Delicate Monsters

Author : Stephanie Kuehn
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466868854

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Delicate Monsters by Stephanie Kuehn Pdf

When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her family's California vineyard estate. Here, she's meant to stay out of trouble. Here, she's meant to do a lot of things. But it's hard. She's bored. And when Sadie's bored, the only thing she likes is trouble. Emerson Tate's a poor boy living in a rich town, with his widowed mother and strange, haunted little brother. All he wants his senior year is to play basketball and make something happen with the girl of his dreams. That's why Emerson's not happy Sadie's back. An old childhood friend, she knows his worst secrets. The things he longs to forget. The things she won't ever let him. Haunted is a good word for fifteen-year-old Miles Tate. Miles can see the future, after all. And he knows his vision of tragic violence at his school will come true, because his visions always do. That's what he tells the new girl in town. The one who listens to him. The one who recognizes the darkness in his past. But can Miles stop the violence? Or has the future already been written? Maybe tragedy is his destiny. Maybe it's all of theirs. Delicate Monsters is Stephanie Kuehn at her finest.

Author : Wes Williams
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191617898

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Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture by Wes Williams Pdf

To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth 'monstrueux' is more likely to denote hidden intentions, unspoken desires. Several shifts are at work in this word history, and in what Othello calls the 'mighty magic' of monsters; these shifts can be described in a number of ways. The clearest, and most compelling, is the translation or migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy, from descriptions of creatures found in the external world to the drama of human motivation, of sexual and political identity. This interdisciplinary study of monsters and their meanings advances by way of a series of close readings supported by the exploration of a wide range of texts and images, from many diverse fields, which all concern themselves with illicit coupling, unarranged marriages, generic hybridity, and the politics of monstrosity. Engaging with recent, influential accounts of monstrosity - from literary critical work (Huet, Greenblatt, Thomson Burnett, Hampton), to histories of science and 'bio-politics' (Wilson, Céard, Foucault, Daston and Park, Agamben) - it focusses on the ways in which monsters give particular force, colour, and shape to the imagination; the image at its centre is the triangulated picture of Andromeda, Perseus and the monster, approaching. The centre of the book's gravity is French culture, but it also explores Shakespeare, and Italian, German, and Latin culture, as well as the ways in which the monstrous tales and images of Antiquity were revived across the period, and survive into our own times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : PRNC:32101077277323

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The Cabinet of Instruction,literature,and Amusement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Tiffany
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226803111

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Infidel Poetics by Daniel Tiffany Pdf

Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds readers of a poem differ from, say, the slang that seduces listeners of hip-hop? Infidel Poetics examines not only the shared incomprensibilities of poetry and slang, but poetry's genetic relation to the spectacle of underground culture. Charting connections between vernacular poetry, lyric obscurity, and types of social relations—networks of darkened streets in preindustrial cities, the historical underworld of taverns and clubs, the subcultures of the avant-garde—Daniel Tiffany shows that obscurity in poetry has functioned for hundreds of years as a medium of alternative societies. For example, he discovers in the submerged tradition of canting poetry and its eccentric genres—thieves’ carols, drinking songs, beggars’ chants—a genealogy of modern nightlife, but also a visible underworld of social and verbal substance, a demimonde for sale. Ranging from Anglo-Saxon riddles to Emily Dickinson, from the icy logos of Parmenides to the monadology of Leibniz, from Mother Goose to Mallarmé, Infidel Poetics offers an exhilarating account of the subversive power of obscurity in word, substance, and deed.

Author : Lauren Groff
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781401395599

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The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff Pdf

"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie's entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past -- some sinister, all fascinating -- rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today.

Author : Laura Forsberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780300233810

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Worlds Beyond by Laura Forsberg Pdf

An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniature worlds beyond perception In 1856, Elizabeth Gaskell discovered a trove of handmade miniature books that were created by Charlotte and Branwell Brontë in their youth and that, as Gaskell later recalled, "contained an immense amount of manuscript, in an inconceivably small space." Far from being singular wonders, these two-inch volumes were part of a wide array of miniature marvels that filled the drawers and pockets of middle- and upper-class Victorians. Victorian miniatures pushed the boundaries of scientific knowledge, mechanical production, and human perception. To touch a miniature was to imagine what lay beyond these boundaries. In Worlds Beyond, Laura Forsberg reads major works of fiction by George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Lewis Carroll alongside minor genres like the doll narrative, fairy science tract, and thumb Bible. Forsberg guides readers through microscopic science, art history, children's culture, and book production to show how Victorian miniatures offered scripts for expansive fantasies of worlds beyond perception.

Author : Mary Margaret Keymer Heaton,Charles Christopher Black
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF000301465

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Leonardo Da Vinci and His Works, Consisting of a Life of Leonardo Da Vinci by Mary Margaret Keymer Heaton,Charles Christopher Black Pdf

Author : Mrs. Charles Heaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Painters
ISBN : PRNC:32101066470160

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Leonardo Da Vinci and His Works by Mrs. Charles Heaton Pdf

Author : Michelle Knudsen
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536219357

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Marilyn's Monster by Michelle Knudsen Pdf

The best-selling author of Library Lion pairs with award-winning illustrator Matt Phelan to create a picture book gem with an unexpected twist. The best-selling author of Library Lion pairs with award-winning illustrator Matt Phelan to create a picture book gem with an unexpected twist. A lot of Marilyn’s friends have monsters. It’s the latest thing. Each one is just right for its boy or girl. Marilyn really wants a monster, too, but despite her efforts to be the kind of girl no monster could resist, hers just doesn’t come. What could be taking it so long? Everyone knows you just have to wait for your monster – but the spunky and determined Marilyn thinks there may just be other ways that things can work. Matt Phelan’s expressive artwork brings Michelle Knudsen’s appealing cast of children and monsters to life, creating a sweet, warm tale of friendship perfect for sharing.

Author : Renata Summo-O'Connell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 3034300085

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Imagined Australia by Renata Summo-O'Connell Pdf

From Terra Nullius to Land of Opportunities and Last Frontier, the European dream has constructed and deconstructed Australia to feed its imagination of new societies. At the same time Australia has over the last two centuries forged and re-invented its own liaisons with Europe arguably to carve out its identity. From the arts to social sciences, to society itself, a complex dynamic has grown between the two continents in ways that invite study and discussion. A transnational research group has begun its collective investigation project of which this first volume is the outcome. The book is a substantial multidisciplinary collection of current research and offers critical perspectives on culture, literature and history around themes at the heart of the Imagined Australia project. The essays instigate reflection, discovery and discussion of how reciprocal imagining between Australia and Europe has articulated itself and ways and dimensions in which a relationship between communities, imagined and not, has unfolded.

Author : Catherine Grace F. Gore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600053471

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Self, by the author of 'Cecil'. by mrs. Gore by Catherine Grace F. Gore Pdf

Author : Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101066459775

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Self by Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) Pdf

Author : Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017456655

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Self. A novel. By the Author of “Cecil” Mrs. Gore by Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) Pdf

Author : Catherine Grace Frances Gore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z206260301

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Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors by Catherine Grace Frances Gore Pdf

Author : Richard John King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590563513

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A handbook for travellers in Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight [by R.J. King]. by Richard John King Pdf