Gascoyne
Gascoyne

Author: Stanley Crawford

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1468307967

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A delightfully absurd blend of crime, comedy, and social commentary: “A wild novel of black humor . . . Wonderful” (The New York Times). Meet Gascoyne, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eating, sleeping, and conducting his business via mobile phone. Gascoyne has found a new preoccupation―hunting down the killer of his business associate (last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume), and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly, despite all his power and prestige, slipped out of his grasp. “A mix of Sam Spade played by Inspector Clouseau plus Howard Hughes played by Dr. Strangelove—or all of them played by Bill Murray. In 1966 Gascoyne does what everybody does now: spends most of his time in his car talking on the phone . . . Our least-known great comic novel, a novel as prophetic as it is hilarious.” —The Austin Chronicle

Sensory Play
Sensory Play

Author: Sue Gascoyne

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2016-05-09

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1907241906

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Sensory Play draws upon current research findings and observations to present an informative and practical guide to maximising children's sensory play opportunities. This guide enables practitioners to understand the values and benefits of sensory play, incorporating case studies and current research findings to make practical links to the EYFS. Sensory play is set within a wider context, highlighting links to child development theories. This title explains how sensory play can be a valuable tool in delivering curriculum outcomes in a wide variety of settings.

Night Thoughts
Night Thoughts

Author: Robert Fraser

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 0199558140

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This pioneering biography of the British poet and translator David Gascoyne (1916-2001) candidly describes his creative work, involvement with surrealism, addictions, tormented private life, and his many friendships in England and France.

Personal Modernisms
Personal Modernisms

Author: James Gifford

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2014-11-15

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 177212009X

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Alberta is well known for its fossil treasures, and author John Acorn is as keen on the long-dead creatures of Alberta as he is on the living. Here, John features 80 of the most noteworthy fossils, fossil locations, and fossil hunters from this most palaeontological of provinces. There's more to the story of "deep Alberta" than dinosaurs, but dinosaur fans will find all their favourite beasts here as well -- from Edmontosaurus to Tyrannosaurus rex, and everything in-between. Then there are the surprises, such as the world's oldest pike, the discovery of a venomous mammal, and the fossils found in such unlikely places as Edmonton and Calgary. Prepared with the collaboration of palaeontologists around Alberta, and the world-renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum, this is a book that is long overdue, and that deserves a place on everyone's bookshelf.

Poetry and Poetics After Wallace Stevens
Poetry and Poetics After Wallace Stevens

Author: Bart Eeckhout

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-11-17

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1501313487

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"This collection of essays examines the different lines that may be drawn between the work of Wallace Stevens and a wide range of poetry from the second half of the twentieth century up to the present moment"--

Israel Rank
Israel Rank

Author: Roy Horniman

Publisher:

Published: 1907

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13:

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A novel, in which, the eponymous narrator is the son of a Jewish commercial traveller, who offers his memoirs from the condemned cell, having murdered six people who stood between him and an earldom he hoped to inherit. Through his story, it explores and parodies the anti-Semitic attitudes of Edwardian England.

The Scandalous Eye
The Scandalous Eye

Author: Silvano Levy

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780853235590

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Conroy Maddox discovered surrealism by chance in 1935 and spent the rest of his life exploring its potential through his paintings, collages, photographs, objects and texts. Inspired by artists such as Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez and Salvador Dalí, he rejected academic painting in favor of techniques that expressed the surrealist spirit of rebellion. Maddox went on to become a rebel in every sense – the defiance that had initially turned towards aesthetics became a broader challenge against morality, religion and the establishment as a whole. Maddox’s colorful exploits and outstanding artistic production undoubtedly made him Britain’s most beguiling, provocative and vigorous exponent of surrealism. This book maps out his place in the history of the surrealist movement and reveals the intellectual complexity as well as the poignant charm of an oeuvre that spans eight decades.