In Media Res

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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611486505
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis In Media Res by : James Braxton Peterson

Download or read book In Media Res written by James Braxton Peterson and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems, and creative works that critically engage a wide range of issues, including American imperialism, racial and gender discrimination, the globalization of culture, and the limitations of our new multimedia world. This diverse assortment of works by scholars, activists, and artists models the complex ways that we must engage university students, faculty, staff, and administration in a moment where so many of us are confounded by the “in medias res” nature of our interface with the world in the current moment. Featuring contributions from Imani Perry, Michael Eric Dyson, Suheir Hammad, John Jennings, and Adam Mansbach, In Media Res is a primer for academic inquiry into popular culture; American studies; critical media literacy; women, gender, and sexuality studies; and Africana studies.

Minaret

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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199240
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Minaret by : Leila Aboulela

Download or read book Minaret written by Leila Aboulela and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautiful, daring, challenging novel” of a young Muslim immigrant—from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Translator (The Guardian). Leila Aboulela’s American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman—once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London—gradually embracing her orthodox faith. With her Muslim hijab and down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. An upperclass Westernized Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. But a coup forces the young woman and her family into political exile in London. Soon orphaned, she finds solace and companionship within the Muslim community. Then Najwa meets Tamer, the intense, lonely younger brother of her employer. They find a common bond in faith and slowly, silently, begin to fall in love. Written with directness and force, Minaret is a lyric and insightful novel about Islam and an alluring glimpse into a culture Westerners are only just beginning to understand. “Lit up by a highly unusual sensibility and world view, so rarefied and uncompromising that it is likely to throw the reader out of kilter . . . Her delicacy of touch is to be complimented.” —Chandrahas Choudhury, San Francisco Chronicle

In Medias Res

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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 908964329X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Book Synopsis In Medias Res by : Willem Schinkel

Download or read book In Medias Res written by Willem Schinkel and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sloterdijk has in recent years grown into one of Germany's most influential thinkers. His work, which is extremely relevant for philosophers, scientists of art and culture, sociologists, political scientists and theologists, is only now gradually being translated in English. This book makes his work accessible to a wider audience by putting it to work in orientation towards current issues. Sloterdijk's philosophy moves from a Heideggerian project to think 'space and time' to a Diogenes-inspired 'kynical' affirmation of the body and a Deleuzian ontology of network-spheres. In a range of accessible and clearly written chapters, this book discusses the many aspects of this thought"--Publisher's website.

This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619028190
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis This is Not a Novel and Other Novels by : David Markson

Download or read book This is Not a Novel and Other Novels written by David Markson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating" and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie and Zadie Smith. Markson created his own personal genre. With crackling wit distilled into incantatory streams of thought on art, life, and death, Markson's work has delighted and astonished readers for decades. Now for the first time, three of Markson's masterpieces are compiled into one page–turning volume: This Is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, and The Last Novel. In This Is Not a Novel, readers meet an author, called only "Writer," who is weary unto death of making up stories, and yet is determined to seduce the reader into turning pages and getting somewhere. Vanishing Point introduces us to "Author," who sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with note cards into a novel. In The Last Novel, we find an elderly author (referred to only as "Novelist") who announces that, since this will be his final effort, he possesses "carte blanche to do anything he damn well pleases." United by their focus on the trials, calamities, absurdities and even tragedies of the creative life, these novels demonstrate David Markson's extraordinary intellectual richness—leaving readers, time after time, with the most indisputably original of reading experiences.

The Order of the Day

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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590519701
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis The Order of the Day by : Éric Vuillard

Download or read book The Order of the Day written by Éric Vuillard and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the 2017 Prix Goncourt, this behind-the-scenes account of the manipulation, hubris, and greed that together led to Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria brilliantly dismantles the myth of an effortless victory and offers a dire warning for our current political crisis. February 20, 1933, an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter: A meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi officials is being held in secret in the plush lounge of the Reichstag. They are there to extract funds for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its Chancellor. This opening scene sets a tone of consent that will lead to the worst possible repercussions. March 12, 1938, the annexation of Austria is on the agenda: A grotesque day intended to make history—the newsreels capture a motorized army on the move, a terrible, inexorable power. But behind Goebbels’s splendid propaganda, an ersatz Blitzkrieg unfolds, the Panzers breaking down en masse on the roads into Austria. The true behind-the-scenes account of the Anschluss—a patchwork of minor flourishes of strength and fine words, fevered telephone calls, and vulgar threats—all reveal a starkly different picture. It is not strength of character or the determination of a people that wins the day, but rather a combination of intimidation and bluff. With this vivid, compelling history, Éric Vuillard warns against the peril of willfully blind acquiescence, and offers a reminder that, ultimately, the worst is not inescapable.

In Medias Res

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Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932511079
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book In Medias Res written by Karen An-hwei Lee and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by Heather McHugh as winner of the 2003 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

Semiotic Mediation

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483288862
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis Semiotic Mediation by : Elizabeth Mertz

Download or read book Semiotic Mediation written by Elizabeth Mertz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approx.394 pages

The Temple of the Crystal Timekeeper

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ISBN 13 : 9781946229465
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Temple of the Crystal Timekeeper written by Fiona Ingram and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A plane crash! Lost in the jungle! Hunted by their old enemy, will Adam, Justin, and Kim survive long enough to find the Third Stone of Power? With only a young boy, Tukum, as their guide, the kids make their way through the dense and dangerous jungle to find the lost city of stone gods, where the Stone of Power might be located."--

The Jungle

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Queen in Hiding

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Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250168538
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis A Queen in Hiding by : Sarah Kozloff

