Flower Phantoms

Author : Ronald Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B242899

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Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser Pdf

Author : Katherine E. Bishop,David Higgins,Jerry Määttä
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786835604

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Plants in Science Fiction by Katherine E. Bishop,David Higgins,Jerry Määttä Pdf

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels and film. John Wyndham’s triffids, Algernon Blackwood’s willows and Han Kang’s sprouting woman are just a few examples. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations and inhabit our metaphors – but in many ways they remain opaque. The scope of their alienation is as broad as their biodiversity. And yet, literary reflections of plant-life are driven, as are many threads of science fictional inquiry, by the concerns of today. Plants in Science Fiction is the first-ever collected volume on plants in science fiction, and its original essays argue that plant-life in SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics, economics and cultural life at large – questioning and shifting our understandings of institutions, nations, borders and boundaries; erecting and dismantling new visions of utopian and dystopian futures.

Author : John Attridge,Helen Rydstrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501344039

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Modernist Work by John Attridge,Helen Rydstrand Pdf

Through a wide-ranging selection of essays representing a variety of different media, national contexts and critical approaches, this volume provides a broad overview of the idea of work in modernism, considered in its aesthetic, theoretical, historical and political dimensions. Several individual chapters discuss canonical figures, including Richard Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein, but Modernist Work also addresses contexts that are chronologically and geographically foreign to the main stream of modernist studies, such as Swedish proletarian writing, Haitian nationalism and South African inheritors of Dada. Prominent historical themes include the ideas of class, revolution and the changing nature of women's work, while more conceptual chapters explore topics including autonomy, inheritance, intention, failure and intimacy. Modernist Work investigates an important but relatively neglected topic in modernist studies, demonstrating the central relevance of the concept of “work” to a diverse selection of writers and artists and opening up pathways for future research.

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781135923730

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Science Fact and Science Fiction by Brian Stableford Pdf

Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440620171

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Phantoms by Dean Koontz Pdf

“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...

Author : Various
Publisher : Litres
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9785043103505

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine – Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : HARVARD:HNYPXE

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The Midland Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015011958785

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The Midland Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robin Anne Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313054747

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Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy [2 volumes] by Robin Anne Reid Pdf

Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume offers survey essays on major topics, such as sexual identities, fandom, women's writing groups, and feminist spirituality; the second provides alphabetically arranged entries on more specific subjects, such as Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers love science fiction and fantasy. And science fiction and fantasy works increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. Older works demonstrate attitudes toward women in times past, while more recent works grapple with contemporary social issues. This book helps students use science fiction and fantasy to understand the contributions of women writers, the representation of women in the media, and the experiences of women in society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Methodist Episcopal Church
ISBN : PSU:000066652083

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The Ladies' Repository by Anonim Pdf

The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 3341 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845407827

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Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Collection by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

A collection of 6 volumes of Oakeshott's work: Notebooks, 1922-86, Early Political Writings 1925-30, The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence, Vocabulary of a Modern European State, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, and What is History?

Author : Michael Oakeshott,Luke O'Sullivan
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845407568

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Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922-86 by Michael Oakeshott,Luke O'Sullivan Pdf

From the 1920s to the 1980s Oakeshott filled dozens of notebooks with his private reflections, both personal and intellectual. Their contents range from aphorisms to miniature essays, forming a unique record of his intellectual trajectory over his entire career. This volume makes them accessible in print for the first time, drawing together a host of his previously inaccessible observations on politics, philosophy, art, education, and much else besides. Religion in particular emerges as an ongoing concern for him in a way that is not visible from his published works. The notebooks also provide a unique source of insight into Oakeshott's musings on life, thanks to the hitherto unsuspected existence of the series of 'Belle Dame' notebooks that were written in the late 1920s and early 1930s but which only came to light two decades after his death. At the same period in which he was developing the concepts that would form Experience and its Modes, Oakeshott's personal life lead him to reflect extensively on love and death, themes that highlight his enduring romantic affinities. Accompanied by an original editorial introduction, the volume allows readers to see for themselves exactly which works Oakeshott used in compiling each of his notebooks, providing a much clearer record of his intellectual influences than has previously been available. It will be an essential addition to the library of his works for all those interested in his ideas.

Author : Austin Clarke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0861403371

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Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke by Austin Clarke Pdf

Austin Clarke is widely regarded as one of 20th-century Ireland's most important poets. In this selection of nearly fifty essays and reviews written over Clarke's long career, he demonstrates that he is an astute and provocative literary critic as well. Having grown up in Dublin when the excitement of the Irish Literary Revival was still running high, Clarke knew many of the principal figures of that movement personally, and his readings of Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, George Moore, and others enjoy the advantages of an insider's point of view. A selection of Clarke's writings on Yeats is followed by his writings on other Irish writers and the Irish Literary Revival, and on Modern English and American literature. Included as an appendix is an exhaustive list of Clarke's literary criticism published in periodicals.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357235

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)

Author : Colin N. Manlove
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781532677571

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The Fantasy Literature of England by Colin N. Manlove Pdf

In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy's modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's fantasy. In them all England has led the world, with authors as different as Chaucer, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Salman Rushdie.