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Author : Christopher Dewdney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781596917682

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Acquainted with the Night by Christopher Dewdney Pdf

Weaving together science and storytelling, art and anthropology, Dewdney takes readers on a fascinating journey through the nocturnal realm. In twelve chapters corresponding to the twelve hours of night, he illuminates night's central themes, including sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, festivals of the night, fireworks, astronomy, nightclubs, sleep and dreams, the graveyard shift, the art of darkness, and endless nights. With infectious curiosity, a lyrical, intimate tone, and an eye for nighttime beauties both natural and man-made, Christopher Dewdney paints a captivating portrait of our hours in darkness. Christopher Dewdney is the author of three books of nonfiction-Last Flesh, The Secular Grail, and The Immaculate Perception-as well as eleven books of poetry. A three-time nominee for Governor General's Awards and a first-prize winner of the CBC Literary Competition, Dewdney lives in Toronto, Ontario. "As you read these pages, your life will change, because the way you see half of it will change. The night we're all familiar with will emerge as a fresh thing, deeper, fuller, older, younger, more evocative, more intimate, larger, more spectacular and, yes, more magical, and much more thrilling."-Margaret Atwood, Globe and Mail "[A] felicitous literary gambol from dusk till dawn...Dewdney throws himself headlong into the deep pool of his subject."-Sue Halpern, Newsday "An enjoyable and instructive read."-Sven Birkerts, Boston Globe Also available: HC 1-58234-396-9 $24.95

Author : Francois Proulx
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487532185

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Victims of the Book by Francois Proulx Pdf

Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen’s masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen’s reading habits. Fin-de-siècle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how André Gide and Marcel Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-siècle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.

Author : Philip Fried
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847819795

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Acquainted with the Night by Philip Fried Pdf

The mysterious, eloquent essence of the night--long a favorite subject of artists and writers--is the focus of this unique book, which couples evocative black and white photos with night-inspired poetry from around the world and across the centuries. Shot after dark in and around New York, and in rural Vermont, Ireland, Lisbon, and other places. 80 photos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4171017

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Letzler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781496201645

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The Cruft of Fiction by David Letzler Pdf

What is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes with encyclopedic scope, has attracted wildly varied responses, from fanatical devotion to trenchant criticism. Looking at intimidating mega-novel masterpieces from The Making of Americans to 2666, David Letzler explores reader responses to all the seemingly random, irrelevant, pointless, and derailing elements that comprise these mega-novels, elements that he labels "cruft" after the computer science term for junk code. In The Cruft of Fiction, Letzler suggests that these books are useful tools to help us understand the relationship between reading and attention. While mega-novel text is often intricately meaningful or experimental, sometimes it is just excessive and pointless. On the other hand, mega-novels also contain text that, though appearing to be cruft, turns out to be quite important. Letzler posits that this cruft requires readers to develop a sophisticated method of attentional modulation, allowing one to subtly distinguish between text requiring focused attention and text that must be skimmed or even skipped to avoid processing failures. The Cruft of Fiction shows how the attentional maturation prompted by reading mega-novels can help manage the information overload that increasingly characterizes contemporary life.

Author : Gary L. Ball-Kilbourne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0687140471

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Get Acquainted with Your by Gary L. Ball-Kilbourne Pdf

A survey of the Bible for group or individual study.

Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 2858 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026840305

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The Waverly Novels - Complete Collection: 26 Books in One Volume (Illustrated Edition) by Walter Scott Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Waverly Novels - Complete Collection: 26 Books in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION: Famous Authors on Scott SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson SCOTT AND HIS PUBLISHERS by Charles Dickens WAVERLY NOVELS: WAVERLEY GUY MANNERING THE ANTIQUARY ROB ROY IVANHOE KENILWORTH THE PIRATE THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL PEVERIL OF THE PEAK QUENTIN DURWARD ST. RONAN'S WELL REDGAUNTLET WOODSTOCK THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN Tales of My Landlord OLD MORTALITY BLACK DWARF THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR A LEGEND OF MONTROSE COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS CASTLE DANGEROUS Tales from Benedictine Sources THE MONASTERY THE ABBOT Tales of the Crusaders THE BETROTHED THE TALISMAN Biographies: SIR WALTER SCOTT by George Saintsbury SIR WALTER SCOTT by Richard H. Hutton MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT by J.G. Lockhart Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081756961

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London Saturday Journal... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1632 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UIUC:30112081497395

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The Bookseller by Anonim Pdf

Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.

Author : Nathaniel Lardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : UVA:X030511793

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The Works of Nathaniel Lardner by Nathaniel Lardner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
ISBN : MINN:31951D003195932

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Godey's Lady's Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 13445 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066385705

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The Greatest Action Books - Ballantyne Edition by R. M. Ballantyne Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique action & adventure collection with sea adventure novels, western classics, historical thrillers, treasure hunt tales, war stories. Table of Contents: The Coral Island Snowflakes and Sunbeams (The Young Fur Traders) Ungava Martin Rattler The Dog Crusoe and his Master The World of Ice The Gorilla Hunters The Golden Dream The Red Eric Away in the Wilderness Fighting the Whales The Wild Man of the West Fast in the Ice Gascoyne The Lifeboat Chasing the Sun Freaks on the Fells The Lighthouse Fighting The Flames Silver Lake Deep Down Shifting Winds Hunting the Lions Over the Rocky Mountains Saved by the Lifeboat Erling the Bold The Battle and the Breeze The Cannibal Islands Lost in the Forest Digging for Gold Sunk at Sea The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands The Iron Horse The Norsemen in the West The Pioneers Black Ivory Life in the Red Brigade Fort Desolation The Pirate City The Story of the Rock Rivers of Ice Under the Waves The Settler and the Savage In the Track of the Troops Jarwin and Cuffy Philosopher Jack Post Haste The Lonely Island The Red Man's Revenge My Doggie and I The Giant of the North The Madman and the Pirate The Battery and the Boiler The Thorogood Family The Young Trawler Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished Twice Bought The Island Queen The Rover of the Andes The Prairie Chief The Lively Poll Red Rooney The Big Otter The Fugitives Blue Lights The Middy and the Moors The Eagle Cliff The Crew of the Water Wagtail Blown to Bits The Garret and the Garden Jeff Benson Charlie to the Rescue The Coxswain's Bride The Buffalo Runners The Hot Swamp Hunted and Harried The Walrus Hunters Wrecked but not Ruined Six Months at the Cape Memoirs: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making

Author : Charles Ezra Sprague
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Volapu k
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0059325577

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Hand-book of Volapük by Charles Ezra Sprague Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LLMC:NYAW1TY8950V

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Appeal Book, Appeal from Order by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shelley Harwayne
Publisher : Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : English language
ISBN : 0435087843

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Lasting Impressions by Shelley Harwayne Pdf

Paper Edition. In this practical book filled with the stories of real children, Shelley Harwayne invites readers to explore the diverse roles literature plays in any writing workshop.