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Book Tarnished Utopia  Vengeance in Her Bones   Train for Flushing     3 Malcolm Jameson Sci Fi Classics

Download or read book Tarnished Utopia Vengeance in Her Bones Train for Flushing 3 Malcolm Jameson Sci Fi Classics written by Malcolm Jameson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tarnished Utopia" - Allan Winchester, an American paratrooper, is taken prisoner during WW2. But Allan manages to escape to Munich where he meets an attractive German lady. Their fates intertwine when while fleeing from the Germans they take refuge in an abandoned cave and find themselves thousands of years in the future! "Train for Flushing" and the "Vengeance in Her Bones" are two famous science fiction novellas by Jameson. Malcolm Jameson (1891–1945) was an American Golden Age science fiction author whose writing career began when complications of throat cancer limited his activity as a naval officer. Drawing from his experiences of navy and warfare he gave a personal touch to all of his stories.

Book Jameson Sci Fi Classics

Download or read book Jameson Sci Fi Classics written by Malcolm Jameson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tarnished Utopia" - Allan Winchester, an American paratrooper, is taken prisoner during WW2. But Allan manages to escape to Munich where he meets an attractive German lady. Their fates intertwine when while fleeing from the Germans they take refuge in an abandoned cave and find themselves thousands of years in the future!_x000D_ "Train for Flushing" and the "Vengeance in Her Bones" are two famous science fiction novellas by Jameson._x000D_ Malcolm Jameson (1891–1945) was an American Golden Age science fiction author whose writing career began when complications of throat cancer limited his activity as a naval officer. Drawing from his experiences of navy and warfare he gave a personal touch to all of his stories.

Book Anti Intellectualism in American Life

Download or read book Anti Intellectualism in American Life written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor

Book The Affect Theory Reader

Download or read book The Affect Theory Reader written by Melissa Gregg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on affect theory, by groundbreaking scholars in the field.

Book Science Fiction  Imperialism and the Third World

Download or read book Science Fiction Imperialism and the Third World written by Ericka Hoagland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico. These fourteen critical essays examine both the role of science fiction in the third world and the role of the third world in science fiction. Topics covered include science fiction in Bengal, the genre's portrayal of Native Americans, Mexican cyberpunk fiction, and the undercurrents of colonialism and Empire in traditional science fiction. The intersections of science fiction theory and postcolonial theory are explored, as well as science fiction's contesting of imperialism and how the third world uses the genre to recreate itself. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Book Places Through the Body

Download or read book Places Through the Body written by Heidi Nast and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies. Extensive introductory and concluding sections guide students through the key debates and themes. Places Through the Body draws on a wide range of contemporary examples and creative ideas to address such topics as: * How racist ideologies are embedded in modern architechtural discourse and practice * How urban spaces make bodies disabled * How the seemingly virtual worlds of knowledge and technology are embodied * How gyms enable women body builders to make new kinds of bodies * How male bodies are placed onto the silver screen * New kinds of femininity Here geographers, architects, anthropologists, artists, film theorists, theorists of cultural studies and psycho-analysis work alongside each other to make clear connections between bodies and places.

Book Georgia s Landmarks  Memorials  and Legends

Download or read book Georgia s Landmarks Memorials and Legends written by Lucian Lamar Knight and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes DeSoto memorials, Georgia's state seals, and the first steamboat patent.

Book Mavericks on the Border

Download or read book Mavericks on the Border written by J. Douglas Canfield and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century authors and filmmakers have created a pantheon of mavericks—some macho, others angst-ridden—who often cross a metaphorical boundary among the literal ones of Anglo, Native American, and Hispanic cultures. Douglas Canfield examines the concept of borders, defining them as the space between states and cultures and ideologies, and focuses on these border crossings as a key feature of novels and films about the region. Canfield begins in the Old Southwest of Faulkner's Mississippi, addressing the problem of slavery; travels west to North Texas and the infamous Gainesville Hanging of Unionists during the Civil War; and then follows scalpers into the Southwest Borderlands. He then turns to the area of the Gadsden Purchase, known for its outlaws and Indian wars, before heading south of the border for the Yaqui persecution and the Mexican Revolution. Alongside such well-known works as Go Down Moses, The Wild Bunch, Broken Arrow, Gringo Viejo, and Blood Meridian, Canfield discusses novels and films that tell equally compelling stories of the region. Protagonists face various identity crises as they attempt border crossings into other cultures or mindsets—some complete successful crossings, some go native, and some fail. He analyzes figures such as Geronimo, Doc Holliday, and Billy the Kid alongside less familiar mavericks as they struggle for identity, purpose, and justice.

Book Wreckers of the Star Patrol

Download or read book Wreckers of the Star Patrol written by Malcolm Jameson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why should I hire you?" bellowed Captain Fennery, bunching his shaggy eyebrows into a heavy scowl. 'We want no namby-pamby sissies in the Hyperion!' Bob Hartwell merely flushed and stood a little straighter. If his need had not been so great, his answer to that would have been a straight right to the jaw. Moreover, he had just told the man why he was there—of his having been in command of the neat packet, Mary Sue, of the Venus-Tellurian Line, and how that company had blown up and left him stranded on Venus...." Malcolm Jameson (1891–1945) was an American Golden Age science fiction author whose writing career began when complications of throat cancer limited his activity as a naval officer. Drawing from his experiences of navy and warfare he gave a personal touch to all of his stories.

