Author: Gurdon Huntington
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: Michelle Weinroth
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773596984
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris. Standing on the cusp of a new wave of scholarship, this book presents an exciting convergence of views among internationally renowned scholars in the field of Victorian Studies. Balancing variety and unity, this collection reappraises Morris’s concept of social change and asks how we might think beyond the institutions and epistemologies of our time. Though the political significance of Morris’s creative work is often underestimated, the essays in this volume showcase its subtlety and sophistication. Each chapter discerns the power and novelty of Morris’s radicalism within his aesthetic creations and demonstrates how his most compelling political ideas bloomed wherever his dexterous hand had been at work - in wallpapers, floral borders, medievalist romances, and verse. Morris's theory and practice of aesthetic creation can be seen as the crucible of his entire philosophy of social change. In situating Morris's radicalism at the heart of his creative legacy, and in reanimating debates about nineteenth-century art and politics, To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss challenges and expands received notions of the radical, the aesthetic, and the political.

Author: Andrew Weston
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291983856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Carl is a man haunted by an indefinable presence he's always felt. One day, in his search for answers he goes on a trip out of town. He finds the stillness of nature around him and realises that the wild points to some truth about his life which he cannot find in his work. One day in an ancient wood near to home and discovers a wolf which mesmerises him, but he retreats. In following weeks, Carl begins to feel at one with the wild no longer just an observer. But he is afflicted with visions and his dreams lead him to seek the wolf again. On his way to where he first encountered the animal he falls and blacks out. He wakes to find his awareness has fused with the wolf's. Now his guide, the wolf takes him through its realm of existence. The wolf talks to him and draw out understanding he never knew he possessed changing his life forever...

Author: Jason D. Martinek
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1683930746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of Morris, whose various contributions hang so curiously together? Teaching William Morris gathers together the work of nineteen Morris scholars from a variety of fields, offering a wide array of perspectives on the challenges and the rewards of teaching William Morris. Across this book’s five sections—“Pasts and Presents,” “Political Contexts,” “Literature,” “Art and Design,” and “Digital Humanities”—readers will learn the history of Morris’s place in the modern curriculum, the current state of the field for teaching Morris’s work today, and how this pedagogical effort is reaching well beyond the college classroom.

Author: John Plotz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400887887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, at once interacting and drifting away, and how it affects our ideas about aesthetics. The allure of many modern aesthetic experiences, this book argues, is that artworks trigger and provide ways to make sense of this oscillating, in-between place. John Plotz focuses on Victorian and early modernist writers and artists who understood their work as tapping into, amplifying, or giving shape to a suspended duality of experience. The book begins with the decline of the romantic tale, the rise of realism, and John Stuart Mill’s ideas about social interaction and subjective perception. Plotz examines Pre-Raphaelite paintings that take semi-detached states of attention as their subject and novels that treat provincial subjects as simultaneously peripheral and central. He discusses how realist writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James show how consciousness can be in more than one place at a time; how the work of William Morris demonstrates the shifting forms of semi-detachment in print and visual media; and how Willa Cather created a form of modernism that connected aesthetic dreaming and reality. Plotz concludes with a look at early cinema and the works of Buster Keaton, who found remarkable ways to portray semi-detachment on screen. In a time of cyberdependency and virtual worlds, when it seems that attention to everyday reality is stretching thin, Semi-Detached takes a historical and critical look at the halfway-thereness that audiences have long comprehended and embraced in their aesthetic encounters.

Author: Tzangel Corbett
Publisher: Bonita Corbett
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Saturn is an ordinary woman with unknown, extraordinary, dormant magickal abilities. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she relocates to San Francisco, where she encounters Miles, a man caught between love and a coven’s sinister agenda. Saturn’s journey leads her through the lands of love, betrayal, and self-discovery. As she unravels her hidden powers and delves deep into her family’s magickal heritage, she becomes a central figure and a force to be reckoned with in a cosmic conflict. Her awakening to her true destiny transforms her life, challenges her beliefs, and takes her on a spellbinding adventure.

Author: Susanna Kearsley
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402258704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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"I've loved every one of Susanna's books She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters--sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go "-- DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander The invincible ninth Roman Legion marches from York to fight the Northern tribes, and then vanishes from the pages of history. When Verity Grey goes looking for them, she may find more than she bargained for. Archaeologist Verity Grey has been drawn to the dark legends of the Scottish Borderlands in search of the truth buried in a rocky field by the sea. Her eccentric boss has spent his whole life searching for the resting place of the lost Ninth Roman Legion and is convinced he's finally found it--not because of any scientific evidence, but because a local boy has "seen" a Roman soldier walking in the fields, a ghostly sentinel who guards the bodies of his long--dead comrades. Here on the windswept shores, Verity may find the answer to one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. Or she may uncover secrets someone buried for a reason. Other bestselling books by Susanna Kearsley: The Winter Sea A Desperate Fortune The Firebird

Author: Cale Young Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: James Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Raule
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942367437
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A jazz trumpeter on the surface, he hides a variety of skills best kept secret, the sort of skills best applies to crime and espionage. The sort of skills that come in handy when discovering his long-lost sister in the grip of seedy New York sex traffickers. Sweeping to her rescue and ushering her back home to Barcelona, a labyrinth of trouble opens up beneath his feet, dropping him into a tangled web of intrigue and danger that most men would not survive"--Back cover.