Author: Sherrill Grace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889226180
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Strange Comfort collects the best of Sherrill Grace's many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry, along with new pieces that incorporate her contemporary approach to his work. There are essays on Under the Volcano, on some of the stories in Hear us O Lord from heaven thy dwelling place, and on Lowry's most important themes: endless voyaging, the creative role and identity of the artist, the nightmare of history, the pressures of memory and the urgent need to protect the garden of our world. A visionary, Lowry prophetically addressed the dominant issues of our 21st century. In her new essays, Dr. Grace explores his disturbing vision of the devastating impact of perpetual war, only one of many of Lowry's preoccupations, and establishes that in many respects, Malcolm Lowry was an environmentalist avant la lettre, commenting on his vision of the natural world as an escape from the horror "of existence as sold to you." Lowry was an intensely autobiographical writer, a quality not appreciated during his lifetime. Today, critical perspectives have changed considerably, and Lowry's anxiety about writing elements of his own life into fiction invites critical reassessment. Many of these essays offer a fresh look at Lowry's attempts to apprehend and portray the writer, writing. The title, Strange Comfort, comes from a Lowry short story called "Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession." These essays illustrate some of the ways in which Lowry found comfort in the world of art, of other writers and the landscape of his beloved Dollarton, British Columbia. Malcolm Lowry was in many ways a British writer, but his spiritual home--his creative comfort--surrounded him on the beach at Dollarton. 2009 marked the centenary of Lowry's birth and this volume of essays, old and new, celebrates Lowry's deep and enduring relevance for our times.
Author: Melvin Cintron Figuereo
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595342817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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It will allow you an inner reflection of a smile, a sigh, or a thought that you may have misplaced. The writers ability to perceive and project our deepest feelings those we hide and those we wish to share is evident through out this book. Mel Cintrons writing opens you up to a new world of emotions and consciousness and your own involvement and ownership. Have you ever had something to say, but I couldn't find the right words? Was there ever a time when words just didn't do justice to your thoughts or feelings because they were stronger than words? Have you ever wanted to express yourself in a way that transcends all that has been said before? Then The Thoughts of a Heart is a reflection of yourself, what you thought no one could express or feel of you. Within these pages you will find that which you wish to share with yourself and that which you wish to share with others. The authors writings have been used to mend, heal, strengthen, and star relationships and sharings of our innermost value with ourselves and with others. What you think and wish to say to yourself and others Is said with words from the soul, in The Thoughts of a Heart.
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1466803193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2482
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From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: M. C. Bradbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521204736
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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This 1975 book corrects and amplifies the record of Malcolm Lowry's early life, recording for the first time one of its crucial incidents. Lowry was an alcoholic and wanderer who turned a failed life into a success of a different order, and which has been recognised only after his death. Like Lowry, Professor Bradbrook was born in Wirral and writes of the scenes of early life with sympathetic understanding. She also knew the Cambridge of the 1930s, when Lowry read English there. Bradbrook considers the critical point of knowledge of Lowry's life, and the ways in which it is absorbed in his writings. This enquiry broadens out into a discussion of the art itself, and will serve as an excellent introduction of Lowry's life.
Author: Saskia Walker
Publisher: Saskia Walker
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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In an ancient, magical world Maerose of Riversbend is a valuable prize, for she is a young maiden gifted with fae, magical blood. She senses the dark night of Samhain—five moons away—will bring untold change. As the fateful night approaches she’s first kidnapped by a rogue who means her harm, then rescued by a mysterious and handsome stranger by the name of Bron. Locked in their battle for supremacy, Maerose discovers she’s the physical key capable of undoing a hundred-year-old curse threatening their land. It’s through her dormant power they can drive back the evil spirits about to rise from the dead. Seduction and magic surround Maerose, and she must pledge her true love to a gifted maji on the dark night of Samhan at the very gates of the underworld. Only true love will unleash her fae power, but who will be the one to win her heart—Bron, or Veldor?
Author: R. H. Winnick
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783746645
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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In Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands—discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related development of powerful search tools over the three decades since the most recent major edition of Tennyson’s poems was published. Each of these instances may be deemed an allusion (meant to be recognized as such and pointing, for definable purposes, to a particular antecedent text), an echo (conscious or not, deliberate or not, meant to be noticed or not, meaningful or not), or merely accidental. Unless accidental, Winnick writes, these new textual parallels significantly expand our knowledge both of Tennyson’s reading and of his thematic intentions and artistic technique. Coupled with the thousand-plus textual parallels previously reported by Christopher Ricks and other scholars, he says, they suggest that a fundamental and lifelong aspect of Tennyson’s art was his habit of echoing any work, ancient or modern, which had the potential to enhance the resonance or deepen the meaning of his poems. The new textual parallels Winnick has identified point most often to the King James Bible and to such canonical authors as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Cowper, Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth. But they also point to many authors rarely if ever previously cited in Tennyson editions and studies, including Michael Drayton, Richard Blackmore, Isaac Watts, Erasmus Darwin, John Ogilvie, Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, John Wilson, and—with surprising frequency—Felicia Hemans. Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels is thus a major new resource for Tennyson scholars and students, an indispensable adjunct to the 1987 edition of Tennyson’s complete poems edited by Christopher Ricks.
Author: Gaylene Dutchyshen
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459745477
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 EILEEN MCTAVISH SYKES AWARD FOR BEST FIRST BOOK Secrets cannot stay buried forever In the town of Ross Prairie, Caroline Webb and Sarah Bilyk are bound by family, duty, and a decades-old act of betrayal. On opposing sides of a long-simmering feud between their husbands’ families, the two women meet again after years of estrangement when Caroline moves into the same nursing home as Sarah’s father. Seeing each other sparks memories — of young love and the path to a fateful summer day that changed everything. Together, Caroline and Sarah uncover a truth that alters their lives forever, proving that love will overcome heartache and that friendship survives time.
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Alessandra Pino
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, A Gothic Cookbook focuses on thirteen different Gothic stories and their edible motifs before bringing them to life—and to your table. Delicious yet devious, this cookbook is a culinary and literary delight. Dracula lulls protagonist Jonathan Harker into a false sense of security with cold cuts and a spicy, smoky, peppery stew. Frankenstein’s “monster” starts out as a benign vegetarian, while Mrs. Poole’s overindulgence in Mother’s Ruin triggers Mr. Rochester’s downfall in Jane Eyre – and a bitter tangerine signals a sharp, yet unheeded, warning against marriage and Manderley in Rebecca. Notice, too, how a ghostly presence craves sugar and burnt bread in Toni Morrison’s Beloved... Inspired by Dr Alessandra Pino’s academic studies into how food manifests itself on the pages of Gothic literature and combining her knife-sharp analysis with Ella Buchan’s experience as a food writer and recipe developer, A Gothic Cookbook pays homage to the most appetizing cuts of the genre, featuring over sixty original recipes illustrated by Lee Henry. Including recipes such as: Mina's Chicken Paprikash from Bram Stoker's Dracula That Very Special Gingerbread from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca Acorn Bread inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein And many more
