Epic / everyday
Title | Epic / everyday PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Cardwell |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2023-05-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1526170213 |
An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship. Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Epic / everyday explores the presence within television of the epic and the everyday. It argues that attention to ideas of the epic and notions of the everyday can illuminate television programmes in new ways. The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, including Game of Thrones, Lost and Dr Who. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.
Every Day Is Epic
Title | Every Day Is Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Kate McDevitt |
Publisher | Workman Publishing |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2017-10-17 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 0761189408 |
It’s your life, in your own words. In this one-year guided journal from artist Mary Kate McDevitt, every entry sparks creativity and self-reflection with inspiring prompts, upbeat affirmations, and interactive doodles. Chronicle big plans and budding ideas. Jot down daydreams or forecast your mood. Rate the day’s accomplishments: major, minor, or meh? With quirky humor and vibrant illustrations, every page is a celebration of the adventures, discoveries, and joys that make your life uniquely epic.
Every Day Is Exciting
Title | Every Day Is Exciting PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Jules |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2018-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1515823431 |
When Sofia is around, every moment of every day is exciting. This spunky 7-year-old can even make having the hiccups fun! Can you imagine what kind of fun Sofia will have at her first quincea_era or when the lights go out? No matter what happens, it will be memorable if Sofia is involved! This early chapter book from the Sofia Martinez series includes Spanish words in the text and a Spanish glossary.
Recycle Every Day
Title | Recycle Every Day PDF eBook |
Author | Tammy Gagne |
Publisher | Kids Save the Earth |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781607535201 |
Guided reading level: G. Lexile level: 340L ; MetaMetrics, Inc.
The Evolutions of Modernist Epic
Title | The Evolutions of Modernist Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Václav Paris |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2021-01-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192638653 |
Modernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed. As a radical form of national fiction it appeared in many parts of the world in the early twentieth century. Reading a selection of works from the United States, England, Ireland, Czechoslovakia, and Brazil, The Evolutions of Modernist Epic develops a comparative theory of this genre and its global development. That development was, it argues, bound up with new ideas about biological evolution. During the first decades of the twentieth century—a period known, in the history of evolutionary science, as 'the eclipse of Darwinism'—evolution's significance was questioned, rethought, and ultimately confined to the Neo-Darwinist discourse with which we are familiar today. Epic fiction participated in, and was shaped by, this shift. Drawing on queer forms of sexuality to cultivate anti-heroic and non-progressive modes of telling national stories, the genre contested reductive and reactionary forms of social Darwinism. The book describes how, in doing so, the genre asks us to revisit our assumptions about ethnolinguistics and organic nationalism. It also models how the history of evolutionary thought can provide a new basis for comparing diverse modernisms and their peculiar nativisms.
American Modern(ist) Epic
Title | American Modern(ist) Epic PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Nemmers |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1949979679 |
American Modern(ist) Epic argues that during the 1920s and ‘30s a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. Rather than adhere to the reification of static culture (as did ancient verse epic), in their prose epics Gertrude Stein and John Dos Passos utilized recursion, bricolage, and polyphony to represent the multifarious immediacy and movement of the modern world. Meanwhile, H. T. Tsiang and Richard Wright created absurd and insipid anti-heroes for their epics, contesting the hegemony of Anglo and capitalist dominance in the United States. In all, I posit, these modern(ist) epic novels undermined and revised the foundational ideology of the United States, contesting notions of individualism, progress, and racial hegemony while modernizing the epic form in an effort to refound the nation. The marriage of this classical form to modernist principles produced transcendent literature and offered a strenuous challenge to the interwar status quo, yet ultimately proved a failure: longstanding American ideology was simply too fixed and widespread to be entirely dislodged.
The Diary
Title | The Diary PDF eBook |
Author | Batsheva Ben-Amos |
Publisher | |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0253046963 |
The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.