Spectross Wars

Author : B. A. Larremore
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Good and evil
ISBN : 9781606048443

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Spectross Wars by B. A. Larremore Pdf

In a world of light versus dark, a bitter struggle for control of Spectross draws a galactic line between good and evil. The battle is one of simplicity. Evil takes refuge in a veil of darkness, and good must cross into the dark. Author B.A. Larremore chronicles both in his first novel, Spectross Wars: Raven and the Dove. Come and escape for a time in Larremore's epic tale. If you like swords, sorcery, guns, and gadgets, along with a vastly unique and limitless world to explore, this first of several books is for you. You will quickly find yourself impatiently waiting and scanning the shelves of your local bookstore for the next installment. Lose yourself in the creative genius of the world of Spectross, where war comes to every man's heart. We shall all fight in battle someday. When that day comes, whom will you serve? www.spectrosswars.com

Author : Cirilo Villaverde
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199725236

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Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill by Cirilo Villaverde Pdf

Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.

Author : Mohit Kumar Kolay
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 817764789X

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Accounting Applied to Human Resource Management by Mohit Kumar Kolay Pdf

Author : Doris Sommer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520913868

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Foundational Fictions by Doris Sommer Pdf

National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.

Author : Linda Fairstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743436687

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The Kills by Linda Fairstein Pdf

Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper discovers that her current date rape case has become complicated by her client's secrets, as well as by a colleague's investigation into the murder of an elderly Harlem woman.

Author : H.G. Elias
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461573678

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Macromolecules · 1 by H.G. Elias Pdf

The second edition of this textbook is identical with its fourth German edi tion and it thus has the same goals: precise definition of basic phenomena, a broad survey of the whole field, integrated representation of chemistry, physics, and technology, and a balanced treatment of facts and comprehen sion. The book thus intends to bridge the gap between the often oversimpli fied introductory textbooks and the highly specialized texts and monographs that cover only parts of macromolecular science. The text intends to survey the whole field of macromolecular science. Its organization results from the following considerations. The chemical structure of macromolecular compounds should be inde pendent of the method of synthesis, at least in the ideal case. Part I is thus concerned with the chemical and physical structure of polymers. Properties depend on structure. Solution properties are thus discussed in Part 11, solid state properties in Part Ill. There are other reasons for dis cussing properties before synthesis: For example, it is difficult to understand equilibrium polymerization without knowledge of solution thermodynamics, the gel effect without knowledge of the glass transition temperature, etc. Part IV treats the principles of macromolecular syntheses and reactions.

Author : Ian Baucom
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822387022

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Specters of the Atlantic by Ian Baucom Pdf

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of literary and social theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Giovanni Arrighi, Jacques Derrida, and many others, he argues that the tragedy is central not only to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the political and cultural archives of the black Atlantic but also to the history of modern capital and ethics. To apprehend the Zong tragedy, Baucom suggests, is not to come to terms with an isolated atrocity but to encounter a logic of violence key to the unfolding history of Atlantic modernity. Baucom contends that the massacre and the trials that followed it bring to light an Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation based on speculative finance, an economic cycle that has not yet run its course. The extraordinarily abstract nature of today’s finance capital is the late-eighteenth-century system intensified. Yet, as Baucom highlights, since the late 1700s, this rapacious speculative culture has had detractors. He traces the emergence and development of a counter-discourse he calls melancholy realism through abolitionist and human-rights texts, British romantic poetry, Scottish moral philosophy, and the work of late-twentieth-century literary theorists. In revealing how the Zong tragedy resonates within contemporary financial systems and human-rights discourses, Baucom puts forth a deeply compelling, utterly original theory of history: one that insists that an eighteenth-century atrocity is not past but present within the future we now inhabit.

Author : Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno,Inés Ordiz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315307657

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Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture by Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno,Inés Ordiz Pdf

This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of terror and horror. Through the analysis of global and local Gothic topics and themes, they evaluate the reality of a multifaceted territory marked by a shifting colonial and postcolonial relationship with Europe and the United States. The book asks questions such as: Is there such a thing as "Latin American Gothic" in the same sense that there is an "American Gothic" and "British Gothic"? What are the main elements that particularly characterize Latin American Gothic? How does Latin American Gothic function in the context of globalization? What do these elements represent in relation to specific national literatures? What is the relationship between the Gothic and the Postcolonial? What can Gothic criticism bring to the study of Latin American cultural manifestations and, conversely, what can these offer the Gothic? The analysis performed here reflects a body of criticism that understands the Gothic as a global phenomenon with specific manifestations in particular territories while also acknowledging the effects of "Globalgothic" on a transnational and transcultural level. Thus, the volume seeks to open new spaces and areas of scholarly research and academic discussion both regionally and globally with the presentation of a solid analysis of Latin American texts and other cultural phenomena which are manifestly related to the Gothic world.

