Zone Of The Marvellous

Author : Martin Edmond
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775582477
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zone of the Marvellous written by Martin Edmond and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative and cerebral, this volume recounts the fantastic history of the antipodes—namely Australia and New Zealand—from the Western perspective over the course of the past five millennia. Tracing the fiction underlying the fact in the tales of, among others, Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Thomas More, this remarkable compilation explores the imagination of travelers, writers, map-makers, charlatans, and rogues who dreamed of other worlds. Delving into the Australian character and the New Zealand psyche, this account also conveys an insightful glimpse into Western history.

Author : María Alonso Alonso
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004302395
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diasporic Marvellous Realism written by María Alonso Alonso and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diasporic Marvellous Realism urges a deeper dialogue between postcolonial and Latin American literary theory in order to analyse the influence that the latter has exerted on the former and thus to indicate the constant feedback between these two traditions.

Author : Zoe Alderton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875937
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Colin McCahon written by Zoe Alderton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirit of Colin McCahon provides a vivid historical contextualisation of New Zealand’s premier modern artist, clearly explaining his esoteric religious themes and symbols. Via a framework of visual rhetoric, this book explores the social factors that formed McCahon’s religious and environmental beliefs, and justifications as to why his audience often missed the intended point of spiritual his discourse – or chose to ignore it. The Spirit of Colin McCahon tracks the intricate process by which the artist’s body of work turned from optimism to misery, and explains the many communicative techniques he employed in order to arrest suspicion towards his Christian prophecy. More broadly, The Spirit of Colin McCahon outlines a model of analysis for the intersection of art and religion, and the place of images as rhetorical devices within Antipodean culture. The emerging field of religion and visual culture is important not only to students of New Zealand art history, but also to a growing field of appreciation for the communicative power of images. This book provides a helpful model for examining art and literature as social and religious tools, and advances the importance of visual rhetoric within studies of art and social expression.

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190933135
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boundless Sea written by David Abulafia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world's oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization. From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, ("Magnificent . . . radiates scholarship and a sense of wonder and fun," Simon Sebag Montefiore; Book of the Year, The Economist), David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans--the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian--which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people--free and enslaved--across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Far more than merely another history of exploration, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks gradually formed a continuum of interaction and interconnection. Working chronologically, Abulafia moves from the earliest forays of peoples taking hand-hewn canoes into uncharted waters, to the routes taken daily by supertankers in the thousands. History on the grandest scale and scope, written with passion and precision, this is a project few could have undertaken. Abulafia, whom The Atlantic calls "superb writer with a gift for lucid compression and an eye for the telling detail," proves again why he ranks as one of the world's greatest storytellers.

Author : William Clifton Phalen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mineral Resources of Johnstown, Pennsylvania and Vicinity written by William Clifton Phalen and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edson Sunderland Bastin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geology of the Pegmatites and Associated Rocks of Maine written by Edson Sunderland Bastin and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860919933
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alien Zone written by Annette Kuhn and published by Verso. This book was released on 1990-05-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, bringing science fiction cinema into the ambit of film and cultural theory.