Author: George Slythe StreetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Miniatures and Moods
Author: George Slythe StreetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Literary World
Author: Small Moods
Author: Shane KowalskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781892061904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Like a cracked crystal ball tagged with black spray paint, these discomforting and darkly hilarious stories unveil a past, present, and future of unexplainable yet bizarrely poetic prophesies and moods. In ninety-five flash fictions, Shane Kowalski's SMALL MOODS presents lovers, dogs, bathtubs, hands, jewels, bananas, peasant boys, cuckolds, Jesus, dildoes, shoes, nudes, cults, sadness, the movie Carrie, and much much more. Can you imagine a love child of Lydia Davis and Richard Brautigan? How about Russell Edson's ghost having tea with Diane Williams? Reading SMALL MOODS is like entering a weird and private room of reject fairy tales and goofball fables. It's a room that belongs to Shane Kowalski, and he is welcoming you with strong, open, sweat-drenched arms. Don't be afraid. He made you something. "I am in love with this weird, gross, hilarious, beautiful book, and with Shane Kowalski's cursed sentences, which enchant you, seduce you, then drop you off in hell. Every story is a perfect little snow globe of sidesplitting misery."--J. Robert Lennon, author of Pieces for the Left Hand and Let Me Think Fiction.
The Bookman
Author: The Oxford Magazine
Author: Springtime À La Carte
Author: O.HenryPublisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Spring was taking its time to arrive in the city, and with no letter from her fiance in weeks, Sarah's quite wilted. "In a faint, golden glow from her dandeleonine dream, she fingered the typewriter keys absently for a little while, with her mind and heart in the meadow lane with her young farmer." Sarah was crying over her bill of fare. Think of a New York girl shedding tears on the menu card!.. O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.
Modelling and Painting Science Fiction Miniatures
Author: Paul StanleyPublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785008277
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Aimed at modellers of all abilities, this lavishly illustrated book presents a step-by-step guide to figure painting and modelling using traditional techniques. From the multipart hard-plastic 28mm miniature to the metal and resin models common in all other scales, this book provides wargamers, collectors and gamers with a wealth of information to achieve the best results. It demonstrates a variety of modelling and painting techniques at different scales; it provides step-by-step guidance on building, converting and painting models; it covers working in plastic, resin and white metal; it explains dry brushing techniques, the three-colour method, multilayering and shading with washes and, finally, it considers basing techniques and maintaining the compatibility of miniatures between different gaming systems.
Music and Decadence in European Modernism
Author: Stephen DownesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521767571
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Downes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.
Too Much and Not the Mood
Author: Durga Chew-BosePublisher: FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374535957
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice
Miniature Metropolis
Author: Andreas HuyssenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674425839
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature Metropolis explores the history and theory of this significant but misrecognized achievement of literary modernism. Andreas Huyssen shows how writers from Baudelaire and Kafka to Benjamin, Musil, and Adorno created the miniature to record their reflections of Paris, Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Contesting photography and film as competing media, the metropolitan miniature sought to capture the visceral feeling of acceleration and compression that defined urban existence. But the form did not merely imitate visual media—it absorbed them, condensing objective and subjective perceptions into the very structure of language and text and asserting the aesthetic specificity of literary language without resort to visual illustration. Huyssen argues that the miniature subverted the expectations of transparency, easy understanding, and entertainment that mass circulation newspapers depended upon. His fine-grained readings open broad vistas into German critical theory and the history of visual arts, revealing the metropolitan miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.