Author: Francis van Wyck Mason
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Languages : en
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The Sulu Sea Murders. A Case for Captain North, D.C.I.
Author: Francis van Wyck Mason
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Languages : en
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The Sulu Sea Murders
Author: Van Wyck Mason
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479448540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
#7 in the Hugh North series.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479448540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
#7 in the Hugh North series.
Asia in Western fiction
Author: Robin Winks
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526123533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526123533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2380
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2380
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
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The Sulu Sea Murders
Author: Francis van Wyck Mason
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Captain Hugh North 03: The Fort Terror Murders
Author: Van Wyck Mason
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479406724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Captain Hugh North, D.C.I., arrived at Fort Espato (in English, "Fort Terror") with no thought of treasure or tragedy -- but both awaited him there. An American army port superseded the old ruin now, but when the Spanish controlled the Philippines, it had been an ill-fated and much-used fort. Some legendary menace hung over its somber vaults and passages, but when two men vanished into its depths one evening and did not reappear, North saw only a living hand where others saw inexplicable terror. To track the killer who not only murdered but caused his victims to disappear completely baffled even Captain North, until he found the beads with the markings that did not match, and a bit of paper in a dead man's hand!
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479406724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Captain Hugh North, D.C.I., arrived at Fort Espato (in English, "Fort Terror") with no thought of treasure or tragedy -- but both awaited him there. An American army port superseded the old ruin now, but when the Spanish controlled the Philippines, it had been an ill-fated and much-used fort. Some legendary menace hung over its somber vaults and passages, but when two men vanished into its depths one evening and did not reappear, North saw only a living hand where others saw inexplicable terror. To track the killer who not only murdered but caused his victims to disappear completely baffled even Captain North, until he found the beads with the markings that did not match, and a bit of paper in a dead man's hand!
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
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