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Author : Collin R. Skocik
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329138520
Author : Sibylle Baumbach,Lena Henningsen,Klaus Oschema
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319664385
This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siècle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of ‘deep time’ and ‘timelessness’ in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time—past, present, and future alike—in music, film, and science fiction.
Author : Dan Yashinsky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0773509534
Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world; each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the "Friday Nights."
Author : Don Foster
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781466864252
From the professor who invented literary forensics--and fingered Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors--comes the inside story of how he solves his most challenging cases Don Foster is the world's first literary detective. Realizing that everyone's use of language is as distinctive as his or her DNA, Foster developed a revolutionary methodology for identifying the writer behind almost any anonymous document. Now, in this enthralling book, he explains his techniques and invites readers to sit by his side as he searches a mysterious text for the clues that whisper the author's name. Foster's unique skills first came to light when a front-page New York Times article announced his discovery that a previously unattributed poem was written by Shakespeare. A few weeks later, Foster solved the mystery that had obsessed America for months when he identified Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors. Foster also took on a case involving the elusive Thomas Pynchon. And his contributions to the Unabomber and JonBenet Ramsey cases have led the FBI and several police forces to hire him to train their organizations. Introducing a fascinating new field of forensics, Author Unknown will appeal to mystery fans--and to everyone interested in words and the writer's craft.
Author : Tom Geue
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674242401
An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature. From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us. Classical scholarship tends to treat this anonymity as a problem or game—a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. Author Unknown is the first book to consider anonymity as a site of literary interest rather than a gap that needs filling. We can tether each work to an identity, or we can stand back and ask how the absence of a name affects the meaning and experience of literature. Tom Geue turns to antiquity to show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature. Anonymity supported the illusion of Augustus’s sprawling puppet mastery (Res Gestae), controlled and destroyed the victims of a curse (Ovid’s Ibis), and created out of whole cloth a poetic persona and career (Phaedrus’s Fables). To assume these texts are missing something is to dismiss a source of their power and presume that ancient authors were as hungry for fame as today’s. In this original look at Latin literature, Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time.
Author : Mark Pittenger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814724309
Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, assembly-line laborers, waitresses, hoboes, and other working and poor people in an attempt to gain a fuller and more authentic understanding of the lives of the working class and the poor. In this first, sweeping study of undercover investigations of work and poverty in America, award-winning historian Mark Pittenger examines how intellectuals were shaped by their experiences with the poor, and how despite their sympathy toward working-class people, they unintentionally helped to develop the contemporary concept of a degraded and "other" American underclass. While contributing to our understanding of the history of American social thought, Class Unknown offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand and represent our own society and its class divisions.
Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481477017
“I loved every speck of it.” —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal–winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes an inventive middle grade fantasy that follows a boy journeying away from the only home he’s ever known and into the magical realm of the dead to fulfill a bargain for his people. Osmo Unknown hungers for the world beyond his small town. With the life that Littlebridge society has planned for him, the only taste Osmo will ever get are his visits to the edge of the Fourpenny Woods where his mother hunts. Until the unthinkable happens: his mother accidentally kills a Quidnunk, a fearsome and intelligent creature that lives deep in the forest. None of this should have anything to do with poor Osmo, except that a strange treaty was once formed between the Quidnunx and the people of Littlebridge to ensure that neither group would harm the other. Now that a Quidnunk is dead, as the firstborn child of the hunter who killed her, Osmo must embark on a quest to find the Eightpenny Woods—the mysterious kingdom where all wild forest creatures go when they die—and make amends. Accompanied by a very rude half-badger, half-wombat named Bonk and an antisocial pangolin girl called Never, it will take all of Osmo’s bravery and cleverness to survive the magic of the Eightpenny Woods to save his town…and make it out alive.
Author : Leean Lewis-Ramirez
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480975101
Fate Unknown By: Leeann Lewis-Ramirez Fate Unknown is a novel inspired by adolescent years spent entirely in the world of fantasy. The original draft of the novel started the author’s freshman year of high school and was completed a month before graduating, with multiple edits since. This is the story of a secret Mystic Society blending in with modern civilization. It centers on a fourteen-year-old girl’s struggle to fit into both. With a prophecy hanging over her head and a war threatening to begin, Kana Young must team up with Lost Mystics and try to fend off the first wave of darkness.
Author : James Naremore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839022357
James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film's many contributors--among them Viennese author Stephan Zweig, whose 1922 novella was the source of the picture; producer John Houseman, an ally of Ophuls who nevertheless made questionable changes to what Ophuls had shot; screenwriter Howard Koch; music composer Daniéle Amfitheatrof; designers Alexander Golitzen and Travis Banton; and leading actors Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan, whose performances were central to the film's emotional effect. Naremore also traces the film's reception history, from its middling box office success and mixed early reviews, exploring why it has been a work of exceptional interest to subsequent generations of both aesthetic critics and feminist theorists. Lastly, Naremore provides an in-depth critical appreciation of the film, offering nuanced appreciation of specific details of mise-en-scene, camera movement, design, sound, and performances, integrating this close analyses into an overarching analysis of Letter's “recognition plot;” a trope in which the recognition of a character's identity creates dramatic intensity or crisis. Naremore argues that Letter's use of recognition is one of the most powerful in Hollywood cinema, and contrasts it with what we find in Zweig's novella.
Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141190648
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity andthe farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, TO A GOD UNKOWN is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control theforces of nature and to understand the ways of God.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050096275
Author : Carl R. Green,William R. Sanford
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766047372
In 1912, Mrs. Marshall watched passengers board the famous ship Titanic in England. As she watched the ship leave port, a vision flashed in her mind: "That ship is going to sink." Four days later, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the ocean. Her psychic vision came true. Is such a thing possible? Can a person truly predict an event before it happens? This book examines psychic paranormal powers, such as precognition and clairvoyance, and allows readers to determine if they believe in "seeing" the future, or if it's all a huge hoax.
Author : Judith Pallot,Tat'yana Nefedova
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191527784
Basing their findings on four years of research during which they studied rural districts drawn from a variety of contrasting regions of European Russia, the authors discuss the place of rural households in Russia's agri-food production system. They show that far from being solely concerned with 'survival' household plots in contemporary Russia are increasingly used to produce crops and livestock products for the market. In the book they describe the rich variety of forms that small and independent farming takes today from highly localised clusters of cucumber or tomato producers to specialization in crop or animal husbandry at a higher spatial scale or associated with particular ethnic groups. The authors systematically examine the influence on past and present practices of distance and the environment, the state of the large farm sector, local customs, and ethnicity on what households produce and how they produce it often using case studies of people they have met (plot holders, farmers, local officials) to illustrate their point. They criticise the tendency of the household production to be treated as the agricultural 'Other' in post-Soviet Russia and argue with the right incentives it has the potential for further development.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434917980
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788726647723
When an aspiring artist Nicolas Poussin gets a chance to meet the legendary painter Frenhofer, he is more than thrilled. Frenhofer has the ability to paint in an incredible way, and besides that, he has deep and philosophical thoughts about aesthetics and art. Poussin is so ensnared by Frenhofer that he offers his lover Gillette to work as a model for Frenhofer – without asking Gillette first. ‘The Unknown Masterpiece’ is Honoré de Balzac’s short story first published in 1831. Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French writer. He was born in Tours, but moved to Paris when he was a teenager. The best known works of his include ‘Father Goriot’ and ‘Cousin Bette’. Balzac’s writing style is realistic, and he also wrote plays. Besides writing he worked as a journalist and critic.
