zukofsky through the contemporary school of LANGUAGE poetry. Woods
brings together modernism and postmodernism, ethics and aesthetics,
in interesting and innovative ways which shed new light on our
understanding of this neglected strain of modernist poetics.
The current resurgence of ethics in the beleaguered humanities
reflects an increasing anxiety about the value and utility of
critical/philosophical debate in the wake of poststructuralism.
This book addresses this 'return to ethics' in relation to a wide
variety of theories and texts. It covers substantial areas of
ethical debate, particularly in relation to queer politics,
biography, history, postmodernism, atrocity literature,
utilitarianism, pedagogy and the philosophy of science. Theorists
discussed in the volume include Rorty, Heidegger, Levinas, Mill,
Lyotard, Leavis, Kuhn, Davidson, Nussbaum and Freud.
Handy guide is packed with the best plant varieties you'll want for
your garden: annula, perennials, trees and shrubs, vines, roses,
bulbs, ornamental grasses and herbs.
Within the heritage railway community, there is a growing awareness
of the historical significance of the diesel locomotive. In this
full color illustrated album, the reader is guided through the
trials and tribulations of operating such locomotives on the Spa
Valley Railway, a leading heritage line in East Sussex. Resident
and visiting locomotives of all shapes and sizes from the humble
yard shunter to the mighty express locomotive are illustrated, with
close up views of the interior of driving cabs and engine room
layouts adding to the variety and interest.
Dewey Webster is admitted country hick from Tennessee. He has torn
up numerous bars, hired a mob lawyer to settle a divorce, acted on
off-off-off-Broadway, and has written pulp fiction stories. The
large-bodied Dewey's adventures take place in 1947. Previously told
in the "Dewey Chronicles" series, these stories are combined in one
volume for the first time. Follow Dewey as he becomes a covert
operator for the U.S. government; fights evil extra-terrestrial
aliens; defends his dog in court; and goes back in time to the
medieval ages. While Dewey is hard-headed and is not the sharpest
knife in the drawer, he has unusual insight and a straightforward
approach to life that serves him well. A good right-hand haymaker
punch comes in handy, too. Give Dewey a pickup, a shotgun and a
good "dawg," and he'll take on anything or anyone at any time.
Joseph Hinman develops the notion that belief in God, while not
absolutely provable, is rationally warranted and that the
experience is life-transforming and vital. He utilizes a body of
empirical scientific studies that go back fifty years and draws
upon sociological experts including Abraham Maslow, Robert Wuthnow,
and Andrew Greeley. The huge body of work includes many important
advances in this scientific work (such as the M scale) this allow
for carefully study of mystical experience and offers a range of
evidence that warrants belief. Arguments for God based upon
personal religious experience have always been considered weak by
both apologists and skeptics. This has been the case due to
prejudices and misconceptions about the nature of religious
experiences... A vast body of data demonstrates that religious
experiences, what some call "mystical" and others refer to as
"peak," have positive, long term effects so dramatic it can only be
described as "transformative..". Religious experience is the effect
of God has upon the human heart, thus, the Trace of God. Hinman
establishes that the Trace of God and religious experience -far
from being caused by or related to mental or emotional instability-
has an impact that is not just positive and life-transforming but
vital: that belief in God is rationally warranted.
A father's four year journey out of worldly destruction intertwined
with his daughters 12 month battle with cancer. Two amazing stories
unfolding at the same time. Only the power of God's discipline and
grace could overcome the destruction from worldly living and
cancer. A true story, written from inspiration, to encourage others
who have fallen into the holds of worldly destruction and to share
with cancer patients and their families the story of a hard fought
battle with cancer. It's an emotional, sometimes unbelievable story
to read.
This interdisciplinary study of how 9/11 and the 'war on terror'
were represented during the Bush era, shows how culture often
functioned as a vital resource, for citizens attempting to make
sense of momentous historical events that frequently seemed beyond
their influence or control. Illustrated throughout, the book
discusses representation of 9/11 and the war on terror in Hollywood
film, the 9/11 novel, mass media, visual art and photography,
political discourse, and revisionist historical accounts of
American 'empire,' between the September 11 attacks and the
Congressional midterm elections in 2006. As well as prompting an
international security crisis, and a crisis in international
governance and law, David Holloway suggests the culture of the time
also points to a 'crisis' unfolding in the institutions and
processes of republican democracy in the United States. His book
offers a cultural and ideological history of the period, showing
how culture was used by contemporaries to debate, legitimise,
qualify, contest, or repress discussion, about the causes,
consequences and broader meanings of 9/11 and the war on terror.
This interdisciplinary study of how 9/11 and the 'war on terror'
were represented during the Bush era, shows how culture often
functioned as a vital resource, for citizens attempting to make
sense of momentous historical events that frequently seemed beyond
their influence or control. Illustrated throughout, the book
discusses representation of 9/11 and the war on terror in Hollywood
film, the 9/11 novel, mass media, visual art and photography,
political discourse, and revisionist historical accounts of
American 'empire,' between the September 11 attacks and the
Congressional midterm elections in 2006. As well as prompting an
international security crisis, and a crisis in international
governance and law, David Holloway suggests the culture of the time
also points to a 'crisis' unfolding in the institutions and
processes of republican democracy in the United States. His book
offers a cultural and ideological history of the period, showing
how culture was used by contemporaries to debate, legitimise,
qualify, contest, or repress discussion, about the causes,
consequences and broader meanings of 9/11 and the war on terror.
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