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Review Brian Castro's Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language / Cambria Press:Brian Castro is one of the most innovative and challenging novelists writing in English today. By virtue of his childhood migration from Hong Kong to Australia, he is an Australian writer, but he writes from the margins of what might be termed mainstream Australian literature. In an Australian context, Castro has been linked with Patrick White because like White he is an intellectual, deeply ironic, modernist writer. His writing can also be comfortably situated within a wider circle of (largely European) modernist works by Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Gustav Flaubert, Vladimir Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, and the list goes on. Castro’s writing conducts richly intertextual conversations with these writers and their work. Castro’s writing is linguistically and structurally adventurous. He revels in the ability of good experimental writing to open up imaginative possibilities for the reader. He strives always to encourage his reader’s imagination to embrace heterogeneity and uncertainty. [+]His extensive engagement with the great modernist writers of the 20th century, combined with his Australian-Chinese cross-cultural concerns make his work unique amongst Australian writers. Castro’s fiction is becoming increasingly recognized for its brilliance around the world. Readers and scholars, particularly from France, Germany and China, are discovering the delightful challenges and rewards his writing offers. In Australia, however, Castro’s writing has often been dismissed by academics and major publishing houses as being too cerebral or too literary. He has been labeled a writers’ writer because of the literariness of his concerns and the vast sweep of intertextual references that inform his narratives. Castro’s writing demands a committed, intelligent and passionate reader. He constructs narratives of absences, gaps, and multiple perspectives in the expectation that his reader will make the necessary imaginative connections and, in a sense, become the writer of his text. Castro has stated that the kind of novel he most enjoys reading is one he does not understand immediately, one that requires him to search out references and make discoveries. This is the kind of novel he writes. Perhaps, for this reason he has not attracted the large readership his work deserves. This study of Castro’s fiction has two major objectives: to open up multiple points of entry into Castro’s texts as a means of encouraging readers to make their own imaginative connections and to explore diverse ways of reading, as well as to initiate further published scholarly discussions and readings of Castro’s work. In this first critical study of Brian Castro’s work, Bernadette Brennan offers original and creative readings of Castro’s eight published novels. Brennan guides the reader through Castro’s elaborate semantics and at times dizzying language games to elucidate clearly Castro’s imaginative concerns and strategies. She opens up the many rhizomatic connections between Castro’s work and the multitude of texts and theorists that influence it and with whom it converses. And through all of this, she stays true to Castro’s imaginative project: to remain always open ended, always gesturing towards possibility rather than certainty and closure. Brian Castro’s Fiction is an important book for all literature and Australasian collections throughout the world.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-08-22
Dewey code: 813.2
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Review The Ethics of Exile: Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) / Routledge:The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject of colonial possession and dispossession. The book approaches this problem by, first, providing a theoretical framework derived from the work of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas on the ethical and political implications of human dwelling, and, second, by using this framework to examine cultural forms in two historical periods, colonial America and postcolonial South Africa-the primary interest being the works of Charles Brockden Brown and J. M. Coetzee. This book is unique in its elaboration of a spatialDLor more exactly, territorial-conception of narrative form.
Publication date: 1998-07-30
Dewey code: 920.0092
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Review Who Was Who in British India / Greenwood Press:With over 5,000 entries, this book provides information on the men and women who played a significant role in British India from 1583 to 1947. In addition to military and governmental leaders, the book includes entries on leaders in business, the church and missions, art and literature, and science and medicine. An effort has also been made to include the women who played an important role in India. The only other reference work on the subject, Buckland's Dictionary of Indian Biography, was published in 1906. This book updates that work, covering the last 40 years of the British Raj, and provides more balanced coverage of types of leaders.
Publication date: 1985-05
Dewey code: 296.8330922
Price: $29.95
Review The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism / Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx):
Publication date: 1998-01
Review William of Orange: A Dedicated Life, 1650-1702 / Education Committee of Grand Orange Lodge of:
Publication date: 2002
Review Basho Consider New Biography Japanese Language Book:
Publication date: 2006-08-30
Dewey code: 224.206
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Review Jeremiah's Kings: A Study of the Monarchy in Jeremiah (Society for Old Testament Study) (Society for Old Testament Study) (Society for Old Testament Study) / Ashgate Publishing:The book of "Jeremiah" has provoked a number of major commentaries in the last twenty years. Those in English differ dramatically in their conclusions about the nature of the book, and the discussion has been extended by important German work, notably by Winfried Thiel and Konrad Schmid. John Job examines the treatment of rulers contemporary with the prophet and shows that the attitude to these kings varied greatly from one part of the book to another, indicating great redactional complexity. This leads on to a final chapter concerned with wider theological issues, particularly those affected by recent post-modern scholarship. Here, taking a distinctive position in the debate about the 'final form of the Old Testament', the author draws out implications for reading the book as Christian scripture.
