The Southern Land Known

Author : Gabriel de Foigny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015033139208

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The Southern Land, Known by Gabriel de Foigny Pdf

Foigny's La Terre Australe connue, published in 1676, is a fantastically engaging and playful example of the "imaginary voyage" genre. It is also a seventeenth-century work with some curiously modern resonances. Written in the tradition of More's Utopia, and serving itself as a forerunner to Swift's Gulliver's Travels, The Southern Land, Known offered its readers a radical criticism of then prevailing ideologies in the guise of a lively and provocative novel. Knowledge of the vast continent of Australia was, in Foigny's day, still mingled with legends, hearsay, and travelers' tales. It is in this context that the "unknown Southern Land" becomes known to the hero of this short, action-packed, and highly structured story. The narrator braves a long sea journey, raging storms, shipwrecks, giant whales, and high-flying creatures that try to eat him - all to reach the mysterious Austral utopia. Peopled by hermaphrodites, Foigny's Australia is a society in which distinctions of both class and gender have been abolished. It includes, among other things, an indictment of "the great empire that the male usurped over the female" as "rather a form of tyranny than a just cause".

Author : Elizabeth Russell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039113488

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Trans/Forming Utopia by Elizabeth Russell Pdf

Is the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of the collapse of ideologies? This book contains eighteen essays which are the result of the 7th International Conference of Utopian Studies held in Spain in 2006, either debating the subject, or suggesting alternative readings to some of the theoretical ideas raised within utopian studies. This volume focuses on the importance of narratives in utopian literature. They define the world we live in and the world we wish to live in. Through narratives of confession, and indeed through silence itself, the unconscious emerges and desire is articulated. The articles in this volume question and challenge the power of the word, the stability of meaning, and the relationship between thought and action in the construction of utopia and dystopia. They also point to the various literary frameworks of utopian and dystopian narratives, thus connecting stories from the past, present and future of both real and imaginary and communities.

Author : Paul Longley Arthur
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857284082

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Virtual Voyages by Paul Longley Arthur Pdf

'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.

Author : Steven H Propp
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469752778

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Beyond Heaven and Earth by Steven H Propp Pdf

Have you ever wondered what happens to us when we die? What if you really HAD to know? When tragedy strikes the family of young Jobran Winter, he is forced to confront these questions directly. Undertaking a feverish "Quest," he explores various branches of Christianity; Judaism; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism; Sikhism, as well as the religions of China and Japan. His search encompasses the New Age, Reincarnation, Spiritism and Psychical Research. Attending channeling sessions and sances, investigating haunted houses and Near-Death Experiences, he examines spiritual traditions ranging from Swedenborg to Scientology, from Jodo Shinshu to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Finally, the Quest brings him into direct contact with Hospice work; physical disability; child abandonment; abortion; suicide; euthanasia, and even cold-blooded murder. Encounter the doctrines of Purgatory & Predestination, Universalism & Annihilationism, as you journey in a novel that will make you reexamine your ideas about religion, skepticism, love, death and LIFE.

Author : William Channing Woodbridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Geography
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3MW9

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A System of Universal Geography on the Principles of Comparison and Classification by William Channing Woodbridge Pdf

Author : William Channing Woodbridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Geography
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00179829

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A System of Universal Geography by William Channing Woodbridge Pdf

Author : William Channing Woodbridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Geography
ISBN : NYPL:33433003345307

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Woodbridge and Willard's Universal Geography ... by William Channing Woodbridge Pdf

Author : Emma Willard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Geography, Ancient
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097021836

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Ancient Geography by Emma Willard Pdf

Author : Frank Welsh
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141909783

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Great Southern Land by Frank Welsh Pdf

Australia is a dynamic multi-cultural society, viewed by many as the world's most desirable place to live. Here Frank Welsh traces Australia's intriguing and varied history to examine how this society emerged, from its ancient Aborigine tribes and earliest British convict settlements to today's modern nation - one that retains strong links with its colonial past but is increasingly independent and diverse. While full of admiration for Australia, Welsh also exposes national myths and confronts the darker side of its history - oppression of the Aboriginal peoples and the 'White Australia' policy - and places the country in a global context, considering the changing relationship with Britain and its Asian neighbours, as well as more recent alliances with the US. Original, provocative and entertaining, Great Southern Land provides the most comprehensive one-volume history of this endlessly fascinating nation.

Author : Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409455967

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Art in the Time of Colony by Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Pdf

It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However, as this book demonstrates, it is a fallacy that colonized locals merely collected material for interested colonizers. Through an analysis of particular language notations and drawings hidden in colonial documents and a reexamination of cross-cultural communication, the book writes biographies for five objects that exemplify the tensions of nineteenth century history.

Author : A. Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230554658

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The History of Science Fiction by A. Roberts Pdf

The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.

Author : Peter Marks,Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor,Fátima Vieira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030886547

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The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures by Peter Marks,Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor,Fátima Vieira Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000057430

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Outlines of physical geography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sotirios Triantafyllos
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648892868

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Topos in Utopia: A peregrination to early modern utopianism’s space by Sotirios Triantafyllos Pdf

'Topos in Utopia' examines early modern literary utopias' and intentional communities' social and cultural conception of space. Starting from Thomas More's seminal work, published in 1516, and covering a period of three centuries until the emergence of Enlightenment's euchronia, this work provides a thorough yet concise examination of the way space was imagined and utilised in the early modern visions of a better society. Dealing with an aspect usually ignored by the scholars of early modern utopianism, this book asks us to consider if utopias' imaginary lands are based not only on abstract ideas but also on concrete spaces. Shedding new light on a period where reformation zeal, humanism's optimism, colonialism's greed and a proto-scientific discourse were combined to produce a series of alternative social and political paradigms, this work transports us from the shores of America to the search for the Terra Australis Incognita and the desire to find a new and better world for us.

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137569578

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The History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts Pdf

This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.