Download Full eBooks in PDF
The History Of The Most Remarkable Life And Extra Ordinary Adventures Of Colonel Jaque By The Author Of Robinson Crusoe I E D Defoe The Sixth Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The History Of The Most Remarkable Life And Extra Ordinary Adventures Of Colonel Jaque By The Author Of Robinson Crusoe I E D Defoe The Sixth Edition book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:559883691
Author : Daniel Defoe,Alan Hodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:559883708
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602760442
Author : Peter O. K. Krehl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540304210
This unique and encyclopedic reference work describes the evolution of the physics of modern shock wave and detonation from the earlier and classical percussion. The history of this complex process is first reviewed in a general survey. Subsequently, the subject is treated in more detail and the book is richly illustrated in the form of a picture gallery. This book is ideal for everyone professionally interested in shock wave phenomena.
Author : Arne De Boever
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441144720
If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions, and Tom McCarthy’s Remainder, it seeks to reframe debates about realism in the novel ranging from Ian Watt to Zadie Smith as engagements with the novel’s biopolitical origins: its relation to pastoral care, the camps, and the welfare state. Within such an understanding of the novel, what possibilities for a critical aesthetics of existence does the contemporary novel include?
Author : Andrew Whittaker
Publisher : Thorogood Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : British
ISBN : 9781854186270
British culture is strewn with names that strike a chord the world over such as Shakespeare, Churchill, Dickens, Pinter, Lennon and McCartney. This book examines the people, history and movements that have shaped Britain as it now is, providing key information in easily digested chunks.
Author : Gérard Genette
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0801492599
Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.
Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781688175
The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of their own creation with the history of this mode of writing: the so-called modernist novel is one attempted solution to this conflict, as is the ever-more impoverished variety of commercial narratives – what today’s book reviewers dub “serious novels,” which are an attempt at the impossible endeavor to roll back the past. Fredric Jameson examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism, approaching the subject himself in terms of the social and historical preconditions for realism’s emergence. The realist novel combined an attention to the body and its states of feeling with a focus on the quest for individual realization within the confines of history. In contemporary writing, other forms of representation – for which the term “postmodern” is too glib – have become visible: for example, in the historical fiction of Hilary Mantel or the stylistic plurality of David Mitchell’s novels. Contemporary fiction is shown to be conducting startling experiments in the representation of new realities of a global social totality, modern technological warfare, and historical developments that, although they saturate every corner of our lives, only become apparent on rare occasions and by way of the strangest formal and artistic devices. In a coda, Jameson explains how “realistic” narratives survived the end of classical realism. In effect, he provides an argument for the serious study of popular fiction and mass culture that transcends lazy journalism and the easy platitudes of recent cultural studies.
Author : C. Bradford,K. Mallan,J. Stephens,R. McCallum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230582583
This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.
Author : R. Perry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230609198
'Race' and Racism examines the origins and development of racism in North America. It addresses the inception and persistence of the concept of 'race' and discusses the biology of human variance, addressing the fossil record of human evolution, the relationship between creationism and science, population genetics, 'race'-based medicine, and other related issues. The book explores the diverse ways in which people in a variety of cultures have perceived, categorized, and defined one another without reference to any concept of 'race.' It follows the history of American racism through slavery, the perceptions and treatment of Native Americans, Jim Crow laws, attitudes toward Irish and Southern European immigrants, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the civil rights era, and numerous other topics.
Author : Mark Moss
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442655959
Euphoria swept Canada, and especially Ontario, with the outbreak of World War I. Young men rushed to volunteer for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and close to 50 per cent of the half-million Canadian volunteers came from the province of Ontario. Why were people excited by the prospect of war? What popular attitudes about war had become ingrained in the society? And how had such values become so deeply rooted in a generation of young men that they would be eager to join this 'great adventure'? Historian Mark Moss seeks to answer these questions in Manliness and Militarism: Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War. By examining the cult of manliness as it developed in Victorian and Edwardian Ontario, Moss reveals a number of factors that made young men eager to prove their mettle on the battlefields of Europe. Popular juvenile literature — the books of Henty, Haggard, and Kipling, for example, and numerous magazines for boys, such as the Boy's Own Paper and Chums — glorified the military conquests of the British Empire, the bravery of military men, especially Englishmen, and the values of courage and unquestioning patriotism. Those same values were taught in the schools, on the playing fields, in cadet military drill, in the wilderness and Boy Scout movements, and even through the toys and games of young children. The lessons were taught, and learned, well. As Moss concludes: 'Even after the horrors became known, the conflict ended, and the survivors came home, manliness and militarism remained central elements of English-speaking Ontario's culture. For those too young to have served, the idea of the Great War became steeped in adventure, and many dreamed of another chance to serve. For some, the dream would become a reality.'
Author : A. O'Malley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349323462
This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern conceptions of childhood are shaped by nostalgia and ideas of 'the popular'. Examining many adaptations in a variety of formats, it reconsiders the place Crusoe has occupied in our culture for three centuries.
Author : E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734093227
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Author : Etienne Turpin
Publisher : Anexact
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1607853078
"Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth's land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is very likely that humans have initiated a new geological epoch, their own. First labeled the Anthropocene by the chemist Paul Crutzen, the consideration of the merits of the Anthropocene thesis by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences has also garnered the attention of philosophers, historians, and legal scholars, as well as an increasing number of researchers from a range of scientific backgrounds. Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy intensifies the potential of this multidisciplinary discourse by bringing together essays, conversations, and design proposals that respond to the "geological imperative" for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice. Contributors include Nabil Ahmed, Meghan Archer, Adam Bobbette, Emily Cheng, Heather Davis, Sara Dean, Seth Denizen, Mark Dorrian, Elizabeth Grosz, Lisa Hirmer, Jane Hutton, Eleanor Kaufman, Amy Catania Kulper, Clinton Langevin, Michael C.C. Lin, Amy Norris, John Palmesino, Chester Rennie, François Roche, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Isabelle Stengers, Paulo Tavares, Etienne Turpin, Eyal Weizman, Jane Wolff, Guy Zimmerman."--Publisher's description.
Author : L. Raw,R. Dryden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137270764
Despite dying in relative obscurity, Jane Austen has become a global force as different readers across time, space and media have responded to her work. This volume examines the ways in which her novels affect individual psychologies and how Janeites experience her work, from visiting her home to public re-enactments to films based on her writings.