Fantasies Of The Bookstore
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Fantasies Of The Bookstore
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Author : Eben J. Muse
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-28
Fantasies Of The Bookstore written by Eben J. Muse and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.
Fantasies Of The Library
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Author : Anna-Sophie Springer
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-08-28
Fantasies Of The Library written by Anna-Sophie Springer and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A book that acts both as library and exhibition space, selecting, arranging, and housing texts and images, aligning itself with printed matter in the process. Fantasies of the Library lets readers experience the library anew. The book imagines, and enacts, the library as both keeper of books and curator of ideas—as a platform of the future. One essay occupies the right-hand page of a two-page spread while interviews scrolls independently on the left. Bibliophilic artworks intersect both throughout the book-as-exhibition. A photo essay, “Reading Rooms Reading Machines” further interrupts the book in order to display images of libraries (old and new, real and imagined), and readers (human and machine) and features work by artists including Kader Atta, Wafaa Bilal, Mark Dion, Rodney Graham, Katie Paterson, Veronika Spierenburg, and others. The book includes an essay on the institutional ordering principles of book collections; a conversation with the proprietors of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco; reflections on the role of cultural memory and the archive; and a dialogue with a new media theorist about experiments at the intersection of curatorial practice and open source ebooks. The reader emerges from this book-as-exhibition with the growing conviction that the library is not only a curatorial space but a bibliological imaginary, ripe for the exploration of consequential paginated affairs. The physicality of the book—and this book—“resists the digital,” argues coeditor Etienne Turpin, “but not in a nostalgic way.” Contributors Erin Kissane, Hammad Nasar, Megan Shaw Prelinger, Rick Prelinger, Anna-Sophie Springer, Charles Stankievech, Katharina Tauer, Etienne Turpin, Andrew Norman Wilson, Joanna Zylinska
Information Fantasies
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Author : Xiao Liu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Information Fantasies written by Xiao Liu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with China categories.
"Information Fantasies focuses on the cultural practices and media imaginations around information technologies, cybernetics, and systems theory in late 1970s and 1980s China. Xiao Liu explores China's rise to prominence in the global economy through revisiting these earlier 'information fantasies' present in science fiction, modernist writing, films, scientific treatises, historical monographs, and key intellectual debates"--
Fantasies Of Flight
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Author : Daniel M. Ogilvie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-11
Fantasies Of Flight written by Daniel M. Ogilvie and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-11 with Psychology categories.
Fantasies of Flight invigorates the field of personality psychology by challenging the contemporary academic view that individuals are best studied as carriers of traits. Daniel Ogilvie exchanges a heart-to-heart, case study approach to understanding human behavior for the current strategies of categorizing and comparing individuals according to their manifest traits. Ogilvie asks and endeavors to answer questions like "What were the psychological conditions that led Sir James Barrie to create a character named Peter Pan?" and "What were the dynamics behind the Marshall Herff Applewhite's conviction that a space ship, hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet, would rescue him and his Heaven's Gate followers after they enacted a mass suicide pact in 1997?" Answering these questions requires him to resurrect "old" ways to think about personality and "old" strategies for studying individuals one by one. Early in the book, Ogilvie reviews the history of why intensive case studies were discredited in psychology and describes how Sigmund Freud's psychobiographical account of Leonardo da Vinci's fascination with flight inadvertently abetted critics of psychoanalytic psychology. He then performs a partial psychobiography of James Barrie and the origins of Peter Pan, followed by an investigation of Carl Jung, who fashioned the collective unconscious to serve as humankind's link to eternity. Arguing that personality psychology needs to become less insular, Ogilvie integrates information from the disciplines of developmental psychology and neuroscience into a theory regarding the latent needs that both Barrie and Jung sought to satisfy. The theory, including its emphasis on the onset of self and consciousness, is then applied to an array of well-known and obscure individuals with ascensionistic inclinations. Well written and accessible, but complex and scholarly, this volume will restore interest in the investigation of people's inner lives.
