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Antipodes
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Author : Andrew Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-02-20
Antipodes written by Andrew Griffiths and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Henry George Powell was a free-thinking sceptic, who published his world-view under the pseudonym ANTIPODES. This biography follows his trail from London to Australia and back and inquires into his life and his philosophy.
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Author : Ignacio Padilla
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2005-06-01
Antipodes written by Ignacio Padilla and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-01 with Fiction categories.
From the author of the award-winning novel Shadow Without a Name, comes Antipodes, the first collection of his short fiction to be translated into English. This lively, eclectic, and highly imaginative volume spans time, place, and culture as the narratives move from the scorching heat of the Gobi desert to the glacial heights of Mount Everest. Here, among others, are the stories of a great Scottish engineer, left to die in the middle of the desert, who is rescued by a tribe of nomads and inspires them to build an exact replica of the city of Edinburgh in the dunes; of a dying, cross-dressing pilot who allegedly climbs Mount Everest and then mysteriously disappears; of an English colonel who swears on his life to make the trains in Zambezi run on time, only to be forced to honor his word when they are always ten minutes late; of a monk who conjures the devil to prove the devil's existence; and of a young administrator of a psychiatric hospital who is appalled by the treatment of the patients, and devises his own bizarre solution. Based on history, legend and an awe-inspiring power of invention, Antipodes delights, terrifies, and entrances.
The Antipodes
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Author : Richard Brome
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2000
The Antipodes written by Richard Brome and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with London (England) categories.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Idea Of The Antipodes
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Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-01-31
The Idea Of The Antipodes written by Matthew Boyd Goldie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-31 with History categories.
This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in the earliest era, cartographical and kinetic in the medieval period, social and sexual in the Early Modern, sartorial and littoral in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and bodily and humorous in the latest era.
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Author : David Malouf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Antipodes written by David Malouf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
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Author : Richard Brome
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
The Antipodes written by Richard Brome and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with categories.
Images Of The Antipodes In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : David Fausett
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-03-07
Images Of The Antipodes In The Eighteenth Century written by David Fausett and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
How did Europeans view the unknown region at their antipodes in early times, before the explorations of Captain Cook and others made it well known? Throughout the ages it has evoked fantastic images which affected the arts and sciences, and the evolution of the novel in the century prior to the major discoveries was influenced in the same way. The eighteenth century was also a critical phase in European social history, a time when many modern patterns of economic life and international relations were formed. Distant explorations and discoveries bore implications for that process, which tended to be worked out in fictional voyages mingling fact with fiction. Images of the Antipodes asks what these can tell us about Europe's expansion to the limits of the New World - about the first contacts between cultures with very different worldviews, about the colonial relations that followed, and about the geopolitics of the region since then. They offer a perspective on cross- cultural relationships generally - nowhere more apparent than in their use of ancient images of the antipodes. This is the third part of a study on the intellectual history of travel fiction, and deals with the period from the 1720s to the 1790s, focusing on an issue that is as vital now as it was then: cultural or racial stereotyping, and the link between this and the differing politico-economic aspirations of peoples. It is a dual problem of exploitation, which has been associated with the antipodes since the beginnings of Western literature. The book discusses teratological fantasies, the literary background in utopias and Robinsonades, Gulliver's Travels and other travel fiction from mid-century onwards, the parallels between real and imaginary voyages, and the way the latter often prefigured the rise of modern anthropology and of colonial relationships in the austral regions. Particularly relevant was the odd blend of arcadianism and horror inspired by, or projected onto, these places in the later eighteenth century - as it had long been in the past. The works discussed are chiefly English and French, but include other European examples of the type.
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Author : Annie Baker
language : en
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Release Date : 2018-07-31
The Antipodes written by Annie Baker and has been published by Samuel French, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Drama categories.
"The antipodes" is a play about people telling stories about telling stories.
Sexual Antipodes
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Author : Pamela Cheek
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2003-02-28
Sexual Antipodes written by Pamela Cheek and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life. It examines British and French popular journalism, utopian fiction and travel accounts about South Sea encounter, pamphlet literature, and pornography, as well as more traditional literary sources on the eighteenth century, such as the novel and philosophical essays and tales. The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. The book begins by examining how the idea of sexual order operated as the principle for explaining national differences in eighteenth-century contestation between Britain and France. It then traces how, following British and French encounters with Tahiti, the comparison of different national sexual orders formed the basis for two theories of race: race as essential character and race as degeneration.
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Author : Holly Goddard Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2022-05-10
Antipodes written by Holly Goddard Jones and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10 with Fiction categories.
A harried and depressed mother of three young children serves on a committee that watches over the bottomless sinkhole that has appeared in her Kentucky town. During COVID lockdown, a thirty-four-year-old gamer moves back home with his parents and is revisited by his long-forgotten childhood imaginary friend. A politician running for a state congressional seat and a young mother, who share the same set of fears about the future, cross paths but don’t fully understand one another. A woman attends a party at the home of a fellow church parishioner and discovers she is on the receiving end of a sales pitch for a doomsday prepper. These stories and more contemplate our current reality with both frankness and hard-earned hopefulness, realism and fabulism, tackling parenthood, environment, and the absurd-but-unavoidable daily toil of worrying about mundane matters when we’ve entered “an era of unknowability, of persistent strangeness.”