The Decadent Traveller
DOWNLOAD
Download The Decadent Traveller PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Decadent Traveller book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Decadent Traveller
DOWNLOAD
Author : Medlar Lucan
language : en
Publisher: Dedalus Concept Books
Release Date : 2000
The Decadent Traveller written by Medlar Lucan and has been published by Dedalus Concept Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Travel categories.
In the same style as The Decadent Cookbook a nd The Decadent Gardener, this book sees the hedonists Medla r Lucan and Durian Gray laying bare the transgressive nature of another bourgeois passion - travel. '
India And The Traveller
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rita Banerjee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-11-18
India And The Traveller written by Rita Banerjee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India. It examines India as a space, reflected on and interrogated by others, as also people associated intrinsically with this space, who move in and out of it. The essays focus on the self-fashioning of the traveller - Buddhist pilgrims of Asia, European visitors to the Mughal court, the British colonizer, the Indian anthropologist, historian or whimsical civil servant, the wanderer seeking spiritual insight in nature, and the woman traveller with her distinct perceptions and sensitivities. Engaging with issues related to identity, this book explores the need for cultural accommodation by African and European travellers, the discovery of affinity by Asian travellers, the instability of postcolonial selves and travel as a means of negotiating complex problems of fashioning personae in literary works.
Science Fiction
DOWNLOAD
Author : Roger Luckhurst
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2005-05-06
Science Fiction written by Roger Luckhurst and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, using the history of science and technology, political and economic history, and cultural theory to develop the means for understanding the unique qualities of the genre. Luckhurst reads science fiction as a literature of modernity. His astute analysis examines how the genre provides a constantly modulating record of how human embodiment is transformed by scientific and technological change and how the very sense of self is imaginatively recomposed in popular fictions that range from utopian possibility to Gothic terror. This highly readable study charts the overlapping yet distinct histories of British and American science fiction, with commentary on the central authors, magazines, movements and texts from 1880 to the present day. It will be an invaluable guide and resource for all students taking courses on science fiction, technoculture and popular literature, but will equally be fascinating for anyone who has ever enjoyed a science fiction book.
The Time Traveller S Almanac
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ann VanderMeer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-11-01
The Time Traveller S Almanac written by Ann VanderMeer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Fiction categories.
The Time Traveller's Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century's worth of literary travels into past and the future. The anthology covers millions of years of Earth's history – from the age of the dinosaurs to strange and fascinating futures, through to the end of Time itself. The Time Traveller's Almanac will reacquaint readers with beloved classics and introduce them to thrilling contemporary examples of the time travel genre. The Time Traveller's Almanac includes stories from Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock and, of course, H.G. Wells.
Travellers In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Tim Youngs
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1994
Travellers In Africa written by Tim Youngs and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
The writings of travellers in Africa during the Golden Age of Victorian exploration often tell us more about 19th-century Britain than about Africa. In this text, the author places these narratives in their historical and cultural context, and examines how racial images may be affected by social change and litarary form.
The Decadent Gardener
DOWNLOAD
Author : Medlar Lucan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Decadent Gardener written by Medlar Lucan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Gardening categories.
This book looks at the role in gardening played by torture, eroticism, blasphemy, the grotesque, narcotics, the artificial, and many other subjects dear to the decadent's heart.
Travel Modernism And Modernity
DOWNLOAD
Author : Robert Burden
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
Travel Modernism And Modernity written by Robert Burden and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradigm and dominant trope by which they explore questions of identity and otherness related to deep-seated concerns with the crisis of national cultural identity. He pays particular attention to the important distinction between travel and tourism, at the same time that he attends to the slippage between seeing and sightseeing, between the local character and the stereotype, between art and kitsch, and between older and newer ways of storytelling in the representational crisis of modernism. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism, resulting in a consciousness of cultural difference that challenged the ethnographic project of empire.
The Time Traveller S Almanac Part Ii Reactionaries
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ann VanderMeer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-01
The Time Traveller S Almanac Part Ii Reactionaries written by Ann VanderMeer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Fiction categories.
Beware the butterfly effect! With stories from Ray Bradbury, George R.R. Martin, Harry Turtledove, here are 16 journeys into the past that might just change everything, forever. Intrepid chrononauts Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have scoured time itself to bring you this instalment (the second of four) from their über-guide to exploring the fourth dimension, THE TIME TRAVELLER'S ALMANAC. Be warned: reality will be warped, wormholes opened, paradoxes woven and parallel universes breached. Just as well then that within these pages you'll also find Stan Love's Time Travel in Theory and Practice...
Ancient India
DOWNLOAD
Author : R. C. Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Ancient India written by R. C. Majumdar and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with Art categories.
This is a comprehensive, intelligible and interesting portrait of Ancient Indian History and Civilization from a national historical point of view. The work is divided into three broad divisions of the natural course of cultural development in Ancient India: (1) From the prehistoric age to 600 B.C., (2) From 600 B.C. to 300 A.D., (3) From 300 A.D. to 1200 A.D. The work describes the political, economic, religious and cultural conditions of the country, the expansionist activities, the colonisation schemes of her rulers in the Far East. Political theories and administrative organizations are also discussed but more stress has been laid on the religious, literary and cultural aspects of Ancient India. The book is of a more advanced type. It would meet the needs not only of general readers but also of earnest students who require a thorough grasp of the essential facts and features before taking up specialized study in any branch of the subject. It would also fulfil the requirements of the candidates for competitive examinations in which Ancient Indian History and culture is a prescribed subject.
Decadence And Orientalism In England And Germany 1880 1920
DOWNLOAD
Author : Katharina Herold-Zanker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Decadence And Orientalism In England And Germany 1880 1920 written by Katharina Herold-Zanker 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 2024-03-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 examines the Orientalist portrayal of Middle Eastern cultures in Decadent Literatures in England and Germany at the turn of the century. This book argues that the role of Orientalism in literary Decadence uniquely exposes its paradoxical engagement with other cultures. In bringing together two fin-de-siècle European literatures, this comparative study makes a case for the transnational, if not imperial, nature of Decadence. The East emerges as an 'indispensable' mediator between various versions of European Decadence. The book examines the role of the East with specific reference to selected English and German authors: starting from Oscar Wilde's Victorian vision of Egypt and Arthur Symons's and Violet Fane's image of Constantinople, it moves to Paul Scheerbart's and Else Lasker-Schüler's Decadent Babylon and Assyria and concludes by turning to Stefan George's exclusion of the East from his poetic practice. The geographical reach of the East focuses on regions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Northern Africa. The cultural translation of specifically the Middle East into different European national contexts gains new—sometimes oppositional—meanings, avoiding a one-sided representation of both the East and the two national literatures that absorbed it. In arguing for a Decadent cosmopolitanism as a model of heterogeneous inclusivity that reaches beyond the binaries established by Edward Said's Orientalism, the present book brings twenty-first century theories of cosmopolitanism into dialogue with art history and literature to uncover striking synergies and interdependences between the different manifestations of Decadence in England and Germany.