Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1256748546
Time's Arrow
Martin Amis
Time S Arrow Or The Nature Of The Offense
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Time's Arrow
Martin Amis
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 014016779X
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis Pdf
In this novel a man's life is portrayed backwards, from death to birth, as are some of the scenes - for example, sex begins with climax, moves through foreplay and exhausts itself on flirtation. The plot is about a doctor whose story begins with his death. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Time's Arrow
Martin Amis
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307777775
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis Pdf
In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” —Time Out), finds a chillingly original approach to the Holocaust in fiction • From the acclaimed author of Zone of Interest "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art." —Newsday Tod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves “out of blackest sleep” to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America. As Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then back to the boat which reverses his course to the war-torn Europe Friendly came from, Amis brings the steeliest nerve to the job of realizing the novel’s inevitable logic. Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly’s consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor’s most ambitious project yet—the final solution.
Time's Arrow
Martin Amis
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1446401413
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis Pdf
Storming Heaven: A Novel
Denise Giardina
Author : Denise Giardina
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393076261
Storming Heaven: A Novel by Denise Giardina Pdf
This is the story of the miners and the union they wanted, of the people who loved them and the people who wanted to kill their dreams. Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy—land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women. Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C. J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely, Sicilian immigrant Rosa Angelelli, who lost four sons to the deadly mines. They all bear witness to nearly forgotten events of history, culminating in the final, tragic Battle of Blair Mountain—when the United States Army greeted ten thousand unemployed pro-union miners with airplanes, bombs, and poison gas. It was the first crucial battle of a war that has yet to be won.
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point
Huw Price
Author : Huw Price
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198026136
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point by Huw Price Pdf
Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way. Price begins with the mystery of the arrow of time. Why, for example, does disorder always increase, as required by the second law of thermodynamics? Price shows that, for over a century, most physicists have thought about these problems the wrong way. Misled by the human perspective from within time, which distorts and exaggerates the differences between past and future, they have fallen victim to what Price calls the "double standard fallacy": proposed explanations of the difference between the past and the future turn out to rely on a difference which has been slipped in at the beginning, when the physicists themselves treat the past and future in different ways. To avoid this fallacy, Price argues, we need to overcome our natural tendency to think about the past and the future differently. We need to imagine a point outside time -- an Archimedean "view from nowhen" -- from which to observe time in an unbiased way. Offering a lively criticism of many major modern physicists, including Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking, Price shows that this fallacy remains common in physics today -- for example, when contemporary cosmologists theorize about the eventual fate of the universe. The "big bang" theory normally assumes that the beginning and end of the universe will be very different. But if we are to avoid the double standard fallacy, we need to consider time symmetrically, and take seriously the possibility that the arrow of time may reverse when the universe recollapses into a "big crunch." Price then turns to the greatest mystery of modern physics, the meaning of quantum theory. He argues that in missing the Archimedean viewpoint, modern physics has missed a radical and attractive solution to many of the apparent paradoxes of quantum physics. Many consequences of quantum theory appear counterintuitive, such as Schrodinger's Cat, whose condition seems undetermined until observed, and Bell's Theorem, which suggests a spooky "nonlocality," where events happening simultaneously in different places seem to affect each other directly. Price shows that these paradoxes can be avoided by allowing that at the quantum level the future does, indeed, affect the past. This demystifies nonlocality, and supports Einstein's unpopular intuition that quantum theory describes an objective world, existing independently of human observers: the Cat is alive or dead, even when nobody looks. So interpreted, Price argues, quantum mechanics is simply the kind of theory we ought to have expected in microphysics -- from the symmetric standpoint. Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point presents an innovative and controversial view of time and contemporary physics. In this exciting book, Price urges physicists, philosophers, and anyone who has ever pondered the mysteries of time to look at the world from the fresh perspective of Archimedes' Point and gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, the universe around us, and our own place in time.
The Zone of Interest
Martin Amis
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345809094
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis Pdf
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life--and, shockingly, love--in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul--it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at it. The courtiers couldn't look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for 60 seconds without turning away. And no one could. The Zone of Interest is a love story with a violently unromantic setting. Can love survive the mirror? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? In a novel powered by both wit and pathos, Martin Amis excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul.
WLA
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : WISC:89072892904
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After Representation?
R. Clifton Spargo,Robert Ehrenreich
Author : R. Clifton Spargo,Robert Ehrenreich
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813548152
After Representation? by R. Clifton Spargo,Robert Ehrenreich Pdf
After Representation? explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studiesùthe intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. As experts in the study of literature and culture, the scholars in this collection examine the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveal how writersùwhether they write as witnesses to the Holocaust or at an imaginative distance from the Nazi genocideùarticulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, between event and expression, and between the condition of life endured in atrocity and the hope of a meaningful existence. What imaginative literature brings to the study of the Holocaust is an ability to test the limits of language and its conventions. After Representation? moves beyond the suspicion of representation and explores the changing meaning of the Holocaust for different generations, audiences, and contexts.
Martin Amis
Brian Finney
Author : Brian Finney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136015427
Martin Amis by Brian Finney Pdf
Booker-shortlisted for Time's Arrow and widely known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the most influential of contemporary British writers. This guide to Amis's diverse and often controversial work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of his texts, from publication to the present an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Amis's life and work, situated within a broader critical history cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Martin Amis and seeking not only a guide to his works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma
Colin Davis,Hanna Meretoja
Author : Colin Davis,Hanna Meretoja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351025201
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma by Colin Davis,Hanna Meretoja Pdf
Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as the Holocaust and other genocides, 9/11, climate catastrophe or the still unsettled legacy of colonialism. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma is a comprehensive guide to the history and theory of trauma studies, including key concepts, consideration of critical perspectives and discussion of future developments. It also explores different genres and media, such as poetry, life-writing, graphic narratives, photography and post-apocalyptic fiction, and analyses how literature engages with particular traumatic situations and events, such as the Holocaust, the Occupation of France, the Rwandan genocide, Hurricane Katrina and transgenerational nuclear trauma. Forty essays from top thinkers in the field demonstrate the range and vitality of trauma studies as it has been used to further the understanding of literature and other cultural forms across the world. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond
G. Keulks
Author : G. Keulks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230598478
Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond by G. Keulks Pdf
This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different countries to clarify the major trends and transitions in Amis's work. The essays will become an authoritative resource for scholars and students alike.
Origins and Futures: Time Inflected and Reflected
Raji C. Steineck,Claudia Clausius
Author : Raji C. Steineck,Claudia Clausius
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004252004
Origins and Futures: Time Inflected and Reflected by Raji C. Steineck,Claudia Clausius Pdf
Origins and Futures: Time Inflected and Reflected offers an interdisciplinary approach to two fundamental often opposing concepts of time. The volume features both research on specific texts and authors as well as conceptual disciplinary reflections in the spirit of an integrated study of time.
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780099536826
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Pdf
Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains, a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Author : Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1645 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315480831
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies by Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh Pdf
This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.