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The Lecturer s Tale
Author | : James Hynes |
Publsiher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781429975759 |
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The author of Publish and Perish returns with a Faustian tale of the horrors of academe Nelson Humbolt is a visiting adjunct English lecturer at prestigious Midwest University, until he is unceremoniously fired one autumn morning. Minutes after the axe falls, his right index finger is severed in a freak accident. Doctors manage to reattach the finger, but when the bandages come off, Nelson realizes that he has acquired a strange power--he can force his will onto others with a touch of his finger. And so he obtains an extension on the lease of his university-owned townhouse and picks up two sections of freshman composition, saving his career from utter ruin. But soon these victories seem inconsequential, and Nelson's finger burns for even greater glory. Now the Midas of academia wonders if he can attain what every struggling assistant professor and visiting lecturer covets--tenure. A pitch-perfect blend of satire and horror, The Lecturer's Tale paints a gruesomely clever portrait of life in academia.
The Truth about Stories
Author | : Thomas King |
Publsiher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780887846960 |
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Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Last Lecture
Author | : Perfection Learning Corporation |
Publsiher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1663608199 |
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Una a tale
Author | : M. Bird |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600089076 |
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Envisioning The Tale of Genji
Author | : Haruo Shirane |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2008-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231513463 |
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Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years. The essays examine the canonization of the work from the late Heian through the medieval, Edo, Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei periods, revealing its profound influence on a variety of genres and fields, including modern nation building. They also consider parody, pastiche, and re-creation of the text in various popular and mass media. Since the Genji was written by a woman for female readers, contributors also take up the issue of gender and cultural authority, looking at the novel's function as a symbol of Heian court culture and as an important tool in women's education. Throughout the volume, scholars discuss achievements in visualization, from screen painting and woodblock prints to manga and anime. Taking up such recurrent themes as cultural nostalgia, eroticism, and gender, this book is the most comprehensive history of the reception of The Tale of Genji to date, both in the country of its origin and throughout the world.
Lectures on the History of the Church of God A D 31 168 Delivered at Tetbury Gloucestershire
Author | : William-R. Brownlow |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Church history |
ISBN | : NLS:V000551535 |
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Leonard and Dennis Or The Soldier s Life A Tale
Author | : Edward Monro |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V000638353 |
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Lectures on the Council of Trent
Author | : James Anthony Froude |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Council of Trent |
ISBN | : PRNC:32101059594711 |
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Half title: The Council of Trent. "First published 1896; reissued."