The Languages of Difference
The Languages of Difference

Author: Ronald E. Martin

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780874139044

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Focusing on American culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The Languages of Difference studies the pervasive and potent notion of the primitive - a notion with dubious colonialist backgrounds and intricate involvement with ideas of color and race, civilization and culture. Human difference and the relationship to the Other were highstakes issues both globally and within societies like the U.S., but this key defining term, the primitive, often provided only a crude amalgam of perceived difference, ethnic and personal bias, and indiscriminate classification of a variety of unfamiliar customs and characteristics. Its uses and significations, like the attitudes it projected, were various and changing.

Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque
Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque

Author: Shun-Liang Chao

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1351551132

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How are we to define what is grotesque, in art or literature? Since the Renaissance the term has been used for anything from the fantastic to the monstrous, and been associated with many artistic genres, from the Gothic to the danse macabre. Shun-Liang Chao's new study adopts a rigorous approach by establishing contradictory physicality and the notion of metaphor as two keys to the construction of a clear identity of the grotesque. With this approach, Chao explores the imagery of Richard Crashaw, Charles Baudelaire, and Rene Magritte as individual exemplars of the grotesque in the Baroque, Romantic, and Surrealist ages, in order to suggest a lineage of this curious aesthetic and to cast light on the functions of the visual and of the verbal in evoking it.

Mercury Rapids
Mercury Rapids

Author: Steven Johnson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-07

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 059536358X

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The countdown has begun and Earth is in jeopardy once more! Bill Lewis is once again flung into events beyond his control when he learns that the evil, reptilian aliens known as the Others have begun construction of a devastating weapon on the Moon. Can the combined forces of Earth's secret UFO agencies defeat them as they did once before? What part will Bill Lewis play in this terrifying 'war of the worlds'? And why do the enigmatic Greys continue to probe his mind? Mercury Rapids: The Mountains of Tomorrow explosively concludes the trilogy that began with Mercury Rapids and continued with Mercury Rapids: The Thoth Imperative.

Barometer Rising
Barometer Rising

Author: Hugh Maclennan

Publisher: Emblem Editions

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0735252858

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Hugh MacLennan's first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. In the winter of 1917, Penelope Wain is convinced her love, Neil Macrae, is dead--killed in action while serving overseas. That he apparently died in disgrace does not alter her love for the soldier who, unbeknownst to her, has returned to Halifax to clear his name, only days before a catastrophic explosion in the Harbour will forever change their lives.

Takka Takka Bom Bom
Takka Takka Bom Bom

Author: Al J. Venter

Publisher: Casemate

Published: 2023-12-07

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1636243819

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The world’s oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter, has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horrors humanity visits upon itself in twenty-five conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. In this memoir, Venter masterfully recounts his experiences, sharing the real stories behind the headlines and the sharp lessons he learned that enabled him to survive his countless exploits, ranging from exposing a major KGB operative in Rhodesia entirely by accident, and accompanying an Israeli force led by Ariel Sharon into Beirut, to gun-running into the United States.

The Time of the Vampires
The Time of the Vampires

Author: Patricia Nead Elrod

Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780886776930

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In this all new anthology, 18 of todays top authors take a bite out of vampire lore with their own nightmarish visions. From a vampire blessed by Christ, to the truth about Oscar Wilde and the Bow Street Runners, such acclaimed authors as Tanya Huff, P.N. Elrod and Lois Tilton are among the writers brave enough to take on these thirsty lords of the night.

Invincible Universe #1
Invincible Universe #1

Author: Phil Hester

Publisher: Image Comics

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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In the aftermath of INVINCIBLE 100 and "The Death of Everyone," Dinosaurus has left his mark on the world. Can heroes from across the universe -- Invincible, the Guardians of the Globe, Tech Jacket, the Astounding Wolf-Man and more -- contain the damage done? Or are the end times of the Invincible Universe ahead?

Brothers of the Blade
Brothers of the Blade

Author: Garry Douglas Kilworth

Publisher: Constable

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1472104056

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After the final dreadful battle in the mud and cold of the Crimea, there could hardly be a greater contrast - 'Fancy Jack' Crossman, minus a hand, and newly promoted to Lieutenant, finds himself taking ship for the heat and excitement of India. He is to assist the East India Company Army in gathering intelligence at a time when there are ominous signs of restlessness amongst the native troops. Crossman lands at Bombay, expecting to make his way north to the Punjab region where he will be seconded to the irregular infantry force known as Coke's Rifles. Accompanying him is Sgt Farrier Jones, a military cartographer. Jones is a highly intelligent man, educated at a village church school. Yet Crossman, himself risen from the ranks, sees nothing of his former self in Jones and believes the sergeant is reaching too high. The two men do not get on. Then Crossman meets the Maharaja of Rajputan who offers him a third companion on his journey to the Punjab, a tall and sullen Rajput, who has no desire to be the bodyguard of a British officer. The unlikely trio undergo several trials and adventures before being swept up in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the march to relieve Delhi.