Author : Lee Konstantinou
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674969472
Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of “postirony.”
Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Christopher Hart's Cartooning
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0823005879
One of the world's leading cartoon artists shows readers how to capture the retro look of Sponge Bob, Dexter, and other popular comics, revealing how to recapture the 1950s in cartoons.
Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022665883X
Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion force critics to embrace humanism and outmoded theories of the subject? Across three chapters, leading scholars Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi reimagine and renew literary studies by engaging in a conversation about character. Moi returns to the fundamental theoretical assumptions that convinced literary scholars to stop doing character-criticism, and shows that they cannot hold. Felski turns to the question of identification and draws out its diverse strands, as well as its persistence in academic criticism. Anderson shows that character-criticism illuminates both the moral life of characters, and our understanding of literary form. In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies.
Author : Lisa Collier Cool
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781582971551
Original publication and copyright date: 1987.
Author : Asavari Singh
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429665955
Describes how to draw different types of archetypal characters, including scientists, robots, zombies, vampires, adventurous women, witches, and monsters, including drawing their faces, bodies, and clothing and putting them in conflict.
Author : Jory John
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 006298392X
From The Bad Seed and The Good Egg creators, Jory John and Pete Oswald, comes a story about a dinosaur who loves to ROAR. William the dinosaur likes to roar. At the park?“ROAR.” At the bus stop?“ROAR!” At the farm? You bet. ROARRR! William never lets the chance to roar pass him by, even if others find it rather bothersome. That's until William gets a sore throat and the doctor warns him not to roar for a WHOLE week. But can this overexcited, boisterous, giant lizard not do what dinosaurs are meant to do?! In his humorous and insightful style, Jory John creates an epic story about unapologetically and happily being yourself, no matter the cost. Another side-splitting combination of John’s brilliant text and Pete Oswald’s expressive and lively illustrations, That’s What Dinosaurs Do is a read-aloud that young readers will roar for again and again.
Author : Scott Rubin
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1641702788
The ultimate book of baby names for comic book nerds, sci-fi fans and more—with the meanings and stories behind more than 1,000 names! Having trouble finding a baby name that celebrates your favorite fandom? Whether you want your child’s name to stand out in a crowd or fit in on the playground, Naming Your Little Geek is here to save the day! This ultimate guidebook is complete with every name a geek could want to give their baby—from Anakin and Frodo to Indiana and Clark; and from Gwen and Wanda to Buffy and Xena—plus their meanings, and a list of all the legends who have borne them. Naming Your Little Geek covers everything from comic book superheroes to role-playing game icons, Starfleet officers to sword and sorcery legends with characters who have appeared on film and TV, in novels and comic books, on the tabletop, and beyond. With nearly 1,100 names referencing more than 4,400 characters from over 1,800 unique sources, it's the perfect resource for parents naming a child or anyone looking for a super cool and meaningful new name.
Author : Ned Vizzini
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1368061176
The groundbreaking story by New York Times best-selling author Ned Vizzini that inspired the Tony-nominated Broadway musical--now adapted in a graphic novel by #1 New York Times best-selling author David Levithan. Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from geek to the coolest guy in class. Soon he is friends with his former tormentors and has the attention of the hottest girls in school. But Jeremy discovers that there is a dark side to handing over control of your life--and it can have disastrous consequences.
Author : Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1506722067
Media theorist and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff weaves a mind-bending tale of iconography and mysticism against the backdrop of a battle-torn Europe. In a story spanning generations, and featuring some of the most notable and notorious idealists of the 20th century, legendary occultist Aleister Crowley develops a powerful and dangerous new weapon to defend the world against Adolf Hitler's own war machine spawning an unconventional new form of warfare that is fought not with steel, but with symbols and ideas. Unfortunately, these intangible arsenals are much more insidious and perhaps much more dangerous than their creators could have ever conceived. "Rushkoff is a cultural treasure and an eccentric author of big, strange ideas, never less than fascinating and always entertaining." -Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine, Red, Trees, and Transmetropolitan "Douglas has been one of my personal heroes, and I've been a most attentive reader of anything he cares to put between covers, knowing that his combination of a cold eye and a warm heart is guaranteed to astonish and embolden my own thinking about what's possible in the world--about what's possible to enact in the space between one human being and another. He occupies the ground of our most immediate perplexities, and his reports of what he finds are breaking news." -Jonathan Lethem, author of The Best American Comics and The Fortress of Solitude
Author : Janet B. Milstein
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Acting
ISBN : 9781575253060
A collection of original monologues for elementary and high school students to use in auditions and competitions, intended to reflect the complex world of today.
