Strange Likeness

Author : Chris Jones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191614651

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Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Chapters deal with Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney. Stylistic debts to Old English are examined, along with the effects on these poets' work of specific ideas about Old English language and literature as taught while these poets were studying the subject at university. Issues such as linguistic primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, the politics and ethics of translation, and the construction of 'Englishness' within the literary canon are discussed in the light of these poets and their Old English encounters. Heaney's translation of Beowulf is fully contextualized within the body of the rest of his work for the first time.

Author : Dora Zhang
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226722665

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Strange Likeness by Dora Zhang Pdf

The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description—what Virginia Woolf called “that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool.” As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that descriptive practices were in fact a crucial site of attention and experimentation for a number of early modernist writers, centrally Woolf, Henry James, and Marcel Proust. Description is the novelistic technique charged with establishing a common world, but in the early twentieth century, there was little agreement about how a common world could be known and represented. Zhang argues that the protagonists in her study responded by shifting description away from visualizing objects to revealing relations—social, formal, and experiential—between disparate phenomena. In addition to shedding new light on some of the best-known works of modernism, Zhang opens up new ways of thinking about description more broadly. She moves us beyond the classic binary of narrate-or-describe and reinvigorates our thinking about the novel. Strange Likeness will enliven conversations around narrative theory, affect theory, philosophy and literature, and reading practices in the academy.

Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195307108

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A Strange Likeness by Nancy Shoemaker Pdf

When American Indians and Europeans met on the frontiers of 18th-century eastern North America, they had many shared ideas about human nature, political life, and social relations. This title is about how they came to see themselves as people so different in their customs and natures that they appeared to be each other's opposite.

Author : Paula Marshall
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459237155

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A Strange Likeness by Paula Marshall Pdf

FAMILY SECRETS Something had gone wrong with the London end of the Dilhorne business empire, and Alan had been sent to England to make things right. But almost immediately after his arrival Alan met Ned Hatton, and to his total astonishment found that they were almost identical. It wasn’t until he met Ned’s sister, Eleanor, and learned more of their family background that he realized the likeness was more than a coincidence. The trouble was, as he grew to love Eleanor, the family secret could sweep away any hope he had of a lifetime with his true love.

Author : Kate Duvall,Beverly Hatfield,Margaret Sutton
Publisher : Judy Bolton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1429093218

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The Strange Likeness by Kate Duvall,Beverly Hatfield,Margaret Sutton Pdf

Back after 45 years, Margaret Sutton's young detective, Judy Bolton, returns for her 39th mystery adventure. At the end of book #38, The Secret of the Sand Castle, the author gave the title of the next book in the series, The Strange Likeness. However, the series was canceled, and the promised book was not written...until now. Beloved author Margaret Sutton (1903-2001) published her first Judy Bolton mysteries in 1932. The original series continued until 1967, making it the longest-lasting juvenile series written by a single author. The books are noted not only for their engaging plots and thrilling stories, but also for their realism and social commentary. To many young girls Judy was an ideal role model--smart, capable, courageous, nurturing, and always unwavering in her core beliefs. Based on conversations with Margaret Sutton and her family, plus extensive research, coauthors Kate Duvall and Beverly Hatfield recreate the magic of Judy and her friends, who find themselves pursuing a criminal who resembles Judy's husband. Courage and keen observation are Judy's trademarks, and they prove her up to the task once again.

Author : Harriet Pyne Grove
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338110626

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The Strange Likeness by Harriet Pyne Grove Pdf

"The Strange Likeness" by Harriet Pyne Grove. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Tana French
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143136491

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The Likeness by Tana French Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post) and “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker). “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” —The New York Times Now airing as a Starz series. In the “compellingˮ (The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad—until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was. The Likeness is a supremely suspenseful story exploring the nature of identity and belonging.

Author : Paul North
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942130468

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Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe by Paul North Pdf

"This book affirms the experience of likeness at the heart of many, if not all, disciplines of knowledge and seeks to formalize that basic experience into a science of its own, "homeotics.""--

Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063290648

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Pdf

“Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” — People In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. This magnificent novel is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1429093226

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Author : Philippa Dowding
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459740655

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Alex and The Other by Philippa Dowding Pdf

Beware The Other ... Alex is the loneliest boy at school. Not only are his parents away (again), but his beloved cat is missing. Plus, one morning his reflection in the haunted bathroom mirror at school starts talking to him. Then two mysterious strangers in overcoats and sunglasses appear, whispering the same message, over and over: Beware The Other.... But, worse than all that, is the girl with the braid. She looks just like Alex. She’s better than him at everything, and they even share the same name. Soon, she’s the only Alex anyone can see, at school, at work, even at home. In no time, it’s almost as though the real Alex never existed at all. Can the real Alex outsmart his evil twin and get his life back before she replaces him for good? And, more importantly, who is the real Alex, anyway?

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015000035965

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Ursula K. Le Guin's the Left Hand of Darkness by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of nine critical essays on the modern social science fiction novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Author : Lynette Russell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438444253

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Roving Mariners by Lynette Russell Pdf

For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt—dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea as whalers and sealers. In some cases participation was voluntary; in others it was more invidious and involved kidnapping and trade in women. In many cases, the individuals maintained and exercised a degree of personal autonomy and agency within their new circumstances. This book explores some of their lives and adventures by analyzing archival records of maritime industry, captains' logs, ships' records, and the journals of the sailors themselves, among other artifacts. Much of what is known about this period comes from the writings of Herman Melville, and in this book Melville's whaling novels act as a prism through which relations aboard ships are understood. Drawing on both history and literature, Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.

Author : S. Pearl Brilmyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226815787

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The Science of Character by S. Pearl Brilmyer Pdf

"In 1843, the Victorian political theorist John Stuart Mill outlined a new science, "the science of the formation of character." Although Mill's proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer shows that it survived in the work of Victorian novelists, who cultivated a narrative science of human nature. Brilmyer explores this characterological project in the work of such novelists as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner. Bringing to life Mill's unrealized dream of a science of character, Victorian realists used fiction to investigate the nature of embodied experience, how traits and behaviors in human and nonhuman organisms emerge and develop, and how aesthetic features-shapes, colors, and gestures-come to take on cultural meaning through certain categories, such as race and sex. In the hands of these authors, Brilmyer argues, literature became a science, not in the sense that its claims were falsifiable or even systematically articulated, but in its commitment to uncovering, through a fictional staging of realistic events, the universal laws governing human life. The Science of Character offers brilliant insights into important novels of the period, including Eliot's Middlemarch, and a fuller picture of English realism during the crucial span between 1870 and 1920"--

Author : Frederick Schiller Faust
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547197867

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The Stranger by Frederick Schiller Faust Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Stranger" by Frederick Schiller Faust. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.