Download or read book A Queen in Hiding written by Sarah Kozloff and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut author Sarah Kozloff offers a breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy of a ruler coming of age in A Queen in Hiding first in the quartet of The Nine Realms series. Four books. Four months. Nine Realms. Readers will be able to binge this amazing fantasy series with beautiful interlocking art across the spines of all four books. Orphaned, exiled and hunted, Cerulia, Princess of Weirandale, must master the magic that is her birthright, become a ruthless guerilla fighter, and transform into the queen she is destined to be. But to do it she must win the favor of the spirits who play in mortal affairs, assemble an unlikely group of rebels, and wrest the throne from a corrupt aristocracy whose rot has spread throughout her kingdom. The Nine Realms Series #1 A Queen in Hiding #2 The Queen of Raiders #3 A Broken Queen March 2020 #4 The Cerulean Queen April 2020 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lucy

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466828854
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Lucy by : Jamaica Kincaid

Download or read book Lucy written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-09-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.

The Wine-dark Sea

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393035582
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wine-dark Sea by : Patrick O'Brian

Download or read book The Wine-dark Sea written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.

José Parlá

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Publisher : Damiani
ISBN 13 : 9788862083621
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book José Parlá written by and published by Damiani. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José Parlá (born 1973) has received critical acclaim for his works, which lie at the boundary between abstraction and calligraphy. Composed from layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments. José Parlá is a documentarian of city life. Using the backdrop of New York and many other towns, he re-makes in paint what can appear to be photorealist fragments of what he sees in the chaos and rush of the metropolis. His paintings reflect the accumulated memories and experiences, the walls that show a place that was, but no longer is -- built over, renewed in some other configuration. Parlá paints revelations -- transcriptions of the process -- proof of the history of our neighborhoods. Parlá's work shows that words, signs, and marks come to mean more; over time, in this symphony of diversity, both incongruous and in harmony, that surrounds our contemporary life. His practice originated in graffiti's experimental and collaborative approaches during the eighties. These markings expose his drive to say or divulge the passing of time, in the moment. In Media Res concentrates on the body of Parlá's work that stems from his experiences of living and traveling in various countries: his time in Puerto Rico, his childhood in South Florida in the 1980s, extended journeys throughout the southern United States and Central America in the 1990s and most recent travels throughout Europe and Asia. Spanning painting, watercolor, photography and sculpture, this volume shows Parlá at his most versatile and cosmopolitan. Parlá was recently commissioned by Barclays Center in Brooklyn (January 2013) and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (September 2012), as well as having recently held solo exhibitions at Haunch of venison (London, U.K.) and Yuka Tsuruno gallery (Tokyo, Japan). In 2013, Parlá was added to the collection of the British Museum, (London, U.K.). José Parlá lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

The Exile

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Publisher : Ballantine Group
ISBN 13 : 0345530055
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Exile written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Ballantine Group. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in her first-ever graphic novel, Gabaldon gives readers a fresh look at the events of the original Outlander: Jamie Fraser’s side of the story, gorgeously rendered by artist Hoang Nguyen. After too long an absence, Jamie Fraser is coming home to Scotland—but not without great trepidation. Though his beloved godfather, Murtagh, promised Jamie’s late parents he’d watch over their brash son, making good on that vow will be no easy task. There’s already a fat bounty on the young exile’s head, courtesy of Captain Black Jack Randall, the sadistic British officer who’s crossed paths—and swords—with Jamie in the past. And in the court of the mighty MacKenzie clan, Jamie is a pawn in the power struggle between his uncles: aging chieftain Colum, who demands his nephew’s loyalty—or his life—and Dougal, war chieftain of Clan MacKenzie, who’d sooner see Jamie put to the sword than anointed Colum’s heir. And then there is Claire Randall—mysterious, beautiful, and strong-willed, who appears in Jamie’s life to stir his compassion . . . and arouse his desire. But even as Jamie’s heart draws him to Claire, Murtagh is certain she’s been sent by the Old Ones, and Captain Randall accuses her of being a spy. Claire clearly has something to hide, though Jamie can’t believe she could pose him any danger. Still, he knows she is torn between two choices—a life with him, and whatever it is that draws her thoughts so often elsewhere. Step into the captivating, passionate, and suspenseful world of The Exile, and experience the storytelling magic of Diana Gabaldon as never before.

Hooked

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1582976910
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (829 download)

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Book Synopsis Hooked by : Les Edgerton

Download or read book Hooked written by Les Edgerton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to rejection is paved with bad beginnings. Agents and editors agree: Improper story beginnings are the single biggest barrier to publication. Why? If a novel or short story has a bad beginning, then no one will keep reading. It's just that simple. In Hooked, author Les Edgerton draws on his experience as a successful fiction writer and teacher to help you overcome the weak openings that lead to instant rejection by showing you how to successfully use the ten core components inherent to any great beginning. You'll find: • Detailed instruction on how to develop your inciting incident • Keys for creating a cohesive story-worthy problem • Tips on how to avoid common opening gaffes like overusing backstory • A rundown on basics such as opening scene length and transitions • A comprehensive analysis of more than twenty great opening lines from novels and short stories Plus, you'll discover exclusive insider advice from agents and acquiring editors on what they look for in a strong opening. With Hooked, you'll have all the information you need to craft a compelling beginning that lays the foundation for an irresistible story!

Tower of Lies

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ISBN 13 : 9781631683046
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Dark Familiar

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Total Pages : 102 pages
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Download or read book Dark Familiar written by Aleda Shirley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush, noir-glamorous third collection from Norma Farber Award Winner.