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Author : Alex Baker
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Losers written by Alex Baker and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike. Interview with Agnes B.
Author : Leonard Cohen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307778576
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Losers written by Leonard Cohen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen’ s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy--and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors. First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.
Author : Samuel Francis
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826209769
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Losers written by Samuel Francis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Washington Times columnist Francis argues that the 1992 victory of the Democratic Party in the presidential campaign marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era but the failure of American conservatism. He asserts that the changes of the last decade have led to a virtual disappearance of the political Right, and that for the first time since the New Deal, the nation faces the prospect of political democracy without an oppositional force to liberalism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Eve Seymour
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738747246
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Losers written by Eve Seymour and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Slade has many admirers, but only one wants her dead. Kim Slade is a clinical psychologist specializing in young women with eating disorders. She also has someone who specializes in her: an anonymous stalker. When Kyle Stannard, a former model with a facial disfigurement, steps suddenly into her life, Kim assumes he's her stalker. Partially scarred after a childhood accident, Kim believes this is the reason for Stannard's obsession and reports him to the police. But smart-mouthed Stannard denies the accusation and has a plausible explanation for every twisted move he makes. Can Kim nail him? Or is the person who wants to destroy her closer to home... Praise: "Beautiful Losers is a dark and disturbing read that grabs from the off. Eve Seymour doesn't put a step out of place with her writing. I loved it."—Amanda Jennings, author of Sworn Secret, The Judas Scar, and In Her Wake "A chilling descent into paranoia and self-obsession. Seymour invites us to look into the mirror, and judge."—Paul Hardisty, author of The Abrupt Physics of Dying and The Evolution of Fear
Author : Kit Dobson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 9781554581658
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Transnational Canadas written by Kit Dobson and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students. Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today’s economic climate, Transnational Canadas explores the legacy of leftist nationalism in Canadian literature. It examines the interventions of multicultural writing in the 1980s and 1990s, investigating the cultural politics of the period and how they increasingly became part of Canada’s state structure. Under globalization, the book concludes, we need to understand new forms of subjectivity and mobility as sites for cultural politics and look beyond received notions of belonging and being. An original contribution to the study of Canadian literature, Transnational Canadas seeks to invigorate discussion by challenging students and researchers to understand the national and the global simultaneously, to look at the politics of identity beyond the rubric of multiculturalism, and to rethink the slippery notion of the political for the contemporary era.
Author : Marilyn Stasio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Broadway's Beautiful Losers written by Marilyn Stasio and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Rae
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773577580
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book From Cohen to Carson written by Ian Rae and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-03-26 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed case studies of novels by Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, and Anne Carson, as well as sections on A.M. Klein and Anne Michaels, reveal how these authors framed their early novels according to formal precedents established in their poetry. In tracking the authors’ shift from lyric to long poem to novel, Rae also investigates their experiments with non-literary art forms - photography, painting, film. The authors discussed combine disparate genres and media to alter notions of narrative coherence in the novel and engage the diverse but fragmented cultural histories of Canadian society.
Author : T. F. Rigelhof
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889842182
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (421 download)
Download or read book This is Our Writing written by T. F. Rigelhof and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punctuate his title as you like but T.F. Rigelhof considers This is Our Writing a declaration, an enquiry and an exclamation. As a writer of half a dozen, a reviewer of dozens upon dozens, and as a reader of a multitude more books, Terry Rigelhof knows much about writing in Canada. In these eleven essays, he asks what is best in what has been written by Canadians in the twentieth century. He examines selected works of some writers whose accomplishments need serious revaluation. What are the real achievements of Robertson Davies, Carole Corbeil, Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Hugh Hood, Leonard Cohen and George Grant? Rigelhof comes up with a list that will surprise some and dismay others. This is a book for readers who have always known in their heart of hearts that Robertson Davies was an egregious windbag and that underneath the inspired silliness of their carefully contrived and managed public images, Mordecai Richler and Leonard Cohen have produced three of the most intelligent novels we have. In a sequence of interlocking personal essays, Rigelhof explores living a writerly life in Canada at the end of the twentieth century. The text is fortified by a dozen photographs, all but one previously unpublished, by Gabor Szilasi, one of Canada's greatest active documentary photographers.
Author : Terry Goldie
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551113739
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Pink Snow written by Terry Goldie and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances in literature. Goldie brings an original, engaging, and sometimes provocative critical perspective to bear on both Canadian classics and less mainstream works. Chapters include: Wacousta (John Richardson) As For Me and My House (Sinclair Ross) Who Has Seen the Wind (W.O. Mitchell) The Mountain and the Valley (Ernest Buckler) Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen) Place D’Armes (Scott Symons) Fifth Business (Robertson Davies) The Wars (Timothy Findley) Thy Mother’s Glass (David Watmough) Funny Boy (Shyam Selvadurai) Kiss of the Fur Queen (Tomson Highway)
Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889207658
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Narcissistic Narrative written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such a development for both the theory of the novel and reading theory. Having placed this phenomenon in its historical context Linda Hutcheon uses the insights of various reader-response theories to explore the “paradox” created by metafiction: the reader is, at the same time, co-creator of the self-reflexive text and distanced from it because of its very self-reflexiveness. She illustrates her analysis through the works of novelists such as Fowles, Barth, Nabokov, Calvino, Borges, Carpentier, and Aquin. For the paperback edition of this important book a preface has been added which examines developments since first publication. Narcissistic Narrative was selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books for 1981–1982.