Nona The Ninth
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Author : Tamsyn Muir
language : en
Publisher: Tordotcom
Release Date : 2023-09-12
Nona The Ninth written by Tamsyn Muir and has been published by Tordotcom this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-12 with Fiction categories.
Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? An Indie Next Pick! “You will love Nona, and Nona loves you.” —Alix E. Harrow “Unlike anything I've ever read.” —V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth “Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” —The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever. And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face...
The Cambridge Companion To Fantasy Literature
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Author : Edward James
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-26
The Cambridge Companion To Fantasy Literature written by Edward James and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Colonial Fantasies
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Author : Meyda Yegenoglu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-04-30
Colonial Fantasies written by Meyda Yegenoglu and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this 1998 book, Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, focusing on the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. She examines the veil as a site of fantasy and of nationalist ideologies and discourses of gender identity, analyzing travel literature, anthropological and literary texts to reveal the hegemonic, colonial identity of the desire to penetrate the veiled surface of 'otherness'. Representations of cultural difference and sexual difference are shown to be inextricably linked, and the figure of the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity.
The Black Coast
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Author : Mike Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-02-16
The Black Coast written by Mike Brooks and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with Fiction categories.
WAR DRAGONS. FEARSOME RAIDERS. A DAEMONIC WARLORD ON THE RISE. '5/5 stars' SFX Magazine When the citizens of Black Keep see ships on the horizon, terror takes them because they know who is coming: for generations, the keep has been raided by the fearsome clanspeople of Tjakorsha. Saddling their war dragons, Black Keep's warriors rush to defend their home only to discover that the clanspeople have not come to pillage at all. Driven from their own land by a daemonic despot who prophesises the end of the world, the raiders come in search of a new home . . . Meanwhile the wider continent of Narida is lurching toward war. Black Keep is about to be caught in the crossfire - if only its new mismatched society can survive. THE START OF AN UNMISSABLE FANTASY SERIES. 'Vibrant and intricate worldbuilding' Matthew Ward 'Epic . . . powerful . . . I really, really can't recommend this one enough' Fantasy Inn 'Excellent characters and wonderful worldbuilding, with a wealth of interesting cultural collisions . . . I'm already excited for the next one!' Django Wexler 'Compelling . . . promises to be a watershed epic fantasy series. I loved it' Fantasy Book Review The Black Coast is the first fantasy novel from critically acclaimed Games Workshop/Warhammer 40k author Mike Brooks. Look out for the sequel: The Splinter King.
Ten Fantasies
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Author : Abi Titmuss
language : en
Publisher: Virgin Books Limited
Release Date : 2005
Ten Fantasies written by Abi Titmuss and has been published by Virgin Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Sexual fantasies categories.
THE SECRET AND SENSATIONAL LATE NIGHT FANTASIES OF THE UK'S MOST WANTED SEX ICON! Working with the creators of the world's bestselling erotic imprint - Black Lace, the Uk's hottest sex symbol has written a book that will be on everyone's lips - her ten most secret fantasies. Strictly embargoed, the contents, when revealed, will generate massive media coverage. From Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen to the heights of Loaded's sex list - Abi is a massive household name and her Ten Fantasies will appeal to both men and women. Not only will it be be a clever, spectacular press talking point but a fun and empowering read.
The Black Lace Book Of Women S Sexual Fantasies
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Author : Kerri Sharp
language : en
Publisher: Virgin Books
Release Date : 2003-05-08
The Black Lace Book Of Women S Sexual Fantasies written by Kerri Sharp and has been published by Virgin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-08 with Sexual fantasies categories.
Revealing the most private thoughts of hundreds of women, here are sexual fantasies which on first sight appear shocking or bizarre--such as the bank clerk who wants to be a vampire, or the nanny with a passion for Darth Vader. It investigates the recurrent themes in female fantasies and the cultural influences that have determined them--from fairy tales to cult TV, from fetish fashion to historical novels. This collection argues that sexual archetypes--such as the "dark man of the psyche"--play an important role in arousal, allowing the reader to find gratification safely through personal narratives of adventure and sexual abandon.