Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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New Arabian nights ; The dynamiters
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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New Arabian Nights
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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More New Arabian Nights
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film
Author: Michael C. Frank
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134837291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm of literature and film but also in the statements of policymakers, security experts, and journalists. In the process, the discursive boundary between the factual and the speculative can become difficult to discern. To elucidate this phenomenon, this book proposes that terror is a halfway house between the real and the imaginary. For what characterizes terrorism is less the single act of violence than it is the fact that this act is perceived to be the beginning, or part, of a potential series, and that further acts are expected to occur. As turn-of-the-century writers such as Stevenson and Conrad were the first to point out, this gives terror a fantastical dimension, a fact reinforced by the clandestine nature of both terrorist and counter-terrorist operations. Supported by contextual readings of selected texts and films from The Dynamiter and The Secret Agent through late-Victorian science fiction to post-9/11 novels and cinema, this study explores the complex interplay between actual incidents of political violence, the surrounding discourse, and fictional engagement with the issue to show how terrorism becomes an object of fantasy. Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism will be a valuable resource for those with interests in the areas of Literature and Film, Terrorism Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Trauma Studies, and Cultural Studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134837291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm of literature and film but also in the statements of policymakers, security experts, and journalists. In the process, the discursive boundary between the factual and the speculative can become difficult to discern. To elucidate this phenomenon, this book proposes that terror is a halfway house between the real and the imaginary. For what characterizes terrorism is less the single act of violence than it is the fact that this act is perceived to be the beginning, or part, of a potential series, and that further acts are expected to occur. As turn-of-the-century writers such as Stevenson and Conrad were the first to point out, this gives terror a fantastical dimension, a fact reinforced by the clandestine nature of both terrorist and counter-terrorist operations. Supported by contextual readings of selected texts and films from The Dynamiter and The Secret Agent through late-Victorian science fiction to post-9/11 novels and cinema, this study explores the complex interplay between actual incidents of political violence, the surrounding discourse, and fictional engagement with the issue to show how terrorism becomes an object of fantasy. Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism will be a valuable resource for those with interests in the areas of Literature and Film, Terrorism Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Trauma Studies, and Cultural Studies.
More New Arabian Nights
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration
Author: Murfin Audrey Murfin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474452000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Explores Robert Louis Stevenson's collaborative processContains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely discussedSheds light on connections between authorship, celebrity, the literary marketplace and the creative processSupported by extensive manuscript researchThis book investigates Stevenson's literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the Pacific. With critical readings of both major and minor Stevenson texts, supported and contextualised by unpublished manuscripts and letters by both Stevenson and those he wrote with, this book argues that Stevenson's writings are both a product of and a meditation on collaborative writing. Stevenson's self-reflective body of work reimagines late-Victorian authorship by examining the ways that authors choose material, negotiate the marketplace and, ultimately, maintain power over their own words, or let that power go.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474452000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Explores Robert Louis Stevenson's collaborative processContains new readings of thirteen works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including several rarely discussedSheds light on connections between authorship, celebrity, the literary marketplace and the creative processSupported by extensive manuscript researchThis book investigates Stevenson's literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the Pacific. With critical readings of both major and minor Stevenson texts, supported and contextualised by unpublished manuscripts and letters by both Stevenson and those he wrote with, this book argues that Stevenson's writings are both a product of and a meditation on collaborative writing. Stevenson's self-reflective body of work reimagines late-Victorian authorship by examining the ways that authors choose material, negotiate the marketplace and, ultimately, maintain power over their own words, or let that power go.
More new Arabian nights; The dynamiter [written in collaboration with Mrs. R.L. Stevenson]; The story of a lie
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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More New Arabian Nights
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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A Guide Book to Books
Author: Edmund Beale Sargant
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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