Download or read book The Questing Road written by Lyn McConchie and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coauthor of "The Duke's Ballad" and "Silver May Tarnish" returns with a new fantasy that captures the spirit of her successful collaborations with Andre Norton.
Download or read book Questing written by Delia Clark and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to creating treasure hunts that teach and share the special places in your community.
Download or read book Roads of Her Own written by Alexandra Ganser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Jack Kerouac’s classic On the Road through Virginia Woolf’s canonical A Room of One’s Own, the author of this book examines a genre in North American literature which, despite its popularity, has received little attention in literary and cultural criticism: women’s road narratives. The study shows how women’s literature has inscribed itself into the American discourse of the Whitmanesque “open road”, or, more generally, the “freedom of the road”. Women writers have participated in this powerful American myth, yet at the same time also have rejected that myth as fundamentally based on gendered and racial/ethnic hierarchies and power structures, and modified it in the process of writing back to it. The book analyzes stories about female runaways, outlaws, questers, adventurers, kidnappees, biker chicks, travelling saleswomen, and picaras and makes theoretical observations on the debates regarding discourses of spatiality and mobility—debates which have defined the so-called spatial turn in the humanities. The analytical concept of transdifference is introduced to theorize the dissonant plurality of social and cultural affiliations as well as the narrative tensions produced by such pluralities in order to better understand the textual worlds of women’s multiple belongings as they are present in these writings. Roads of Her Own is thus not only situated in the broader context of a constructivist cultural studies, but also, by discussing narrative mobility under the sign of gender, combines insights from social theory and philosophy, feminist cultural geography, and literary studies. Key names and concepts: Doreen Massey – Rosi Braidotti – Literary Studies – Spatial Turn – Gendered Space and Mobility – Nomadism – Road writing – Transdifference – American Culture – Popular Culture – Women’s Literature after the Second Wave – Quest – Picara.
Download or read book A Country Called Childhood written by Jay Griffiths and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild, Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular captured her imagination: why are so many children in Euro–American cultures unhappy – and why is it that children in traditional cultures seem happier? In A Country Called Childhood, Griffiths seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space, time and the natural world. Visiting communities as far apart as West Papua and the Arctic as well as the UK, and delving into history, philosophy, language and literature, she explores how children's affinity for nature is an essential and universal element of childhood. It is a journey deep into the heart of what it means to be a child, and it is central to all our experiences, young and old.
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Download or read book The Lost Spell of Avooblis written by Charles Streams and published by Charles Streams. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avooblis’s power is sweeping across the land, and villages everywhere are in dire need of a hero. Dagdron, Earl, Elloriana, and Lita have returned from the lava land, but they still must heal the heart stone if they have any hope of fulfilling their quest before the darkness takes over. As the adventurers search out the Lost Spell of Avooblis, Mazannanan will stop at nothing to prevent them from uncovering the secrets of his past and recovering the cursed gifts of the land. With peril lurking along every pathway, the rogue, warrior, enchantress, and lady warrior must put their skills to the test and rely on their friendship if they have any hope of having a legendary adventuring career before Avooblis brings it to an untimely end.
Download or read book The Power of Tolkien s Prose written by S. Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2011 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award forInklingsStudies Tolkien's unparalleled popularity has been largely attributed to his gifts as a storyteller and his thematic currency. But The Lord of the Rings may have become a modern classic for a deeper reason than we've noticed: Tolkien is a first-rate stylist. The Power of Tolkien's Prose illuminates the multifaceted appeal of Tolkien's prose style in dimensions ranging from his fantastic realism to his revitalizing imagery to his dynamic narrative to his expansive characterization to his engaging language. Viewed through the lens of Steve Walker's stylistic appreciation, Tolkien's fiction emerges as a new dimension of perception.
Download or read book Quests written by Jeff Howard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique take on quests, incorporating literary and digital theory, provides an excellent resource for game developers. Focused on both the theory and practice of the four main aspects of quests (spaces, objects, actors, and challenges) each theoretical section is followed by a practical section that contains exercises using the Neverwinter Nigh
Download or read book Philosophy Americana written by Douglas R. Anderson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging book, Douglas Anderson begins with the assumption that philosophy—the Greek love of wisdom—is alive and well in American culture. At the same time, professional philosophy remains relatively invisible. Anderson traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where professional philosophy in the distinctively American tradition can strike up a conversation. How might American philosophers talk to us about our religious experience, or political engagement, or literature—or even, popular music? Anderson’s second aim is to find places where philosophy happens in nonprofessional guises—cultural places such as country music, rock’n roll, and Beat literature. He not only enlarges the tradition of American philosophers such as John Dewey and William James by examining lesser-known figures such as Henry Bugbee and Thomas Davidson, but finds the theme and ideas of American philosophy in some unexpected places, such as the music of Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette, and Bruce Springsteen, and the writings of Jack Kerouac. The idea of “philosophy Americana” trades on the emergent genre of “music Americana,” rooted in traditional themes and styles yet engaging our present experiences. The music is “popular” but not thoroughly driven by economic considerations, and Anderson seeks out an analogous role for philosophical practice, where philosophy and popular culture are co-adventurers in the life of ideas. Philosophy Americana takes seriously Emerson’s quest for the extraordinary in the ordinary and James’s belief that popular philosophy can still be philosophy.
Download or read book The Holyhead Road written by Charles George Harper and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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