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Download or read book Fire Hunt written by Chris Ward and published by AMMFA Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years of torment. Three years of hell. Three years of living under a false name as a prisoner in a remote mining compound, and Lianetta Jansen, former captain of the Matilda, is about to see her luck turn. The intergalactic war begun by Raylan Climlee has finally made its way to the vast deserts of Abalon3, and Lia is about to find herself on the run again. For her greatest enemy has found her at last. Desperate to protect the mysterious boy, Wilt—who has a penchant for seeing the future—Lia must stay one step ahead of the unstoppable assassin Jasper Deentik if she has any hope of ever seeing her friends again. Fire Hunt is the fifth installment in Chris Ward’s popular space opera series, The Fire Planets Saga.
Download or read book Martha Graham written by Neil Baldwin and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major biography—the first in three decades—of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling the art form into the modern age, and whose profound and pioneering influence is still being felt today. "Brings together all the elements of Graham’s colorful life...with wit, verve, critical discernment, and a powerful lyricism.”—Mary Dearborn, acclaimed author of Ernest Hemingway Time magazine called her “the Dancer of the Century.” Her technique, used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting alternative to the idiom of classical ballet. Her pioneering movements—powerful, dynamic, jagged, edgy, forthright—combined with her distinctive system of training, were the epitome of American modernism, performance as art. Her work continued to astonish and inspire for more than sixty years as she choreographed more than 180 works. At the heart of Graham’s work: movement that could express inner feeling. Neil Baldwin, author of admired biographies of Man Ray (“Truly definitive . . . absolutely fascinating” —Patricia Bosworth) and Thomas Edison (“Absorbing, gripping, a major contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a remarkable era” —Robert Caro), gives us the artist and performer, the dance monument who led a cult of dance worshippers as well as the woman herself in all of her complexity. Here is Graham, from her nineteenth-century (born in 1894) Allegheny, Pennsylvania, childhood, to becoming the star of the Denishawn exotic ballets, and in 1926, at age thirty-two, founding her own company (now the longest-running dance company in America). Baldwin writes of how the company flourished during the artistic explosion of New York City’s midcentury cultural scene; of Erick Hawkins, in 1936, fresh from Balanchine’s School of American Ballet, a handsome Midwesterner fourteen years her junior, becoming Graham’s muse, lover, and eventual spouse. Graham, inspiring the next generation of dancers, choreographers, and teachers, among them: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor. Baldwin tells the story of this large, fiercely lived life, a life beset by conflict, competition, and loneliness—filled with fire and inspiration, drive, passion, dedication, and sacrifice in work and in dance creation.
Book Synopsis What Does Not Change by : Ralph Maud
Download or read book What Does Not Change written by Ralph Maud and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author demonstrates that "The Kingfishers," as Olson's first long poem, is so crucial to understanding his development that a study of it (along with "The Praises," cut from the same cloth) takes one into every aspect of Olson's early life and thought. Insight into Olson's apprenticeship and purposes has been somewhat blurred because "The Kingfishers" has not been entirely understood.
Book Synopsis Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff by : Charles Olson
Download or read book Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff written by Charles Olson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-20 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable series of letters between Black Mountain poet Charles Olson and his most ardent reader.
Book Synopsis Reconsidering American Power by : John D. Kelly
Download or read book Reconsidering American Power written by John D. Kelly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial studies, postmodern studies, even posthuman studies emerge, and intellectuals demand that social sciences be remade to address fundamentals of the human condition, from human rights to global environmental crises. Since these fields owe so much to American state sponsorship, is it easier to reimagine the human and the modern than to properly measure the pervasive American influence? Reconsidering American Power offers trenchant studies by renowned scholars who reassess the role of the social sciences in the construction and upkeep of the Pax Americana and the influence of Pax Americana on the social sciences. With the thematic image for this enterprise as the ‘fiery hunt’ for Ahab’s whale, the contributors pursue realities behind the theories, and reconsider the real origins and motives of their fields with an eye on what will deter or repurpose the ‘fiery hunts’ to come, by offering a critical insider’s view.
