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Book Ghostly Parallels

Download or read book Ghostly Parallels written by Randolph Runyon and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's most eminent man of letters in his later years, and certainly one of the greatest Southern writers, Robert Penn Warren has increasingly come to be known for his poetry. Ghostly Parallels is a close examination of the heart of his poetic corpus-the eight collections published between 1935 and 1976: Thirty-Six Poems; Eleven Poems on the Same Theme; Promises; You, Emperors, and Others; Tale of Time; Incarnations; Or Else; and Can I See Arcturus from Where I Stand? Ghostly Parallels shows how Warren constructed collections of poems based on common subjects and contexts and also contends that, while the poems are distinctive, taken together they reveal intricate patterns of theme, imagery, and diction within explicit sequences. Runyon demonstrates that Warren's collections are integrated, well-crafted wholes, and each poem references its predecessor-sometimes in intriguingly self-referential ways. Runyon shows that despite the many changes in diction, tone, and subject that Warren underwent in his long career, his concern for writing his poems in such a way that they could reach out beyond themselves to other poems remained remarkably constant. In the arrangement Warren gave them, his poems form “ghostly parallels”-an expression that appears in “The Return: An Elegy,” where they refer to the railroad tracks that bring the poet home to his dying mother. This return to the mother is a persistent leitmotif in the poems and forms the other major theme of this study: Warren's personal poetic myth, in which such images as golden light and mirror images are signs of the mother's presence as both Danae, mother of Perseus, and Medusa, whom Perseus confronted. Through pursuing sequential patterns as well as echoes and myth, GhostlyParallels brings a wealth of insights to the work of this prolific novelist, critic, and essayist. An important guide for undergraduate and graduate students alike, Ghostly Parallels will also appeal to anyone with an interest in Robert Penn Warren and southern literature.

Book The Haunted Bookstore   Gateway to a Parallel Universe  Light Novel  Vol  1

Download or read book The Haunted Bookstore Gateway to a Parallel Universe Light Novel Vol 1 written by Shinobumaru and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaori lives in an otherworldly bookstore with her adoptive father. Together, they provide books to the strange denizens of the spirit realm. But Kaori's peaceful days come to an end when she rescues an injured boy from the streets--a human, like her, from the mortal realm. The boy's name is Suimei, and he's an exorcist, the natural enemy of all spirits. Can Kaori convince Suimei that the line between human and spirit is far hazier than he thinks? A touching supernatural tale where humanity and Japanese folklore intertwine!

Book Virtual Americas

Download or read book Virtual Americas written by Paul Giles and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it—placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks at a number of canonical nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers by focusing on their interactions with British culture. He demonstrates how American authors from Herman Melville to Thomas Pynchon have been compulsively drawn to negotiate with British culture so that their nationalist agendas have emerged, paradoxically, through transatlantic dialogues. Virtual Americas ultimately suggests that conceptions of national identity in both the United States and Britain have emerged through engagement with—and, often, deliberate exclusion of—ideas and imagery emanating from across the Atlantic. Throughout Virtual Americas Giles focuses on specific examples of transatlantic cultural interactions such as Frederick Douglass’s experiences and reputation in England; Herman Melville’s satirizing fictions of U.S. and British nationalism; and Vladimir Nabokov’s critique of European high culture and American popular culture in Lolita. He also reverses his perspective, looking at the representation of San Francisco in the work of British-born poet Thom Gunn and Sylvia Plath’s poetic responses to England. Giles develops his theory about the need to defamiliarize the study of American literature by considering the cultural legacy of Surrealism as an alternative genealogy for American Studies and by examining the transatlantic dimensions of writers such as Henry James and Robert Frost in the context of Surrealism.

Book The Penguin Book of Ghosts

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Ghosts written by Jacqueline Simpson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shiver at the story of the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square no one has survived seeing. Listen for the tapping cane, when Jeremy Bentham’s mummified body walks through the corridors of University College. Watch out for the Roman centurion who still patrols the causeway linking Mersea Island to Essex. Shudder at the ghosts of kings and queens that keep returning to their old home at Windsor. Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting presages fatal accidents. England’s history echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, of premonitions of death and indelible blood-stains. Here, county by county and place by place, Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson gather together all the most interesting supernatural tales from The Lore of the Land. From a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to landlords’ appeals against rates (because no one will rent their haunted house), from the phantom hitchhiker of the Blackwall Tunnel to Francis Drake’s drum summoning him when England is in danger, these fascinating and unforgettable stories are part of our legendary past – and present.

Book Ghosts

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Guy
  • Publisher : Gareth Stevens
  • Release : 2005-12-30
  • ISBN : 9780836862652
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Ghosts written by John Guy and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a short study of ghosts and other paranormal occurrences, and describes visions and ghost ships, parallel worlds, and more.

