Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Release Date : 1980
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015013322204
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : ISBS
Release Date : 1974
ISBN 10 : OSU:32435053570750
Pages : 126 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download The Fat Man in History in PDF Full Online Free by Peter Carey and published by ISBS. This book was released on 1974 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A landmark in contemporary Australian literature, The Fat Man in History brought early acclaim to Peter Carey for his brilliant and ingenious fiction. These twelve stories introduce visionary landscapes of intense clarity, where the rules of the game are bizarre yet chillingly familiar."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Peter Carey
Publisher :
Release Date : 1974
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105037201311
Pages : 156 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2005-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9789401202749
Pages : 474 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (27 downloads)
Download Fabulating Beauty in PDF Full Online Free by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Carey is one of Australia’s finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public. While academia has been quick to see his fictions as exemplars of postcolonial and postmodern writing strategies, his general readership has been captivated by his deadpan sense of humour, his quirky characters, the outlandish settings and the grotesqueries of his intricate plots. After three decades of prolific writing and multiple award-winning, Carey stands out in the world of Australian letters as designated heir to Patrick White. Fabulating Beauty pays tribute to Carey’s literary achievement. It brings together the voices of many of the most renowned Carey critics in twenty essays (sixteen commissioned especially for this volume), an interview with the author, as well as the most extensive bibliography of Carey criticism to date. The studies represent a wide range of current perspectives on the writer’s fictions. Contributors focus on issues as diverse as the writer’s biography; his use of architectural metaphors; his interrogation of narrative structures such as myths and cultural master-plots; intertextual strategies; concepts of sacredness and references to the Christian tradition; and his strategies of rewriting history. Amidst predictions of the imminent death of ‘postist’ theory, the essays all attest to the ongoing relevance of the critical parameters framed by postmodernism and postcolonialism.
Author : Bruce Woodcock
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-19
ISBN 10 : 9781847795151
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (951 downloads)
Download Peter Carey in PDF Full Online Free by Bruce Woodcock and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2010-03-10
ISBN 10 : 9780786455720
Pages : 355 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (557 downloads)
Download Peter Carey in PDF Full Online Free by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang, and His Illegal Self, is one of Australia's most critically acclaimed novelists. Deeply concerned with South Pacific culture, especially the lives of its most downtrodden citizens, Carey uses popular art as a tool for raising the consciousness of readers. This book provides an introduction to the author's life, as well as a guided overview of his body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Carey canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events, and themes. Additional features include a listing of headwords, a Carey history, 44 reading and writing topics, and bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. A comprehensive index is included.
Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-06
ISBN 10 : 9780691154022
Pages : 238 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (54 downloads)
Download Would You Kill the Fat Man? in PDF Full Online Free by David Edmonds and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, a fascinating tour through the history of moral philosophy A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he will topple onto the line and, although he will die, his chunky body will stop the train, saving five lives. Would you kill the fat man? The question may seem bizarre. But it's one variation of a puzzle that has baffled moral philosophers for almost half a century and that more recently has come to preoccupy neuroscientists, psychologists, and other thinkers as well. In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the bestselling Wittgenstein's Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with this ethical dilemma, sometimes called the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy. Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man. But why? After all, in taking one life you could save five. As Edmonds shows, answering the question is far more complex—and important—than it first appears. In fact, how we answer it tells us a great deal about right and wrong.
Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Camden House
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 1571133496
Pages : 496 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (711 downloads)
Download A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 in PDF Full Online Free by Nicholas Birns and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian literature is one of the world's richest, dealing not only with "local" Australian themes and issues but with those at the forefront of global literary discussion. This book offers a fresh look at Australian literature, taking a broad view of what literature is and viewing it with Australian cultural and societal concerns in mind. Especially relevant is the heightened role of indigenous people and issues following the landmark 1992 Mabo decision on Aboriginal land rights. But attention to other multicultural connections and the competing pull of Australia's continued connection to Great Britain are also enlightening. Chapters are devoted to internationally prominent writers such as Patrick White, Peter Carey, David Malouf, and Christina Stead; fast-rising authors such as Gerald Murnane and Tim Winton; less-publicized writers such as Xavier Herbert and Dorothy Hewett; and on prose fiction, poetry, and drama, women's and gay and lesbian writing, children's literature, and science fiction. The Companion goes beyond Eurocentric ideas of national literary history to reveal the full, resplendent variety of Australian writing. Contributors: Nicholas Birns, Rebecca McNeer, Ali Gumillya Baker, Gus Worby, Anita Heiss, Ruth Feingold, Wenche Ommundsen, Susan Jacobowitz, Deborah Madsen, Marguerite Nolan, Tanya Dalziell, Richard Carr, David McCooey, Maryrose Casey, Brigid Rooney, John Beston, John Scheckter, Werner Senn, Carolyn Bliss, Paul Genono, Lyn Jacobs, Nicole Moore, Ouyang Yu, Jaroslav Kusnir, Brigid Magner, Russel Blackford, Toni Johnson-Woods, Theodore F. Sheckels, Alice Mills, Gary Clark, Damien Barlow, Leigh Dale Nicholas Birns teaches literature at the New School in New York City and is the editor of Antipodes. Rebecca McNeer is Associate Dean Emerita at Ohio University Southern.
