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Alva Irva

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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-05-13

Alva Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-13 with Fiction categories.

The city of Entralla – along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City – is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.

Alva And Irva

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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2012-01-05

Alva And Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with categories.

The city of Entralla âe" along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City âe" is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.

Alva And Irva

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Author : Edward Carey
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2019-03-21

Alva And Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with categories.

The city of Entralla - along with Gondal, Brobdingnag and the Emerald City - is not somewhere you are likely to have visited. Only one guidebook to the place exists, despite its historic landmarks and the considerable civic pride of its inhabitants. Alva and Irva are identical twin sisters, and Entralla is their home. By nature, Alva is an explorer, and longs to travel the world. Irva is a recluse, for whom every step outside the house is an ordeal. But the twins belong together and cannot survive without each other. It is when Irva refuses to leave the house at all that the major work of their lives begins: Alva wanders the city streets, observing, taking notes, measuring, and reporting her findings to Irva, who painstakingly recreates a miniature Entralla. In Alva and Irva, Edward Carey takes the reader on an enchanting journey through a city of the imagination; the twins are mesmerizing heroines whose conflicting desires contain the seeds of both their destruction and their salvation.

Alva Et Irva

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Author : Edward Carey
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Alva Et Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.

Pour la critique et les lecteurs des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, la découverte d'Edward Carey (L'Observatoire, Phébus, 2002) fut une révélation un peu magique. On pouvait encore écrire, par ces temps abonnés à tous les minimalismes, en laissant son imagination battre largement la campagne, en courant même le risque de paraître un brin dérangé - mais Lewis Carroll, Tolkien, Calvino, Mervyn Peake, Pérec (auxquels on a comparé tour à tour le jeune écrivain anglais) n'ont-ils pas ouvert le chemin ? Carey persiste donc, et signe ici un deuxième roman du même tonneau, sans consentir à mettre la moindre goutte d'eau dans son vin. Deux sœurs jumelles que rien ne distingue à l'œil et qui partagent tout - amours comprises - s'arrangent pour vivre à deux, dans une harmonie fusionnelle, les multiples contradictions du réel. Tandis qu'Irva se voue à une vie de recluse, Alva l'exploratrice parcourt fiévreusement les rues d'Entralla - une cité prise de folie qui n'est pas sans ressembler aux villes d'aujourd'hui - et rapporte à sa sueur la réalité extérieure à domicile. Ami des labyrinthes et des simulacres, Edward Carey, maître de l'ironie fantasmagorique, parvient une fois encore à donner vraisemblance à l'invraisemblable, vie aux reflets et mirages, beauté au désastre.

Spatial Cultures

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Author : Sam Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-10

Spatial Cultures written by Sam Griffiths and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with Architecture categories.

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research are brought into dialogue across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research focussing on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. A reluctance to engage substantively with this issue has been detrimental to scholarly efforts to understand the urban built environment as a meaningful agent of human social experience. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary urban case studies, as well as a selection of theoretical and methodological reflections, the contributions to this volume seek to historically, geographically and architecturally contextualize diverse spatial practices including movement, encounter, play, procession and neighbourhood. The aim is to challenge their tacit treatment as universal categories in much writing on cities and to propose alternative research possibilities with implications as much for urban design thinking as for history and the social sciences.

Realist Critiques Of Visual Culture

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Author : Edward Barnaby
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-10

Realist Critiques Of Visual Culture written by Edward Barnaby and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist fiction make that transformation visible to us? This book brings Situationist Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and an array of cultural criticism into dialogue with novels by Hardy, Forster, Woolf, Rushdie, Carey and Barnes to foreground literary realism’s critique of visual culture, including Gothic architectural revival, neoclassicism, tourism, historical pageantry, postcolonial cinema and photography, museums, preservationism, urbanism and artisanal neo-folk movements. Barnaby advances the concept of meta-spectacle to distinguish realist fiction that engages ethically with visual discourses from realist-ic fiction that reproduces the visible veneer of reality for aesthetic consumption. He highlights the limitations of artistic critiques of spectacle, considers their resilience toward a culture industry that continuously repackages iconoclasm as iconicity, and reflects upon the process of reorienting the reader to comprehend realist gestures. By heightening the capacity to recognize our own immersion within objectified representations of the real, Realist Critiques of Visual Culture demonstrates how literary realism remains vital within a society that is so deeply invested in visually replicating and archiving lived experience.

Alva Und Irva

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Author : Edward Carey
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Alva Und Irva written by Edward Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.

Die Zwillinge Alva und Irva sind vorherbestimmt für eine große Karriere im Postwesen. Ihr Großvater ist Postmeister, der früh verstorbene Vater war Briefträger, und ihre Mutter tut Dienst am Schalter des Hauptpostamtes. Die unzertrennlichen, aber in ihrem Wesen sehr verschiedenen Schwestern haben jedoch anderes im Sinn. Die extrovertierte Alva träumt davon, die Welt zu entdecken, die schüchterne Irva hingegen geht nur ungern aus dem Haus. Aus der Sehnsucht heraus, sich eine eigene Welt zu schaffen, beschließen die beiden, ihre Heimatstadt aus Plastilin nachzubauen. Mit Maßband und Notizblock bewaffnet, streift Alva durch die Straßen und vermißt Häuser, während Irva auf dem heimischen Speicher an dem ständig wachsenden Modell baut ... Mit viel Einfühlungsvermögen hat Edward Carey eine urkomische und zugleich berührende Geschichte geschrieben, die von bewohnten und erträumten Welten erzählt, von Nähe und Distanz, und davon, daß letztendlich alles nur eine Frage der Perspektive ist.