Author: Tom AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 0711280584
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic is a compendium of history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks and illusions.
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic
Author: Tom AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 0711280584
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic is a compendium of history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks and illusions.
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic
Author: Tom AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 0711280592
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic is a compendium of history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks and illusions.
Engines of Instruction, Mischief, and Magic
Author: Mary V. JacksonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803275706
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Looks at the social, political, religious, and aesthetic forces that shaped the form and content of early children's books
Girls' Miscellany
Author: Lottie StridePublisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1780551495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The smart, the silly and the downright strange are brought together in a miscellany of extraordinary information that's essential for every girl to know.
Literary Miscellany
Author: Alex PalmerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628732210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers. Among the questions asked and answered: • When Did Literature Finally Get Sexy? • Is Coffee or Opium Better for Literary Creativity? • Why Are the Best Autobiographies so Embarrassing? • Why Do Some Detectives Use Their Minds and Others Their Fists? Who knew that bestseller lists and children’s books could be the source of intense controversy? Or that even the biggest writers had to scrape by, with odd jobs and inventions like the Mark Twain Self-Pasting Scrapbook? In Literary Miscellany, examine the trend of “fake memoirs,” with a list of who lied about what, and a rogues’ gallery of hoaxers dating back centuries. From epic poetry and Homer to pulp fiction and Harry Potter, Literary Miscellany is a breezy tour through the literature of today and yesterday, packed with enough interesting facts to entertain both the erudite professor and pleasure reader.
Secular Magic and the Moving Image
Author: Max SextonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501320963
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The power of the moving image to conjure marvelous worlds has usually been to understand it in terms of 'move magic'. On film, a fascination for enchantment and wonder has transmuted older beliefs in the supernatural into secular attractions. But this study is not about the history of special effects or a history of magic. Rather, it attempts to determine the influence and status of secular magic on television within complex modes of delivery before discovering interstices with film. Historically, the overriding concern on television has been for secular magic that informs and empowers rather than a fairytale effect that deceives and mystifies. Yet, shifting notions of the real and the uncertainty associated with the contemporary world has led to television developing many different modes that have become capable of constant hybridization. The dynamic interplay between certainty and indeterminacy is the key to understanding secular magic on television and film and exploring the interstices between them. Sexton ranges from the real-time magic of street performers, such as David Blaine, Criss Angel, and Dynamo, to Penn and Teller's comedy magic, to the hypnotic acts of Derren Brown, before finally visiting the 2006 films The Illusionist and The Prestige. Each example charts how the lack of clear distinctions between reality and illusion in modes of representation and presentation disrupt older theoretical oppositions. Secular Magic and the Moving Image not only re-evaluates questions about modes and styles but raises further questions about entertainment and how the relations between the program maker and the audience resemble those between the conjuror and spectator. By re-thinking these overlapping practices and tensions and the marking of the indeterminacy of reality on media screens, it becomes possible to revise our understanding of inter-medial relations.
An Arthurian Miscellany
Author: Various AuthorsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465576657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4632
Book Description
Lyrics from a Country Lane. A Miscellany of Verse
Author: John Lawton OwenChamber's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts
Author: Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts
Author: Chambers W. and R., ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description