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Wonderworks
Author | : Angus Fletcher |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781982135980 |
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"A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--
The Modern Myths
Author | : Philip Ball |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2022-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226823843 |
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With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called “modern myths.” But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did. Through the medium of narratives that all of us know in their basic outline and which have no clear moral or resolution, these modern myths explore some of our deepest fears, dreams, and anxieties. We keep returning to these tales, reinventing them endlessly for new uses. But what are they really about, and why do we need them? What myths are still taking shape today? And what makes a story become a modern myth? In The Modern Myths, Ball takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our collective imagination, asking what some of its most popular stories reveal about the nature of being human in the modern age.
Wonderworks
Author | : Michael Whelan |
Publsiher | : Walsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0915442744 |
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A collection of 100 paintings by one of the foremost illustrators of fantasy and science fiction.
Wonder Works
Author | : Courtney Conant,Naci Littlejohn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-04-30 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 069211162X |
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Borges and Me
Author | : Jay Parini |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-11-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781984899491 |
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In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges—visiting his translator in Scotland—is in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears that Parini owns a 1957 Morris Minor, he declares a long-held wish to visit the Highlands, where he hopes to meet a man in Inverness who is interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. As they travel, stopping at various sites of historical interest, the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of Western literature and ideas, while promising to teach him about love and poetry. As Borges’s idiosyncratic world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles shimmers into being, their escapades take a surreal turn. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. It’s also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and when—as ever—it’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.
Split Tooth
Author | : Tanya Tagaq |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780143198048 |
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Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them. A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this. Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains. Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget.
The Wonder Weeks
Author | : Frans X. Plooij,Hetty van de Rijt,Xaviera Plas |
Publsiher | : Wonder Weeks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9491882163 |
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"This is not a book about how to make your child into a genius, however. We firmly believe that every child is unique and intelligent in his own way. It is a book on how to understand and cope with your baby when he is difficult and how to enjoy him most as he grows. It is about the joys and sorrows of growing with your baby."--Publisher's website.
Reading Wonderworks Interactive Worktext Grade 2
Author | : SHANAHAN,McGraw-Hill |
Publsiher | : McGraw-Hill Education |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2013-05-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0021297940 |
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The Interactive Worktext for grades 2-6 is a scaffolded version of the Reading Wonders Reading/Writing Workshop. It allows students to interact with complex texts through close reading by taking notes, marking text evidence, and writing responses in their own print or eBook version.