Download or read book Pensive Jester written by John D. Cloy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about a recognized master of the short fiction form. Pensive Jester provides the only full-length study of the short story writer best known for the macabre tale The Monkey's Paw . Primarily dealing with W. W. Jacobs's literary life, this book investigates his startling obscurity after a thirty year stint as one of the leading lights of the Strand, an enormously popular British magazine during the first half of this century. His reclusive nature, bashful personality, and overall modesty discouraged publicity and interviewers, leaving large gaps in printed biographical and critical sketches. These omissions have been fleshed out by correspondence with family members and gleanings from contemporary periodicals, helping to present a much more complete picture of the talented author who has amused and terrified so many for so long. This book also contains detailed treatment of the turn-of-the-century literary phenomenon known as the New Humorists. Besides Jacobs, other members of this group included Barry Pain, Jerome K. Jerome, W. Pett Ridge, and Israel Zangwill. As writers who produced comic stories and sketches for the burgeoning popular periodicals of the period, these authors were widely and enthusiastically read by middle and lower class consumers while receiving condescending notice from fashionable literati. Students and scholars of late Victorian and early Edwardian literature, British humor, and turn-of-the-century publishing history will find this useful.
Download or read book Just Middle Manager written by David J. Hulings and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Middle Manager is traveling to the Celestial City of Influence to be renamed Next Great Leader. But what is a great leader? Is there one style of leadership or many? These questions and many more weigh on both Just Middle Manager's back and his heart as he sets out to follow his dream. "Just Middle Manager" is the story every leader should read, bringing to life the archetypes of Carl Jung into the real world of leadership style. Just Middle Manager is brought face-to-face with typical leader archetypes like Ruler and Warrior but also discovers nuggets of truth from the lesser known Destroyer, Lover, and Orphan. Reading this enchanting fable that is more than just another boring business book will challenge you: "Just Middle Manager" or "Next Great Leader"? ENDORSEMENTS (What other leaders* are saying about "Just Middle Manager - Next Great Leader"): Leader Innocent - "A story that provides leader's hope " Leader Orphan - "Words warning leaders" Leader Warrior - "Provides discipline for leaders" Leader Caregiver - "Once read, it will help leaders" Leader Seeker - "A great adventure for all leaders" Leader Lover - "A leadership book to embrace" Leader Destroyer - "Teaches leaders how to let go " Leader Creator - "Will inspire leaders to be creative" Leader Ruler - "Well organized thoughts for leaders" Leader Magician - "Transforming words for leaders" Leader Sage - "Nuggets of wisdom for leaders" Leader Jester - "A great and fun story for leaders" (*Not familiar with these twelve leaders? Allow them to introduce themselves through the story of "Just Middle Manager, Next Great Leader." When you finish you may find one or two of them may actually be you!)
Download or read book A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English written by Sherri L. Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.
Download or read book Comic Medievalism written by Louise D'Arcens and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation or recreation of the middle ages has hitherto received little attention, a gap in scholarship which this book aims to fill. Examining a wide range of comic texts and practices across several centuries, from Don Quixote and early Chaucerian modernisation through to Victorian theatre, the Monty Python films, television and the experience of visiting sites of "heritage tourism" such as the Jorvik Viking Museum at York, it identifies what has been perceived as uniquely funny about the Middle Ages in different times and places, and how this has influenced ideas not just about the medieval but also about modernity. Tracing the development and permutations of its various registers, including satire, parody, irony, camp, wit, jokes, and farce, the author offers fresh and amusing insight into comic medievalism as a vehicle for critical commentary on the present as well as the past, and shows that for as long as there has been medievalism, people have laughed at and with the middle ages. Louise D'Arcens is Associate Professor in English Literatures at the University of Wollongong.
Download or read book Just Middle Manager Next Great Leader written by David J. Hulings and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Middle Manager is traveling to the celestial city of influence to be renamed Next Great Leader. But what is a great leader? Is there one style of leadership or many? These questions and many more weigh on both Just Middle Manager’s back and his heart as he sets out to follow his dream. Just Middle Manager is the story every leader should read, bringing to life the archetypes of Carl Jung into the real world of leadership style. Just Middle Manager is brought face-to-face with typical leader archetypes like ruler and warrior but also discovers nuggets of truth from the lesser known destroyer, lover, and orphan. Reading this enchanting fable that is more than just another boring business book will challenge you: Just Middle Manager or Next Great Leader? What other leaders* are saying about Just Middle Manager: Next Great Leader Leader Innocent—Provides leadership hope Leader Orphan—Words warning leaders Leader Warrior—Provides discipline for leaders Leader Caregiver—Helps leaders Leader Seeker—A great adventure for all leaders Leader Lover—A leadership book to embrace Leader Destroyer—Teaches leaders how to let go Leader Creator—Inspires leaders to be creative Leader Ruler—Well-organized thoughts for leaders Leader Magician—Transforming words for leaders Leader Sage—Nuggets of wisdom for leaders Leader Jester—A great and fun story for leaders *Not familiar with these twelve leaders? Allow them to introduce themselves through the story of Just Middle Manager: Next Great Leader. When you finish, you may find one or two of them may actually be you!