Author : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000797688

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The Coherence of Gothic Conventions by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Pdf

First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning. Through readings of classic Gothic authors as well as of De Quincey and the Brontës, Sedgwick links the most characteristic thematic conventions of the Gothic firmly and usably to the genre’s radical claims for representation. The introduction clarifies the connection between the linguistic or epistemological argument of the Gothic and its epochal crystallization of modern gender and modern homophobia. This book will be of interest to students of literature, cultural studies and psychology.

Author : Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1564781631

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Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie A. Fiedler Pdf

"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

Author : Debbie Lee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202588

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Slavery and the Romantic Imagination by Debbie Lee Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Romantic movement had profound social implications for nineteenth-century British culture. Among the most significant, Debbie Lee contends, was the change it wrought to insular Britons' ability to distance themselves from the brutalities of chattel slavery. In the broadest sense, she asks what the relationship is between the artist and the most hideous crimes of his or her era. In dealing with the Romantic period, this question becomes more specific: what is the relationship between the nation's greatest writers and the epic violence of slavery? In answer, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination provides a fully historicized and theorized account of the intimate relationship between slavery, African exploration, "the Romantic imagination," and the literary works produced by this conjunction. Though the topics of race, slavery, exploration, and empire have come to shape literary criticism and cultural studies over the past two decades, slavery has, surprisingly, not been widely examined in the most iconic literary texts of nineteenth-century Britain, even though emancipation efforts coincide almost exactly with the Romantic movement. This study opens up new perspectives on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Mary Prince by setting their works in the context of political writings, antislavery literature, medicinal tracts, travel writings, cartography, ethnographic treatises, parliamentary records, philosophical papers, and iconography.

Author : Matti Savolainen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317126041

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Gothic Topographies by Matti Savolainen Pdf

In demonstrating the global reach of Gothic literatures, this collection takes up the influence of the Gothic mode in literatures that may be geographically remote from one another but still share related issues of minor languages, nation building, place and race. Suggesting that there is a parallel between certain motifs and themes found in the Gothic of the North (Scandinavia, Northern Europe and Canada) and South (Australia, South Africa and the US South), the essays explore the transgressions and confusion of borders and limits, whether they be linguistic, literary, generic, class-based, gendered or sexual. The volume includes essays on a wide diversity of authors and topics: Jan Potocki, Gustav Meyrink, William Godwin, Alan Hollinghurst, Marlene van Niekerk, John Richardson, antislavery discourse and the Gothic imagination, the Australian aboriginal Gothic, vampires of Post-Soviet Gothic society, Danish, Swedish and Finnish fiction and film, and the Canadian female Gothic and the death drive. What distinguishes this book from other collections on the Gothic is the coverage of themes and literatures that are either lacking in the mainstream research on the Gothic or are referred to only briefly in other book-length studies. Experts in the Gothic and those new to the field will appreciate the book's commitment to situating Gothic sensibilities in an international context.

Author : Gad Heuman,Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136892530

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The Routledge History of Slavery by Gad Heuman,Trevor Burnard Pdf

The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades of study in this crucial field. Offering an unusual, transnational history of slavery, the chapters have all been specially commissioned for the collection. The volume begins by delineating the global nature of the institution of slavery, examining slavery in different parts of the world and over time. Topics covered here include slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean World, as well as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In Part Two, the chapters explore different themes that define slavery such as slave culture, the slave economy, slave resistance and the planter class, as well as areas of life affected by slavery, such as family and work. The final part goes on to study changes and continuities over time, looking at areas such as abolition, the aftermath of emancipation and commemoration. The volume concludes with a chapter on modern slavery. Including essays on all the key topics and issues, this important collection from a leading international group of scholars presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of slavery.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789602371

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Criticism and Ideology by Terry Eagleton Pdf

Terry Eagleton is one of the most important-and most radical-theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. In this new edition of his groundbreaking treatise on literary theory, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism. Ranging across the key works of Raymond Williams, Lenin, Trotsky, Brecht, Adorno, Benjamin, Lukacs and Sartre, he develops a nuanced critique of traditional literary criticism while producing a compelling theoretical account of ideology. Eagleton uses this perspective to offer fascinating analyses of canonical writers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence. The new introduction sets this classic book in the context of its first appearance and Eagleton provides illuminating reflections on the progress of literary study over the years.

Author : Andrew Cusack,Barry Murnane
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135193

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Popular Revenants by Andrew Cusack,Barry Murnane Pdf

There is growing interest in the internationality of the literary Gothic, which is well established in English Studies. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years redresses deficiencies in existing English-language sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.