This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field
This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie, is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field
Justin D. Garrison provides an original and groundbreaking analysis of Ronald Reagan’s imagination as it was expressed mainly in his presidential speeches. He argues that the predominant strain of Reagan’s imagination is "chimeric," that is, imbued with a high degree of optimism, romantic dreaminess, naiveté, and illusion. Reagan spoke often about religion, democracy, freedom, conservatism, progress, America’s role in the world, the American people, the American Founding, and peace. These are for him important symbols, which together express his general vision of politics and human existence. These symbols have to be analyzed in depth in order to understand who Reagan really was and what he represented to his admirers. The book concludes that Reagan’s vision contains many dubious elements that present dangers for practical politics and claims that the popularity of Reagan’s imagination among Americans suggests a problematic self-understanding. Surpassing, existing works on Reagan’s ideas and speeches, this book systematically explains the general quality and major components of Reagan’s vision, and it draws upon political theory, aesthetics, and American political thought to analyze his imagination.
Is this the fanciest goat in the whole wide world? He wears a top hat, and has his own chauffeur. He can fly a plane, and dance ballet. Hold on a second. Something doesn't add up here. Is he admiring the Mona Lisa, or is he eating it? Upon closer inspection, this poor goat isn't the least bit fancy. This laugh-out-loud picture book chronicles the adventures of a hapless goat whose owner believes him to be waaaaaay fancier than he actually is. Written by Jeremy Holmes and Justin Gregg, with illustrations by Jeremy Holmes. "A vibrant story of one imaginative girl and her goat's lavish lifestyle that instills a message of creative confidence and fun for children. Fancy Goat is a silly, fun-filled story with vibrantly coloured comedic pictures that emphasize both the goat's actual mischievous nature and, in response to it, the eye-popping magic of life and friends through a child's wondrous eyes." Review from Atlantic Books Today
The new edition of the bestselling Grotesque offers an accessible introduction to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present, examining theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts and introduces readers to key writers, artists and film makers of the grotesque, including Homer, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers, David Cronenberg, Ottessa Moshfegh and Bong Joon Ho. It analyses key terms such as discord and transgression, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks, and explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Updated and expanded throughout, the second edition reveals how grotesque is always on the move, pushing against the boundaries of shifting standards of what is and is not normal. It includes insightful new chapters on the absurd and ecocriticism. It also features fresh insight into fat studies, sophistication and the grotesque, decolonial grotesque, planetary grotesque, the New Weird and Ecogothic. This invaluable guide offers an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre. It is essential reading for students of literature, art history and film studies.
The new edition of the bestselling Grotesque offers an accessible introduction to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present, examining theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts and introduces readers to key writers, artists and film makers of the grotesque, including Homer, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers, David Cronenberg, Ottessa Moshfegh and Bong Joon Ho. It analyses key terms such as discord and transgression, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks, and explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Updated and expanded throughout, the second edition reveals how grotesque is always on the move, pushing against the boundaries of shifting standards of what is and is not normal. It includes insightful new chapters on the absurd and ecocriticism. It also features fresh insight into fat studies, sophistication and the grotesque, decolonial grotesque, planetary grotesque, the New Weird and Ecogothic. This invaluable guide offers an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre. It is essential reading for students of literature, art history and film studies.
Justin D. Garrison provides an original and groundbreaking analysis of Ronald Reagan’s imagination as it was expressed mainly in his presidential speeches. He argues that the predominant strain of Reagan’s imagination is "chimeric," that is, imbued with a high degree of optimism, romantic dreaminess, naiveté, and illusion. Reagan spoke often about religion, democracy, freedom, conservatism, progress, America’s role in the world, the American people, the American Founding, and peace. These are for him important symbols, which together express his general vision of politics and human existence. These symbols have to be analyzed in depth in order to understand who Reagan really was and what he represented to his admirers. The book concludes that Reagan’s vision contains many dubious elements that present dangers for practical politics and claims that the popularity of Reagan’s imagination among Americans suggests a problematic self-understanding. Surpassing, existing works on Reagan’s ideas and speeches, this book systematically explains the general quality and major components of Reagan’s vision, and it draws upon political theory, aesthetics, and American political thought to analyze his imagination.
Sam Fox is on holiday onthe Great Barrier Reef when a freak wave sweeps him and a stranger called Michi out into the open sea. Trapped in deep water with no hopeof making it back to shore, Sam and Michi have to think on their feet if they want to make it home alive! As nightfalls and dangerous predators start moving in, can theyoutsmart nature? Or will they end up as shark bait? Packedwith deadly sea creatures, dangerous bird smugglers and the incrediblepower of the ocean itself, this is an adrenaline-fuelled,suspense-filled read.
Following a horrific bus crash in the Rocky Mountains on the way to ascouting jamboree, Sam Fox needs to find help, and fast! With no food,water or equipment, and with two young scouts in tow, Sam needs to keephis wits about him if he's planning on surviving the perils of theAmerican wilderness. With a huge grizzly on his tail, a pack of wolvescircling and some kind of half-human, half-animal always just out ofsight, can Sam survive for long enough to raise the alarm and save thecrash victims, or will this story come to a grizzly end?
Founded in 1889, the Republic of the United States of Brazil was constructed as a positivist state by republican idealists and pragmatic oligarchs; the political embodiment of ordem e progresso (order and progress). It was a form of government meant to overcome Brazil's imagined and concrete backwardness by strictly adhering to the Natural Laws identified by Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, and, in particular, Herbert Spencer. Spencerian "progress," however, entailed the elimination of the pathological and monstrous "savage lower races." Non-white degeneration in Brazil, especially amongst its substantial mixed-race populace, was thus understood to be a progressive and advantageous force of Evolution. For close to a century Euclides da Cunha's Os Sert es (known to English readers as Rebellion in the Backlands) has been treated as the literary touchstone of mesti o degeneration. It is a work of monumental importance, despite that it is typically classified with the Spencerian "race science" of Arthur Gobineau and Raimundo Nina Rodrigues. In this work, independent scholar Justin Barber demonstrates that this classification is incorrect, detailing the relationship of Da Cunha's determinism to that of Comte, Darwin, Spencer, and other important unified theorists such as Henry Thomas Buckle and Ludwig Gumplowicz. Overturning nearly a century of scholarship, Barber precisely details how Da Cunha's work incarnates the totality of Brazilian progress-progress utterly superior to that of European civilization-in the body of his Children of Evolution. For Da Cunha, these chimerical jagun os (bandits) embodied a perfectly miscegenated balance of Brazil's fundamental "ethnic elements" the African, the indigenous, and the Portuguese.
The first and only Santa Ynez specific cycling guidebook - Written by a former outdoors writer for The Santa Ynez Valley Journal - Custom maps for each chapter - Color photos for each chapter - Well-written and extensively researched - Covers all areas of the Santa Ynez Valley - Longtime local resident and author - Convenient size fits into backpack or hydration pack Marshall has captured the essence and charm of many of the trails and destinations in our local forest. Whether a visitor or a seasoned hiker/biker, you will find this a very handy and accurate guide. Dave Weaver Wilderness Ranger U.S. Forest Service
Based on the myths which came before religion, Storm at the Oracle (battle for light) is an investigation into global common themes. We all know about the biblical deluge but few of us have concieved of the notion of a time of fire and a time of darkness which may have coincided with the deluge. Storm at the Oracle seeks to bring the major religions together for a common purpose, to truly discover what happened in the one creation event at what we call the start of time. It is mainly inspired by Joseph Campbell as well as Immanuel Velikovsky, it hopes to find out the truth behind global ancient catastrophes.Hope you enjoy Storm at the Oracle.
