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Author : John M. Logsdon
Release : 1995
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Exploring the Unknown by : John M. Logsdon
Download or read book Exploring the Unknown written by John M. Logsdon. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leean Lewis-Ramirez
Release : 2017-09-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 109/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fate Unknown by : Leean Lewis-Ramirez
Download or read book Fate Unknown written by Leean Lewis-Ramirez. This book was released on 2017-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate Unknown By: Leeann Lewis-Ramirez Fate Unknown is a novel inspired by adolescent years spent entirely in the world of fantasy. The original draft of the novel started the author’s freshman year of high school and was completed a month before graduating, with multiple edits since. This is the story of a secret Mystic Society blending in with modern civilization. It centers on a fourteen-year-old girl’s struggle to fit into both. With a prophecy hanging over her head and a war threatening to begin, Kana Young must team up with Lost Mystics and try to fend off the first wave of darkness.
Author : Tom Geue
Release : 2019-09-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 408/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Author Unknown by : Tom Geue
Download or read book Author Unknown written by Tom Geue. This book was released on 2019-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature. From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us. Classical scholarship tends to treat this anonymity as a problem or game—a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. Author Unknown is the first book to consider anonymity as a site of literary interest rather than a gap that needs filling. We can tether each work to an identity, or we can stand back and ask how the absence of a name affects the meaning and experience of literature. Tom Geue turns to antiquity to show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature. Anonymity supported the illusion of Augustus’s sprawling puppet mastery (Res Gestae), controlled and destroyed the victims of a curse (Ovid’s Ibis), and created out of whole cloth a poetic persona and career (Phaedrus’s Fables). To assume these texts are missing something is to dismiss a source of their power and presume that ancient authors were as hungry for fame as today’s. In this original look at Latin literature, Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time.
Author : Sibylle Baumbach
Release : 2017-11-01
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 387/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fascination with Unknown Time by : Sibylle Baumbach
Download or read book The Fascination with Unknown Time written by Sibylle Baumbach. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siècle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of ‘deep time’ and ‘timelessness’ in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time—past, present, and future alike—in music, film, and science fiction.
Author : James Naremore
Release : 2021-03-25
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 353/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Letter from an Unknown Woman by : James Naremore
Download or read book Letter from an Unknown Woman written by James Naremore. This book was released on 2021-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Naremore's study of Max Ophuls' classic 1948 melodrama, Letter from an Unknown Woman, not only pays tribute to Ophuls but also discusses the backgrounds and typical styles of the film's many contributors--among them Viennese author Stephan Zweig, whose 1922 novella was the source of the picture; producer John Houseman, an ally of Ophuls who nevertheless made questionable changes to what Ophuls had shot; screenwriter Howard Koch; music composer Daniéle Amfitheatrof; designers Alexander Golitzen and Travis Banton; and leading actors Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan, whose performances were central to the film's emotional effect. Naremore also traces the film's reception history, from its middling box office success and mixed early reviews, exploring why it has been a work of exceptional interest to subsequent generations of both aesthetic critics and feminist theorists. Lastly, Naremore provides an in-depth critical appreciation of the film, offering nuanced appreciation of specific details of mise-en-scene, camera movement, design, sound, and performances, integrating this close analyses into an overarching analysis of Letter's “recognition plot;” a trope in which the recognition of a character's identity creates dramatic intensity or crisis. Naremore argues that Letter's use of recognition is one of the most powerful in Hollywood cinema, and contrasts it with what we find in Zweig's novella.
