Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788847434240
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : it
Pages : 10
Book Description
Animali in fattoria. Schiaccia e ascolta
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788847434240
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : it
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788847434240
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : it
Pages : 10
Book Description
The Devourers
Author: Annie Chartres (formerly Vivanti.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Author: Ann Beattie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307790754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307790754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed.
A Short Border Handbook
Author: Gazmend Kapllani
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275725
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania.' After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the miniskirts and quiz shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasizing accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centre in a small border town. As Gazi and his fellow immigrants try to find jobs, they begin to plan their future lives in Greece, imagining riches and successes which always remain just beyond their grasp. The sheer absurdity of both their plans and their new lives is overwhelming. Both detached and involved, ironic and emotional, Kapllani interweaves the story of his experience with meditations upon 'border syndrome' - a mental state, as much as a geographical experience - to create a brilliantly observed, amusing and perceptive debut.
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275725
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania.' After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the miniskirts and quiz shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasizing accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centre in a small border town. As Gazi and his fellow immigrants try to find jobs, they begin to plan their future lives in Greece, imagining riches and successes which always remain just beyond their grasp. The sheer absurdity of both their plans and their new lives is overwhelming. Both detached and involved, ironic and emotional, Kapllani interweaves the story of his experience with meditations upon 'border syndrome' - a mental state, as much as a geographical experience - to create a brilliantly observed, amusing and perceptive debut.
New Hollywood Violence
Author: Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719067235
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Exploring the depiction of violence and related issues in Hollywood productions, this book focuses on the motivations and cultural politics of violence on the big screen, as well as its effects on viewers and society as a whole.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719067235
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Exploring the depiction of violence and related issues in Hollywood productions, this book focuses on the motivations and cultural politics of violence on the big screen, as well as its effects on viewers and society as a whole.
The Flying Saucer Conspiracy
Author: Donald Edward Keyhoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Presenting the Flying Saucer Conspiracy by Donald Keyhoe.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Presenting the Flying Saucer Conspiracy by Donald Keyhoe.
Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire
Author: M. Keith Booker
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815626657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This work applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of literary discourse and the concept of carnivalisation to the work of Flann O'Brien. The author emphasizes the political and social implications of the writings, arguing that O'Brien maintained a reflexive focus on language throughout his career.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815626657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This work applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of literary discourse and the concept of carnivalisation to the work of Flann O'Brien. The author emphasizes the political and social implications of the writings, arguing that O'Brien maintained a reflexive focus on language throughout his career.
Ellipse of Uncertainty
Author: Lance Olsen
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise. Finally he argues that postmodern fantasy is the literary equivalent of deconstructionism, for it interrogates all we take for granted about language and experience, giving these no more than shifting and provisional status. It may be seen as a mode of radical skepticism that believes only in the possiblilty of total intelligibility.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise. Finally he argues that postmodern fantasy is the literary equivalent of deconstructionism, for it interrogates all we take for granted about language and experience, giving these no more than shifting and provisional status. It may be seen as a mode of radical skepticism that believes only in the possiblilty of total intelligibility.
Stories and Plays
Author: Flann O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
That Other World
Author: Princess Grace Irish Library. International Conference
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
As with every other region of Europe and the world, the traditional folklore of Ireland abounds with tales involving the supernatural and the fantastic, but nowhere else have these tales so influenced the literature and the shaping of that country, and no other country has produced so many world-famous authors whose work has shown those influences.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
As with every other region of Europe and the world, the traditional folklore of Ireland abounds with tales involving the supernatural and the fantastic, but nowhere else have these tales so influenced the literature and the shaping of that country, and no other country has produced so many world-famous authors whose work has shown those influences.