Real Fantasies

Real Fantasies
Author: Patricia Johnston
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 0520321316

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1947793004

Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century. When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism?and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period. In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.

Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250171008

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick "Adeyemi has sparked magic once again." —The New York Times After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could’ve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too. Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, Zélie must fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath. With civil war looming on the horizon, Zélie finds herself at a breaking point: she must discover a way to bring the kingdom together or watch as Orïsha tears itself apart. Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the stunning sequel to Tomi Adeyemi's New York Times-bestselling debut Children of Blood and Bone, the first book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy. Praise for Children of Virtue and Vengeance: “Electrifying . . . With this second book Adeyemi brings a new maturity and depth to the series. Her characters are no longer underdogs on a hero’s journey to return magic―now they are leaders who are suffering from the consequences and trauma of their previous quest.” ―The New York Times “Like its predecessor, Children of Virtue and Vengeance is fast-paced and unafraid to ask tough questions about the cyclical nature of oppression and the systems that enforce it.” ―TIME “Relentless even beyond its finish, this is a sure-fire hit.” ―Booklist, starred review - The Complete Legacy of Orïsha Series: Children of Blood and Bone (Book 1) Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Book 2) Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Book 3)

The Plague of Fantasies

The Plague of Fantasies
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1789604354

Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions-whether those of digital technology or the speculative market. Into this arena, enters Zizek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references-explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter-to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives.

Real Fantasies

Real Fantasies
Author: Real Musgrave
Publisher:
Total Pages: 62
Release: 1986
Genre: Fantasy in art
ISBN:

THE REAL FANTASY

THE REAL FANTASY
Author: Caroline Anderson
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459270274

She was his living fantasy… Dr. Matthew Jarvis advertised for a trainee doctor, preferably female, for his small rural clinic. To his total shock, one of the applicants was Dr. Linsey Wheeler, the girl he had rescued from drowning eight years ago. Even then she had had an impact on him, but the present reality was a far cry from the fantasy he had cherished—it was considerably better! She had never forgotten him—but Matthew didn't consider himself anything special, until Linsey set out to prove him wrong!

Controversies in Analytical Psychology

Controversies in Analytical Psychology
Author: Robert Withers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1134570333

Picks up on divisions within the area of analytical psychology and explores many of the most hotly contested issues, with a group of leading international Jungian authors contributing papers from contrasting perspectives.

Dirty Erotic Oneshots Fantasies

Dirty Erotic Oneshots Fantasies
Author: A Real Fantasy
Publisher: A Real Fantasy
Total Pages: 1205
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Let your sexy imagination and dirty fantasies run wild as you read this book for wet girls and boys ;) WARNING: THIS STORY HAS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE, MATURE CONTENT, NOT SUITABLE FOR VERY YOUNG READERS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Fantasies of Neglect

Fantasies of Neglect
Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0813573629

In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source of empowerment and delight for children. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient, mobile urban child originated and considers why it persists, even as it goes against the grain of social reality. Drawing from a wide range of films, children’s books, adult novels, and sociological texts, Pamela Robertson Wojcik investigates how cities have simultaneously been demonized as dangerous spaces unfit for children and romanticized as wondrous playgrounds that foster a kid’s independence and imagination. Charting the development of free-range urban child characters from Little Orphan Annie to Harriet the Spy to Hugo Cabret, and from Shirley Temple to the Dead End Kids, she considers the ongoing dialogue between these fictional representations and shifting discourses on the freedom and neglect of children. While tracking the general concerns Americans have expressed regarding the abstract figure of the child, the book also examines the varied attitudes toward specific types of urban children—girls and boys, blacks and whites, rich kids and poor ones, loners and neighborhood gangs. Through this diverse selection of sources, Fantasies of Neglect presents a nuanced chronicle of how notions of American urbanism and American childhood have grown up together.