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Fights Of Fancy
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Author : George Edgar Slusser
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1993
Fights Of Fancy written by George Edgar Slusser and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of fifteen original essays offers new perspectives on armed conflict as a central aspect of science fiction and fantasy writing. Looking past the superficial conventions associated with ray guns and aliens, swords and sorcerers, the contributors show how writers in the genre today are not so much imagining war more fully as they are completely re-imagining it. Science fiction and fantasy writing is no longer mired in epic or chivalric models but is responding to new and more complex "real-world" motivations for armed aggression: advances in weaponry, shifts in the theaters of war, and changes in battlefield conditions. Most of the papers were presented at the annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, the field's most prestigious international gathering. The trend throughout the book is away from critical interest in stories of spatial or territorial conquest and toward works that deal with topics related to wars of temporal logistics and the internationalization of the combat zone, including urban street violence, gender conflicts, and resistance to runaway technology. The essays range from studies of the semantics and linguistics of warfare in science fiction to a critique of Osip Senkovsky's Fantastic Journeys of Baron Brambeus; from writer Joe Haldeman's assessment of the impact of his Vietnam experiences on his fiction to inquiries into a shared author/reader agenda in novels concerning potential mass destruction, including Stephen King's Dead Zone and M. J. Engh's Arslan. The collection also charts new directions in writing, such as the anti-apocalyptic science fiction of Samuel R. Delany, and embraces new modes of presentation, particularly computer animation and the bande dessinee, or illustrated narrative, as exemplified by French novelist Phillippe Druillet's La Nuit. Musician Bob Marley, film actor/directors Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Lee, and the cyberpunk film classics Terminator and the Road Warrior series are among other topics discussed. Together, the essays reinforce the editors' contention that the true function of these fantasies and science fictions is neither nostalgia nor fancy, but analysis. The contributors treat the texts they examine as a means not of playing war games but of understanding the role of war in the present and the future.
Fights Of Fancy
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Author : Dahlia Rose
language : en
Publisher: Dahlia Rose Unscripted
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Fights Of Fancy written by Dahlia Rose and has been published by Dahlia Rose Unscripted this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Jonathon Cavanaugh fell off a ladder after hearing a sexy conversation with him as the star. He looked up to see the woman of his naughty dreams, Fancy McKee. Fancy owned and ran Fantasy Cakes an erotic bakery that was the only one of its kind in Merry, North Carolina. From the time Jonathan met this gorgeous woman he had the urge to sample her lips like one of the cakes she made. When she decided to take care of him after his fall, he saw it as the perfect opportunity to make his move. He’d heard the rumors and saw the look and comments the people of Merry gave her. Jonathan didn’t care about her past. He grew up in this town and knew half of what was said was lies built on a shred of truth. There was more to her than anyone thought, and he relished the idea of finding each new layer. Could the new love they found survive the stigma of a small town mentality?
Fights Of Fancy
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Author : Steve Redshaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-07
Fights Of Fancy written by Steve Redshaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-07 with categories.
Who would win a fight between a potato and a halibut? If a beagle squared up to a cockatoo, who would be the victor? What would be the outcome if a pirate fought a parrot? The answers to these questions - and many more "fights of fancy" - are found within this amusingly illustrated book of comic verse, suitable for all the family.
Race Romanticism And The Atlantic
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Author : Paul Youngquist
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Race Romanticism And The Atlantic written by Paul Youngquist and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
In highlighting the crucial contributions of diasporic people to British cultural production, this important collection defamiliarizes prevailing descriptions of Romanticism as the expression of a national character or culture. The contributors approach the period from the perspective of the Atlantic maritime economy, making a strong case for viewing British Romanticism as the effect of myriad economic and cultural exchanges occurring throughout a circum-Atlantic world driven by an insatiable hunger for sugar and slaves. Typically taken for granted, the material contributions of slaves, sailors, and servants shaped Romanticism both in spite of and because of the severe conditions they experienced throughout the Atlantic world. The essays range from Sierra Leone to Jamaica to Nova Scotia to the metropole, examining not only the desperate circumstances of diasporic peoples but also the extraordinary force of their creativity and resistance. Of particular importance is the emergence of race as a category of identity, class, and containment. Race, Romanticism, and the Atlantic explores that process both economically and theoretically, showing how race ensures the persistence of servitude after abolition. At the same time, the collection never loses sight of the extraordinary contributions diasporic peoples made to British culture during the Romantic era.
The Gentleman S Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1808
The Gentleman S Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1808 with Early English newspapers categories.
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
Flights Of Fancy
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Author : Richard Dawkins
language : en
Publisher: Apollo
Release Date : 2022
Flights Of Fancy written by Richard Dawkins and has been published by Apollo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Science categories.
Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces? Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of flight: from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird Argentavis magnificens, from the Wright flyer and the 747, to the Tinkerbella fairyfly and the Peregrine falcon. But he also explores flights of the mind and escaping the everyday a through science, ideas and imagination.
Blackwood S Magazine 1817 25 Volume 1
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Author : Nicholas Mason
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-01-06
Blackwood S Magazine 1817 25 Volume 1 written by Nicholas Mason and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and entertaining texts which appeared in the Blackwood's Magazine between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of Blackwood's Magazine.
Militarizing Outer Space
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Author : Alexander C.T. Geppert
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-12-02
Militarizing Outer Space written by Alexander C.T. Geppert and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-02 with Science categories.
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.
Fights For The Championship And Celebrated Prize Battles Or Accounts Of All The Battles For The Championship
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Author : Frank L. Dowling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
Fights For The Championship And Celebrated Prize Battles Or Accounts Of All The Battles For The Championship written by Frank L. Dowling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with categories.
A Social History Of Sheffield Boxing Volume I
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Author : Matthew Bell
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-20
A Social History Of Sheffield Boxing Volume I written by Matthew Bell and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-20 with Social Science categories.
A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the masses, the book studies the history of boxing in Sheffield and the sport’s impact on the cultural, political and economic development of the city since the 18th century. Interweaving urban anthropology with sports studies and historical research the text expertly examines a variety of published sources, ranging from academic papers to biographies and from newspaper reports to case studies and contemporary interviews. In Volume I, Bell and Armstrong construct a vivid history of boxing and probe its cultural acceptance in the late 1800s, examining how its rise was inextricably intertwined with the industrial and social development of Sheffield. Although Sheffield was not a national player in prize-fighting’s early days, throughout the mid-1800s, many parochial scores and wagers were settled by the use of fists. By the end of the century, boxing with gloves had become the norm, and Sheffield had a valid claim to be the chief provincial focus of this new passion—largely due to the exploits of George Corfield, Sheffield’s first boxer of national repute. Corfield’s deeds were later surpassed by three British champions: Gus Platts, Johnny Cuthbert and Henry Hall. Concluding with the dual themes of the decline of boxing in Sheffield and the city's changing social profile from the 1950s onwards, the volume ends with a meditation on the arrival of new migrants to the city and the processes that aided or frustrated their integration into UK life and sport.