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 270.2092
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Review On the Erudition of the Historical St. Patrick (Celtic Studies, 2) / Edwin Mellen Press:This monograph supports and advances the views of Celtic scholar David R. Howlett. Topics such as the compositional level of the historical St Patrick, the five collections of the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of St Matthew, on which the thematic structure of his "Confession" is based, are discussed. This work demonstrates that the historical St Patrick might well be considered not only as a first-rate Biblical theologian, but as a wise, monastic, spiritual director versed in moral and pastoral theory.
Creator: Julius Eric Thompson
Publication date: 2005-10-01
Dewey code: 973.04960730092
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Review Pan African Nationalism in the Americas: The Life and Times of John Henrik Clarke / Africa World Press:As one of the pioneering scholars in the discipline of Africana Studies, John Henrik Clarke spent majority of his adult life, researching, rescuing, constructing debating, and preserving the study of African world history. His unique style and analysis postured from a Pan Africanist perspective, is one of the lasting contributions Clarke dispensed to students and life long learners. This volume is a compilation of unpublished critical essays solicited by selected scholars and reprinted articles of Clarke. The subject categories are in the subject areas of: Critical essays, Black Nationalism, Africana thought and biography, Africana historiography, narratives, and global Pan Africanist political thought. Moreover, in reviewing the scholarship of Clarke, he sequentially queried the privilege of selected cultural groups and the systematic subordination of others. Indeed, these questions regulate the parameters of who decides who gets what and why Clarke was concerned about issues of equity, but prioritized issues and schema of moral and ethical behavior of humans. Still with and ardent and critical analysis concerning the status of Africa world affairs, Clarke was a humanist, who dedicated himself to the advance the social, political, and economic condition of African people throughout the world.
Publication date: 1992-06-11
Dewey code: 283.092
List Price: $233.00
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Review High Church Prophet: Bishop Samuel Horsley (1733-1806) and the Caroline Tradition in the Later Georgian Church (1733-1806 and the Caroline Tradition in the Later Georgian Church) / Oxford University Press, USA:Though he never attained the highest office in the Church of England, Samuel Horsley was the ablest bishop on the bench in the late eighteenth century. He was a scientist, parliamentarian, and man of letters, as well as a leading theologian and diocesan administrator. Mather's scholarly and perceptive biography provides a portrait of Horsley and the Church of England in an age of intellectual, social, and political revolution.
Creator: T. Yamaori
Publication date: 1975
Review My Non Violence, an Autobiography of a Japanese Buddhist / Sangha Press:
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 811.6
Price: $14.00
Review Eyes Free / Word Supremacy:Eyes Free: The first full length (300 p. ) spoken word memoir of the current generation of poets. Chronicles the life(style) of Taalam Acey, a full time, traveling spoken word artist. sleeping on subways and in motels. From the Greyhound bus trips through the deep south to being treated to international flights. [+]From losing his business, his home, and all his possessions, to struggling to write well enough to regain all that he lost. The loneliness and the indiscretions, demons, and vices that came as a result. Here is all of the pain and the triumphs woven between a history and analysis of contemporary spoken word culture and the artists who have been integral to it.
