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: Cale Young Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: James Kendrick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441188959
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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While there has been a significant outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the past decade, his films are still frequently discussed as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on uncomplicated emotions and complicated special effects. Even those who view his work favorably often see it as essentially optimistic, reassuring, and conservative. James Kendrick takes an alternate view of Spielberg's cinema and proposes that his films—even the most popular ones that seem to trade in easy answers and comforting, reassuring notions of cohesion and narrative resolution—are significantly darker and more emotionally and ideologically complex than they are routinely given credit for. Darkness in the Bliss-Out demonstrates, through close analysis of a wide range of Spielberg's films, that they are only reassuring on the surface, and that their depths embody a complex and sometimes contradictory view of the human condition.
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: Gurdon Huntington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Author: Henry Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Prospectus containing table of contents for piece as a whole but only chapters 39-41 of the complete work.
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1420127888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author: The fate of a mystic land inextricably linked to our own is balanced precariously on one woman’s courage… Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, there's no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born-children when a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld. . . The spell-driven source of the blight isn't the only challenge to Eugenie's instincts. Fairy king Dorian is sacrificing everything to help, but Eugenie can't trust the synergy drawing them back together. The uneasy truce between her and her shape shifter ex-lover Kiyo is endangered by secrets he can't--or won't--reveal. And as a formidable force rises to also threaten the human world, Eugenie must use her own cursed fate as a weapon--and risk the ultimate sacrifice. . . Praise for Richelle Mead's Storm Born. . . "My kind of book--great characters, dark worlds, and just the right touch of humor. A great read." --Patricia Briggs, New York Times Bestselling Author
Author: Will Wight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999851159
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The Guild of Navigators has ruled the Aion Sea for centuries, using their fleet of mystical ships to collect trade for the Aurelian Empire.Now the Emperor is dead.For Calder Marten, Captain of The Testament, the Emperor's death is not an end, but an opportunity. He and his crew seek the legendary Heart of Nakothi, an artifact that could raise a second Emperor...and earn Calder a fortune.But they're not the only ones who want the Heart.The Consultant's Guild, an ancient order of spies and assassins, will stop at nothing to keep the world in chaos. They seek to destroy the Heart, and prevent the world from uniting under a single Emperor ever again.On the seas, a man works to restore the dying Empire.In the shadows, a woman seeks to destroy it.Will you explore the seas here with Calder? Or will you walk the shadows with Shera, in the parallel novel "Of Shadow and Sea"?
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: 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.
