Beyond The Pleasure Dome

Author : Sue Vice,Matthew Campbell,Tim Armstrong
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009677936

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This volume of essays addresses a fascinating topic in literary and cultural studies - the relation of literature and addiction. Thirty-one contributors, from Europe, Israel and North America, treat the nature of addiction and its connections with fictionalizing and writing. The excessive appetities inspected here range from alcohol, drugs and food to love, sex and gambling. The concept of addiction is also analysed from the perspectives of law, cinema, gender, medicine and religion. Among the authors whose life and works are discussed here include those whose addictions are legendary (Malcolm Lowry, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas De Quincey, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac) and those who may not immediately be recognized as addicts (Marguerite Duras, Oliver Goldsmith, James Joyce, William Golding, Steven Spielberg).

Author : Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819567390

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Pleasure Dome by Yusef Komunyakaa Pdf

Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Film festivals
ISBN : OCLC:890679917

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Schedule of films for the Pleasure Dome film series in Toronto in 2004.

Author : Elisabeth Kyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:44005215

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Author : L. F. Hampton
Publisher : ImaJinn Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933417813

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Pleasure Dome by L. F. Hampton Pdf

The Pleasure Dome - where the sex is out of this world... Forced into retirement, Captain Soledad Scott, a former warship captain, has decided on a new career as a mother. She's come to the Pleasure Dome where a computer-matched male will donate his sperm the old-fashioned way and make her dream of motherhood come true. But Sol's worm-hole dyslexia sends her to Room 990 instead of Room 660. Commander Gabriel Merriweather, half-breed Chakkra and master empath with the Diplomatic Corps, awaits his sterile playmate of the evening. When she arrives and orders him to pleasure her as if he were the paid sex toy, Gabe willingly complies. But the next day he learns that the woman isn't a Dome employee, but a maternity client who has stolen his sperm and disappeared. Sol can't believe that the man she just spent the night with is the very man who destroyed her warship career. What will he do if he discovers that she's carrying his child? Unwilling to find out, Sol decides to disappear. But is the universe big enough to hide her from him? L.F. Hampton is a So. California futuristic romance writer. She loves to read and write fantasy stories that entertain by taking readers out of reality. For more information please visit her at [email protected].

Author : Oleg Grabar
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0860789268

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Islamic Art and Beyond by Oleg Grabar Pdf

The articles selected for Islamic Art and Beyond, the third in the set of four selections of articles by Oleg Grabar, illustrate how the author's study of Islamic art led him in two directions for a further understanding of the arts. One is how to define Islamic art and what impulses provided it with its own peculiar forms and dynamics of growth. The other issue is that of the meanings to be given to forms like domes, so characteristic of Islamic art, or to terms like symbol, signs, or aesthetic values in the arts, especially when one considers the contemporary world.

Author : Cody Caetano
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735240865

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Half-Bads in White Regalia by Cody Caetano Pdf

*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* NATIONAL BESTSELLER A family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice. The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop origin story, embarks on a series of fraught relationships and fresh starts. His dad, O Touro, a Portuguese immigrant and drifter, falls back into “big do, little think” behaviour, despite his best intentions. Left alone at the house in Happyland, Cody and his siblings must fend for themselves, even as the pipes burst and the lights go out. His protective big sister, Kris, finds inventive ways to put food on the table, and his stoic big brother, Julian, facilitates his regular escapes into the world of video games. As life yanks them from one temporary solution to the next, they steal moments of joy and resist buckling under “baddie” temptations aplenty. Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano delivers a fever dream coming-of-age garnished with a slang all his own. Half-Bads in White Regalia is an unforgettable debut that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity.

Author : Josie Barnard
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1860497616

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Twenty-three year old Belle is bright, funny and a hopeless mess of self-doubt; a situation not impoved by having a glamorous, highbrow television presenter for a mother. In a bid to shock her mother and hijack some attention for herself, she gets a job as a dancer at Xanadu, a glitzy and cheap strip joint in Soho run by a 'hands on' proprietor, with tough girls who eye this new innocent in the dressing room with thinly veiled scorn and suspicion. But to her surprise, Belle finds her new persona - in g-strings and outlandish stage shows- fits her better than her old anxious self. This new, flamboyant, sexy thing feels like the real Belle. But only until Belle makes the mistake of thinking she is equal to the situation... The relationship between sex, self and society is brilliantly dissected in this darkly witty second novel by one of Britain's rising stars.

Author : Judith Liederman
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0821711342

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Laina Eastman's marriage to David Goldmark unites two wealthy Florida families, but is not strong enough to end her clandestine relationship with Harlan Chase

Author : Nina Engelhardt,Julia Hoydis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030194901

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Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction by Nina Engelhardt,Julia Hoydis Pdf

This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction, including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry. This collection considers how texts engage with science and technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in life today, in times past, and in times to come.

Author : J.B. Bullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317888468

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Writing and Victorianism by J.B. Bullen Pdf

Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. This collection of essays, written by both new and established scholars from Britain and the U.S.A, develops many of the themes of nineteenth-century studies which have lately come to the fore, touching upon issues such as drugs, class, power and gender. Some essays reflect the interaction of word and image in the nineteenth-century, and the notion of the city as spectacle; others look at Victorian science finding a connection between writing and the growth of psychology and psychiatry on the one hand and with the power of scientific materialism on the other. As well as key figures such as Dickens, Tennyson and Wilde, a host of new names are introduced including working-class writers attempting to define themselves and writers in the Periodical press who, once anonymous, exercised a great influence over Victorian politics, taste, and social ideals. From these observations there emerges a need for self-definition in Victorian writing. History, ancestry, and the past all play their part in figuring the present in the nineteenth-century, and many of these studies foreground the problem of literary, social, and psychological identity.

Author : Samuel Coleridge
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781443442213

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Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge Pdf

Though left uncompleted, “Kubla Khan” is one of the most famous examples of Romantic era poetry. In it, Samuel Coleridge provides a stunning and detailed example of the power of the poet’s imagination through his whimsical description of Xanadu, the capital city of Kublai Khan’s empire. Samuel Coleridge penned “Kubla Khan” after waking up from an opium-induced dream in which he experienced and imagined the realities of the great Mongol ruler’s capital city. Coleridge began writing what he remembered of his dream immediately upon waking from it, and intended to write two to three hundred lines. However, Coleridge was interrupted soon after and, his memory of the dream dimming, was ultimately unable to complete the poem. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521589703

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Interpreting the Moving Image by Noel Carroll Pdf

A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

Author : Kristie Macrakis
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781647123246

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Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach by Kristie Macrakis Pdf

An eye-opening account of the perils of America’s techno-spy empire Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies’ minds by chemical means. But these weren’t human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe through techno-spies. Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach investigates how America’s technophiles inadvertently created a global espionage empire: one based on technology, not land. Author Kristie Macrakis shows how in the process of staking out the globe through technology, US intelligence created the ability to collect a massive amount of data. But did it help? Featuring the sites visited during her research and stories of the people who created the techno-spy empire, Macrakis guides the reader from its conception in the 1950s to its global reach in the Cold War and Global War on Terror. In an age of ubiquitous technology, Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach exposes the perils of relying too much on technology while demonstrating how the US carried on the tradition of British imperial espionage. Readers interested in the history of espionage and technology as well as those who work in the intelligence field will find the revelations and insights in Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach fascinating and compelling.

Author : Alec Hilton
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0552087513

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