Author: John C. Wright
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765355607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Fantasy roman.
Titans of Chaos
Author: John C. Wright
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765355607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Fantasy roman.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765355607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Fantasy roman.
Voyage to Atlantis
Author: James Watt Mavor
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892816347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Oceanographic engineer recounts his expeditions to find the fabled land called- The lost continent.
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892816347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Oceanographic engineer recounts his expeditions to find the fabled land called- The lost continent.
The Origins of English Words
Author: Joseph Twadell Shipley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801896436
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown. Anecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801896436
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown. Anecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science.
Fugitives of Chaos
Author: John C. Wright
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765353870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
John C. Wright established himself at the forefront of contemporary fantasy with Orphans of Chaos, which launched a new epic adventure. Wright's new fantasy, continuing in Fugitives of Chaos, is about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings: pagan gods, fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls; Colin is psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe, and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. They must learn to control their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. Something very important must be at stake in their imprisonment.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765353870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
John C. Wright established himself at the forefront of contemporary fantasy with Orphans of Chaos, which launched a new epic adventure. Wright's new fantasy, continuing in Fugitives of Chaos, is about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings: pagan gods, fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls; Colin is psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe, and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. They must learn to control their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. Something very important must be at stake in their imprisonment.
The Philobiblion
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Committed Styles
Author: Benjamin Kohlmann
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191024635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Committed Styles offers a new understanding of the politicized literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism. It reclaims a central body of literary and critical works for modernist studies, offering in-depth readings of texts by T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards, as well as by key left-wing authors including William Empson, David Gascoyne, Charles Madge, Humphrey Jennings, and Edward Upward. Building on substantial new archival research, Benjamin Kohlmann explores the deep tensions between modernist experimentation and political vision that lie at the heart of these works. Taking as its focus the work of these writers, the book argues that the close interactions between literary production, critical reflection, and political activism in the decade shaped the influential view of modernism as fundamentally apolitical. Intervening in debates about the long life of modernism, it contends that we need to take seriously the anti-modernist impulse of 1930s left-wing literature even when attention is paid to the formal complexity of these 'committed' works. The tonal ambiguities which run through the politicised literature of the 1930s thus effect not a disengagement from but a more thorough immersion in the profoundly conflicted political commitments of the decade. At the same time, the study shows that debates about the politics of writing in the 1930s continue to inform current debates about the relationship between literature and political commitment.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191024635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Committed Styles offers a new understanding of the politicized literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism. It reclaims a central body of literary and critical works for modernist studies, offering in-depth readings of texts by T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards, as well as by key left-wing authors including William Empson, David Gascoyne, Charles Madge, Humphrey Jennings, and Edward Upward. Building on substantial new archival research, Benjamin Kohlmann explores the deep tensions between modernist experimentation and political vision that lie at the heart of these works. Taking as its focus the work of these writers, the book argues that the close interactions between literary production, critical reflection, and political activism in the decade shaped the influential view of modernism as fundamentally apolitical. Intervening in debates about the long life of modernism, it contends that we need to take seriously the anti-modernist impulse of 1930s left-wing literature even when attention is paid to the formal complexity of these 'committed' works. The tonal ambiguities which run through the politicised literature of the 1930s thus effect not a disengagement from but a more thorough immersion in the profoundly conflicted political commitments of the decade. At the same time, the study shows that debates about the politics of writing in the 1930s continue to inform current debates about the relationship between literature and political commitment.
The Names in Roman Verse
Author: Donald Carl Swanson
Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The first [-twelfth] book of Virgil's Æneid
Author: Virgil
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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The Canon's Ward
Author: James Payn
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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AEneidea
Author: Virgil
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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