Author : David Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-19
ISBN 10 : 9781316299005
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (99 downloads)
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature in PDF Full Online Free by David Hillman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.
Author : Wolfgang Armin Strauch
Publisher : tredition
Release Date : 2021-08-12
ISBN 10 : 9783347381612
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (816 downloads)
Download The fat man in PDF Full Online Free by Wolfgang Armin Strauch and published by tredition. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1967. The brutal murder of a woman sends shockwaves through the city of Krakow. Young detective Andrzej quickly determines the case in question could be connected with the victim's espionage activity during World War II. Alina, the deceased woman's sole relative, is not much help. That is, until she finds one of her mother's letters, a list of names, as well a document in Hebrew script. Andrzej and Alina then join forces to put the pieces of the puzzle together, and discover the love affair between Alina's Polish mother and her German suitor during a turbulent time in history in the process. But how does all of this pertain to references to the "fat man"? A riveting, high-octane thriller that confronts a complicated predicament head-on with unorthodox methods, yet without a moralizing undertone.
Author : Nan Bowman Albinski
Publisher : National Library Australia
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : 0642106908
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (421 downloads)
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Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
ISBN 10 : 9781135839635
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (396 downloads)
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Author : B. Lee Cooper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : 9781560248613
Pages : 392 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (486 downloads)
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Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-01-18
ISBN 10 : 9781405192446
Pages : 1581 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (924 downloads)
Download The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set in PDF Full Online Free by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
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Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2022-05-20
ISBN 10 : 9789004502185
Pages : 539 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (21 downloads)
Download A Talent(ed) Digger in PDF Full Online Free by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Rutherford has been the most dynamic ambassador of Australian culture in Europe. More than any other single person, she has been instrumental in spreading interest in Commonwealth and post-colonial studies. Wherever she has been in the world, she has brought people together in friendship and intellectual endeavour. This volume ranges widely over the areas Anna has promoted as teacher, editor and publisher.
Author : Anthony J. Hassall
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 0702230359
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (22 downloads)
Download Dancing on Hot Macadam in PDF Full Online Free by Anthony J. Hassall and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of one of the world's most gifted and exciting writers. It follows Peter Carey's career from the nightmare-haunted stories of The Fat Man in History and War Crimes to the madcap satire of Bliss, from Illywhacker's picaresque landscapes to Oscar and Lucinda's glittering achievement, and the powerfully confronting vision of The Tax Inspector. Dancing on Hot Macadam is a lucid account of Peter Carey's fiction and its intriguing critical reception. It explores his preoccupation with imprisonment and metamorphosis, and the desire of his characters to escape from bewildering roles, relationships and societies.Dancing on Hot Macadam is another volume in the excellent Studies inAustralian Literature series ... It is a sound and persuasive critique thatgets much better as it goes along.Times Literary SupplementThe book contains a lot of ideas ... and will be the base from which to drawthe map of Carey's fiction as it develops further.Julian Croft Weekend Australian
Author : S.N. Bueti
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-10
ISBN 10 : 9781477232149
Pages : 175 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (321 downloads)
Download The Fat Man's Diet & Tales in PDF Full Online Free by S.N. Bueti and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I became inspired to return to a healthy state after almost a decade of being nothing more than a slug having eclipsed the three hundred pound milestone. Everyone was all over my case; I was a walking time bomb. Ultimately, only I could make the decision to lose weight and once I did, everything else fell into place. The hardest thing was simply to make the COMMITMENT TO DO SO. I Stayed True to Three Unconventional Principals: • I was going to Eat What I Liked • I Wasn't going to Exercise • I Wasn't going to Pay For Advice The little digital scale validated my efforts. Now everyone wants to know my secret formula, but only after witnessing the results, as I have managed to lose 80 Pounds in One Year! The word that best described what I did was to persevere. I felt like throwing in the towel a bunch of times, but I kept going forward and the diet became easier by the day. Dieting is a matter of being on a routine and chances are if you have read this far, yours is most likely unbalanced as mine was. Once you make up your mind, you too can do the same as I did, and lose the weight. I have taken the Yo out of Yo-Yo Dieting -- I continue to eat the foods I like, so there is no transitioning into anything.
