Cure for All Diseases, A |
Autore | Hill Reginald <1936-2012> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | HarperCollins UK |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Soggetto non controllato |
Dalziel, andrew (fictitious character)
Pascoe, peter (fictitious character) England Fiction Literature and fiction |
ISBN | 0-00-727063-1 |
Formato | Musica ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910148764103321 |
Hill Reginald <1936-2012>
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Dance of Life [[electronic resource] ] : The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa / / Gail Fincham |
Autore | Fincham Gail |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, : Ohio University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Soggetto topico | South African literature (English) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8214-4414-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Zakes Mda; Why 'Dance of Life' ?; Towards an ethics of performance; From play-writing to novel-writing; Written texts and oral storytelling; Social realism or magic realism?; Vision/focalisation; Place/setting/landscape; Chapter One: Zakes Mda's Construction of The 'Cross-Border' Reader; Introduction; Maps, writers, readers and communities under apartheid; From pre- to post-apartheid South Africa; What is a 'South African' readership?; The concept of ubuntu as constitutive of the cross-border writer and reader
From 'interstitial' space to the space of novel-writing Refiguring temporality; Crossing textual boundaries; Hybridity as postcolonial strategy; Hybridity and intertextuality in Mda's novels; Mda's intertexts; Finally...; Chapter Two: 'Appropriating Urban Space'; Introduction: Why Bakhtin?; The social realism of Ways of Dying; Heteroglossia and states of transition; 'That stuck-up bitch' Noria; Carnival, grotesque realism, degradation; 'Laughing truth' and the speaking voice; Chapter Three: From 'The Speaking Voice' to Intertextuality in The Heart of Redness; Introduction Community and agency in The Heart of Redness and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Shared terrain; Salient contrasts; Mda in the classroom: The Heart of Redness; Duplicity, plagiarism or transformation? Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness and Jeff Peires' The Dead Will Arise; Continuities: oral storytelling; Reversing 'barbarism' and 'civilisation'; New directions; Focalisation; Reconceptualising Believers and Unbelievers; Reading The Dead Will Arise and The Heart of Redness through Attridge's The Singularity of Literature; Finally...; Chapter Four: Towards a New Ontology of Postcolonial Vision: Introduction In the Trinity's studio; Ecphrasis: turning paintings into fiction; Women, donkeys, sunflowers; Appropriating the Madonna motif; Chapter Five: Art, Landscape and Identity in She Plays with the Darkness, The Madonna of Excelsior and Cion; Introduction; She Plays with the Darkness; The Madonna of Excelsior; Cion; Chapter Six: Imaginary Homelands; The concept of diaspora; Narrating identity: South Africa and the United States; Narrating identity through the narratives of the past; Performing identity; Toloki takes over from the Sciolist; Finally... Chapter Seven: 'Our Only Physical and Psychic Home'An eco-criticism for South Africa; Dismantling dualisms; The sympathetic imagination/Becoming animal; Storytelling; Storytelling as political activism; The sensorium of storytelling; Stories' 'emotional hue'; Towards an ecological sublime; Rethinking language; Finally...; Chapter Eight: 'The Trenches are The Boardrooms of South Africa':; Stereotypes and formulae; Soweto and cookery; 'Camera eye' narration: ideological considerations; Riding the tiger; Black Diamond and Jacob Dlamini's Native Nostalgia; Finally...; Chapter Nine Some Concluding Thoughts |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452006303321 |
Fincham Gail
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Deadheads |
Autore | Hill Reginald <1936-2012> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | HarperCollins UK |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
ISBN | 0-00-750558-2 |
Formato | Musica ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910148764303321 |
Hill Reginald <1936-2012>
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Death of a Ghost |
Autore | Beaton M. C |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Grand Central Publishing, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (169 pages) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | A Hamish Macbeth Mystery Ser. |
ISBN |
1-4555-5828-1
1-4789-1960-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- CHAPTER NINE -- CHAPTER TEN -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- EPILOGUE -- Discover More M. C. Beaton -- About the Author -- More Hamish Macbeth Mysteries by M. C. Beaton -- HAVE A HIGHLAND FLING WITH M. C. BEATON'S HAMISH MACBETH MYSTERIES. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910162848503321 |
Beaton M. C
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Boston : , : Grand Central Publishing, , 2017 | ||
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Death's Master |
Autore | Lee Tanith |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | , : DAW, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (403 pages) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Collana | Flat Earth |
Soggetto topico | Science fiction |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136595803321 |
Lee Tanith
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, : DAW, , 2016 | ||
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A Decent Ride : A Novel |
Autore | Welsh Irvine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
Soggetto non controllato | English crime fiction |
ISBN | 0-385-54090-6 |
Classificazione | FIC050000FIC052000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Other Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Part One: Pre-Bawbag Innocence -- Chapter 1: Taxi Days -- Chapter 2: Guaranteed -- Chapter 3: Office Work -- Chapter 4: Sweet Liberty -- Chapter 5: Jonty and Stormy Weather -- Part Two: Hurricane Bawbag -- Chapter 6: Speed Dating -- Chapter 7: Jinty Nagged -- Chapter 8: Running Around -- Chapter 9: Refuge in The Pub With No Name -- Chapter 10: The Bag of the Baw -- Chapter 11: In God We Trust-Part 1 -- Chapter 12: Bawbag's Last Stand -- Part Three: Post-Bawbag Panic -- Chapter 13: Jonts in the Hood -- Chapter 14: The Knight in Shining Armour -- Chapter 15: Jonts in McDonald's -- Chapter 16: Hotels and Saunas -- Chapter 17: Unfazed by the Phenomenon -- Chapter 18: The Lessons of Bawbag -- Chapter 19: Sex Addicts' Meeting -- Chapter 20: What's Cookin in the Cuik? -- Chapter 21: Wee Guillaume and the Ginger Bastard -- Chapter 22: A Shopping List Confession -- Chapter 23: White Funny Stuff -- Chapter 24: Instruments of the Devil -- Chapter 25: Tynecastle Hospitality -- Chapter 26: The Heart of the Matter -- Chapter 27: In God We Trust-Part 2 -- Chapter 28: Cold Comforts -- Part Four: Post-Bawbag Reconstruction -- Chapter 29: Sauna Sojourn -- Chapter 30: In God We Trust-Part 3 -- Chapter 31: Going McNuggets -- Chapter 32: Through Streets Broad and Narrow -- Chapter 33: Feverish -- Chapter 34: Auld Faithful 1 -- Chapter 35: Scotland's Smokers on the Offensive -- Chapter 36: Transport Economics -- Chapter 37: Auld Faithful 2 -- Chapter 38: Another Blow for Scotland's Smokers -- Chapter 39: The Boy in the Canary-Yellay Fleece -- Chapter 40: Escape to Penicuik -- Part Five: Post-Bawbag Society -- Chapter 41: The Revenge of Scotland's Smokers -- Chapter 42: Auld Faithful 3 -- Chapter 43: Avoiding Stress -- Chapter 44: Jinty's Diary Excerpt 1.
Chapter 45: Post Perishables -- Chapter 46: The Snarling Fuds of May -- Chapter 47: Jinty's Diary Excerpt 2 -- Chapter 48: Powderhall -- Chapter 49: In God We Trust-Part 4 -- Chapter 50: The Bridge Tournament -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910160353603321 |
Welsh Irvine
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Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2016 | ||
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Demon in My View, A |
Autore | Rendell Ruth <1930-2015> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | HarperCollins UK |
Disciplina | 823/.914 |
ISBN | 0-00-715939-0 |
Formato | Musica ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910148763703321 |
Rendell Ruth <1930-2015>
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Diana Wynne Jones : children's literature and the fantastic tradition / / Farah Mendlesohn |
Autore | Mendlesohn Farah |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
Disciplina |
823/.914
B |
Collana | Children's literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Children's stories, English - History and criticism
Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-415-87289-8
0-203-95794-6 1-135-46128-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover ; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Critical Fictions of Diana Wynne Jones; Chapter 1 Wilkins' Tooth ; Chapter 2 Agency and Jones's Understanding of Adolescence; Chapter 3 Time Games; Chapter 4 Diana Wynne Jones and the Portal-Quest Fantasy; Chapter 5 The Immersive Fantasy; Chapter 6 Making the Mundane Fantastic, or Liminal Fantasy; Chapter 7 A Mad Kind of Reasonableness; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographies; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452541703321 |
Mendlesohn Farah
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Diana Wynne Jones : children's literature and the fantastic tradition / / Farah Mendlesohn |
Autore | Mendlesohn Farah |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
Disciplina |
823/.914
B |
Collana | Children's literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Children's stories, English - History and criticism
Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-135-46135-X
0-415-87289-8 0-203-95794-6 1-135-46128-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover ; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Critical Fictions of Diana Wynne Jones; Chapter 1 Wilkins' Tooth ; Chapter 2 Agency and Jones's Understanding of Adolescence; Chapter 3 Time Games; Chapter 4 Diana Wynne Jones and the Portal-Quest Fantasy; Chapter 5 The Immersive Fantasy; Chapter 6 Making the Mundane Fantastic, or Liminal Fantasy; Chapter 7 A Mad Kind of Reasonableness; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographies; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790550103321 |
Mendlesohn Farah
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New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005 | ||
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Diana Wynne Jones : children's literature and the fantastic tradition / / Farah Mendlesohn |
Autore | Mendlesohn Farah |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
Disciplina |
823/.914
B |
Collana | Children's literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Children's stories, English - History and criticism
Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-135-46135-X
0-415-87289-8 0-203-95794-6 1-135-46128-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover ; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Critical Fictions of Diana Wynne Jones; Chapter 1 Wilkins' Tooth ; Chapter 2 Agency and Jones's Understanding of Adolescence; Chapter 3 Time Games; Chapter 4 Diana Wynne Jones and the Portal-Quest Fantasy; Chapter 5 The Immersive Fantasy; Chapter 6 Making the Mundane Fantastic, or Liminal Fantasy; Chapter 7 A Mad Kind of Reasonableness; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographies; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819456703321 |
Mendlesohn Farah
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