Book Description
In the kaleidoscope that is Lionel Abrahams, we find poet and wit, lover and critic, a voice speaking to us - especially to poets - with an inspirational clarity.
Author : Lionel Abrahams
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770090972
In the kaleidoscope that is Lionel Abrahams, we find poet and wit, lover and critic, a voice speaking to us - especially to poets - with an inspirational clarity.
Author : Douglas Killam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313054517
African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest. Written especially for students, this book selectively surveys the topic in a clear and accessible way. Included are roughly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, genres, and major works. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Africa is a land of contrasts and of diverse cultures and traditions. It is also a land of conflict and creativity. The literature of the continent draws upon a fascinating body of oral traditions and lore and also reflects the political turmoil of the modern world. With the increased interest in cultural diversity and the growing centrality of Africa in world politics, African literature is figuring more and more prominently in the curriculum. This book helps students learn about the African literary achievement. Written expressly for students, this book is far more accessible than other reference works on the subject. Included are nearly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on authors, such as Chinua Achebe, Athol Fugard, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, and Wole Soyinka; major works, such as Things Fall Apart and Petals of Blood; and individual genres, such as the novel, drama, and poetry. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
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Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
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Author : Édouard Glissant
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472066292
A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English
Author : Garnett Williams
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1997-09-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1482295415
This text aims to bridge the gap between non-mathematical popular treatments and the distinctly mathematical publications that non- mathematicians find so difficult to penetrate. The author provides understandable derivations or explanations of many key concepts, such as Kolmogrov-Sinai entropy, dimensions, Fourier analysis, and Lyapunov exponents.
Author : Jeff Noon
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1915202965
Hailed as the novel that reinvented cyberpunk, The 30th Anniversary edition of Jeff Noon's award winning cult classic, Vurt. Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, haunt the streets of an alternate Manchester, chasing the immersive highs that come from Vurt Feathers. Place a feather in your mouth and it takes you to the Vurt: another place, a trip, a shared reality of all our dreams and mythologies. Different coloured feathers provide different experiences, but Scribble is searching for his lost love and only one feather offers the hope of finding her. It’s the ultimate feather, it may not even exist at all: Curious Yellow. But as the Game Cat says, “Be careful, be very careful. This ride is not for the weak.” First published in 1993, Jeff Noon’s extraordinary, influential, award-winning novel transcended SF boundaries and resisted categorization. Alluding to noir and surrealism alike, it was defiantly its own thing and remains so thirty years later. File Under: Fantasy [ Curious Yellow | Urban Wonderland | Game Cat | Living on the Dub Side ]
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2019-02
Category : Photography of interiors
ISBN : 9781912339310
"Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens' poem "The Gray Room," Alec Soth's latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren't about any particular place or population. By a process of intimate and often extended engagement, Soth's portraits and images of his subject's surroundings involve an enquiry into the extent to which a photographic likeness can depict more than the outer surface of an individual, and perhaps even plumb the depths of something unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer"--The publisher.
Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1844 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780877790174
A comprehensive, one-volume desk reference created in cooperation with Encyclopædia Britannica®. Features more than 25,000 informative and enlightening articles, over 1,250 photographs, and 350 maps, diagrams, and tables. Includes pronunciations.
Author : N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022623004X
The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural studies of the new paradigm of chaotics, forging connections between contemporary literature and the science of chaos. They examine how changing ideas of order and disorder enable new readings of scientific and literary texts, from Newton's Principia to Ruskin's autobiography, from Victorian serial fiction to Borges's short stories. N. Katherine Hayles traces shifts in meaning that chaos has undergone within the Western tradition, suggesting that the science of chaos articulates categories that cannot be assimilated into the traditional dichotomy of order and disorder. She and her contributors take the relation between order and disorder as a theme and develop its implications for understanding texts, metaphors, metafiction, audience response, and the process of interpretation itself. Their innovative and diverse work opens the interdisciplinary field of chaotics to literary inquiry.
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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