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A Very English Hero
Author | : Peter J. Conradi |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781408830925 |
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Modest, handsome and a fine poet, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. Brother of E. P. Thompson and lover of Iris Murdoch, Frank was an intellectual idealist, a rare combination of brilliant mind and enormous heart. Of his wartime experiences, Frank wrote prodigiously. His letters, diaries and poetry still read fresh and intimate today - and it is from these that Peter J. Conradi brings vividly to life a brilliantly attractive and courageous personality. Aged just twenty-three, Frank was captured, tortured and executed in Bulgaria. A soldier of principle and integrity, he fought a poet's war; a very English hero from a very different era.
Living on Paper
Author | : Iris Murdoch |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780691180922 |
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For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last years Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice—her life in her own words. Living on Paper—the first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and interesting personal letters—gives, for the first time, a rounded self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than forty of which have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years. The result is the most important book about Murdoch in more than a decade. The letters show a great mind at work—struggling with philosophical problems, trying to bring a difficult novel together, exploring spirituality, and responding pointedly to world events. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its complexity, especially in letters to lovers or close friends, such as the writers Brigid Brophy, Elias Canetti, and Raymond Queneau, philosophers Michael Oakeshott and Philippa Foot, and mathematician Georg Kreisel. We witness Murdoch's emotional hunger, her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable, and her irreverence and sharp sense of humor. We also learn how her private life fed into the plots and characters of her novels, despite her claims that they were not drawn from reality. Direct and intimate, these letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person, making for an extraordinary reading experience.
The Histories of Raphael Samuel
Author | : Sophie Scott-Brown |
Publsiher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2017-05-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781760460372 |
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In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934–1996) in relation to his distinctive form of activist politics as they developed from youthful Cold War communism to the first British New Left, 1960s radicalism to the 1980s history wars. As the catalyst behind the History Workshop movement, Samuel championed the democratisation of history-making and practised an eclectic form of people’s history in his own work. His unique approach was controversial, drawing impassioned responses from across the ideological spectrum, the most sustained critique often coming from his left-wing contemporaries. It is argued here that this compelling figure has been unjustly neglected and that he continues to offer important insights into the politics of history-making in a post-Marxist world.
The Language of Sport
Author | : Adrian Beard |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0415169119 |
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Looks at sport in its wider social context. Examines the way sport sells itself as an agent of social cohesion and is used to sell products. Explores how sporting texts construct ideas about gender and national identity. Uses examples from events as diverse as Wimbledon tennis, Euro '96 and the World Athletics Championships.
The Left Side of History
Author | : Kristen Ghodsee |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822375821 |
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In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance. But these people were not merely anti-fascist; they were pro-communist, idealists moved by their socialist principles to fight and sometimes die for a cause they believed to be right. Victory brought forty years of communist dictatorship followed by unbridled capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today in democratic Eastern Europe there is ever-increasing despair, disenchantment with the post-communist present, and growing nostalgia for the communist past. These phenomena are difficult to understand in the West, where “communism” is a dirty word that is quickly equated with Stalin and Soviet labor camps. By starting with the stories of people like Thompson and Lagadinova, Ghodsee provides a more nuanced understanding of how communist ideals could inspire ordinary people to make extraordinary sacrifices.
A Necessary Fantasy
Author | : Dudley Jones,Tony Watkins |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000526073 |
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This book addresses a variety of issues through the examination of heroic figures in children's popular literature, comics, film, and television.
A Hero Like You
Author | : Nikki Rogers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2020-10-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0648723232 |
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A Hero Like You looks at everyday heroes and highlights qualities such as loyalty, compassion, resourcefulness, justice, and courage. The lyrical rhyme and relatable illustrations remind us that we all have the opportunity to be a hero by helping others, doing right and making the world a better place. "What the world needs is a hero like you!"
Heroines and Heroes Symbolism Embodiment Narratives Identity
Author | : Christopher Hart |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Group identity |
ISBN | : 9780955124433 |
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