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Argonauts Of The Air In The Country Of The Blind And Other Selected Stories Edited By Patrick Parrinder With An Introduction By Neil Gaiman And Notes By Andy Sawyer Penguin Classics
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Download or read book MAGISTERIAL GAZE written by Albert Boime and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1991-12-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boime (art history, UCLA) reveals in the expansive vistas of Cole, Church, Bierstadt, Moran, and others a shared perspective--a visual trajectory from the heights to a scenic panorama below. This elevated view, he argues, not only united the major movements of 19th-century landscape painting but also linked them inescapably to the political and social tenets of Manifest Destiny. With eight color, 45 bandw illustrations. 91/4x61/4 Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Reading by Starlight by : Damien Broderick
Download or read book Reading by Starlight written by Damien Broderick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers. Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelists and theorists including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson and Samuel R. Delaney.
Author :Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita) Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :0195345665 Total Pages :328 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (953 download)
Book Synopsis Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface by : Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita)
Download or read book Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface written by Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine
Book Synopsis Many Futures, Many Worlds by : Thomas D. Clareson
Download or read book Many Futures, Many Worlds written by Thomas D. Clareson and published by Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of scholarly essays which identify and discuss the themes and forms that distinguish science fiction from other genres and which comment on the work of important writers. Bibliogs.
Book Synopsis Science Fiction by : Patrick Parrinder
Download or read book Science Fiction written by Patrick Parrinder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979. This volume presents Science Fiction as a coherent system, not as a collection of facts or random sequence of individual voices. The contributors are concerned with less with surveying the bare facts of the genre than with interpretating their significance. They attempt to establish the common properties of Science Fiction writing whether in the treatment of a theme or in SF of a given period or nationality.
Book Synopsis The American Shore by : Samuel R. Delany
Download or read book The American Shore written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of his considerations, Samuel R. Delany poses a theory of discourse and explores how the reading of various rhetorical turns, some science fictional, some not, is shifted by science fictional understanding.
Book Synopsis Literature as System by : Claudio Guillen
Download or read book Literature as System written by Claudio Guillen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillén proposes a structural approach to literary history. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Television Drama written by John Caughie and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an account of British television drama from its pre-war origins in live studio drama to its convergence with an emerging British art cinema in the 1990s
Author :George Edgar Slusser Publisher :Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :232 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Coordinates by : George Edgar Slusser
Download or read book Coordinates written by George Edgar Slusser and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thirteen original essays were written specifically for the Third J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held February 21-22, 1981, at the University of California, Riverside. Leslie Fiedler sets the tone of this volume by fixing a basic set of coordinates--that of "elitist" and "popular" standards. Those replying to his charge are: Eric S. Rabkin, Professor of English at the University of Michigan and author of The Fantasticin Literature, "The Descent of Fantasy"; Gerald Prince, Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania, "How New is New?"; Mark Rose, Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, author of Alien Encounters, "Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of Science Fiction"; Joseph Lenz, who teaches English Literature at the University of Michigan, "Manifest Destiny: Science Fiction Epic and Classical Forms"; Michelle Massé, of the English Department at the George Mason University, "'All you have to do is know what you want' Individual Expectations in Triton";Gary K. Wolfe, who teaches English at Roosevelt University, author of The Known and the Unknown, "Autoplastic and Alloplastic Adaptations in Science Fiction: 'Waldo' and 'Desertion'"; Robert Hunt, an editor with Glencoe Press, "Science Fiction for the Age of Inflation: Reading Atlas Shrugged in the 1980s"; George R. Guffey, Professor of English at UCLA, "Fahrenheit 451and the 'Cubby-Hole Editors' of Ballantine Books"; H. Bruce Franklin, Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University at Newark, "America as Science Fiction: 1939"; Sandra M. Gilbert, Professor of English at the University of California at Davis, and coauthor with Susan Gubar of Madwoman in the Attic, "Rider Haggard's Heart of Darkness"; the aforementioned Susan Gubar, Professor of English at Indiana University, "She in Her/and: Feminism as Fantasy"; and George R. Slusser, Curator of the Eaton Collection, "Death and the Mirror: Existential Fantasy."
