A Revolution in Tropes

A Revolution in Tropes
Author: Jane S. Sutton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Communication in politics
ISBN: 9780739195048

This book seeks to bring the problem of difference into the ongoing discussions vis-à-vis democratic deliberations about advancing rhetorical theory through the trope of the other, alloiōsis, defined as the figure of difference, exception, and radical otherness.

After the Revolution

After the Revolution
Author: Robert Evans
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849354634

What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse of the "old" United States, extremist militias battle in the crumbling Republic of Texas. As the violence spreads like wildfire and threatens the Free City of Austin, three unlikely allies will have to work together in an act of resistance to stop the advance of the forces of the white Christian ethnostate known as the "Heavenly Kingdom." Out three protagonists include Manny, a fixer that shuttles journalists in and out of war zones and provides footage for outside news agencies. Sasha is a teenage woman that joins the Heavenly Kingdom before she discovers the ugly truths behind their movement. Finally, we have Roland: A US Army vet kitted out with cyberware (including blood that heals major trauma wounds and a brain that can handle enough LSD to kill an elephant), tormented by broken memories, and 12,000 career kills under his belt. In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fueled by hedonistic excess. This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarized domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.

Only Revolutions

Only Revolutions
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375421769

Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the Mississippi, head through the Badlands, and take on other adventures.

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution
Author: Michael Slater
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2024-04-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040013945

Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by new attitudes toward words, what we commonly regard as the “scientific revolution” inevitably bore literary dimensions as well. Literary tropes and forms underwent tremendous reassessment in the seventeenth century, and early modern science was shaped just as powerfully by contest over the place of literary figures, from personification and metaphor to anamorphosis and allegory. In their rejection of teleological explanations of natural motion, for instance, early modern philosophers often disputed the value of personification, a figural projection of interiority onto what was becoming increasingly a mechanical world. And allegory—a dominant mode of literature from the late Middle Ages until well into the Renaissance—became “the vice of those times,” as Thomas Rymer described it in 1674. This book shows that its acute devaluation was possible only in conjunction with a distinctively modern physics. Analyzing writings by Sidney, Shakespeare, Bacon, Jonson, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Hobbes, Descartes, and more, it asserts that the scientific revolution was a literary phenomenon, just as the literary revolution was also a scientific one.

On the Razor's Edge

On the Razor's Edge
Author: Michael Flynn
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765334801

The climactic conclusion of the saga that began with The January Dancer

Tropics of Haiti

Tropics of Haiti
Author: Marlene L. Daut
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2015-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1781388806

A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about ‘race’ affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.

The Star Fraction

The Star Fraction
Author: Ken MacLeod
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765301567

Moh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory-enhancing drugs, fleeing the US/UN's technology cops. Jordan Brown is a teenager in the Christian enclave of Beulah City, dealing in theologically-correct software for the world's fundamentalists-and wants out. In a balkanized twenty-first century, where the "peace process" is deadlier than war, the US/UN's spy satellites have everyone in their sights. But the Watchmaker has other plans, and the lives of Moh, Janis, and Jordan are part of the program. A specter is haunting the fight for space and freedom, the specter of the betrayed revolution that happened before. . . . With The Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod burst onto the SF scene and began the Fall Revolution sequence that continued with The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road.

The Cassini Division

The Cassini Division
Author: Ken MacLeod
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312870442

"Now Ellen has a plan to rid humanity of this threat once and for all. But she needs to recruit the right people to her cause - and convince them to mistrust the post-humans as much as she does."--BOOK JACKET.

The Red Necklace

The Red Necklace
Author: Sally Gardner
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1440637946

A mysterious gypsy boy, Yann Margoza, and his guardian, a dwarf, work for the magician Topolain in 1789. On the night of Topolain's death, Yann's life truly begins. That's when he meets Sido, an heiress with a horrible father. An attachment is born that will determine both their paths. Revolution is afoot in France, and Sido is being used as a pawn. Only Yann will dare to rescue her from a fearful villain named Count Kalliovski. It will take all of Yann's newly discovered talent to unravel the mysteries of Sido's past and his own and to fight the devilish count.