Inventions Of Nemesis
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Author | : Douglas Mao |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691211647 |
A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae Lee Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on utopia’s fundamental project. Noting that utopian imagining has often been propelled by an angry conviction that society is badly arranged, Douglas Mao argues that utopia’s essential aim has not been to secure happiness, order, or material goods, but rather to establish a condition of justice in which all have what they ought to have. He also makes the case that hostility to utopias has frequently been associated with a fear that they will transform humanity beyond recognition, doing away with the very subjects who should receive justice in a transformed world. Further, he shows how utopian writing speaks to contemporary debates about immigration, labor, and other global justice issues. Along the way, Inventions of Nemesis connects utopia to the Greek concept of nemesis, or indignation at a wrong ordering of things, and advances fresh readings of dozens of writers and thinkers—from Plato, Thomas More, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and H. G. Wells to John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Fredric Jameson, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Chang-Rae Lee. Ambitious and timely, Inventions of Nemesis offers a vital reconsideration of what it really means to imagine an ideal society.
Author | : Philip Roth |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030747500X |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in a close-knit Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak in 1944, a “book [that] has the elegance of a fable and the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama” (The New Yorker)—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As the devastating disease begins to ravage Bucky’s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, suffering, and pain. Moving between the streets of Newark and a pristine summer camp high in the Poconos, Nemesis tenderly and startlingly depicts Cantor’s passage into personal disaster, the condition of childhood, and the painful effect that the wartime polio epidemic has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.
Author | : Emile Legouis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : S. J. Kincaid |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481472690 |
“The perfect kind of high-pressure adventure.” —TeenVogue.com A New York Times bestseller! Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic novel about what happens when a senator’s daughter is summoned to the galactic court as a hostage, but she’s really the galaxy’s most dangerous weapon in disguise. A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you’ve been created for. Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator’s daughter, Sidonia. The two have grown up side by side, but are in no way sisters. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. She would also take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe. When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia’s father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court. She is to serve as a hostage. Now, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her. Nemesis travels to the court disguised as Sidonia—a killing machine masquerading in a world of corrupt politicians and two-faced senators’ children. It’s a nest of vipers with threats on every side, but Nemesis must keep her true abilities a secret or risk everything. As the Empire begins to fracture and rebellion looms closer, Nemesis learns there is something more to her than just deadly force. She finds a humanity truer than what she encounters from most humans. Amidst all the danger, action, and intrigue, her humanity just might be the thing that saves her life—and the empire.
Author | : Emile Legouis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Ellen Potter |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780399247057 |
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
Author | : William Vaughn Moody |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Anna Humphrey |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2013-12-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1442480270 |
Ruby is determined to win the gold with her fifth-grade science fair project, a Rube Goldberg machine to help her grandfather, but the real prize turns out to be something completely unexpected.
Author | : National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Industrial arts |
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Author | : Charles Benjamin Norton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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