Book Synopsis Fantasy and the Cinema by : James Donald
Download or read book Fantasy and the Cinema written by James Donald and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Book Synopsis The Dynasty Years by : Jostein Gripsrud
Download or read book The Dynasty Years written by Jostein Gripsrud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dynasty Years documents and analyses in detail 'the Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made 'Rolls Royce of a primetime soap' which heralded a profound transformation of European television. From the operatic camp of Krystle and Alexis' fight in the lilypond or the Moldavian wedding massacre to the unprecedented gay sub-plot, Dynasty represented, in the words of co-producer Esther Shapiro, "the ultimate dollhouse fantasy for middle-aged women". Using evidence from audience survey results, newspaper and magazine clippings and letters to broadcasters and drawing on semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminism and critical social theories, Jostein Gripsrud examines every aspect of Dynasty's production, reception and context. The result is a groundbreaking critical study. Jostein Gripsrud offers a theoretical but empirically grounded critique of many central positions in media studies, including notions of 'audience resistance' and the 'sovereign' audience and its freedom in meaning-making, arguing against what he perceives as the uncritical celebrations of the soap-opera genre in much contemporary media criticism.
Book Synopsis Astounding Days by : Arthur C. Clarke
Download or read book Astounding Days written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur C. Clarke acquired his first science fiction magazine - a copy of Astounding Stories - in 1930, when he was 13. Immediately he became an avid reader and collector: and, soon enough, a would-be-writer. The rest is history. Now, in Astounding Days, he looks back over those impressed by him, discussing their scientific howlers, and their remarkable proportion of predictive bulls-eyes - and writing of his early life and career. Written with relaxed good humour, Astounding Days is full of fascinating comment and anecdote.
Book Synopsis The Country of the Blind by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book The Country of the Blind written by H. G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the peaks and snow capped volcanoes In the middle of the jungle on the Andes Mountains of Ecuador There is still a mysterious valley in the middle of the mountain that cuts it off from the outside world. We call this place land of the blind people who live in this place experienced a strange contagious disease That caused their eyes to become cloudy, blurry, and eventually become completely blind from birth to adulthood. They have always lived a simple and peaceful life. Their lack of visual potential was not a problem in life at all.But then the whole story has changed. When a man named Nunez from a mountaineering group visited the mountains of Ecuador and fell to this land. When Nunez arrived He was very surprised by this place. Everything looked strange. both the shape of the house, the corridors, as well as the people, and he realized that Indeed, the people in this village were all blind. and did not even know that he was blind. No matter how much he tried to explain to the blind the sight, the shape of the trees, streams, and sky, no one believed. They also accused him of being unconscious.So Nunez came up with the idea of becoming the ruler of this place. How foolish and ignorant are you? As the saying goes, in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is the king But then Nuse's dream of a coup d'état failed. Even though he was not the only one-eyed man in the land of the blind. But it's a person with good eyesight who can see clearly on both sides, why?! because besides the villagers will not surrender to him to think that he is a danger different from others must be driven out only What will Nunez do next? Will be able to become the good eye king of the land of the blind or not? Continue to follow in the book.
Book Synopsis Jason and the Argonauts by : Apollonius of Rhodes
Download or read book Jason and the Argonauts written by Apollonius of Rhodes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princess Medea. Written in the third century B.C., this epic story of one of the most beloved heroes of Greek mythology, with its combination of the fantastical and the real, its engagement with traditions of science, astronomy and medicine, winged heroes, and a magical vessel that speaks, is truly without parallel in classical or contemporary Greek literature and is now available in an accessible and engaging translation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Argonauts, and other stories by : Bret Harte
Download or read book Tales of the Argonauts, and other stories written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stories and Tales: Tales of the Argonauts and other sketches by : Bret Harte
Download or read book Stories and Tales: Tales of the Argonauts and other sketches written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales of the Argonauts. On the frontier by : Bret Harte
Download or read book Tales of the Argonauts. On the frontier written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
