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What the Thunder Said

John Conrad
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Author : John Conrad
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770704039

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By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada’s Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were widespread across southern Afghanistan in 2006, and logistics soldiers worked in quiet desperation to keep the battle group moving. Only now is it appreciated how precarious the logistics operations of Task Force Orion in Kandahar really were. What the Thunder Said is an honest, raw recollection of incidents and impressions of Canadian warfighting from a logistics perspective. It offers solid insight into the history of military logistics in Canada and explores in some detail the dramatic erosion of a once-proud corner of the army from the perspective of a battalion commander.

What the Thunder Said

Janet Peery
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Author : Janet Peery
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466857186

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What the Thunder Said is the 2008 winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction. In the Dust Bowl of 1930s Oklahoma, a family comes apart, as sisters Mackie and Etta Spoon keep secrets from their father, and from each other. Etta, the dangerously impulsive favorite of her father, longs for adventure someplace far away from the bleak and near-barren plains, and she doesn't care how she gets there; watchful Mackie keeps house and obeys the letter of her father's law, while harboring her own dreams. After the massive 1935 Black Sunday dust storm brings ruin to the family, the sisters' conflict threatens further damage. Seeking escape, and wagering their futures on an Indian boarding school runaway named Audie Kipp, the two leave home to forge their own separate paths, each setting off in search of a new life, each finding a fate different than she expected. Through shifting perspectives, voices, and characters, What the Thunder Said tracks their wayward progress, following the sisters, their children, and those whose stories intersect with theirs as they range across the high plains of the West in the decades after the Great Depression. Etta's hitchhiking encounter with a bookish couple in the Garden of the Gods; a prairie jackrabbit drive, during which Mackie's son, Jesse, discovers the cloth he's cut from; an old man's failing memory as he tells of spying on an Indian loner on the outskirts of a Kansas town; a middle-aged doctor's chance meeting with a mysterious wayfarer while on a quest to New Mexico in search of his lost youth; and Mackie's late reconciliation with her aged father, whose habit of silence has bred her own---all are rendered in vivid prose that captures the plains and the people who endured devastation and lived to look back on it. Slow-gathering, powerful, with passages of haunting beauty, What the Thunder Said is the long-awaited third work of fiction by one of our most acclaimed storytellers.

What the Thunder Said

John Conrad
What the Thunder Said Book PDF

Author : John Conrad
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770706118

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By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada’s Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were widespread across southern Afghanistan in 2006, and logistics soldiers worked in quiet desperation to keep the battle group moving. Only now is it appreciated how precarious the logistics operations of Task Force Orion in Kandahar really were. What the Thunder Said is an honest, raw recollection of incidents and impressions of Canadian warfighting from a logistics perspective. It offers solid insight into the history of military logistics in Canada and explores in some detail the dramatic erosion of a once-proud corner of the army from the perspective of a battalion commander.

What the Thunder Said

Jed Rasula
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Author : Jed Rasula
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691225777

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On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land’s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. “But,” as Jed Rasula writes, “The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern.” In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story of how The Waste Land changed poetry forever and how this cultural bombshell served as a harbinger of modernist revolution in all the arts, from abstraction in visual art to atonality in music. From its famous opening, “April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land,” to its closing Sanskrit mantra, “Shantih shantih shantih,” The Waste Land combined singular imagery, experimental technique, and dense allusions, boldly fulfilling Ezra Pound’s injunction to “make it new.” What the Thunder Said traces the origins, reception, and enduring influence of the poem, from its roots in Wagnerism and French Symbolism to the way its strangely beguiling music continues to inspire readers. Along the way, we learn about Eliot’s storied circle, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Bertrand Russell, and about poets like Mina Loy and Marianne Moore, whose innovations have proven as consequential as those of the “men of 1914.” Filled with fresh insights and unfamiliar anecdotes, What the Thunder Said recovers the explosive force of the twentieth century’s most influential poem.

The Grass is Singing

Doris Lessing
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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435901311

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This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.

Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

A. Booth
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Author : A. Booth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137482846

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A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.

Four Quartets

T. S. Eliot
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Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780547539706

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The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.

