Animal Novel: The Lament of a Snow Leopard

Animal Novel: The Lament of a Snow Leopard PDF Author: ouping guo
Publisher: ouping guo
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Animal Novels: Elephant Mother's Lament

Animal Novels: Elephant Mother's Lament PDF Author: ouping guo
Publisher: ouping guo
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There PDF Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312649622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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After returning to Fairyland, September discovers that her stolen shadow has become the Hollow Queen, the new ruler of Fairyland Below, who is stealing the magic and shadows from Fairyland folk and refusing to give them back.

Avenging Nature

Avenging Nature PDF Author: Eduardo Valls Oyarzun
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793621454
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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“Nature, thou art my goddess”—Edmund’s bold assertion in King Lear could easily inspire and, at the same time, function as a lamentation of the inadequate respect of nature in culture. In this volume, international experts provide multidisciplinary exploration of the insubordinate representations of nature in modern and contemporary literature and art. The work foregrounds the need to reassess how nature is already, and has been for a while, striking back against human domination. From the perspective of literary studies, art, history, media studies, ethics and philosophy, and ethnology and anthropology, Avenging Nature highlights the need of assessing insurgent discourses that—converging with counter-discourses of race, gender or class—realize the empowerment of nature from its subaltern position. Acknowledging the argument that cultural representations of nature establish a relationship of domination and exploitation of human discourse over nonhuman reality and that, in consequence, our regard for nature as humanist critics is instrumental and anthropocentric, the present volume advocates for the view that the time has come to finally perceive nature’s vengeance and to critically probe into nature’s ongoing revenge against the exploitation of culture.

How the Leopard Got His Claws

How the Leopard Got His Claws PDF Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Far Tortuga

Far Tortuga PDF Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394756673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself. "Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek

An Ounce of Prevention

An Ounce of Prevention PDF Author: Kristin Nowell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858504094
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Indian Country

Indian Country PDF Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Penguin Paperbacks
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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After winning an eight year legal battle, here is the controversial book that powerfully sheds new light on the plight of Native Americans. Matthiessen's urgent accounts and absorbing journalistic details make it impossible to ignore the message they so eloquently proclaim.

Book Review Digest

Book Review Digest PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 2202

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On the Avenue of the Mystery

On the Avenue of the Mystery PDF Author: Gary Hentzi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000804607
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945-65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of a little less than three decades straddling the millennium (1985-2012). The comparison of these novels (by Ken Kesey, Paul Bowles, Carson McCullers, Jack Kerouac, James Baldwin, Alexander Trocchi, William Burroughs, and Peter Matthiessen) with their film adaptations offers the opportunity for a historical reassessment not only of the novels themselves but also of the global counterculture of the years 1965-75, which they prefigure in a variety of ways. Appearing more than a decade after the waning of the counterculture and in some cases as much as fifty years after the novels on which they are based, the films display significant revisions and omissions prompted by the historical and cultural changes of the intervening years. Whereas these changes are nowadays often interpreted in purely political terms, this book argues that the religious theme of mystery and its decline is central to the novels and films and is a key feature of the period of cultural transformation that they bookend. At once a work of literary criticism, film studies, and cultural history, this text has the potential to reach both an academic audience and the broader readership that has long existed for these novels as well as the even broader one interested in reappraising the period of the global counterculture—among the most important of the influences that have shaped the contemporary world.