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Author | : Joshua Esty |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2009-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400825741 |
This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism.
Author | : Cai Emmons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781597093248 |
A scientist who has the power to influence the Earth's forces tries to teach her skill to kindred souls from around the world.
Author | : Hugh Kenner |
Publisher | : New York : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
The island, of course, is England. Having considered the modern writers of America in A Homemade World and Ireland in A Colder Eye, Kenner turns to the third of International Modernism's "three provinces." His judgment is often harsh -- he argues that in the last quarter of the twentieth century "there's no longer an English literature" -- but his book is a pure delight in its pungent, lively, and thoughtful amalgam of anecdote and critical analysis, detective work and celebration.
Author | : Duck Robert Duck |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-07-29 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : 1474467857 |
'The oceans are the graveyards of the lands.' Lands become eaten away by the action of the seas, and it is no surprise to find that most of the world's shorelines are in a state of erosion. The fringes of Britain, its cliffs and beaches, are shrinking, disappearing into the surrounding sea as a result of coastal flooding, erosion and landsliding. Is climate change speeding up the process; are our homes, our villages and towns, at risk? This book examines how the British coast is changing and why - and what is being done to protect this island nation. Are we doing enough? Should we abandon vulnerable towns and villages to the seas as our forebears did and relocate coastal settlements inland? These are some of the difficult and potentially emotive questions that this book explores. Blending contemporary earth science and societal themes with historical and cultural records, and a hint of myth and romance for good measure, This Shrinking Land is a fascinating study of what we must learn from the past in order to manage the future of Britain's coasts. With more than 100 illustrations, most of them in colour, this is a stunning book.
Author | : Joshua D. Esty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Decolonization |
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Author | : William B. Cronin |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2005-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801874352 |
An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.
Author | : Corinne Demas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2011-06-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781937146009 |
Author | : Ralph B. Alexander |
Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-12-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1628943653 |
Evidence and logic are lacking in many areas of public debate today on hot-button issues ranging from dietary fat to vaccination. In Science Under Attack, Dr. Alexander shows how science is being abused, sidelined or ignored, making it difficult or impossible for the public to form a reasoned opinion about important issues. Readers will learn why science is becoming more corrupt, and also how it is being abused for political and economic gain, support of activism, or the propping up of religious beliefs. To illustrate how science is being ignored and abused, the author examines six different issues and the way they are currently discussed: evolution, dietary fat, climate change, vaccination, GMO crops and continental drift. In his research, he has gone back to the original source wherever possible rather than quoting second-hand sources, adding a degree of accuracy and nuance often missing. The controversial assertion that science does not support the conventional wisdom on climate change should be of particular interest. Alexander shows that the scientific evidence for a substantial human contribution to climate change is actually flimsy, and he demonstrates the fallacy of comparing the strong link between smoking and lung cancer to the much weaker connection between human activity and global warming.
Author | : Frank E. Peretti |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2004-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781581346190 |
The Coopers head to a South Sea island in search of missionary Adam MacKenzie. They must decide whether the man they find is the real Adam MacKenzie, and discover what he has to do with the disasters threatening the island.
Author | : Jacques Pasquet |
Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2017-08-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 145981567X |
There's an invisible creature in the waves around Sarichef. It is altering the lives of the Iñupiat people who call the island home. A young girl and her family are forced to move to the center of the island for refuge from the rising sea level. Soon the entire village will have to relocate to the mainland. Heartbroken, the young girl and her grandfather worry: what else will be lost when they are forced to abandon their homes and their community? Addressing the topic of climate refugees, My Wounded Island is based on the challenges faced by the Iñupiat people who live on the small islands north of the Bering Strait near the Arctic Circle.