World-Building and the New Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Prose Fictions of Cosmic Voyage, Evelyn Koch
Автор: Meredith K. Ray Название: Margherita Sarrocchi`s Letters to Galileo ISBN: 1137597690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137597694 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei.
Автор: Ait-touati, Frederique Название: Fictions of the cosmos ISBN: 0226011224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226011226 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 49630.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, this title shows that it was through the telling of stories - such as accounts of celestial journeys - that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide.
Автор: Rosenthal, Debra J. Название: Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions ISBN: 0807855642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807855645 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 35850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.
Автор: Barry Wood Название: The Adventures of Shah Esma?il: A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance ISBN: 9004383522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004383524 Издательство: Brill Цена: 168690.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Adventures of Shah Esma?il recounts the dramatic formative years of the Safavid empire (1501–1722), as preserved in Iranian popular memory by coffeehouse storytellers and written down in manuscripts starting in the late seventeenth century. Beginning with the Safavids’ saintly ancestors in Ardabil, the story goes on to relate the conquests of Shah Esma?il (r. 1501–1524) and his devoted Qezelbash followers as they battle Torkmans, Uzbeks, Ottomans, and even Georgians and Ethiopians in their quest to establish a Twelver Shi?i realm. Barry Wood’s translation brings out the verve and popular tone of the Persian text. A heady mixture of history and legend, The Adventures of Shah Esma?il sheds important light on the historical self-awareness of late Safavid Iran.
Название: New oxford book of seventeenth-century verse ISBN: 0199556296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199556298 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The seventeenth century was a period of remarkable achievement in the field of English poetry: it was the age of Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Jonson, Drayton, Herbert, Dryden, and Rochester among others. This anthology maps the terrain afresh, including innumerable masterpieces as well as fascinating work by less familiar names.
Автор: Brendan McNamee Название: Grounded Visionary: The Mystic Fictions of Gerald Murnane ISBN: 143316471X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433164712 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 102450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Grounded Visionary: The Mystic Fictions of Gerald Murnane is a reading of Australian writer Gerald Murnane’s fiction in the light of what is known as the Perennial Philosophy, a philosophical tradition that positions itself as the mystical foundation of all the world’s religions and spiritual systems. The essential tenet of that philosophy is that at a fundamental level all of life is a unity—consciousness and world are the same thing—and that it is possible, if extremely difficult, for the discriminating individual mind to experience this wholeness. Murnane’s work can be seen not to take its lead from writings in this philosophical tradition but rather to resonate with many of them through Murnane’s unique artistic expression of his experience of the world. The crux of the argument is that beneath their yearnings for landscapes and love, Murnane’s narrators and chief characters are all in search of the essential unity that the Perennial Philosophy postulates.
Taking its cue from Murnane’s self-description as a "technical writer," this book examines each of the author’s works in detail to reveal how structures and themes are seamlessly woven together to create artworks that shimmer with mystery while at the same time remaining thoroughly grounded in the actual.
Grounded Visionary is the first full-length study of Gerald Murnane’s work to tackle head-on his underlying mystical sensibility and is also the first to deal comprehensively with the author’s complete fictional output from Tamarisk Row to Border Districts. This book will be of interest to all lovers of modern literature and will be of special interest to students of Australian literature and those concerned with the interface between art and spirituality.
Автор: Tison Pugh Название: Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling`s Fantasies and Other Fictions ISBN: 1643360868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643360867 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 49890.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Explores J. K. Rowling`s beloved best-selling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Along with the seven foundational novels of the Harry Potter series, this book assesses the extraordinary range of supplementary material concerning the young wizard and his allies.
Автор: Bennett Alice Название: Contemporary Fictions of Attention ISBN: 1350150843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350150843 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 34840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct ‘fictions of attention’ that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Contemporary Fictions of Attention locates a common interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in contemporary culture.
Автор: Justin Gifford Название: Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing ISBN: 1439908109 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439908105 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 72070.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black pulp publishing since the Civil Rights era
Название: Conversations with biographical novelists ISBN: 1501341464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501341465 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How does a writer approach a novel about a real person?
In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm T ib n, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations enable readers to explore how these issues are negotiated in contemporary world literature.
Taken together, these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, promotes new ways of thinking about history, politics, and social justice, and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people.
Название: Celestial Hellscapes: Cosmology as the Key to the Strugatskiisa Science Fictions ISBN: 1618119796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618119797 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 97950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Explores how Arkadi and Boris Strugatskii`s cosmological explorations are among the most fundamental elements of their art. The book also examines how these explorations connect to their predecessors in the Russian literary tradition - particularly to the poetry of Pushkin.
How does a writer approach a novel about a real person?
In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm T ib n, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, promotes new ways of thinking about history, politics, and social justice, and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people.
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