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Author | : Barry Gifford |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609803558 |
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Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. Here are charlatans, operators, alien abductees, schoolyard nudists, and fast girls with only months to live. At the center of it all is a boy learning to navigate the compromises, disillusionments and regrets that come with the territory of living. Mixing memoir and invention, the forty-one short stories in Barry Gifford's first book for young adults bring a city—and a boy's growing consciousness—to vivid, unflinching life.
Author | : Bernard Cornwell |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062097113 |
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The sixth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his lifelong goal of a unified England in peril, his kingdom on the brink of chaos. Though his son, Edward, has been named his successor, there are other Saxon claimants to the throne—as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Torn between his vows to Alfred and the desire to reclaim his long-lost ancestral lands in the north, Uhtred, Saxon-born and Viking-raised, remains the king’s warrior but has sworn no oath to the crown prince. Now he must make a momentous decision that will forever transform his life and the course of history: to take up arms—and Alfred’s mantle—or lay down his sword and let his liege’s dream of a unified kingdom die along with him.
Author | : Russell Jackson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110836926X |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen provides a lively guide to film and television productions adapted from Shakespeare's plays. Offering an essential resource for students of Shakespeare, the companion considers topics such as the early history of Shakespeare films, the development of 'live' broadcasts from theatre to cinema, the influence of promotion and marketing, and the range of versions available in 'world cinema'. Chapters on the contexts, genres and critical issues of Shakespeare on screen offer a diverse range of close analyses, from 'Classical Hollywood' films to the BBC's Hollow Crown series. The companion also features sections on the work of individual directors Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Vishal Bhardwaj, and is supplemented by a guide to further reading and a filmography.
Author | : Gananath Obeyesekere |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400843847 |
Download The Apotheosis of Captain Cook Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself. In this new edition of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, the author addresses, in a lengthy afterword, Marshall Sahlins's 1994 book, How "Natives" Think, which was a direct response to this work.
Author | : Charles Forker |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0485810026 |
Download Richard II Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Before 1790, the criticism of Richard II is fragmentary and this volume takes up the major tradition of criticism, including Malone, Lamb, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Chambers, Boas, Brandes, Yeats, Schelling, Swinburne, A.C. Bradley, Saintsbury, and Masefield.
Author | : Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Board Of Editors. |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788125000884 |
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This course in English has been designed to cater to the needs of undergraduate students of the humanities and social sciences. The main objectives of the course are - to enable the students to read and comprehend complex texts; to help them write logical, coherent and persuasive prose; to develop their ability to understand spoken English and to enable them to speak correctly and intelligibly.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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'The Phoenix and the Turtle' is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works and has led to many conflicting interpretations. The poem describes a funeral arranged for the deceased Phoenix and Turtledove, respectively emblems of perfection and of devoted love. Some birds are invited, but others excluded. It goes on to state that the love of the birds created a perfect unity which transcended all logic and material fact. It concludes with a prayer for the dead lovers.
Author | : Zvi Ben-Dor Benite |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2017-06-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231171870 |
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What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests. The essays in The Scaffolding of Sovereignty reveal that sovereignty has always been supported, complemented, and enforced by a complex aesthetic and intellectual scaffolding. This collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigating the concept on a global scale, ranging from an account of a Manchu emperor building a mosque to a discussion of the continuing power of Lenin’s corpse, from an analysis of the death of kings in classical Greek tragedy to an exploration of the imagery of “the people” in the Age of Revolutions. Across seventeen chapters that closely study specific historical regimes and conflicts, the book’s contributors examine intersections of authority, power, theatricality, science and medicine, jurisdiction, rulership, human rights, scholarship, religious and popular ideas, and international legal thought that support or undermine different instances of sovereign power and its representations.
Author | : Nigel Saul |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2006-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826424155 |
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The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. Richard I ('Coeur de Lion', 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his cousin, Henry IV, and murdered; while Richard III (1483-85), as the murderer of his nephews, 'The Princes in the Tower', was the most notorious villain in English history. This highly readable joint biography shows how much the three kings had in common, apart from their names. All were younger sons of monarchs, not expected to come to the throne; all failed to leave a legitimate heir, causing instability on their deaths; all were cultured and pious; and all died violently. All have attracted accusations but also fascination. In comparing them, Nigel Saul tells three gripping stories and shows what it took to be a medieval king.