Download or read book An Eye for Genius written by Kerry Sutherland and published by Kerry Sutherland. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle aged author declining in popularity. An up and coming literary agent with an eye for genius. A partnership that would forge a prodigious legacy in American literature. Henry James was a middle-aged author who had established himself on a transatlantic scale when he employed James Brand Pinker as his literary agent in 1898. The changing preferences of a growing audience of readers along with James’s self-defeating practice of shifting from publisher to publisher, rather than adhering to the trade courtesy of remaining loyal to one house, were making the author’s efforts to keep his work in print increasingly difficult; bringing Pinker, who managed the literary business of over 100 authors including Stephen Crane, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London, into the picture made it possible for James to maintain a presence before the reading public to an extent that would have been impossible without the agent’s assistance. Pinker’s involvement was vital to the continuance of James’s career, as his later works and the New York Edition proved difficult material to place. The agent’s role as the mediator of conflict between the commercial writer and literary artist, positions that James had difficulty reconciling, had considerable influence on the shape of James’s later career and thus the way in which the author is remembered; James’s legacy is therefore clearly tied to Pinker’s efforts. Using correspondence between Pinker, James, and the primary publishers of James’s material from 1898 until Pinker’s death in 1922, along with secondary works addressing the agent’s endeavors during this period, this volume demonstrates the link between Pinker’s work and James’s continued presence in print, both during the author’s lifetime and after his death.
Download or read book Migration in Performance written by Caleb Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the travels of Nanay, a testimonial theatre play developed from research with migrant domestic workers in Canada, as it was recreated and restaged in different places around the globe. This work examines how Canadian migration policy is embedded across and within histories of colonialism in the Philippines and settler colonialism in Canada. Translations between scholarship and performance – and between Canada and the Philippines – became more uneasy as the play travelled internationally, raising pressing questions of how decolonial collaborations might take shape in practice. This book examines the strengths and limits of existing framings of Filipina migration and offers rich ideas of how care – the care of children and elderly and each other – might be rethought in radically new ways within less violently unequal relations that span different colonial histories and complex triangulations of racialised migrants, settlers and Indigenous peoples. This book is a journey towards a new way of doing and performing research and theory. It is part of a growing interdisciplinary exchange between the performing arts and social sciences and will appeal to researchers and students within human geography and performance studies, and those working on migration, colonialisms, documentary theatre and social reproduction.
Download or read book The Jester s Bells written by Carol E. Abraham and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Events jolting and stirring, historic and whimsical, come to life thick and fast in The Jester's Bells. Filled with irony, satire, and caricature, it is the story of Carol Enid Abraham, a Depression Baby, growing up in Brooklyn during the lean, war-torn 1940s and the A-bomb scare of the 1950s. It reflects the pendulous swing of morals and ethics, gender and racial advances, radical religious thinking, inspired silliness and profound creativity that shaped her life, leaving permanent yet invisible scars. Live in the atmosphere of this vibrant, hard-charging century as her family comes full circle from its origin in the shtetls of Europe to an American generation of assimilation.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Novel written by Paul Schellinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 2557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.
Download or read book The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture 1880 1939 written by J. Wild and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study investigates the emergence and impact of the lower middle class on British print culture through the figure of the office clerk. This interdisciplinary work offers important insights into a previously neglected area of social and book history, and explores key works by George Gissing, Forster and JB Priestley.
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Download or read book Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture written by S. Donovan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day. Drawing on original archival materials and treating subjects as diverse as Bovril advertising, spirit photography, sea shanties, global tourism, and the new sport of speed-walking, it shows how Conrad's fiction makes a sustained response to early-twentieth-century popular culture and will be of interest to all students, scholars and enthusiasts of Conrad.
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the world's greatest literature about empires and imperialism, including more than 200 entries on writers, classic works, themes, and concepts.
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