Book Ghosts  Metaphor  and History in Toni Morrison s Beloved and Gabriel GarcIa MArquez s One Hundred Years of Solitude

Download or read book Ghosts Metaphor and History in Toni Morrison s Beloved and Gabriel GarcIa MArquez s One Hundred Years of Solitude written by D. Erickson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the complex relations between the figure of the ghost, the textual figure of metaphor and history, in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Book Parallel Presents

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  • Author : Amelia Barikin
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0262017806
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Parallel Presents written by Amelia Barikin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Melbourne, Australia).

Book Modern Poetry and the Tradition

Download or read book Modern Poetry and the Tradition written by Cleanth Brooks and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book Imagining Our Americas

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  • Author : Sandhya Shukla
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2007-07-20
  • ISBN : 9780822339618
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Imagining Our Americas written by Sandhya Shukla and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVChallenges the disciplinary boundaries and the assumptions underlying the fields of Latin American Studies and American/U.S. Studies, demonstrating that the "Americas" is a concept that transcends geographical place./div

Book Marlowe s Ovid

Download or read book Marlowe s Ovid written by M. L. Stapleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores-and Marlowe's own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe's Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero and Leander, and offers a different way to read Marlowe. Stapleton employs Marlowe's rendition of the Amores as a way to read his seven dramatic productions and his narrative poetry while engaging with previous scholarship devoted to the accuracy of the translation and to bibliographical issues. The author focuses on four main principles: the intertextual relationship of the Elegies to the rest of the author's canon; its reflection of the influence of Erasmian humanist pedagogy, imitatio and aemulatio; its status as the standard English Amores until the Glorious Revolution, part of the larger phenomenon of pan-European Renaissance Ovidianism; its participation in the genre of the sonnet sequence. He explores how translating the Amores into the Elegies profited Marlowe as a writer, a kind of literary archaeology that explains why he may have commenced such an undertaking. Marlowe's Ovid adds to the body of scholarly work in a number of subfields, including classical influences in English literature, translation, sexuality in literature, early modern poetry and drama, and Marlowe and his milieu.

Book Antigone s Ghosts

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  • Author : Mark Wolfgram
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 1684480051
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Antigone s Ghosts written by Mark Wolfgram and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles' play Antigone is a starting point for understanding the problems of human societies, families, and individuals caught up in the aftermath of mass violence. Through comparison of Germany, Japan, Spain, Yugoslavia and Turkey, we begin to appreciate the different pathways that societies have taken when confronting their violent histories.

Book The Prayer book interleaved with historical illustrations and explanatory notes arranged parallel to the text  by W M  Campion and W J  Beamont

Download or read book The Prayer book interleaved with historical illustrations and explanatory notes arranged parallel to the text by W M Campion and W J Beamont written by William Magan Campion and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prayer Book Interleaved  with Historical Illustrations and Explanatory Notes Arranged Parallel to the Text  by the Rev  W  M  Campion     and the Rev  W  J  Beamont     With a Preface by the Lord Bishop of Ely  Second Edition  Revised and Enlarged

Download or read book The Prayer Book Interleaved with Historical Illustrations and Explanatory Notes Arranged Parallel to the Text by the Rev W M Campion and the Rev W J Beamont With a Preface by the Lord Bishop of Ely Second Edition Revised and Enlarged written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parallel Computing

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  • Author : Barbara Chapman
  • Publisher : IOS Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1607505290
  • Pages : 760 pages

Download or read book Parallel Computing written by Barbara Chapman and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Multicores and GPUs to Petascale. Parallel computing technologies have brought dramatic changes to mainstream computing the majority of todays PCs, laptops and even notebooks incorporate multiprocessor chips with up to four processors. Standard components are increasingly combined with GPUs Graphics Processing Unit, originally designed for high-speed graphics processing, and FPGAs Free Programmable Gate Array to build parallel computers with a wide spectrum of high-speed processing functions. The scale of this powerful hardware is limited only by factors such as energy consumption and thermal control. However, in addition to"

Book A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions

Download or read book A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions written by Richard Soule and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher This Title is part of the "HardPress Classics Series." In this series we are bringing a treasure throve of old books back into print using our own state-of-the-art techniques. Since we are working with old material - occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these reproductions. We have managed to fix the vast majority of issues though, and we believe these books deserve to be persevered for future generations to enjoy.

Book Tiny Beautiful Things

Download or read book Tiny Beautiful Things written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.

Book Famous Ghosts and Haunted Places

Download or read book Famous Ghosts and Haunted Places written by Johnathan Sutherland and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles ghosts and hauntings, including famous cases, celebrity ghosts, and ghostly creatures.