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Author |
: Carol Zapata-Whelan |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Lifelong Books |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2006-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1569244006 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781569244005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Finding Magic Mountain by : Carol Zapata-Whelan
Carol Zapata-Whelan describes her son's struggle with the rare genetic disease Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), focusing on the time of diagnosis at age nine to his first year in college (he matriculated as a pre-med student at the University of California, Berkeley, in September 2004). Zapata-Whelan illustrates how this struggle with FOP has shaped and strengthened her family, and how, as a mother, the experience has taught her to put her trust in the universe, and live life one day at a time. Through her son's remarkable grace and strength in dealing with his disease, she has learned that an unexpected encounter with suffering can be a blessing as well. Through flashbacks and anecdotes, Zapata-Whelan leads the reader through the ups and downs of dealing with FOP in everyday life, while offering insight, hope and guidance throughout.
Author |
: Thomas Mann |
Publisher |
: Paw Prints |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 143956700X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781439567005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Magic Mountain by : Thomas Mann
A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity.
Author |
: Thomas Mann |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 722 |
Release |
: 2023-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593688137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593688139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Magic Mountain by : Thomas Mann
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.
Author |
: Dane Kennedy |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2023-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520311008 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520311000 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Magic Mountains by : Dane Kennedy
Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows that these cloud-enshrouded havens were sites of both refuge and surveillance for British expatriates: sanctuaries from the harsh climate as well as an alien culture; artificial environments where colonial rulers could nurture, educate, and reproduce themselves; commanding heights from which orders could be issued with an Olympian authority. Kennedy charts the symbolic and sociopolitical functions of the hill stations over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that these highland communities became much more significant to the British colonial government than mere places for rest and play. Particularly after the revolt of 1857, they became headquarters for colonial political and military authorities. In addition, the hill stations provided employment to countless Indians who worked as porters, merchants, government clerks, domestics, and carpenters. The isolation of British authorities at the hill stations reflected the paradoxical character of the British raj itself, Kennedy argues. While attempting to control its subjects, it remained aloof from Indian society. Ironically, as more Indians were drawn to these mountain areas for work, and later for vacation, the carefully guarded boundaries between the British and their subjects eroded. Kennedy argues that after the turn of the century, the hill stations were increasingly incorporated into the landscape of Indian social and cultural life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Author |
: Ezra Pound |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1416 |
Release |
: 2003-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015059999279 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ezra Pound: Poems & Translations (LOA #144) by : Ezra Pound
Poetic visionary Ezra Pound catalyzed American literature's modernist revolution. This volume, the most comprehensive collection of his poetry and translations ever assembled, gathers all his verse except "The Cantos."
Author |
: Ruskin Bond |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 112 |
Release |
: 2015-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789352140336 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9352140338 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rusty and the Magic Mountain by : Ruskin Bond
The squirrel family must move to a new house, but Nonu's not happy Little Nonu Squirrel, playful and daring, has just moved into his new house with Papa Squirrel and Mummy Squirrel. As he starts exploring his new neighbourhood, he realizes there are many exciting adventures in store. He learns to skate with his newly-found friend Nicole, enjoys being fed tasty nut cakes by her Grandma, eats juicy mangoes with the Mango Gang and indulges in some crazy shenanigans with Cousin Danny. But life’s not all mangoes and skateboards. Voracious Goonda cat is on the hunt—will Nonu become his next meal?
Author |
: John Albert Wolski |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0964833301 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780964833302 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mr. Hobbes' Journey to Magic Mountain by : John Albert Wolski
Mr. Hobbes, a hard-working mastiff, learns about a magical land where playtime is forever, and he sets off to find this Magic Mountain.
Author |
: Robert McLaughlin |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 96 |
Release |
: 2016-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439655948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439655944 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Magic Mountain by : Robert McLaughlin
Nestled in the foothills of Golden, Colorado, construction started on Magic Mountain just two years after Disneyland's opening season. Through never-before-seen photographs, Magic Mountain tells the exciting story of the first attempt in America to spread the Disneyland model. The dream of a theme park in Colorado was conceived by Walter F. Cobb and designed by Marco Engineering of Los Angeles. The park saw tens of thousands of visitors, even during the construction period. They witnessed live gunfights and playhouse melodramas and took a ride on the Magic Mountain Railroad. Unfortunately, the park closed at the end of its premier season in 1960, but it would eventually evolve into Heritage Square. For over 40 years, this venue brought fun and entertainment to the young and young at heart, following Cobb's vision of a clean, entertaining, and educational park for the whole family.
Author |
: Thomas Mann |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 486 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015050635898 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Magic Mountain by : Thomas Mann
Author |
: Sara Danius |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2019-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501721168 |
ISBN-13 |
: 150172116X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Senses of Modernism by : Sara Danius
In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's Ulysses as narratives of the sweeping changes that affected high and low culture in the age of technological reproduction. In her discussion of the years from 1880 to 1930, Danius proposes that the high-modernist aesthetic is inseparable from a technologically mediated crisis of the senses. She reveals the ways in which categories of perceiving and knowing are realigned when technological devices are capable of reproducing sense data. Sparked by innovations such as chronophotography, phonography, radiography, cinematography, and technologies of speed, this sudden shift in perceptual abilities had an effect on all arts of the time.Danius explores how perception, notably sight and hearing, is staged in the three most significant modern novels in German, French, and British literature. The Senses of Modernism connects technological change and formal innovation to transform the study of modernist aesthetics. Danius questions the longstanding acceptance of a binary relationship between high and low culture and describes the complicated relationship between modernism and technology, challenging the conceptual divide between a technological culture and a more properly aesthetic one.