Author: Susan HillPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879238308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A novel by Susan Hill.
Strange Meeting
Author: Susan HillPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879238308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A novel by Susan Hill.
Poems
Author: Wilfred OwenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Strange Meetings
Author: Peter Edgerly FirchowPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813215331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Building upon his earlier book The Death of the German Cousin (1986), renowned author Peter Edgerly Firchow focuses Strange Meetings on major modern British writers from Eliot to Auden and explores the development of British conceptions and misconceptions of Germany and Germans from 1910 to 1960.
Strange Meetings
Author: Harold MonroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Strange Meetings
Author: Harry RickettsPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448129842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas's widow and Ivor Gurney in 1932; and the last, strange lunch and 'longish talk' of Sassoon and David Jones in 1964, half a century after the great war began. Among the other poets and writers we encounter are Vera Brittain, Roland Leighton, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Nichols and Edmund Blunden. Ricketts's unusual approach allows him to follow their relationships, marking their responses to each other's work and showing how these affected their own poetry - one potent strand, for example, is the profound influence of Brooke, both as a model to follow and a burden to reject. The stories become intensely personal and vivid - we come to know each of the poets, their family and intellectual backgrounds and their very different personalities. And while the accounts of individual lives achieve the imaginative vividness of a novel, they also give us an entirely fresh sense of Georgian poetry, conveying all the excitement and frustration of poetic creation, and demonstrating how the whole notion of what poetry should be 'about' became fractured and changed for ever by the terrible experiences of the war.
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Author: Wilfred OwenPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223671
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” —The New York Times Book Review Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen’s papers in the British Museum and other archives.
I Am a Strange Loop
Author: Douglas R. HofstadterPublisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465030785
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
Strange Natures
Author: Kent H. RedfordPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300230974
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between what is natural and what is human-made, which has informed conservation for centuries, has become blurred. When scientists can reshape genes more or less at will, what does it mean to conserve nature? The tools of synthetic biology are changing the way we answer that question. Gene editing technology is already transforming the agriculture and biotechnology industries. What happens if synthetic biology is also used in conservation to control invasive species, fight wildlife disease, or even bring extinct species back from the dead? Conservation scientist Kent Redford and geographer Bill Adams turn to synthetic biology, ecological restoration, political ecology, and de-extinction studies and propose a thoroughly innovative vision for protecting nature.
Strange Folk You’ll Never Meet
Author: A.A. BalaskovitsPublisher: Santa Fe Writers Project
ISBN: 1951631145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark encounters with familiar fairy tales, odd people from history, and weirdos who may be living right next door. Among the characters in these bizarre stories, a starving beauty finds a beast who can save her village, a man eats everything in sight but is never full, a woman gives birth to bloody animal parts, and a daughter is forced to dance every night to the reenactment of her father's murder. These tales invite you to spend time with people who, in the maddest of circumstances, chew their way forward. With elements of psychological horror, sly humor, and the fantastic, these stories will burrow under your skin, haunt your dreams, and make you wonder what worlds lie just beyond that tiny hole in the wall.
The Revolt of Islam;
Author: Percy Bysshe ShelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description