Adventure: An Argument for Limits, Christopher Schaberg
Автор: Christopher Schaberg Название: Adventure: An Argument for Limits ISBN: ISBN-13(EAN): 9798765101452 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 58080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: What is the meaning of ‘adventure’ as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes? Where are our frontiers these days? What stories are humans telling about wilderness, remote destinations, and the most difficult thoughts thinkable? How are adventures represented in contemporary fiction, film, and other cultural forms? What are the limits of this word, this idea? In Adventure, Christopher Schaberg takes time out of our frenetic times to reflect on these questions and on the human compulsion for adventure – and how we find it, or not.Adventure is a pinball assortment of unexpected encounters with adventures and adventure-seeking. Each chapter entertains a specific project, fantasy, or activity that dabbles with adventure – and runs into limits. Subjects range from Mars exploration, commercial space tourism, and SUV advertisements, to environmental literature, contemporary criticism, and cultural reckonings with weather events pressurized by climate change. Adventure takes a wide-angle view – at times personal, at others theoretical – of our ideas about adventure and their narrative, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings.
Автор: Belk, Patrick Scott Название: Empires of print ISBN: 1472441141 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472441140 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular fiction, particularly the adventure genre, developed in ways that directly correlate with authors' experiences, and shows that popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emerged as one way of marketing their literary works to expanding audiences of readers worldwide. Despite an over-determined print space altered by the rise of new kinds of consumers and transformations of accepted habits of reading, publishing, and writing, the changes in British and American publishing at the turn of the twentieth century inspired an exciting new period of literary invention and experimentation in the adventure genre, and the greater part of that invention and experimentation was happening in the magazines.
Автор: Blyton Enid Название: Blyton E, The Castle Of Adventure ISBN: 0330301780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330301787 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1050.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Holidays again - this time in unspecified lonely, hilly countryside, in a thatched cottage near a mysterious uninhabited castle. The children explore, and once inside the castle, they discover underground passages and hidden rooms.
Автор: Miller, John Название: Empire and the animal body ISBN: 0857285343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857285348 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 105750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
'Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction' explores representations of exotic animals in Victorian adventure fiction, mainly in works by R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, G. M. Fenn, Paul du Chaillu, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan. These primary texts are concerned with Southern and West Africa, India and what is now Indonesia in the period 1860-1910, an era which comprises imperial expansion, consolidation and the beginnings of imperial decline. Representations of exotic animals in such literary works generally revolve around portrayals of violence, either in big-game hunting or in the collection of scientific specimens, and draw on a range of literary sources, most notably romance, natural history writing and 'penny dreadful' fiction.
This study investigates how these texts' depictions of forms of violence complicate the seemingly fundamental distinction of humans from animals, and undermines the ideological structures of imperial rule. Rather than an innate and hierarchical opposition, the relationship of humans with their animal others emerges in this context as a complex interplay of kinship and difference. This argument both continues the postcolonial dismantling of empire's logic of domination and develops the recentering of the nonhuman in environmentally focused criticism. Most vitally, it also signals the relation between these fields: the necessary interdependence of human and nonhuman interests, environmental activism and global social justice.
Автор: Moran Patrick Название: Canons of Fantasy ISBN: 1108708676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108708678 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This Element examines four key questions raised by the prospect of a fantasy canon: the way in which canon and genre influence each other; the overwhelming presence of Tolkien in any discussion of the classics of fantasy; the multi-media and transmedia nature of the field; and the push for a more inclusive and diverse canon.
Автор: Blyton Enid Название: Blyton E, The Valley Of Adventure ISBN: 0330301713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330301718 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1010.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Family friend Bill Cunningham plans a trip for the four children in his aeroplane. It`s clear soon after take-off, however, that something`s amiss. The plane is heading in the wrong direction and the pilots are on the trail of some treasure.
Автор: Granger, John Название: Deathly hallows lectures ISBN: 0972322175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780972322171 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Causation is asymmetrical in many different ways. Causes precede effects; explanations cite causes not effects. Agents use causes to manipulate their effects; they don`t use effects to manipulate their causes. Effects of a common cause are correlated; causes of a common effect are not. This is a major book for philosophers of science that will also prove insightful to economists and statisticians.
How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read? For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein “ethics” becomes a matter of tact—in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure cuts a provocative cross-disciplinary swath through classical Jewish texts, modern Jewish philosophy, film and performance, literature, translation, and the material text. Newton explores the ethics of reading through a range of texts, from the Talmud and Midrash to Conrad’s Nostromo and Pascal’s Le M?morial, from works by Henry Darger and Martin Scorsese to the National September 11 Memorial and a synagogue in Havana, Cuba. In separate chapters, he conducts masterly treatments of Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stanley Cavell by emphasizing their performances as readers—a trebled orientation to Talmud, novel, and theater/film. To Make the Hands Impure stages the encounter of literary experience and scriptural traditions—the difficult and the holy—through an ambitious, singular, and innovative approach marked in equal measure by erudition and imaginative daring.
Автор: Kalu, Akon Margaret Название: My african restaurant adventure ISBN: 1546291571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781546291572 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 38090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Riley Derren Название: Walter, Life is an adventure ISBN: 1527252027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781527252028 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Elleray, Michelle Название: Victorian coral islands of empire, mission, and the boys` adventure novel ISBN: 0367235501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367235505 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 137810.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms from 1840-1880, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of the adventure novel and British missionary efforts.
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