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The Violent Effigy

Author : John Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571281249
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Violent Effigy written by John Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey. Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness: he was attracted by characters who commit murder or burst into flame or want to eat one another, but also required people soaped and regimented. The children he created were either the pious gnomes beloved of Victorian readers or callous, sharp-nosed children who pick out adults by the odd personal atmospheres they carry around. Among his females are mythic women whose insidious miniature weapons - needles, scissors - threaten the dominant male. He created a shadow-land between life and death, peopled by effigies, walking coffins, waxworks, stuffed creatures and disturbingly animated corpses. John Carey skilfully shows how Dickens demolished Victorian shams, while keeping at bay the terrors of his fantasy. He celebrates, above all, Dickens' peculiar genius for renewing the world by the curious lights he saw in it.

The violent effigy

Author : John Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The violent effigy written by John Carey and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fate of Flames

Author : Sarah Raughley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481466771
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Fate of Flames written by Sarah Raughley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four girls with the power to control the elements and save the world from a terrible evil must come together in the first epic novel in a brand-new series. When Phantoms--massive beasts made from nightmares and darkness--suddenly appeared and began terrorizing the world, four girls, the Effigies, each gained a unique power to control one of the classical elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Since then, four girls across the world have continually fought against the Phantoms, fulfilling their cosmic duty. And when one Effigy dies, another girl gains her power as a replacement. But now, with technologies in place to protect the world's major cities from Phantom attacks, the Effigies have stopped defending humanity and, instead, have become international celebrities, with their heroic feats ranked, televised, and talked about in online fandoms. Until the day that New York City's protection against the Phantoms fails, a man seems to be able to control them by sheer force of will, and Maia, a high school student, unexpectedly becomes the Fire Effigy. Now Maia has been thrown into battle with three girls who want nothing to do with one another. But with the first human villain that the girls have ever faced, and an army of Phantoms preparing for attack, there isn't much time for the Effigies to learn how to work together. Can the girls take control of their destinies before the world is destroyed forever?

Siege of Shadows

Author : Sarah Raughley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481466828
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Siege of Shadows written by Sarah Raughley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Effigies seek out the true origins of the Phantoms that terrorize their world in this thrilling follow-up to Fate of Flames, which Elise Chapman calls “an immersive and monstrously fun read.” There’s nowhere to hide. Not when you’re an Effigy. No matter where they go, Maia and the other Effigies can’t escape the eyes of the press—especially not after failing to capture Saul, whose power to control the monstrous Phantoms has left the world in a state of panic. It’s been two months since Saul’s disappearance, and there’s still no sign of him, leaving the public to wonder whether the Sect—and the Effigies—are capable of protecting anyone. When Saul suddenly surfaces in the middle of the Sahara desert, the Sect sends Maia and her friends out after him. But instead of Saul, they discover a dying soldier engineered with Effigy-like abilities. Even worse, there may be more soldiers like him out there, and it looks like the Effigies are their prime targets. Yet the looming danger of Saul and this mysterious new army doesn’t overshadow Maia’s fear of the Sect, who ordered the death of the previous Fire Effigy, Natalya. With enemies on all sides and the world turning against them, the Effigies have to put their trust in each other—easier said than done when secrets threaten to tear them apart.

Parody

Author : Beate Müller
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042002173
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Parody written by Beate Müller and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parody is a most iridescent phenomenon: of ancient Greek origin, parody's very malleability has allowed it to survive and to conquer Western cultures. Changing discourse on parody, its complex relationship with related humorous forms (e.g. travesty, burlesque, satire), its ability to cross genre boundaries, the many parodies handed down by tradition, and its ubiquity in contemporary culture all testify to its multifaceted nature. No wonder that 'parody' has become a phrase without clear meaning. The essays in this collection reflect the multidimensionality of recent parody studies. They pay tribute to its long and varied tradition, covering examples of parodic practice from the Middle Ages to the present day and dealing with English, American, postcolonial, Austrian, and German parodies. The papers range from the Medieval classics (e.g. Chaucer), parodies of Shakespeare, and the role of parody in German Romanticism, to parodies of fin-de-si�cle literature and the intertextual puzzles of the late twentieth century (such as cross-dressing, Schwab's Faustparody, and Rushdie's Satanic Verses). And they have transformed the contentious nature of parody into a diverse range of methodologies. In doing so, these essays offer a survey of the current state of parody studies.