Publication date: 1998-12-31
Review Harry Williams, an Australian Golfing Tragedy / Ryan Publishing:
Publication date: 1988-12
Dewey code: 941.608240924
Price: $15.00
Review Ian Paisley: Voice of Protestant Ulster / Scottish Academic Pr:
Publication date: 1991-06
Dewey code: 822.4
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Review A Biography of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (Studies in British History) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Authors
- David A. Rausch
- Louis Meyer
Dewey code: 209.22
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Review Louis Meyer's Eminent Hebrew Christians of the Nineteenth Century: Brief Biographical Sketches (Texts and Studies in Religion) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Creator: David Booy
Publication date: 2007-08-06
Dewey code: 285.9092
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Review The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618â1654 / Ashgate Pub Co:Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious. London wood-turner and puritan, Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658) is exceptional for having compiled fifty notebooks between 1618 and 1654. Although only six (possibly seven) of these are extant, they not only provide a wealth of valuable information about life in seventeenth-century London, but more importantly give access to the author's personal world, both inner and outer. Providing substantial excerpts from the surviving notebooks, this edition covers the broad range of subjects that animated Wallington's everyday life. Accounts of incidents in his domestic, working and religious life sit side by side with sustained meditations on his spiritual state; reports on national events are given, along with their possible providential meanings. Particularly illuminating are Wallington's reflections on his own mental wellbeing, at times suicidal, at others ecstatic. From letters on religious matters to expressions of anxiety over the illnesses and mishaps of his wife and children, from vexed thoughts about money matters to chronicling the tumults of civil war London, this collection provides a window into everyday life in seventeenth-century England. By making the writings of Nehemiah Wallington available in a modern edited edition, fully footnoted and referenced, together with a substantial scholarly introduction, we hope that this little-known London wood-turner will soon take his deserved place besides Pepys and Evelyn as one of the authentic voices commenting on early modern England.
Publication date: 2007-08-30
Dewey code: 770.94209034
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Review Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England / Ashgate Publishing:In her beautifully illustrated study, Patrizia Di Bello recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. While attentive to the albums of individual women, Di Bello also examines the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying images; uncovers the cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and illustrated periodicals; and demonstrates the way albums and photography itself were represented in women's magazines, fashion plates, and popular novels. Bringing a sophisticated eye to overlooked images such as the family photograph, Di Bello not only illustrates their significance as historical documents but elucidates the visual rhetorics at play. In doing so, she identifies the connections between Victorian album-making and the work of modern-day amateurs and artists who use digital techniques to compile and decorate albums with Victorian-style borders and patterns. At a time when photographic album-making is being re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic considerations. Di Bello's book is remarkable in elegantly connecting the history of photography with the fields of material culture and women's studies.
Authors
- Hanes Walton
- Paul David Seldis
- Mary A. Burgess
Dewey code: 341.2373
Price: $20.00
Review Black Women at the United Nations: The Politics, a Theoretical Model, and the Documents (Black Political Studies, No 1) / Borgo Pr:
Publication date: 1990-05
Dewey code: 973.8092
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Review Alexander Crummell, 1819-1898 and the Creation of an African/American Church in Liberia (Studies in the History of Missions) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
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Coetzee (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory), Who Was Who in British India, The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov: Studies in Hasidism, William of Orange: A Dedicated Life, 1650-1702, Basho Consider New Biography Japanese Language Book, Jeremiah's Kings: A Study of the Monarchy in Jeremiah (Society for Old Testament Study) (Society for Old Testament Study) (Society for Old Testament Study), On the Erudition of the Historical St. Patrick (Celtic Studies, 2), Pan African Nationalism in the Americas: The Life and Times of John Henrik Clarke, High Church Prophet: Bishop Samuel Horsley (1733-1806) and the Caroline Tradition in the Later Georgian Church (1733-1806 and the Caroline Tradition in the Later Georgian Church), My Non Violence, an Autobiography of a Japanese Buddhist, Eyes Free, Harry Williams, an Australian Golfing Tragedy, Ian Paisley: Voice of Protestant Ulster, A Biography of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (Studies in British History), Louis Meyer's Eminent Hebrew Christians of the Nineteenth Century: Brief Biographical Sketches (Texts and Studies in Religion), The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618â1654, Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England, Black Women at the United Nations: The Politics, a Theoretical Model, and the Documents (Black Political Studies, No 1), Alexander Crummell, 1819-1898 and the Creation of an African/American Church in Liberia (Studies in the History of Missions)Top headlines: Indian airports on high alert after warning: Airports in India went on high alert following fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks. ›14:33 Whale songs drowned out by humans: The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the world's oceans, U.N. officials and environmental groups said Wednesday. ›22:39 3 Dec, Wed Productivity growth higher than expected: Worker productivity slowed in the summer to the smallest advance since late last year while wage pressures increased. ›16:26 3 Dec, Wed Vermont named healthiest state, Louisiana last: Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest state, and other Southern states were close rivals due to high obesity and smoking rates in new rankings. ›20:06 3 Dec, Wed Top 10 stupid gifts from chickens to toilet golf: Short of gift ideas for that person who really does have everything? 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