Book Synopsis Charles Olson's Reading by : Ralph Maud
Download or read book Charles Olson's Reading written by Ralph Maud and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maud (English, Simon Fraser U.) offers a narrative account of the life and work of poet Charles Olson, focusing on the poet's lifelong reading material as a basis for understanding his work. Drawing on an annotated listing of his library, as well as his childhood books and poetry by his contemporaries, he links the books to the poet's intellectual and poetic development at each stage of his career. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The hunters' feast; or, Conversations around the camp-fire by : Mayne Reid
Download or read book The hunters' feast; or, Conversations around the camp-fire written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee ... New edition by : David Crockett
Download or read book Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee ... New edition written by David Crockett and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett of West Tennessee ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th edition of this "Spurious biography, not authorized by Crockett; attributed to James S. French"--Howes (Howes C898) (as cited by vendor). The first edtion appeared in 1833, Crockett responded with a 211 page book in 1834, A narrative of the life of David Crockett / written by himself. Philadelphia, E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834. Written to correct erroneous impressions produced by an unknown writer's "Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett," pub. in 1833. cf. Pref. But new edtions of this book continued, this 10th being published in 1837 only four years after the first
Book Synopsis Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, by : Davy Crockett
Download or read book Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, written by Davy Crockett and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Liminal Semiotics by : Melanie Maria Lörke
Download or read book Liminal Semiotics written by Melanie Maria Lörke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grenzen, ihre Überschreitung, ihre Auflösung und ihre Wiederherstellung sind ein bisher nicht systematisch erforschtes Schlüsselkonzept für das Verständnis romantischer Literatur. Diese semiotisch-komparatistische Grundsatzstudie analysiert über drei Kulturräume hinweg vergleichend eine Vielfalt heterogener literarischer Entgrenzungsphänomene in der Romantik und entwickelt auf der Basis der romantischen Zeichentheorie ein Modell für die Analyse transepochaler Entgrenzungsphänomene. Dabei geht sie über bekannte Konzepte des paradoxen Subjekts hinaus, indem Entgrenzung als Interdependenz von Subjekt, Raum und Zeichen umfassend in detaillierten Lektüren literarischer Texte aus Deutschland, den USA und Großbritannien sowie in theoretischen Exkursen untersucht wird - von Novalis und Coleridge über Melville bis hin zu Deleuze und Guattari. Die Arbeit ist somit nicht nur ein Beitrag zur Romantikforschung, sondern lotet auch die methodologischen Möglichkeiten derselben neu aus. Die Studie wurde 2012 mit dem von der Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen der Freien Universität Berlin e.V. gestifteten Ernst-Reuter-Preis als herausragende und zukunftsweisende Promotionsarbeit ausgezeichnet. Boundaries constitute a key concept in Romanticism: their transgression, their elimination, but also their reconstruction. By analyzing the triad of sign, subject, and space, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of boundaries in German, English, and American Romanticism. Its trans-epochal approach reveals a shared dynamic of a multiplicity of heterogeneous boundary phenomena ranging from the late 18th century to postmodern Romantic texts and constructs a model for the examination of limits: a theory of a-limitation. The known concept of the transgressive Romantic subject is integrated into this triadic model whose primordial site of a-limitation, however, is the semiotics of Romanticism. With a creative theoretical design that allows the reader to survey readings of individual texts as well as broader theoretical frameworks, "Liminal Semiotics" offers a new perspective on a variety of literary texts and theories ranging from Novalis and Coleridge to Melville and finally to Deleuze and Guattari. The thesis was awarded the Ernst-Reuter-Prize 2012 for outstanding dissertations at Freie Universität Berlin.
Book Synopsis Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Based on the International Dictionary 1890 and 1900 by : William Torrey Harris
Download or read book Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Based on the International Dictionary 1890 and 1900 written by William Torrey Harris and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exiled Royalties written by Robert Milder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exiled Royalties is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. Conceived separately but narratively and thematically intertwined, the ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that "Melville's work," as Charles Olson said, "must be left in his own 'life,'" which for Milder means primarily his spiritual, psychological, and vocational life. Four of the ten essays deal with Melville's life and work after his novelistic career ended with the The Confidence-Man in 1857. The range of issues addressed in the essays includes Melville's attitudes toward society, history, and politics, from broad ideas about democracy and the course of Western civilization to responses to particular events like the Astor Place Riots and the Civil War; his feeling about sexuality and, throughout the book, about religion; his relationship to past and present writers, especially to the phases of Euro-American Romanticism, post-Romanticism, and nascent Modernism; his relationship to his wife, Lizzie, to Hawthorne, and to his father, all of whom figured in the crisis that made for Pierre. The title essay, "Exiled Royalties," takes its origin from Ishmael's account of "the larger, darker, deeper part of Ahab"--Melville's mythic projection of a "larger, darker, deeper part" of himself. How to live nobly in spiritual exile--to be godlike in the perceptible absence of God--was a lifelong preoccupation for Melville, who, in lieu of positive belief, transposed the drama of his spiritual life to literature. The ways in which this impulse expressed itself through Melville's forty-five year career, interweaving itself with his personal life and the life of the nation and shaping both the matter and manner of his work, is the unifying subject of Exiled Royalties.
Book Synopsis The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon by : John James Audubon
Download or read book The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon written by John James Audubon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first accurate transcription of John James Audubon's 1843 journals, which includes recently discovered and previously unpublished journal entries detailing his last expedition along the upper Missouri River"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Uncertain Chances by : Maurice S. Lee
Download or read book Uncertain Chances written by Maurice S. Lee and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.
Book Synopsis The Contemporary American Novel in Context by : Andrew Dix
Download or read book The Contemporary American Novel in Context written by Andrew Dix and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
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Download or read book Campbell's Foreign Semi-monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
