Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368805274
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Annals of the Twenty-Ninth Century
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368805282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Annals of the Twenty-ninth Century; Or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World-Republic
Author: Andrew BlairAnnals of the Twenty-ninth Century; Or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World Republic
Author: AnnalsVictorian Visions of Suburban Utopia
Author: Nathaniel Robert WalkerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192605879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.
First biennial report. Twenty-second (-Twenty-ninth) annual report. General index of Michigan agricultural reports, including the Transactions of the state agricultural society, 1849 to 1859, and Annual reports of the State board of agriculture, 1862 to 1888
Author: Michigan state dept. of agricPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Coincidence and Counterfactuality
Author: Hilary P. DannenbergPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803210930
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In Coincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least studied aspect of narrative. Using plot theory to chart the development of narrative fiction from the Renaissance to the present, Dannenberg demonstrates how the novel has evolved over time and how writers have developed increasingly complex narrative strategies that tap into key cognitive parameters familiar to the reader from real-life experience. ø Dannenberg proposes a new, multidimensional theory for analyzing time and space in narrative fiction, then uses this theory to trace the historical evolution of narrative fiction by focusing on coincidence and counterfactuality. These two key plot strategiesøare constructed around pivotal moments when characters? life trajectories, or sometimes the paths of history, converge or diverge. The study?s rich historical and textual scope reveals how narrative traditions and genres such as romance and realism or science fiction and historiographic metafiction, rather than being separated by clear boundaries are in fact in a continual process of interaction and cross-fertilization. In highlighting critical stages in the historical development of narrative fiction, the study produces new readings of works by pinpointing the innovative role played by particular authors in this evolutionary process. Dannenberg?s original investigation of plot patterns is interdisciplinary, incorporating research from narrative theory, cognitive approaches to literature, social psychology, possible worlds theory, and feminist approaches to narrative.