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Book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

Download or read book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia written by Samuel Brunt and published by . This book was released on 1727 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Voyage to Cacklogallina

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel Brunt
  • Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Release : 2013-01-16
  • ISBN : 1625790066
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book A Voyage to Cacklogallina written by Samuel Brunt and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó Representative of the type of moon-voyages being published prior to the 19th century: full of sharp satire, high adventure and low humor. The pseudonymous "Samuel Brunt" is taken to the moon by the inhabitants of Cacklogallinia: a race of giant, intelligent chickens. Originally published in 1727. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia  1727

Download or read book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia 1727 written by Samuel Brunt (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

Download or read book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia written by Marjorie Hope Nicolson and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gulliveriana  Burnt  S  A voyage to Cacklogallinia  1727   Holberg  L  A journey to the world underground  1742   Fagnan  M  A  Kanor  a tale translated from The savage  1750   Raspe  E  Gulliver reviv d  1787   Thomson  W  Mammuth  1789

Download or read book Gulliveriana Burnt S A voyage to Cacklogallinia 1727 Holberg L A journey to the world underground 1742 Fagnan M A Kanor a tale translated from The savage 1750 Raspe E Gulliver reviv d 1787 Thomson W Mammuth 1789 written by Jeanne K. Welcher and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

Download or read book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia written by Samuel Brunt and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gulliver   s Voyage to Phantomimia  A transcreation by Douglas Robinson

Download or read book Gulliver s Voyage to Phantomimia A transcreation by Douglas Robinson written by Volter KILPI and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the great Finnish modernist genius Volter Kilpi died in the summer of 1939 at the age of 64, he left behind an unfinished novel manuscript about Lemuel Gulliver’s fifth voyage—this one supposedly to the North Pole, though along the way the ship is sucked into a vortex near the Pole and hurtled two centuries ahead in time. He and three surviving shipmates end up in London in 1938, wondering how to get back to their time. In addition to translating what Kilpi wrote into Swiftian English, Douglas Robinson has here written the incomplete novel to the end, based on Kilpi’s report to his son on how he planned to return the men to 1738. Because Kilpi also playfully pretended to have “found” the original English manuscript, presumably written by Lemuel Gulliver himself, and “translated” it into Finnish, Robinson goes along with that pretense and pretends to have rediscovered and “edited” and “annotated” the original English manuscript—written, perhaps, not by Gulliver but (at least partly) by Jonathan Swift. The addition of Robinson’s English translation of Volter Kilpi’s “translator’s preface” and two fictional constructs—anonymous “random notes toward a vorticist manifesto” (1914) and an ersatz “reader’s report” by an imaginary Finnish Kilpi scholar named Julius Nyrkki—transforms the entire volume into a postmodern “critical edition” that would have tickled Volter Kilpi pink.

Book A Voyage to the Moon

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Tucker
  • Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Release : 2013-01-16
  • ISBN : 1625790023
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book A Voyage to the Moon written by George Tucker and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó George Tuckers A Voyage to the Moon was one of the first science fiction novels to be published in the United States as well as one of the earliest uses of antigravity. This 1827 novel was a major influence on Edgar Allan Poe. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Book The History of a Voyage to the Moon

Download or read book The History of a Voyage to the Moon written by "Crystostom Trueman" and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó The History of a Voyage to the Moon by the pseudonymous "Crystostom Trueman" preceded the publication of Jules Verne's classic space novels by only a few months. The story of a trip to the moon by an antigravity-powered spacecraft, the book contains one of the most detailed descriptions of a spaceship in the early literature...right down to including a garden for the generation of oxygen. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Book Moon Men

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  • Author : Jason Colavito
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2012-01-14
  • ISBN : 1105427803
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Moon Men written by Jason Colavito and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects a range of early tales from Greco-Roman Antiquity down to the dawn of the Victorian Age that imagine encounters with creatures on or from the moon. These stories span the centuries and come from cultures as far afield as ancient Greece, medieval Japan, early modern Britain, and nineteenth-century America. Each tells an interesting tale of not just of the adventure inherent in encountering moon creatures but also of the cares and concerns of the people who projected their hopes and fears onto the lunar orb. Just as real space exploration had to take small steps to our closest neighbor, the moon, before venturing outward into the vastness of space, so too did science fiction need to start close to home before venturing across the cosmos into the depths of the unknown. Read on, and start retracing that journey across the sands of time and through the depths of space. With tales from Lucian, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Adams Locke, and more...