Author : Université libre de Bruxelles. Centre d'études canadiennes
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052011097
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Littératures Canadiennes Et Identités Postcoloniales written by Université libre de Bruxelles. Centre d'études canadiennes and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers challenging assessments of the reconfigurations that have shaped Anglophone and Francophone Canadian literatures in the last decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on the pursuit of an ever-elusive «Canadianness» in literary texts, it documents the astonishing range of Canadian diasporic identities that have recently emerged in the Canadian literary landscape. The contributors to this volume boldly transgress the widely held critical assumptions of postcolonialism in their examination of the literary representations of contemporary Canada's many «Others». Ce volume rassemble nombre d'analyses innovatrices des reconfigurations qui ont caractérisé les littératures canadiennes anglophones et francophones durant les dernières décennies du vingtième siècle. Tout en se concentrant sur la quête de l'insaisissable «Canadianité» en littérature, l'ouvrage démontre l'étonnante diversité des identités diasporiques qui ont récemment émergé dans le paysage littéraire canadien. Les contributeurs de ce volume transgressent audacieusement les certitudes généralement acquises du postcolonialisme afin de mieux décrire les représentations littéraires des nombreux «Autres» du Canada actuel.
Author : Susan Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628927550
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book History of Illustration written by Susan Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 CHOICE Award "The authoritative book on the origins, history, and influence of illustration. Bravo!" David Brinley, University of Delaware, USA History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images show illustrations within their social, cultural, and technical context, while they are ordered from the past to the present. Readers will be able to analyze images for their displayed techniques, cultural standards, and ideas to appreciate the art form. This essential guide is the first history of illustration written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators.
Author : Matthew Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300263082
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A World after Liberalism written by Matthew Rose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics, introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the twentieth century, the “radical right,” and discusses its adherents’ different attempts to imagine political societies after the death or decline of liberalism. Questioning democracy’s most basic norms and practices, these critics rejected ideas about human equality, minority rights, religious toleration, and cultural pluralism not out of implicit biases, but out of explicit principle. They disagree profoundly on race, religion, economics, and political strategy, but they all agree that a postliberal political life will soon be possible. Focusing on the work of Oswald Spengler, Julius Evola, Francis Parker Yockey, Alain de Benoist, and Samuel Francis, Rose shows how such thinkers are animated by religious aspirations and anxieties that are ultimately in tension with Christian teachings and the secular values those teachings birthed in modernity.
Author : Norman Ravvin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773516646
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book House of Words written by Norman Ravvin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli
Author : Ira B. Nadel
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367029
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Various Positions written by Ira B. Nadel and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued with a new afterword Leonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing, flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson’s acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, in theatres this summer (the DVD will release this fall); and the superb soundtrack in music stores everywhere, Leonard Cohen proves he is Canada’s most enduring icon. Now, in the newly reissued Various Positions, Ira Nadel peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Leonard Cohen’s life and his art. This book is a remarkable and rare look at Leonard Cohen, up close and personal. For nearly forty years, Leonard Cohen has endured the ups and downs of an international career that has alternately identified him as the "Prince of Bummers" and Canada's most respected poet and performer. Now, author Ira Nadel brings us closer to understanding these conflicting descriptions and allows us to enter Cohen's private world. He peels back the many layers to reveal the man and explain the fascinating relationship between Cohen's life and his art. This is a remarkable and rare look at Leonard Cohen, up close and personal.
Author : Jason Holt
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812698827
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Leonard Cohen and Philosophy written by Jason Holt and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early years, when he morphed from celebrated poet to provocative singer-songwriter, to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Leonard Cohen has endured as one of the most enigmatic and profound figures—with a uniquely compelling voice and unparalleled depth of artistic vision—in all of popular music. The aesthetic quality and intellectual merit of Cohen’s work are above dispute; here, for the first time, a team of philosophers takes an in-depth look at its real significance. Want to know what Cohen and Kierkegaard have in common? Or whether Cohen rivals the great philosophical pessimist Schopenhauer? Then this book is for you. It provides the first thorough analysis of Cohen from various (philosophical) positions. It is intended not only for Cohen fans but also undergraduates in philosophy and other areas. It explores important neglected aspects of Cohen’s work without attempting to reduce them to academic tropes, yet nonetheless will also be useful to academics—or anyone—beguiled by the enigma that is Leonard Cohen.
Author : Iain Borden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472583485
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Skateboarding and the City written by Iain Borden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images – of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills – this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.