Hein Donner

Alexander Münninghoff
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Author : Alexander Münninghoff
Publisher : New In Chess
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9789056918934

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Hein Donner by Alexander Münninghoff Pdf

Hein Donner (1927-1988) was a Dutch Grandmaster and one the greatest writers on chess of all time. He was born into a prominent Calvinistic family of lawyers in The Hague. His father, who had been the Minister of Justice and later became President of the Dutch Supreme Court, detected a keen legal talent in his son. But Hein opted for a bohemian lifestyle as a chess professional and journalist. He scored several excellent tournament victories but never quite fulfilled the promise of his chess talent. Hein Donner developed from a chess player-writer into a writer-chess player. His provocative writings and his colourful persona made him a national celebrity during the roaring sixties. His book ‘The King’, a fascinating and often hilarious anthology spanning 30 years of chess writing, is a world-wide bestseller and features on many people’s list of favourite chess books. The author Harry Mulisch, his best friend, immortalized Hein Donner in his magnum opus The Discovery of Heaven. In 2001 the book was adapted for film, with Stephen Fry playing the part that was based on Donner. Included in Hein Donner is the interview in which Harry Mulisch tells about his friendship with Donner. After suffering a stroke at the age of 56, Donner lived his final years in a nursing home. He continued writing however, typing with one finger, and won one of the Netherlands’ most prestigious literary awards. Alexander Münninghoff has written a captivating biography of a controversial man and the turbulent time and age he lived in.

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Harold Bloom
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Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791093078

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A collection of essays analyzing Eliot's The waste land, including a chronology of his works and life.

He Do the Police in Different Voices

Calvin Bedient
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Author : Calvin Bedient
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011618520

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Line-by-line analysis of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland--Cover.

Eliot, Joyce, and Company

Stanley Sultan
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Author : Stanley Sultan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195362541

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This study explores the relations of T.S. Eliot and James Joyce with certain antecedents, such as Dante, Flaubert and Baudelaire; with contemporaries including Pound and Yeats; and with their readers, in order to illuminate the authors' historic mutual venture in English literature.

Death by Water

Kenzaburo Oe
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Author : Kenzaburo Oe
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802190871

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Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his father’s death during WWII: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel. Since his youth, renowned novelist Kogito Choko planned to fictionalize his father’s fatal drowning in order to fully process the loss. Stricken with guilt and regret over his failure to rescue his father, Choko has long been driven to discover why his father was boating on the river in a torrential storm. Though he remembers overhearing his father and a group of soldiers discussing an insurgent scheme to stage a suicide attack on Emperor Mikado, Choko cannot separate his memories from imagination and his family is hesitant to reveal the entire story. When the contents of the trunk turn out to offer little clarity, Choko abandons the novel in creative despair. Floundering as an artist, he’s haunted by fear that he may never write his tour de force. But when he collaborates with an avant-garde theater troupe dramatizing his early novels, Kogito is revitalized by revisiting his formative work and he finds the will to continue investigating his father’s demise. Diving into the turbulent depths of legacy and mortality, Death by Water is an exquisite examination of resurfacing national and personal trauma, and the ways that storytelling can mend political, social, and familial rifts.

The Making of T.S. Eliot

Joseph Maddrey
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Author : Joseph Maddrey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786442713

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This chronological survey of major influences on T.S. Eliot's worldview covers the poet's spiritual and intellectual evolution in stages, by trying to see the world as Eliot did. It examines his childhood influences as well as the literary influences that inspired him to write his earliest poetry; his life as an American expatriate living in London from 1915 to 1930, including his ill-fated marriage and his intellectual engagement with the literary traditions of his new country; and the ways in which his intellectual pursuits fostered a spiritual rebirth that simultaneously reflected his past and revealed his future, demonstrating how the early Romantic revolutionary became a staunch defender of tradition.

From Ritual to Romance

Jessie L. Weston
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Author : Jessie L. Weston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691021074

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A study of the Grail legend explores the saga's Gnostic roots and its relationship to ancient nature cults that associated the physical condition of the king with the productivity of the land.

An Octave Above Thunder

Carol Muske
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Author : Carol Muske
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780140587944

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An Octave Above Thunder presents a collection of poems spanning more than twenty years in the career of Carol Muske, who has won acclaim for work which marries sophisticated intelligence, emotional resonance, and technical craft. What most distinguishes Carol Muske's poetry is her awareness of the complicated web into which the personal and the political, the familial and the feminist, are woven. Filled with audible contemplation—invocation, echo, dreamsong, dirge—Muske's lyrical precision, assured touch, and exacting clarity make her one of the most talented poets of her generation.