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Author: Neil Postman Publisher: Vintage ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 200
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Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Author: Neil Postman Publisher: Vintage ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 200
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Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Author: Jean François Lyotard Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 9780816631070 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 340
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Traces the life and career of the French novelist, describing his participation in the Spanish Civil War, command of a World War II resistance brigade, and his position as a government minister.
Author: Charles Fanning Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813148332 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 459
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In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.
Author: Robin D. Gill Publisher: Paraverse Press ISBN: 0984092307 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 301
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Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical poetry, grooks, hyperlogical nonsense verse, outrageous epigrams, the (im)possibilities and process of translation between exotic tongues, the reason of puns and rhyme, outlandish metaphor, extreme hyperbole and whatnot tickle their fancy. Read together with The Woman Without a Hole, also by Robin D. Gill, the hitherto overlooked ulterior side of art poetry in Japan may now be thoroughly explored by monolinguals, though bilinguals and students of Japanese will be happy to know all the original Japanese is included. This Reader is a selection from "Mad in Translation - a thousand years of kyoka, comic Japanese poetry in the classic waka mode," a 2000-poem, 200-chapter, 740-page monster of a book. It offers a 300-page double distillation high-proof sample of the poetry and prose, with improved translations, re-considered opinions and additional snake-legs (explanation some scholars may not need). The scattershot of two-page chapters and notes have been compounded into a score of cannonball-sized thematic chapters with just enough weight to bowl over most specialists yet, hopefully, not bore the amateur and sink a potentially broad-beamed readership. (More information may be found at the Paraverse Press website or Google Books)"
Author: Edmund L. Epstein Publisher: ISBN: 9780813035345 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book guides readers through the complex, pun-based, and dreamlike narrative of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Defying conventions of plot and continuity, Finnegans Wake has been challenging readers since its first publication in 1939. The novel is so famously difficult that it is widely agreed that only the brave or foolhardy attempt to unravel this well-known but relatively little-read classic.
Author: Anne Stibbs Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited ISBN: 9780747550754 Category : Games Languages : en Pages : 423
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An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.
Author: Neil Postman
Author: Neil Postman
Author: Jean François Lyotard
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Author: Charles Fanning
Author: Robin D. Gill
Author: Edmund L. Epstein
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