White Horizon

White Horizon
Author: Jen Hill
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-01-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791472309

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Home on the Horizon

Home on the Horizon
Author: Sally Bayley
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781906165154

In this study of space and place, Sally Bayley examines the meaning of 'home' in American literature and culture. Moving from the nineteenth-century homestead of Emily Dickinson to the present-day reality of Bob Dylan, Bayley investigates the relationship of the domestic frontier to the wide-open spaces of the American outdoors. In contemporary America, she argues, the experience of home is increasingly isolated, leading to unsettling moments of domestic fallout. At the centre of the book is the exposed and often shifting domain of the domestic threshold: Emily Dickinson's doorstep, Edward Hopper's doors and windows, and Harper Lee's front porch. Bayley tracks these historically fragile territories through contemporary literature and film, including Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, Lars Von Trier's Dogville, and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - works that explore local, domestic territories as emblems of nation. The culturally potent sites of the american home - the hearth, porch, backyard, front lawn, bathroom, and basement - are positioned in relation to the more conflicted sites of the American motel and hotel.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 868
Release: 1901
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

On the Horizon

On the Horizon
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2020
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 0358129400

From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak. Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this stunning work in verse for young readers. On the Horizon tells the story of people whose lives were lost or forever altered by the twin tragedies of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. Based on the lives of soldiers at Pearl Harbor and civilians in Hiroshima, On the Horizon contemplates humanity and war through verse that sings with pain, truth, and the importance of bridging cultural divides. This masterful work emphasizes empathy and understanding in search of commonality and friendship, vital lessons for students as well as citizens of today's world. Kenard Pak's stunning illustrations depict real-life people, places, and events, making for an incredibly vivid return to our collective past. In turns haunting, heartbreaking, and uplifting, On The Horizon will remind readers of the horrors and heroism in our past, as well as offer hope for our future.

Memoir

Memoir
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1928
Genre: Geology
ISBN:

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: University of Texas at Austin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1912
Genre: Geology
ISBN: