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Author |
: Daniel Eilon |
Publisher |
: University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0874133912 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780874133912 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Factions' Fictions by : Daniel Eilon
An understanding of the linguistic, political, and moral ramifications of Private Spirit (the parochialism and partiality typical of clubs, parties, and cabals) provides insights into the logic behind Swiftian polemic and satire. Swiftian satire, an essentially private joke offering exclusive satisfaction to an elite fraternity of insiders, is shown to be a creative rhetorical adaption of private spirit.
Author |
: Matthew Ward |
Publisher |
: Orbit |
Total Pages |
: 771 |
Release |
: 2019-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316457897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316457892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legacy of Ash by : Matthew Ward
Legacy of Ash is an unmissable fantasy debut--an epic tale of intrigue and revolution, soldiers and assassins, ancient magic and the eternal clash of empires. A shadow has fallen over the Tressian Republic. Ruling families -- once protectors of justice and democracy -- now plot against one another with sharp words and sharper knives. Blinded by ambition, they remain heedless of the threat posed by the invading armies of the Hadari Empire. Yet as Tressia falls, heroes rise. Viktor Akadra is the Republic's champion. A warrior without equal, he hides a secret that would see him burned as a heretic. Josiri Trelanis Viktor's sworn enemy. A political prisoner, he dreams of reigniting his mother's failed rebellion. And yet Calenne Trelan, Josiri's sister, seeks only to break free of their tarnished legacy; to escape the expectation and prejudice that haunts the family name. As war spreads across the Republic, these three must set aside their differences in order to save their home. Yet decades of bad blood are not easily set aside. And victory -- if it comes at all -- will demand a darker price than any of them could have imagined.
Author |
: Frank Leishman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135995591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135995591 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Policing and the Media by : Frank Leishman
Focusing on the interplay between policing realities, public perception and media reflections, this text provides an accessible account of the relationship between policing and the media.
Author |
: Vilna Bashi Treitler |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2013-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804787284 |
ISBN-13 |
: 080478728X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ethnic Project by : Vilna Bashi Treitler
A study of the racial-ethnic history of the United States and the perpetuation of racial hierarchy. Race is a known fiction—there is no genetic marker that indicates someone’s race—yet the social stigma of race endures. In the United States, ethnicity is often positioned as a counterweight to race, and we celebrate our various hyphenated-American identities. But Vilna Bashi Treitler argues that we do so at a high cost: ethnic thinking simply perpetuates an underlying racism. In The Ethnic Project, Bashi Treitler considers the ethnic history of the United States from the arrival of the English in North America through to the present day. Tracing the histories of immigrant and indigenous groups—Irish, Chinese, Italians, Jews, Native Americans, Mexicans, Afro-Caribbeans, and African Americans—she shows how each negotiates America’s racial hierarchy, aiming to distance themselves from the bottom and align with the groups already at the top. But in pursuing these “ethnic projects” these groups implicitly accept and perpetuate a racial hierarchy, shoring up rather than dismantling race and racism. Ultimately, The Ethnic Project shows how dangerous ethnic thinking can be in a society that has not let go of racial thinking. Praise for The Ethnic Project “An outstanding work that makes an important contribution to our understanding of the past and present racial history of the United States. The book is very well written (Bashi Treitler’s prose is a delight to read) and meticulously researched . . . . The Ethnic Project should definitely be part of the conversation as we press forward with the task of understanding race in the United States.” —Ashley “Woody” Doane, American Journal of Sociology “Treitler offers a succinct history and diagnosis of racial grouping in the U.S., from the nation’s origin to the contemporary moment . . . . The text has solid promise as an introductory ethnic studies course reading . . . . Highly recommended.” —N. B. Barnd, CHOICE “With her ingenious concept of ‘ethnic projects,’ Vilna Bashi Treitler brings a new optic to the study of race . . . . [and] provides an authoritative answer to those who ask the tired question, ‘We made it, why haven’t they?’” —Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique “Treitler masterfully weaves race and ethnicity into a single historical narrative that reveals the ugly reality of exploitation and stratification that has always undergirded American society.” —Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
Author |
: Jørgen Dines Johansen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8776744302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788776744304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fact, Fiction and Faction by : Jørgen Dines Johansen
This collection of articles analyzes important aspects of the complex relationships in the contemporary world between fact on the one hand and fiction and faction, history and counterfactual history on the other. The borderline between the two realms has been increasingly complicated and blurred during recent decades. This does not make the distinction between what is real and what is fiction irrelevant but it now takes a lot more scholarly effort to make such a distinction or to figure out exactly to what extent and in what ways the border between the two has been blurred. --
Author |
: Anna Stephens |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 608 |
Release |
: 2020-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780008404024 |
ISBN-13 |
: 000840402X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Stone Knife (The Songs of the Drowned, Book 1) by : Anna Stephens
A fantasy epic of freedom and empire, gods and monsters, love, loyalty, honour, and betrayal, from the acclaimed author of GODBLIND.
Author |
: Denisa Butnaru |
Publisher |
: transcript Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2020-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783839447291 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3839447291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction by : Denisa Butnaru
In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.
Author |
: Horst Zander |
Publisher |
: Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 572 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3823346598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783823346593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fact - Fiction - "faction" by : Horst Zander
Author |
: Farah Mendlesohn |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2014-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819573919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819573914 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rhetorics of Fantasy by : Farah Mendlesohn
This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers “new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts). Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn identifies four categories—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty books in detail, ranging from nineteenth-century fantasy and horror to some of the best works in the contemporary field. Mendlesohn discusses works by more than one hundred authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Peter Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Crowley, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, China Miéville, Suniti Namjoshi, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tad Williams, and many others.
Author |
: Mohamad Rashidi Pakri |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2013-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443846516 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443846511 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fiction and Faction in the Malay World by : Mohamad Rashidi Pakri
This book offers a variety of essays and perspectives on some of the foreigners and traders who came to the Malay World and wrote fiction and “faction” (writing that portrays real people or events in a dramatised manner) during their sojourn – regardless of whether they continued to stay in the region, returned to their home country, or migrated to another country. The essays tend to cross generic and disciplinary boundaries as the contributors of this book are drawn from various fields within the arts and humanities, including history, geography, language and literature and translation. All of them, however, deal with colonial texts, the Malay World, or primarily cover the period from the 18th to the 20th century. Including readings of fiction, diaries, vignettes, letters written by traders or colonial officers, the uniqueness of this book lies in the personal, private and/or informal nature of the various documents studied. The encounters of these ‘outsiders’ with the ‘natives’ not only offer fascinating historical insights into the Malay World, but, to a significant degree, vividly express the views and personalities of the writers themselves, as mediated through their assigned commercial and colonial roles.