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"Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. They become actors in the drama--interacting with the characters, offering assistance or hindrance, and making ethical demands. In Here Be Dragons, Stefan Ekman provides a wide-ranging...
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"A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into...
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Unsolicited Press
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[2023]
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English
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"In this dreamy collection by Adam Gibbs, we take a series of surrealistic journeys through American history, its landscapes and cultures with the awe of the cosmos as a spine-chilling backdrop. Gibbs's writing is both appealing and vivid and this is a valuable contribution to the poetry of Americana."--Publisher's description on page 4 of cover.
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"It is hard to believe that the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499, one of the most famous books in the world, read by every Renaissance intellectual and endlessly referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, has never appeared in English. One reason, no doubt, is the length and difficulty of the text. It is a strange, pagan, pedantic, erotic, allegorical, mythological romance relating in highly stylized Italian...
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Routledge
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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This book supplies a neglected cultural context for T.S. Eliot's writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quartets, and explodes the widespread belief in Eliot's unproblematic commitment to England, and to 'Englishness'. In an attempt to contextualise his aspirations towards 'universality', and to show the important limitations on his nationalism, Eliot's later classicism is related to contemporary English and European movements in the visual...