Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland: The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires, Booker Sparky

Автор: Booker, Christopher
Название: Seven basic plots
ISBN: 1472976185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472976185
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.
But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose.
Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years.
This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.

Автор: Doyle, Roddy
Название: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Booker Prize`93)
ISBN: 0749397357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749397357
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Roddy Doyle`s Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

Автор: Sweets Sparky
Название: Thug Notes: A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature
ISBN: 1101873043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101873045
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 9170.00 T
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Описание: Sparky Sweets, PhD, and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series, Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious plot breakdowns and masterful analyses of sixteen of literature's most beloved classics, including: Things Fall Apart, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, and more! The series Thug Notes has been featured on BET, PBS, and NPR and has been used in hundreds of classrooms around the world. Whether you’re a student, teacher, or straight-up literary gangster like Dr. Sweets, Thug Notes has got you covered. You'll certainly never look at literature the same way again.

Автор: Sparkle Sophie
Название: Sparkles from Saratoga.
ISBN: 1275804977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781275804975
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 30120.00 T
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Автор: Booker, Christopher
Название: Seven basic plots
ISBN: 0826480373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826480378
Издательство: Continuum
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Цена: 23750.00 T
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Описание: Examines the basis of story telling in literature, film, and libretto. This book provides an answer to the riddle of whether there are only a small number of `basic stories` in the world. Using many examples, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes.The author then leads us through the changes in the nature of storytelling.

Автор: Engel Juliette M.
Название: Sparky: Surviving Sex Magick
ISBN: 1634242955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781634242950
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 31390.00 T
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Описание: Sparky: Surviving Sex Magick is the literary memoir of a little girl warrior, who survived. Sparkys story shines the spotlight on crimes against American children that were sanctioned on a national scale by the United States government. At the age of six in 1955, she was sold by her parents to the Sex Magick cult run by the CIA under its illegal program of secret experimentation on mind control called Monarch. By the time she was ten, shed been purposely split into multiple identities, each one associated with a different age and place as her family moved around the country to avoid Child Protective Services and the police. With each new identity, she forgot the last one. In Imperial Beach, California, a tough neighborhood of gangs and brothels abutting the Tijuana Sewer and the Mexican border, she discovered her own courage in the determined persona of a new character, Sparky MacGregor, a Scottish girl who stepped from the pages of an old book and chided her for being weak and afraid. When they touched hands, she exhaled the last vestiges of fear and defeat. She became a warrior who never surrendered. As she grew older, Sparkys memory faded as she was moved from one location to the next. At the age of seventeen, she escaped from a camp in Big Sur, and left childhood behind. She became a physician, raised a family and moved to Moscow where she founded and ran an underground railroad for child sex trafficking victims from the former USSR. Years later, she returned to Imperial Beach to speak at an international conference on border security. The memory of her lost childhood suddenly returned. It hung in the briny air of the wetlands that stretched south to Tijuana. It was there that she re-discovered Sparky. When they touched hands again, the fusion of past and present was like the purr of two engines meshed into synchrony. "Do you remember your promise to me?" Sparky asked. "You vowed to write our terrible story, making it beautiful." This is Sparkys story.

Автор: Spark Muriel
Название: Spark`s Europe
ISBN: 1782117652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782117650
Издательство: Canongate
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Цена: 10880.00 T
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Описание: Travel the continent with this new collection of Muriel Spark`s European novels as your guide - an often surprising, occasionally moving, and always unfailingly funny trip