Understanding Don DeLillo / / Henry Veggian

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910659472003321
• Autore: Veggian Henry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-61117-445-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Collana: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Disciplina: 813.54
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Understanding Don Delillo -- Jargon and genre : Americana, End zone, and Great Jones Street -- Opacity and transparency : White noise and Mao II -- Artists and prophets : The body artist, Cosmopolis, and Falling man -- With, to, and against the novel : the short stories.
• Sommario/riassunto: Henry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half- century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Don DeLillo is the author of short stories, screenplays, and fifteen novels, including his breakthrough work White Noise (1985) and Pulitzer Prize finalists Mao II (1992) and Underworld (1998). Veggian traces the evolution of DeLillo's work through the three phases of his career as a fiction writer, from the experimental early novels, through the critically acclaimed works of the mid-1980's and 1990's, into the smaller but newly innovative novels of the last decade. He guides readers to DeLillo's principal concerns--the tension between biography and anonymity, the blurred boundary between fiction and historical narrative, and the importance of literary authorship in opposition to various structures of power--and traces the evolution of his changing narrative techniques. Beginning with a brief biography, an introduction to reading strategies, and a survey of the major concepts and questions concerning DeLillo's work, Veggian proceeds chronologically through his major novels. His discussion summarizes ; complicated plots, reflects critical responses to the author's work, and explains the literary tools used to fashion his characters, narrators, and events. In the concluding chapter Veggian engages notable examples of DeLillo's other modes, particularly the short stories that reveal important insights into his "modular" working method as well as the evolution of his novels.

An Archival Journey through the Qatar Peninsula : Elusive and Precarious / / by Sue-Ann Harding

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910592978903321
• Autore: Harding Sue-Ann
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031038457; 9783031038440
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 pages)
• Disciplina: 953.63
• Soggetti: Middle East - History; Civilization - History; Intellectual life - History; History of the Middle East; Cultural History; Intellectual History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue: Murwab -- Introduction -- PART I: MAPS -- 1. Claudius Ptolomaeus, 'Sexta Asia Tabula', 1478 -- 2. Carsten Niebuhr, 'Sinus Persicus', 1765 -- PART II: LITTORAL -- 3. William Vincent, The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean, 1807 -- 4. G.B. Brucks, Memoir Descriptive of the Navigation of the Gulf of Persia, c.1830 -- 5. R. Hughes Thomas, Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, 1856 -- 6. W.G. Palgrave, Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1865 -- PART III: ; DESERT, SEA -- 7. Hermann Burchardt, 'Ost-Arabien von Basra bis Maskat auf Grund eigener Reise', 1906 -- 8. J.G. Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, 1915 -- 9. The Arabian Mission: Quarterly Letters From the Field, 1899-1906 -- 10. Handbook of Arabia, 1917 -- 11. Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, 1932 -- PART IV: SKY -- 12. Coll 5/11 'Air Route to India: Arab Coast Route - Emergency Landing Ground at Qatar': Royal Air Force Reconnaissance of Qatar, 9 May 1934 -- PART V: METROPOLIS -- 13. Jette Bang and Klaus Ferdinand, Bedouins of Qatar, 1959 -- 14. Nobody Gets Hurt Today -- Epilogue: Sheikh Faisal Bin Qasim Al Thani Museum.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book retrieves from the archives people, places and perspectives normally overlooked to tell an original and expansive history of the Qatar Peninsula, paying close attention to landscape and the natural world. The arc of the book moves geographically through the landscape and chronologically through selected sources, drawing on digitised maps, manuscripts, hydrographic surveys, government records, traveller accounts, early photographs, archaeological and ethnographic reports. While these are standard sources recruited by Qatar to tell its own singular, streamlined history, this book is a subversive reading of those sources. It braids together elusive and precarious stories - difficult to find, at risk of being lost, and never before brought together into a single volume - to write a more complicated story of place. Through them, we can reimagine a place that, like many in the world, works hard to control a limited set of stories about itself. Readers who know something about Qatarwill be surprised by the book's nuances and details. Readers who know little or nothing will be drawn in to discover that, even in the most out-of-the-way and inhospitable places, deserts are never empty. Sue-Ann Harding is a Professor in Translation and Intercultural Studies at Queen's University Belfast. Her research investigates translation in diverse contexts, particularly in sites of conflict and narrative contestation. She is the author of Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege (Manchester University Press, 2012), has travelled widely, and lived and worked in Doha for almost five years. .