Book Agonistics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Lungstrum
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1997-09-11
  • ISBN : 9780791434123
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Agonistics written by Janet Lungstrum and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-09-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on a very significant psycho-cultural concept (that of "agonistics" or "contestatory creativity") with ramifications in several areas of the postmodern debate: cultural philosophy, psychologies of race, gender and the body, and narratology.

Book Essentials of the Theory of Fiction

Download or read book Essentials of the Theory of Fiction written by Michael J. Hoffman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the nature of culture and interpretation. This third edition of the bestselling Essentials of the Theory of Fiction provides a comprehensive view of the theory of fiction from the nineteenth century through modernism and postmodernism to the present. It offers a sample of major theories of fictional technique while emphasizing recent developments in literary criticism. The essays cover a variety of topics, including voice, point of view, narration, sequencing, gender, and race. Ten new selections address issues such as oral memory in African American fiction, temporality, queer theory, magical realism, interactive narratives, and the effect of virtual technologies on literature. For students and generalists alike, Essentials of the Theory of Fiction is an invaluable resource for understanding how fiction works. Contributors. M. M. Bakhtin, John Barth, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, John Brenkman, Peter Brooks, Catherine Burgass, Seymour Chatman, J. Yellowlees Douglas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Wendy B. Faris, Barbara Foley, E. M. Forster, Joseph Frank, Joanne S. Frye, William H. Gass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gérard Genette, Ursula K. Heise, Michael J. Hoffman, Linda Hutcheon, Henry James, Susan S. Lanser, Helen Lock, Georg Lukács, Patrick D. Murphy, Ruth Ronen, Joseph Tabbi, Jon Thiem, Tzvetan Todorov, Virginia Woolf

Book Acid Dreams

Download or read book Acid Dreams written by Martin A. Lee and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a social history of how the CIA used the psychedelic drug LSD as a tool of espionage during the early 1950s and tested it on U.S. citizens before it spread into popular culture, in particular the counterculture as represented by Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and others who helped spawn political and social upheaval.

Book The Giant Atom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm Jameson
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN : 147947052X
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book The Giant Atom written by Malcolm Jameson and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1901 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When was Modernism

Download or read book When was Modernism written by Geeta Kapur and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. She sets up an ideological vantage point to view modernism along its multiple tracks in India and the third world.The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and ArtWork and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre, and contemporary features of national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section, Frames of Reference, formalizes the polemical options developed across the book. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives, and affirm an open-ended engagement with the avant-garde. They explore the possibility of art practice finding its own signifying space that is still a space for radical transformation.Geeta Kapur is an independent art critic and curator living in New Delhi. Her extensive publications on modern Indian art include the book Contemporary Indian Artists (Delhi, 1978), exhibition catalogues and monographs on artists. She is currently writing a monograph on Tyeb Mehta. Her essays on cultural criticism have been widely presented in forums of art history and cultural studies. Her curatorial work includes the show Bombay/Mumbai 1992 2001 in the multi-part exhibition titled Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis , at Tate Modern, London, in 2001. Geeta Kapur is a founder-editor of the Journal of Arts & Ideas and advisory editor to Third Text. She has held research fellowships at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and Clare Hall, Cambridge University. For the past three decades, [Geeta Kapur s] has been the singular dominant presence in the field to a point that her writings alone seem to have constituted the whole field of modern Indian art theory and criticism. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Biblio (Delhi), May June 2001. Geeta Kapur is a magisterial presence in the sphere of modern Indian art. [The] insistence on the primacy of bearing witness to creative practice has been the leitmotif of Kapur s work. . . . Kapur s contribution . . . is best understood by reflection on the radical change that her activity has brought about in Indian art criticism. Ranjit Hoskote, Art India (Mumbai), Vol. VI, 1, 2001. When Was Modernism is a book of essays: imaginative, interpretive, argumentative, polemical, political and, in the combined sense of all these, historical. . . . [It] provides an instance of passionate engagement that, at its best moments, verges on the poetic. Chaitanya Sambrani, ART AsiaPacific (Australia), Issue 30, 2001.

Book The Eight Technologies of Otherness

Download or read book The Eight Technologies of Otherness written by Sue Golding and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rethinking of identity, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices

Book The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic

Download or read book The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic written by Professor Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic challenges the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear. Instead, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American Gothic, and gothic literature in general, is also about judgment: how to judge and what happens when judgment is confronted with situations that defy its limits. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Gilman, and James all shared a concern with the political and ideological debates of their time, but tended to approach these debates indirectly. Thus, Monnet suggests, while slavery and race are not the explicit subject matter of antebellum works by Poe and Hawthorne, they nevertheless permeate it through suggestive analogies and tacit references. Similarly, Melville, Gilman, and James use the gothic to explore the categories of gender and sexuality that were being renegotiated during the latter half of the century. Focusing on "The Fall of the House of Usher," The Marble Faun, Pierre, The Turn of the Screw, and "The Yellow Wallpaper," Monnet brings to bear minor texts by the same authors that further enrich her innovative readings of these canonical works. At the same time, her study persuasively argues that the Gothic's endurance and ubiquity are in large part related to its being uniquely adapted to rehearse questions about judgment and justice that continue to fascinate and disturb.

Book Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands

Download or read book Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: