Queequegs Coffin

Author : Patrik Svensson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262328372
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Humanities and the Digital written by Patrik Svensson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. Between Humanities and the Digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly to digital and information technology as both a scholarly tool and a cultural object in need of analysis. The contributors explore the state of the art in digital humanities from varied disciplinary perspectives, offer a sample of digitally inflected work that ranges from an analysis of computational literature to the collaborative development of a “Global Middle Ages” humanities platform, and examine new models for knowledge production and infrastructure. Their contributions show not only that the digital has prompted the humanities to move beyond traditional scholarly horizons, but also that the humanities have pushed the digital to become more than a narrowly technical application. Contributors Ian Bogost, Anne Cong-Huyen, Mats Dahlström, Cathy N. Davidson, Johanna Drucker, Amy E. Earhart, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Maurizio Forte, Zephyr Frank, David Theo Goldberg, Jennifer González, Jo Guldi, N. Katherine Hayles, Geraldine Heng, Larissa Hjorth, Tim Hutchings, Henry Jenkins, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Cecilia Lindhé, Alan Liu, Elizabeth Losh, Tara McPherson, Chandra Mukerji, Nick Montfort, Jenna Ng, Bethany Nowviskie, Jennie Olofsson, Lisa Parks, Natalie Phillips, Todd Presner, Stephen Rachman, Patricia Seed, Nishant Shah, Ray Siemens, Jentery Sayers, Jonathan Sterne, Patrik Svensson, William G. Thomas III, Whitney Anne Trettien, Michael Widner

Author : Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082234954X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queequeg's Coffin written by Birgit Brander Rasmussen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville.

Author : Scott Skipper
Publisher : Scott Skipper
ISBN 13 : 146604294X
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stainless Steel Coffin written by Scott Skipper and published by Scott Skipper. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coffin, Scarcely Used written by Colin Watson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gwendoline Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coffin Tree written by Gwendoline Butler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coffin Tree grows in London's Second City. The upper branches have been struck by lightning which would have killed most trees, but not this one. Near it, a shrouded body has been burnt on what looks like a funeral pyre. Had the victim voluntarily climbed onto the fire, as one eyewitness reports, or was it murder? The frazzled corpse turns out to be only one of a whole sweep of killings in a case that begins with the death of two of John Coffin's own detectives and which forces him to question his own judgement. Police procedural.

Author : Thomas McGrath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Coffin Has No Handles written by Thomas McGrath and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Lucky
Publisher : Ann Charles
ISBN 13 : 9781940364629
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life at the Coffin Joint written by Sam Lucky and published by Ann Charles. This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life at the Coffin Joint

Author : Linda C. Cahir
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313029970
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solitude and Society in the Works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton written by Linda C. Cahir and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-02-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay between solitude and society was a particularly persistent theme in nineteenth-century American literature, though writers approached this theme in different ways. Poe explored the metaphysical significance of isolation and held solitude in high esteem; Hawthorne viewed the theme in moral terms and examined the obligation of each individual to the larger community; and Emerson maintained that the contradictory states of self-reliance and solidarity are fundamental to human happiness. Herman Melville emerged with an ontological response to this issue. Questioning the nature of being, he argued that humans are essentially isolated creatures. While he grants that we are free to choose how we conduct our lives, whether in solitude or in society, we cannot escape the essential condition of our alienation. Thus in Moby-Dick, he coins the term Isolato to signify the inherent separateness of all individuals. Writing some fifty years later, Edith Wharton reached the same conclusion. This book argues that Wharton's views on solitude and society were strongly parallel to those of Melville. Scholars have generally held that Wharton was primarily influenced by the great English, French, and Russian writers of the nineteenth century; and that with the exception of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry James, she neglected the influence of American literature almost entirely. This study demonstrates that Wharton read a significant portion of Melville's writings, that she reflected on the nature and achievement of his works, and that her consideration of his importance emerged during very significant moments in her life, when she was forced to grapple with her own place as an individual in relation to a larger community. Though Melville and Wharton initially seem disparate, this book shows that they had much in common. By studying the two authors side by side, this volume reveals that they shared a similar way of seeing the world, particularly with respect to their considerations of solitude and society. Through their solitary characters, Melville and Wharton question the relationship of self and society and thus engage a universal problem of special interest to the nineteenth century.

Author : James H. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East India Company and the Provinces in the Eighteenth Century: Portsmouth and the East India Company, 1700-1815 written by James H. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trilogy of volumes draws on study of the East India Company's archive and upon the holdings of 24 other repositories. Archives all over Europe and the USA were consulted. The provincial impact of England's largest, most powerful, caring and successful of commercial undertakings is assessed. This first volume examines the East India Company's relationship with, and impact upon the mighty military and naval town of Portsmouth, considering local, regional, national and international developments during the crucial period of 1700 to 1815.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 024149107X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penguin Readers Level 7: Moby Dick (ELT Graded Reader) written by Herman Melville and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. Moby Dick, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past. When the young sailor "Ishmael" decides to sail on the Pequod with the mysterious Captain Ahab, he has no idea about Ahab's plans to get revenge on the great white whale Moby Dick. Ahab wants to find and kill the whale at any cost - even if it means losing his ship and his crew. Visit the Penguin Readers website Register to access online resources including tests, worksheets and answer keys. Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook).