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

The Temple of the Crystal Timekeeper

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Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1946229474
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)

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Book Synopsis The Temple of the Crystal Timekeeper by : Fiona Ingram

Download or read book The Temple of the Crystal Timekeeper written by Fiona Ingram and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Roman Fountains

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Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN 13 : 9788882651763
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis Roman Fountains by : Marvin Pulvers

Download or read book Roman Fountains written by Marvin Pulvers and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2002 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painters have immortalized them; poets have rhapsodized over them; and composers have arranged them' - here, Pulvers is referring to the wonderful array of fountains found in Rome.

Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513346
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Book Synopsis Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works by : Vanessa L. Rapatz

Download or read book Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works written by Vanessa L. Rapatz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious; Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy The Rover; and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation.

Poets in a Landscape

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590173384
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Poets in a Landscape by : Gilbert Highet

Download or read book Poets in a Landscape written by Gilbert Highet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters and evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Juvenal. Highet brings them life, setting them in their historical context and locating them in the physical world, while also offering crisp modern translations of the poets’ finest work. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry—altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics.

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

Hooked

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1582976910
Total Pages : 257 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 257 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!

In Medias Res

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Publisher : Davies Group Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis In Medias Res by : Catherine Madsen

Download or read book In Medias Res written by Catherine Madsen and published by Davies Group Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madsen's rituals incorporate literary and religious texts in a tight dramatic structure, delineating a religion of nature in which nature is vulnerable to history. Unlike many books of ritual for skeptics, the focus is not on rational statements of belief but on artistic coherence ? language and action that will continue to yield meaning over time. Hardheaded, tender, morally urgent and finely literate, In Medias Res achieves an unusual synthesis of the aesthetic and the ethical, presenting both a performable body of ritual and a valuable method for liturgical writing, and setting a new standard for modern liturgy.

The Order of the Day

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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590519701
Total Pages : 145 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 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Boston Globe, and Literary Hub Winner of the 2017 Goncourt Prize, 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.

The Porpoise

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385544324
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis The Porpoise by : Mark Haddon

Download or read book The Porpoise written by Mark Haddon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise he finds himself travelling backwards over two thousand years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion. As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a stirring and endlessly inventive novel from one of our finest storytellers.

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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Book Synopsis The Exile by : Diana Gabaldon

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.

Ars Poetica

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Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016051866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Ars Poetica written by Quintus Horatius Flaccus and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

In Medias Res

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Publisher : University of the Phillipines Press
ISBN 13 : 9789715426800
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book In Medias Res written by Luis V. Teodoro and published by University of the Phillipines Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged in the journalism community as an authority on media and press issues especially journalism ethics and professional standards, Luis V. Teodoro has selected for this volume some of the most relevant and most thought-provoking essays ever written in this country on the complexities of journalism and media practice in the Philippines. What makes the essays in this book unique is their being authored by a practitioner who is at the same time an academic. This has allowed Teodoro to examine such issues as the killing of journalists, the use of criminal libel to silence critical practitioners, the need for public media literacy, the impact of the media ownership system on press performance, the education of journalists and other concerns, from the vantage point of the practitioner and teacher, as well as the engaged observer of the problems, challenges, and opportunities in the Philippine press and media. While an invaluable guide in understanding the state of the Philippine press and media, this volume also demonstrates that knowledge of the ethical and professional measures used in the evaluation of media performance is critical in enabling readers, viewers, and listeners of both the old and the new media to judge the press and media for themselves.

Let's Write a Short Story!

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ISBN 13 : 9780988449701
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Book Synopsis Let's Write a Short Story! by : Joe Bunting

Download or read book Let's Write a Short Story! written by Joe Bunting and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shark Alley

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523935451
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (354 download)

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Book Synopsis Shark Alley by : Stephen Carver

Download or read book Shark Alley written by Stephen Carver and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-07 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO SAYS HISTORY IS BORING? Jack Vincent used to be famous, part of a rising generation of literary authors that included Dickens, Ainsworth and Thackeray. Now he's a nobody, scratching a living as a freelance journalist writing for a penny a line. Worse, the only job he can get is on a troopship bound for the frontier wars of colonial Africa. Outed as a friend of Dickens at the captain's table, Jack recounts the events that have brought him to this fallen state. It is a journey that begins in the Marshalsea debtor's prison and ends in the shark infested waters of the Western Cape and his berth on the HMS Birkenhead, the Victorian Titanic. Lost for over a century, Jack Vincent's memoirs offer a history of the English novel that they don't teach you in school, from his apprenticeship with the original Bill and Nancy to the boudoirs and brothels of Victorian London, while all the time the ship draws ever closer to Shark Alley.