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A biography of Borges, by his translator.
Author : Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007524382
A biography of Borges, by his translator.
Author : J. Michael Straczynski
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2008-07-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0785170979
For untold years Norrin Radd has surfed the galaxy, exploring the darkness between stars, witnessing the rise and fall of vast civilizations. Now his ride is about to come to an end. It starts with a small spot - a blemish that will spread until he is no more. Until then, the Silver Surfer would undertake his final voyage - to the one destination that has always eluded him. His journey starts where it began. Guest-starring the Fantastic Four! Collects Silver Surfer: Requeim (2007) #1-4.
Author : Julian Dibbell
Publisher : Julian Dibbell
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780805036268
This novelistic rendering of a true account tells of a celebrated rape case which took place in an electronic "salon", where Internet junkies have created their own interactive fantasy realm.
Author : Bae Suah
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1683359127
The acclaimed Korean author weaves a “disturbing, beautifully controlled” metaphysical detective story “of doubles, shadows, and parallel worlds” (Financial Times). It’s Ayami’s final day working the box-office at Seoul’s only audio theater for the blind. Her last shift completed, she walks the streets with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. Their conversations take in art, love, food, and the inaccessible country to the north. The next day, Ayami acts as a guide for a detective novelist visiting from abroad. But as they contend with the summer heat, the edges of reality start to fray. Ayami enters a world of increasingly tangled threads, and the past intrudes upon the present as overlapping realities repeat, collide, change, and reassert themselves. Blisteringly original, Untold Night and Day upends the very structure of narrative storytelling. By one of the boldest and most innovative voices in contemporary Korean literature, and masterfully realized in English by Man Booker International Prize–winning translator Deborah Smith, Bae Suah’s hypnotic novel asks whether more than one version of ourselves can exist at once.
Author : Angela Guimaraes Pereira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131763456X
For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge. This process of change has to include a new commitment to knowledge creation and transmission and its role in a plural society. This book proposes to consider new ways in which science can be used to sustain our planet and enrich our lives. It helps to release and reactivate social responsibility within contemporary science and technology. It reviews critically relevant cases of contemporary scientific practice within the Cartesian paradigm, relabelled as 'innovation research', promoted as essential for the progress and well-being of humanity, and characterised by high capital investment, centralised control of funding and quality, exclusive expertise, and a reductionism that is philosophical as well as methodological. This is an accessible and relevant book for scholars in Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, and Science, Engineering and Technology Ethics. Providing an array of concrete examples, it supports scientists, engineers and technical experts, as well as policy-makers and other non-technical professionals working with science and technology to re-direct their approach to global problems, in a more integrative, self-reflective and humble direction.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811214001
"Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."--The New Yorker
Author : Emilie L. Bergmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520065530
“This collection, because of its exceptional theoretical coherence and sophistication, is qualitatively superior to the most frequently consulted anthologies on Latin American women’s history and literature . . . [and] represents a new, more theoretically rigorous stage in the feminist debate on Latin American women.”—Elizabeth Garrels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Author : Ed Simon
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1950192474
Why should there only be literary scholarship about authors who actually lived, and texts which exist? Where are the articles on Enoch Campion, Linus Withold, Redondo Panza, Darshan Singh, or Heidi B. Morton? That none of these are real authors should be no impediment to interpreting their invented writings. In the first collection of its kind, The Anthology of Babel publishes academic articles by scholars on authors, books, and movements that are completely invented. Blurring the lines between scholarship and creative writing, The Anthology of Babel inaugurates a completely new literary genre perfectly attuned to the era we live in, a project evocative of Jorge-Louis Borges, Umberto Eco, and Italo Calvino.
Author : Claire Solomon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814212479
Placing the prostitute at the center of reading, Fictions of Bad Life moves between text and meta-text, exploring how to rescue the prostitute from her imprisonment and turn her into the subject of history.
Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031646273X
The thrilling finale to the Revenger Trilogy tells a desperate tale of greed, piracy, shadow governments, and ancient secrets that could unravel all of civilization The Ness sisters ran away from home to become the most fearsome pirates in the twenty thousand worlds of the Congregation. They've plundered treasures untold, taken command of their own ship, and made plenty of enemies. But now they're being hunted for crimes they didn't commit by a fleet whose crimes are worse than their own. To stay one step ahead of their pursuers and answer the questions that have plagued them, they'll have to employ every dirty, piratical trick in the book.... Read more by Alastair Reynolds! The Revenger Trilogy:RevengerShadow CaptainBone Silence