Effigies

Author : William K. Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780583134231
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Effigies written by William K. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming Dickens

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674072235
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Dickens written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.

Knowing Dickens

Author : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467012
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Dickens written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection—notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself—the extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected himself in his fictions—and how well we can know him. Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work, Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.

Shakespeare and Dickens

Author : Valerie L. Gager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521455268
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Dickens written by Valerie L. Gager and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-06 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1996 book traces Dickens' interest in Shakespeare through his own reading and performance and through theatrical, literary and artistic sources.

Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts

Author : Claire Wood
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474441661
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts written by Claire Wood and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens's prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.

The Later Novels of Victor Hugo

Author : Kathryn M. Grossman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199642958
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Later Novels of Victor Hugo written by Kathryn M. Grossman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study places the last three novels of Hugo's maturity - Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866), L'Homme qui rit (1869), and Quatrevingt-Treize (1874) - within the context of his artistic development after the success of Les Misérables (1862), thereby illuminating the shift from a poetics of harmony to one of transcendence.

The House, the World, and the Theatre

Author : Geraldo Magela Cáffaro
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443889695
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The House, the World, and the Theatre written by Geraldo Magela Cáffaro and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House, the World, and the Theatre departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to explore key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture. At the centre of the discussion is the way authors fashioned themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing. The prefaces of Hawthorne, Dickens, and James illustrate the conflicts underlying the new forms of self-definition in the nineteenth century and mediate the perception of authorship as a category that blurs the boundaries between social life and performance. This book combines genre criticism, new historicism, literary history, and contemporary perspectives in readings that show the imaginative quality of prefatory writing and the enduring relevance of canonical authors in the twenty-first century.

Victorian Shakespeare

Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504140
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Shakespeare written by Gail Marshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics including Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin. Shakespeare provided the Victorians with ways of thinking about the authority of the past, about the emergence of a new mass culture, about the relations between artistic and industrial production, about the nature of creativity, about racial and sexual difference, and about individual and national identity.

Human Minds and Animal Stories

Author : Wojciech Małecki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429590059
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Human Minds and Animal Stories written by Wojciech Małecki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. It does so by presenting the results of an experimental project that involved thousands of participants, texts representing various genres and national literatures, and the cooperation of an internationally-acclaimed bestselling author. Combining psychological research with insights from animal studies, ecocriticism and other fields in the environmental humanities, the book not only provides evidence that animal stories can make us care for other species, but also shows that their effects are more complex and fascinating than we have ever thought. In this way, the book makes a groundbreaking contribution to the study of relations between literature and the nonhuman world as well as to the study of how literature changes our minds and society. "As witnessed by novels like Black Beauty and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a good story can move public opinion on contentious social issues. In Human Minds and Animal Stories a team of specialists in psychology, biology, and literature tells how they discovered the power of narratives to shift our views about the treatment of other species. Beautifully written and based on dozens of experiments with thousands of subjects, this book will appeal to animal advocates, researchers, and general readers looking for a compelling real-life detective story." - Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat : Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals

Dickens's Style

Author : Daniel Tyler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028434
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Dickens's Style written by Daniel Tyler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading scholars, this collection of essays offers the first comprehensive and accessible book on Dickens's style.

The Magic Lantern

Author : Maria Cristina Paganoni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000116166
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Lantern written by Maria Cristina Paganoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an original investigation of the double trope as a central area of Dicken’s writings in their relation to Victorian culture, using this examination of the double to shed light on such issues as urban space and imperialism in the Victorian era.

The Illustrated Christmas Cracker

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1782392521
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Christmas Cracker written by John Julius Norwich and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Christmas gift book, reissued with new cover artwork by Quentin Blake For more than 40 years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers—a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends—to his friends instead of a Christmas card. Here, Quentin Blake has made his own selection of favorite pieces and has illustrated them in his own trademark style. From curious dictionary definitions ("Carphology. Delirious fumbling with the bedclothes," Concise Oxford Dictionary) and tortuous palindromes ("Live dirt up a side-track carted is a putrid evil") to 18th-century accounts of drunken pigs and Benjamin Franklin's account of inventing bifocals, this cracker is stuffed with surprising, offbeat, often hilarious gems. Enlivened by Quentin Blake's witty illustrations, this book is a perfect stocking-stuffer.