Wanderer Paradox

Author : Simon Goodson
Publisher : Dark Soul Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910586455
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wanderer - Paradox written by Simon Goodson and published by Dark Soul Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Wanderer really hidden aboard the Glimmer or is Kaira losing her mind? The uncertainty is terrifying. If she is losing her mind, then how much damage did the devices attacking her body cause before they were stopped? And if not, why is Tarkus lying when he knows it makes her question her sanity? Kaira needs time to process the whirlwind of recent events. Instead, she and Tarkus are dragged into trying to help a group of slaves who’ve managed to free themselves. Between the danger and excitement other thoughts get pushed into the background. But as events unfold the question of her sanity is forced to the fore once more, with the freedom of thousands depending on one question... is she losing her mind?

Author : R. F. Leslie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wanderer written by R. F. Leslie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret McAllister
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351033409
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity, Culture and Image written by Margaret McAllister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture, to understand nursing’s complex identities, challenges and future directions. It critically analyses disquieting representations of nurses who don’t care, who kill, who inspire fear or who do not comply with laws and policies. Also addressed are stories about how power is used, as well as supernatural experiences in nursing. Using a series of examples taken from popular culture ranging from film, television and novels to memoirs and true crime podcasts, it interrogates the meaning of the shadow side of nursing and the underlying paradoxes that influence professional identity. Iconic nursing figures are still powerful today. Decades after they were first created, Ratched and Annie Wilkes continue to make readers and viewers shudder at the prospect of ever being ill. Modern storytelling modes are bringing to audiences the grim reality that some nurses are members of the working poor, like Cath Hardacre in Trust Me, and others can be dangerous con artists, like the nurse in Dirty John. This book is important reading for all those interested in understanding the links between nursing’s image and the profession’s potential as an agent for change.

Author : Fred Botting
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415251143
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic: Eighteenth-century Gothic : Radcliffe, reader, writer, romancer written by Fred Botting and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.

Author : Manfred Pfister
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042012882
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of English Laughter written by Manfred Pfister and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a 'history' of laughter? Or isn't laughter an anthropological constant rather and thus beyond history, a human feature that has defined humanity as homo ridens from cave man and cave woman to us? The contributors to this collection of essays believe that laughter does have a history and try to identify continuities and turning points of this history by studying a series of English texts, both canonical and non-canonical, from Anglosaxon to contemporary. As this is not another book on the history of the comic or of comedy it does not restrict itself to comic genres; some of the essays actually go out of their way to discover laughter at the margins of texts where one would not have expected it all - in Beowulf, or Paradise Lost or the Gothic Novel. Laughter at the margins of texts, which often coincides with laughter from the margins of society and its orthodoxies, is one of the special concerns of this book. This goes together with an interest in 'impure' forms of laughter - in laughter that is not the serene and intellectually or emotionally distanced response to a comic stimulus which is at the heart of many philosophical theories of the comic, but emotionally disturbed and troubled, aggressive and transgressive, satanic and sardonic laughter. We do not ask, then, what is comic, but: who laughs at and with whom where, when, why, and how?

Author : Ralf Haekel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110393409
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of British Romanticism written by Ralf Haekel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of British Romanticism is a state of the art investigation of Romantic literature and theory, a field that probably changed more quickly and more fundamentally than any other traditional era in literary studies. Since the early 1980s, Romantic studies has widened its scope significantly: The canon has been expanded, hitherto ignored genres have been investigated and new topics of research explored. After these profound changes, intensified by the general crisis of literary theory since the turn of the millennium, traditional concepts such as subjectivity, imagination and the creative genius have lost their status as paradigms defining Romanticism. The handbook will feature discussions of key concepts such as history, class, gender, science and the use of media as well as a thorough account of the most central literary genres around the turn of the 19th century. The focus of the book, however, will lie on a discussion of key literary texts in the light of the most recent theoretical developments. Thus, the Handbook of British Romanticism will provide students with an introduction to Romantic literature in general and literary scholars with a discussion of innovative and groundbreaking theoretical developments.

Author : Sharon M. Gallagher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627967
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Vampire written by Sharon M. Gallagher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  The origins of the vampire can be traced through oral traditions, ancient texts and archaeological discoveries, its nature varying from one culture to the next up until the 20th century. Three 19th century Irish writers—Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker—used the obscure vampire of folklore in their fiction and developed a universally recognizable figure, culminating in Stoker’s Dracula and the vampire of today’s popular culture. Maturin, Le Fanu and Stoker did not set out to transform the vampire of regional folk tales into a global phenomenon. Their personal lives, national concerns and extensive reading were reflected in their writing, striking a chord with readers and recasting the vampire as distinctly Irish. This study traces the genealogy of the modern literary vampire from European mythology through the Irish literature of the 1800s.

Author : Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131720641X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Immortals (Routledge Revivals) written by Marie Mulvey-Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated ‘Rosicrucian’ and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts. Taking the Enlightenment as a starting point, the author shows how the physician’s secular appropriation of the idea of eternal life, through the study of longevity and physical decay, attracted writers like William Godwin. It focuses on the bodily immortality of the Rosicrucian hero and investigates the novels of five major writers — Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Maturin, and Bulwer-Lytton.

Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329729854
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of the Poetic "Wanderer" In the Age Of Goethe written by Julian Scutts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes the "Wanderer," the word used by Goethe and Romantic poets, as a phenomenon many features of which require hitherto lacking explanations. A promising approach to this issue can be found by applying methods of textual analysis pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure and the Russian Formalists

Author : Julie Rak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007739
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book False Summit written by Julie Rak and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit" – a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle – and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics.