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All Quiet On The Orient Express
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Author : Magnus Mills Jasmine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-19
All Quiet On The Orient Express written by Magnus Mills Jasmine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-19 with categories.
All Quiet On The Orient Express
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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All Quiet On The Orient Express
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-05-01
All Quiet On The Orient Express written by Magnus Mills and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Fiction categories.
Magnus Mills’s first novel, The Restraint of Beasts, was hailed by Thomas Pynchon as a “comic wonder.” His second novel, All Quiet on the Orient Express, is an equally edgy blend of high-grade comedy and low-grade paranoia. With insidiously beguiling deadpan charm, Mills draws us again into the world of contract employment, this time in England’s Lake District. The novel’s narrator, an itinerant odd-jobber, is camping out, waiting for summer to end so that he can set off for some vague notion of the East . . . Turkey, Persia, overland to India. In the meantime, he agrees to do a small painting job for the owner of his campsite. One job leads to another. Before long, our hero is hopelessly and hilariously enmeshed in the off-season mysteries of the placid northern English community, grappling with dark forces beyond his power—some of which hang out at the local pub. To think it all began with a simple paint job . . .
All Quiet On The Orient Express
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2000-10-17
All Quiet On The Orient Express written by Magnus Mills and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-17 with Fiction categories.
All Quiet On The Orient Express
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-05-16
All Quiet On The Orient Express written by Magnus Mills and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-16 with Fiction categories.
It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East. But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous 'out-of-season'.
The Comic Turn In Contemporary English Fiction
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Author : Huw Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-07-09
The Comic Turn In Contemporary English Fiction written by Huw Marsh and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty, melancholia, environmental catastrophe and collapse, Huw Marsh argues that contemporary fiction is as likely to treat these subjects comically as it is to treat them gravely, and that the recognition and proper analysis of this humour opens up new ways to think about literature. Structured around readings of authors including Martin Amis, Nicola Barker, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Howard Jacobson, Magnus Mills and Zadie Smith, this book suggests not only that much of the most interesting contemporary writing is funny and that there is a comic tendency in contemporary fiction, but also that this humour, this comic licence, allows writers of contemporary fiction to do peculiar and interesting things – things that are funny in the sense of odd or strange and that may in turn inspire a funny turn in readers. Marsh offers a series of original critical and theoretical frameworks for discussing questions of literary genre, style, affect and politics, demonstrating that comedy is an often neglected mode that plays a generative role in much of the most interesting contemporary writing, creating sites of rich political, stylistic, cognitive and ethical contestation whose analysis offers a new perspective on the present.
Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory
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Author : Monika Fludernik
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-29
Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory written by Monika Fludernik and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume presents recent approaches to metaphor, illustrates a range of successful applications of the new cognitive models to literary texts, and provides an assessment of cognitive metaphor theory from a literary point of view.
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped
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Author : Bo Pettersson
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-09-12
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped written by Bo Pettersson and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it claims, is based on individual and shared human imagination, which creates literary worlds that blend the real and the fantastic, mimesis and genre, often modulated by different kinds of unreliability. The main building blocks of literary worlds are their oral, visual and written modes and three themes: challenge, perception and relation. They are blended and inflected in different ways by combinations of narratives and figures, indirection, thwarted aspirations, meta-usages, hypothetical action as well as hierarchies and blends of genres and text types. Moreover, literary worlds are not only constructed by humans but also shape their lives and reinforce their sense of wonder. Finally, ten reasons are given in order to show how this comparative view can be of use in literary studies. In sum, How Literary Worlds Are Shaped is the first study to present a wide-ranging and detailed comparative account of the makings of literary worlds.
Screwtop Thompson
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-10-04
Screwtop Thompson written by Magnus Mills and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-04 with Fiction categories.
'He has no literary precedent, and he also appears to have no imitators. He mines a seam that no one else touches on, every sentence in every book having a Magnus Mills ring to it that no other writer could produce' Independent In 'Hark the Herald', a guest stays at an eerie guesthouse over Christmas without encountering any other residents, despite constant reassurance from the landlord that he would see them if only he arrived for breakfast slightly earlier; in 'Only When the Sun Shines Brightly' Aesop's fable about a competition between the Sun and the Wind to get a man to take his coat off, gets a new look involving a railway arch, a builder and a piece of plastic sheeting; in 'Once in a Blue Moon' a man arrives home to find the family house under siege, with his mother armed, dangerous and firing at the police with a shotgun, and attempts to appease her with an invitation to seasonal hospitality; and in the title story, rivalry between three cousins over a faulty toy gets out of hand as the cousins unwittingly imitate the toy they're fighting over.Magnus Mills has published two collections of stories - Only When the Sun Shines Brightly and Once in a Blue Moon - which are collected here for the first time, along with three new stories.
Explorers Of The New Century
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Author : Magnus Mills
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-09-05
Explorers Of The New Century written by Magnus Mills and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-05 with Fiction categories.
It is the beginning of the century, and two teams of explorers are racing across a cold, windswept, deserted land to reach the furthest point from civilisation. It is, they find, 'an awfully long way'. Johns and his men take the western route, along a rocky scree, gossiping, bickering and grumbling as they go. Meanwhile, Tostig's men make their way along the dry riverbed in the east - they are fewer, with just five men and ten mules, and better organised than their rivals. But with Johns' team keeping apace in the distance, the race is on to reach the Agreed Furthest Point ...