Search Results - "extinction"

The extinct scene : late modernism and everyday life / by Davis, Thomas S. (Thomas Saverance)

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The lost villages in search of Britain's vanished communities / by Buckton, Henry

Subjects: “…Extinct cities Great Britain.…”
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Treadwell gold an Alaska saga of riches and ruin / by Kelly, Sheila, 1942-

Subjects: “…Extinct cities Alaska Douglas Island.…”
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New world poetics nature and the adamic imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott / by Handley, George B., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Ecology, the New World, and the "American" Adam -- A New World poetics -- reading Whitman in the New World -- Nature's last chemistry in Leaves of grass -- Natural history as autobiography -- Hemispheric history as natural history -- The muse of (natural) history -- Impressionism in the New World -- Death, regeneration, and the prospect of extinction.…”
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The fourth ghost white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950 / by Brinkmeyer, Robert H.

Table of Contents: “…Cash -- Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy -- Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith -- You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe -- Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner -- Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter -- Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers -- Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren -- Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman -- Coda: the long shadow.…”
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The ends of satire : legacies of satire in postwar German writing / by Bowles, Daniel James, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Satire around 1800: Jean Paul -- Prolegomena -- The case of Jean Paul: unreadable writing, unwritable readings 16 -- Part One: Inversion -- The carnivalesque in Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and his World (1965) -- Perspective and repetition in Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters (1984) -- Destructive negativity: Thomas Bernhard and Extinction (1986) -- Part Two: Mythification -- Between theory and literature: Roland Barthes' Mythologies (1957) -- Elfriede Jelinek's Mythic Lust (1989) -- Viennese paradigms in Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher (1983) -- Part Three: Citation -- From stage to page: Judith Butler and Gender Trouble (1990) -- Performing theory in literature: Thomas Meinecke's Tomboy (1998) -- Infinite Paradise of the Infinite Text: Thomas Meinecke's Music (2004) -- Conclusion: Satire after Satire.…”
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Dystopias and utopias on Earth and beyond : feminist ecocriticism of science fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Brandão and Ildney Cavalcant -- Ecofeminist (post) Ice-Age ecotopia : Doris Lessing's 'Mara and Dann' books / Julia Kuznetsk -- Ecofeminist climate fiction : Merlinda Bobis's Locust girl / Iris Ralph -- Utopias on Earth and beyond. 'Extinction is forever' : ecofeminism and apocalypse in Louise Lawrence's young adult short fiction / Michelle Deininger and Gemma Scammel -- Ecofeminist utopian speculations in Henrietta Augusta Dugdale's A Few hours in a far-off age (1883), Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the future (1888), Mary Anne Moore-Bentley's A Woman of Mars; or, Australia's enfranchised woman (1901), and Joyce Vincent's The Celestial hand: a sensational story / Nicole Anae -- Alien ecofeminist societies : sharers in Joan Slonczewski's A Door into ocean / Irene Sanz Alonso -- Re-reading Ursula K. …”
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