Book Empirical Wonder

Download or read book Empirical Wonder written by Riccardo Capoferro and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century England did not only see the rise of the novel, but also the rise of genres of what we now call the fantastic, such as imaginary voyages and apparition narratives. Combining theoretical reflection and cultural analysis, the author of this book investigates the origins, and demonstrates the formal and historical identity of a great variety of texts, which have never been considered as part of the same family. The fantastic, he argues, is an intrinsically modern mode, which uses the devices of realistic representation to describe supernatural phenomena. Its origins can be found in the seventeenth century, when the rise of modern empiricism threatened the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of traditional religious culture. The author shows how a broad range of discursive formations - demonology, providential literature, teratology, and natural philosophy - attempted to reconcile world-views that were felt to be increasingly incompatible, and traces the development of a new kind of fiction that gradually replaced them and took over their work of reconciliation. Coalescing as an autonomous system of genres, free from the restrictions of modern science and at the same time self-consciously aesthetic, the fantastic emerged as an instrument both to affirm and to transcend the empirical vision.

Book Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth Century Fiction

Download or read book Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth Century Fiction written by Christine Rees and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopian fiction was a particularly rich and important genre during the eighteenth century. It was during this period that a relatively new phenomenon appeared: the merging of utopian writing per se with other fictional genres, such as the increasingly dominant novel. However, while early modern and nineteenth and twentieth century utopias have been the focus of much attention, the eighteenth century has largely been neglected. Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth Century Fiction combines these major areas of interest, interpreting some of the most fascinating and innovative fictions of the period and locating them in a continuing tradition of utopian writing which stretches back through the Renaissance to the Ancient World. Begining with a survey of the recurrent topics in utopian writing - power structures in the state, money, food, sex, the role of women, birth, education and death - the book brings together canonical eighteenth century texts countaining powerful utopian elements, such as Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and Rasselas, and less familiar works, to examine the reworking of these topics in a new context. The unfamiliar texts, including Gaudentio di Lucca, are described in detail to give students an idea of relevant material across a broad area. A section is devoted specifically to women writes, an area which has become the focus of attention. The mixture of texts provides a useful cross-reference for students tackling the subject from various perspectives and the comprehensive bibliography provides a valuable tool for those with general or specific interests

Book Translating the Nonhuman

Download or read book Translating the Nonhuman written by Douglas Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation. The so-called "fictional turn" in translation studies has staked out territory previously unclaimed by translation scholars – territory in which translators are portrayed as full human beings in their social environments – but so far no one has looked to science fiction for truly radical explorations of translation. Translating the Nonhuman fills that gap, exploring speculative attempts to cross the yawning chasm between human and nonhuman languages and cultures. The book consists of three essays, each bringing a different theoretical orientation to bear on a different science-fiction work. The first studies Samuel R. Delany's 1966 novel, Babel-17, using Peircean semiotics; the second studies Suzette Haden Elgin's 1984 novel, Native Tongue, using Austinian performativity and Eve Sedwick's periperformative corrective; and the third studies Ted Chiang's 1998 novella, “Story of Your Life,” and its 2016 screen adaptation, Arrival, using sustainability theory. Themes include the 1950s clash between Whorfian untranslatability and the possibility of unbounded (machine) translatability; the performative ability of a language to change reality and the reliance of that ability on the periperformativity of “witnesses”; and alienation from the familiar in space and time and its transformative effect on the biological and cultural sustainability of human life on earth. Through these close readings and varied theoretical approaches, Translating the Nonhuman provides a tentative mapping of science fiction's usefulness for the study of human-(non)human translation, with translators and interpreters acting as explorers of new ways to communicate.

Book Tropicopolitans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Srinivas Aravamudan
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780822323150
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Tropicopolitans written by Srinivas Aravamudan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes new relationships between literary representation and colonialism, focusing on the metaphorizing colonialist discourse of imperial power in the tropics.

Book The English Novel  1700 1740

Download or read book The English Novel 1700 1740 written by Robert Letellier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are landmarks in the history of English fiction, many other authors were at work. These included such women as Penelope Aubin, Jane Barker, Mary Davys, and Eliza Haywood, who made a considerable contribution to widening the range of emotional responses in fiction. These authors, and many others, continued writing in the genres inherited from the previous century, such as criminal biographies, the Utopian novel, the science fictional voyage, and the epistolary novel. This annotated bibliography includes entries for these works and for critical materials pertinent to them. The volume first seeks to establish the existing studies of the era, along with anthologies. It then provides entries for a wide-ranging selection of works which cover fictional, theoretical, historical, political, and cultural topics, to provide a comprehensive background to the unfolding and understanding of prose fiction in the early 18th century. This is followed by an alphabetical listing of novels, their editions, and any critical material available on each. The next section provides a chronological record of significant and enduring works of fiction composed or translated in this period. The volume concludes with extensive indexes.

Book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

Download or read book A Voyage to Cacklogallinia written by Samuel Brunt and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country" by Samuel Brunt Written under the pseudonymous author "Captain Samuel Brunt," this book is a work of satire that has been sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift. However, the true author remains yet unknown. This parody travel novel takes readers on a voyage to the moon, one of the first stories to do so before it became the sci-fi trope people learned to love.

Book Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels

Download or read book Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: