![]() ![]() ![]() The Penguin edition of Melmoth the Wanderer ( 1977), edited and introduced by Alethea Hayter, is convenient and scholarly. The wanderer in Sarah Perry's Melmoth ( 2018) is a woman who denied seeing the risen Christ just after his rebirth. Honoré de Balzac wrote a sequel, Melmoth Reconcilé ( 1835 trans Ellen Marriage in coll The Unknown Masterpiece 1896). ![]() The novel is made up of a series of complexly linked stories concerning people in various extremities to whom Melmoth appears as tempter in his desperate attempts to find someone to accept his curse but all refuse him, regardless of the perils under which they labour, and after a century or so Melmoth returns to Ireland, where he disappears over the edge of a cliff. ![]() The eponymous hero, who is reminiscent of figures from the Wandering Jew to Faust, has sold his soul to the Devil in return for Immortality. (1782-1824) Irish author, playwright and clergyman, the son of French Protestants in exile, who wrote several Gothic romances and sensational plays with intermittent success – most notably The Fatal Revenge, or The Family of Montorio ( 1807 3vols) as by Dennis Jasper Murphy – before the publication of his definitive terror-romance, Melmoth the Wanderer ( 1820 4vols) anonymous. ![]()
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![]() “A beautiful, passionate, adventurous book.” - Tor. "My favourite comic lately has been Saga." -Lyndie Greenwood, actress “Vaughan’s whip-snap dialogue is as smart, cutting, and well timed as ever, and his characters are both familiar enough to acclimate easily to and deep enough to stay interested in as their relationships bend, break, and mend.” - Booklist When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. Tolkien, have brought to life a fantasy world so fully realized that nothing, no matter how incredible, seems out of place for a second.” - Library Journal ![]() “A little bit Romeo & Juliet and a lot Star Wars.” - USA Today “May it run for 1,000 issues.” - Rolling Stone Magazine “Mischievous, vulgar and gloriously inventive.” - TIME Magazine Club calls "the emotional epic Hollywood wishes it could make." Collects SAGA #1-6. 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From New York Times bestselling writer BRIAN K.VAUGHAN (Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA) and critically acclaimed artist FIONA STAPLES (MYSTERY SOCIETY, NORTH 40), SAGA is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some copies of the 1871-1872 edition contain only the text of Leaves of Grass proper, others have Set, and so would tip in any number of additional pages at different points in Incorporate additional works into an edition after the type had already been ![]() Not only were alternate bindings available, but-because Whitman was such a tireless reviser and was so involved in the physical production of his own books-there were also significant textual variations among particular copies Often Whitman decided to But Whitman and his readers worked within a technologically different publishing economy, and most editions of Leaves of Grass would have been available in often strikingly different forms. 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I’d been toying with the idea of a novel about a childless couple who abduct a baby monkey, shave its fur off, pay for it to be surgically modified to resemble a human, and then introduce it into society as their child. Eventually my wife suggested I concentrate on my writing instead. ![]() ![]() I had a job in a care home but it was a 15 mile bicycle ride from the farm, and in harsh weather I would chicken out and catch taxis to and from work, which ate up my meagre wages. My natural alienation worsened and I became very unwell. Many aspects of British society struck me as unnecessarily depressing – but then I was depressed anyway. ![]() The culture shock made me feel as if I’d landed on another planet. I n 1993, I emigrated from a big, thriving, multicultural city in Australia to a failing farm in the tranquil isolation of the Scottish Highlands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her male classmates dismissed the show as a soapy teen drama, which is when Nussbaum began interrogating the structures of genre, gender, and quality within in a medium that still wasn’t considered to be real art. She describes watching the show when she was a grad student at NYU studying literature, and how it “spiked way of thinking entirely,” and gave her reason to believe that art centered on the perspectives of young women ought to be taken seriously. She begins with her essay on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that made her want to be a TV critic in the first place. ![]() Her recent essay collection, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, is a collection of 32 essays that include reviews, profiles of TV creators, and more general meditations on the television landscape, most of which were previously published in The New Yorker, where Nussbaum is the television critic. Emily Nussbaum is a critic who had been writing about television as an art form years before virtually anyone else considered it one, when it was still a point of pride for intellectuals to not have a TV set in their home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 ( Available here) Marx theorises the revolutionary subject of the working class, and proposes its historic task: to abolish private property and achieve self-emancipation.Ģ. Marx claims that the bourgeois revolutions of the 18th century may have benefited a wealthy and educated class, but did not challenge private forms of domination in the factory, home and field. It also introduces several of the key themes that would shape his later writings. ![]() Originally published in 1844 in a radical Parisian newspaper, this fascinating short essay captures many of Marx’s early criticisms of modern society and his radical vision of emancipation. ![]() ![]() His mission was to dissect – not depart a forever-changed man. Instead, he enrolled as a transfer student at Liberty in an undercover effort to discern what makes these deeply religious students tick. So in the winter of 2007 Roose, then a sophomore at Brown University, opted out of the more traditional semester-abroad options. The focus there is always on God, who is, after all, the most-often-listed interest on the school’s Facebook page.įundamentalist Christians in America have always set themselves apart, and in so doing have piqued the nation’s interest. Not that Kevin Roose, a self-described agnostic, ever lost that fish-out-of-water feeling at Liberty University in Lynchburg Va., where the living is clean – cussing and kissing results in swift and severe fines – and students spend spring break in Daytona saving souls. But it required only 16 weeks at a fundamentalist Christian university to change an Ivy Leaguer from Brown. It took blinding light and God’s voice to convert the Apostle Paul. ![]() ![]() If Not, Winter was praised by reviewers for its translations. Carson attempts to follow the word order of the Greek text as closely as possible, and not to add any words which cannot be found in the surviving Greek texts of Sappho, such as personal pronouns and definite articles. ![]() Along with Carson's translations, with Greek text on facing pages, the book has a short introduction, notes on the translation, a "who's who" of names in Sappho's poetry, and translations of selected ancient writings about Sappho. If Not, Winter uses the Greek text of Eva-Maria Voigt's Sappho and Alcaeus with a few variations. The title comes from Carson's translation of Sappho's fragment 22. In 2019, the Folio Society produced an edition of If Not, Winter illustrated by Jenny Holzer. ![]() ![]() If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho is a book of translations of the poetry of Sappho by the Canadian classicist and poet Anne Carson, first published in 2002. ![]() ![]() ![]() To say nothing of database poets, desktop thespians, cyber-ingenues, glass ceiling-shattering entrepreneurs, and the self-proclaimed “biggest bitch in Silicon Alley.”Įvans shines a light on these bright minds whom history forgot, showing us how women have always pushed technology forward and will continue to shape our world in powerful ways that we can no longer ignore. Stacy Horn ran one of the Internet’s earliest social networks, Echo, out of her Greenwich Village apartment in New York City. ![]() Grace Hopper, a navy admiral and mathematician created machine-independent programming languages. Join the ranks of women who have pioneered technology, like Ada Lovelace, the tortured, imaginative daughter of Lord Byron, who wrote the first program for a mechanical computer. Evans to elaborating on the themes presented in her book Broadband: The Untold. These innovators, concentrating where computers have made our lives better, richer, and more connected, are the unsung heroes of network culture. We're joined by American singer, writer and artist, Claire L. 4 With a popular science and culture blog titled Universe, hosted by National Geographic s Scienceblogs network, 5 her essay for Universe 'Moon Art: Fallen Astronaut' was anthologized in The Best Science Writing Online 2012. ![]() VICE futures editor and lead singer of the band YACHT Claire Evans presents the first social history of women and the internet. In addition, Evans is a journalist and author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. ![]() Before Steve Jobs put a personal computer in your hands before Larry Page and Sergey Brin put any answer at your fingertips before Mark Zuckerberg connected you to your long-lost friends, female visionaries were at the vanguard of the technology you love (and love to hate). ![]() |