Unreal City

Author : D.J. Bryant
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN : 9781606998809

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Unreal City by D.J. Bryant Pdf

Unreal City contains five highly charged stories about relationships: “Echoes into Eternity,” “Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt,” “Emordana,” “The Yellowknife Retrospective,” and “Objet d’Art.” The stories address gender, narcissism, marriage, subjectivity, objectification, and the thin line that divides love from hate. Bryant’s characters sometimes feel like they are navigating their way through the darkness in an attempt to make sense of love, sex, art, and life. Existential and elliptical, the stories play beautifully against Bryant’s precise and fully-realized artwork, which echoes such masters as Jaime Hernandez and Daniel Clowes. In Unreal City, characters cannot walk into a room without their world turning inside out. Readers will be similarly upended by the discovery of this major new talent.

Author : Michael Smith,Andrew Weatherall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 0571235816

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Unreal City by Michael Smith,Andrew Weatherall Pdf

With a property portfolio consisting of a beach hut in Essex, and a career as evanescent as it is unprofitable, the narrator of 'Unreal city' is a flaneur fallen on hard times, a creative bewildered by the slick speed of the digital age, watching as the sculptors and painters and bon viveurs begin to slip away and the advertising hipsters take over old stomping grounds. From the nights in old Soho, where an anonymous green door was the gateway to a decadently dingy paradise, to the days amid the shabby post-industrial elegance of Hackney's canalside warehouses, this is a nostalgic love song to the drifters, the artists, the glamorous misfits, the degenerate waifs and the barmaid-enchantresses of the capital's backstreets and shadowy corners.

Author : Judith Nies
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781568584874

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Unreal City by Judith Nies Pdf

An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas. Journalist and historian Judith Nies has been tracking this story for nearly four decades. She follows the money and tells us the true story of wealth and water, mendacity, and corruption at the highest levels of business and government. Amid the backdrop of the breathtaking desert landscape, Unreal City shows five cultures colliding—Hopi, Navajo, global energy corporations, Mormons, and US government agencies—resulting in a battle over resources and the future of the West. Las Vegas may attract 39 million visitors a year, but the tourists mesmerized by the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio don't ask where the water comes from. They don't see a city with the nation's highest rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and suicide. They don't see the astonishing drop in the water level of Lake Mead—where Sin City gets 90 percent of its water supply. Nies shows how the struggle over Black Mesa lands is an example of a global phenomenon in which giant transnational corporations have the power to separate indigenous people from their energy-rich lands with the help of host governments. Unreal City explores how and why resources have been taken from native lands, what it means in an era of climate change, and why, in this city divorced from nature, the only thing more powerful than money is water.

Author : Edward Timms,David Kelley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Cities and towns in art
ISBN : 0719023157

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Unreal City by Edward Timms,David Kelley Pdf

Author : K. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230583252

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Dickens and the Unreal City by K. Smith Pdf

Dickens's London often acts as a complex symbol, composed of numerous sub-symbols, such as crowd, river, railway networks and police systems. This book is particularly interested in how Dickens's treatment of the city allows him to re-examine traditional Christian discourses on the issues of revelation, renunciation and regeneration.

Author : Anthony Esolen
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621643067

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Sex and the Unreal City by Anthony Esolen Pdf

Unreal City: a cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be. And it's no fantasy. It's where we live. "We dwell in Unreal City. We believe in un-being." With saber-like wit, poet and professor Anthony Esolen leads readers on a tour through the ruins of their own Western world—through king-size bookstores, manicured college campuses, strobe-lit choir lofts, mechanized farms, divorce courts, drag-queen libraries, and beyond. This hilarious guide to a culture gone mad with sex and self-care minces no words and spares no egos. We the people of Unreal City are no better, and certainly no smarter, than our fathers. But fear not. Sex and the Unreal City insists there's no need to settle down in the ninth circle of unreality. Esolen lights a torch and heads up the well-trod path back to our cleaner, kinder, truer homeland: Earth. Along the way, the author sings the songs of masters long forgotten—Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, the Evangelists—and asks us to join in.

Author : Robert Liddell
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029714659

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Unreal City by Robert Liddell Pdf

First pub. 1952. Set in Alexandria during WWII, and peopled by a motley cast of characters.

Author : Anthony Esolen
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781642291292

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Sex and the Unreal City by Anthony Esolen Pdf

Unreal City: a cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be. And it's no fantasy. It's where we live. "We dwell in Unreal City. We believe in un-being." With saber-like wit, poet and professor Anthony Esolen leads readers on a tour through the ruins of their own Western world—through king-size bookstores, manicured college campuses, strobe-lit choir lofts, mechanized farms, divorce courts, drag-queen libraries, and beyond. This hilarious guide to a culture gone mad with sex and self-care minces no words and spares no egos. We the people of Unreal City are no better, and certainly no smarter, than our fathers. But fear not. Sex and the Unreal City insists there's no need to settle down in the ninth circle of unreality. Esolen lights a torch and heads up the well-trod path back to our cleaner, kinder, truer homeland: Earth. Along the way, the author sings the songs of masters long forgotten—Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, the Evangelists—and asks us to join in.

Author : William Chapman Sharpe,William Sharpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015018466642

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Unreal Cities by William Chapman Sharpe,William Sharpe Pdf

Author : Neil Powell
Publisher : Millivres Prowler Group
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029174045

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Unreal City by Neil Powell Pdf

Author : Iain Sinclair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786071750

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The Last London by Iain Sinclair Pdf

A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.

Author : Karl Ashley Smith
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131731809

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Dickens and the Unreal City by Karl Ashley Smith Pdf

This book discusses the religious dimension to Dickens's representation of London, focusing on how the picture he paints of the city interacts with other modes of imagery.

Author : Lian Yang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015063235595

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Unreal City by Lian Yang Pdf

" A selection of poems from this period as well as a number of essays, appearing in English for the first time, which meditate upon the experience of living in Auckland" --Back cover.

Author : Donald P. Kaczvinsky
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611474541

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Durrell and the City by Donald P. Kaczvinsky Pdf

Durrell and the City commemorates the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical understanding of all Durrell's urban landscapes, but focuses on the place that made him famous—the city of Alexandria—in order to provide a reassessment of his career and achievement.

Author : Matthew Green
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1405919140

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London: a Travel Guide Through Time by Matthew Green Pdf

A guide to London that takes you back in time. This is a fascinating and unique guide to the capital that takes the reader off the beaten track and into unexplored territory through time to six key periods in the history of London. From Shakespeare to the plague, medieval London to the swinging 60s, readers can totally immerse themselves in the sights, sounds and smells of our capital. After reading this book you'll never rush through the streets of Covent Garden or St Paul's again without pausing for at least a moment to think of all the mad characters and epic lives that ran through the same streets centuries before.