Author: Shirley JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Features a collection of writings across different genres by the mid-twentieth-century author.
Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (LOA #204)
Author: Shirley JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Features a collection of writings across different genres by the mid-twentieth-century author.
The Shirley Jackson Collection
Author: Shirley JacksonPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1598536710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For the first time in a deluxe collector's edition boxed set, here is the ultimate Shirley Jackson edition, including all six novels, the famous story collection The Lottery, and twenty-one other stories. Collects Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories (LOA #204) The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Uncollected Stories (15) Unpublished Stories (6) Appendix: Biography of a Story Shirley Jackson: Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s (LOA #336) The Road Through the Wall Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The Sundial
Routes and Roots
Author: Elizabeth DeLoughreyPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824834720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Elizabeth DeLoughrey invokes the cyclical model of the continual movement and rhythm of the ocean (‘tidalectics’) to destabilize the national, ethnic, and even regional frameworks that have been the mainstays of literary study. The result is a privileging of alter/native epistemologies whereby island cultures are positioned where they should have been all along—at the forefront of the world historical process of transoceanic migration and landfall. The research, determination, and intellectual dexterity that infuse this nuanced and meticulous reading of Pacific and Caribbean literature invigorate and deepen our interest in and appreciation of island literature. —Vilsoni Hereniko, University of Hawai‘i "Elizabeth DeLoughrey brings contemporary hybridity, diaspora, and globalization theory to bear on ideas of indigeneity to show the complexities of ‘native’ identities and rights and their grounded opposition as ‘indigenous regionalism’ to free-floating globalized cosmopolitanism. Her models are instructive for all postcolonial readers in an age of transnational migrations." —Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Australia Routes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Taking the "tidalectic" between land and sea as a dynamic starting point, Elizabeth DeLoughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots. The first section looks at the sea as history in literatures of the Atlantic middle passage and Pacific Island voyaging, theorizing the transoceanic imaginary. The second section turns to the land to examine indigenous epistemologies in nation-building literatures. Both sections are particularly attentive to the ways in which the metaphors of routes and roots are gendered, exploring how masculine travelers are naturalized through their voyages across feminized lands and seas. This methodology of charting transoceanic migration and landfall helps elucidate how theories and people travel, positioning island cultures in the world historical process. In fact, DeLoughrey demonstrates how these tropical island cultures helped constitute the very metropoles that deemed them peripheral to modernity. Fresh in its ideas, original in its approach, Routes and Roots engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, postcolonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It productively traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines.
Haunting of Hill House
Author: Shirley JacksonBeans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Author: Worrall Reed CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logistics, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
Author: Joyce Carol OatesPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061374601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
When he died in 1937, destitute and emotionally as well as physically ruined, H. P. Lovecraft had no idea that he would one day be celebrated as the godfather of modern horror. A dark visionary, his work would influence an entire generation of writers, including Stephen King, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, and Anne Rice. Now, the most important tales of this distinctive American storyteller have been collected in a single volume by National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates. In tales that combine the nineteenth-century gothic sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe with a uniquely daring internal vision, Lovecraft fuses the supernatural and mundane into a terrifying, complex, and exquisitely realized vision, foretelling a psychically troubled century to come. Set in a meticulously described New England landscape, here are harrowing stories that explore the total collapse of sanity beneath the weight of chaotic events—stories of myth and madness that release monsters into our world. Lovecraft's universe is a frightening shadow world where reality and nightmare intertwine, and redemption can come only from below.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley JacksonPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822212263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s
The Huntington Family in America
Author: Huntington Family AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
As If She Were Free
Author: Erica L. BallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108626939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
As If She Were Free brings together the biographies of twenty-four women of African descent to reveal how enslaved and recently freed women sought, imagined, and found freedom from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the Americas. Our biographical approach allows readers to view large social processes – migration, trade, enslavement, emancipation – through the perspective of individual women moving across the boundaries of slavery and freedom. For some women, freedom meant liberation and legal protection from slavery, while others focused on gaining economic, personal, political, and social rights. Rather than simply defining emancipation as a legal status that was conferred by those in authority and framing women as passive recipients of freedom, these life stories demonstrate that women were agents of emancipation, claiming free status in the courts, fighting for liberty, and defining and experiencing freedom in a surprising and inspiring range of ways.
H.P. Lovecraft Tales
Author: Howard Phillips LovecraftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
"This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of [Lovecraft's] fiction"--Jacket.