Neverwhere
Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Release Date : 2021-01-19
ISBN 10 : 0063070723
Pages : 464 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (7 users)
Download or read book Neverwhere PDF or another Format written by Neil Gaiman and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text" and including the special Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."
A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"
Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-05-31
ISBN 10 : 9783030964580
Pages : 96 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (3 users)
Download or read book A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" PDF or another Format written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work; situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in particular to the Hero’s Journey, urban fantasy, word play, social critique, and contemporary fantasy trends; and explores it as a case study in transmedial adaptation. The study ends with an interview with Neil Gaiman that addresses the novel and a bibliography of scholarly works on Gaiman.
Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives
Author : Aleksandra Bida
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-22
ISBN 10 : 9783319979670
Pages : 241 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (319 users)
Download or read book Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives PDF or another Format written by Aleksandra Bida and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By offering an analysis of the idea of home across the individual, interpersonal, social, and global scales, Mapping Home aims to show the extent to which self-concept is deeply tied to constructions of home in a globally mobile age. The epistemological link between dwelling as "knowing oneself" and the experience of welcome as key to being able to map "one's place(s) in the world" are examined through Martin Heidegger's concept of dwelling, Zygmunt Bauman's notion of liquid modernity, Jacques Derrida's exploration of hostile hospitality, and Kwame Anthony Appiah's sense of cosmopolitanism as border-crossing conversation. To further explore these ideas, the book draws on multimodal literature and films that span genres, including gothic horror, fantasy and science fiction, thoughtful comedies, and politically nuanced tragedies. The quality that deeply links the texts is their ability to illuminate the stabilities and mobilities through which home not only mediates but also integrates an individual's diverse experiences of belonging in different locations as well as on different geocultural scales—from the intimate "household" to the more abstract "hometown" or "homeland" and beyond.
The History of the London Underground Map
Author : Caroline Roope
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Release Date : 2022-10-30
ISBN 10 : 9781399006828
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (399 users)
Download or read book The History of the London Underground Map PDF or another Format written by Caroline Roope and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London’s iconic ‘Tube’ map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, downloaded an astonishing twenty million times in app form, the map remains a long-standing icon of British design and ingenuity. Hailed by the art and design community as a cultural artifact, it has also inspired other culturally important pieces of artwork, and in 2006 was voted second in BBC 2’s Great British Design Test. But it almost didn’t make it out of the notepad it was designed in. The story of how the Underground map evolved is almost as troubled and fraught with complexities as the transport network it represents. Mapping the Underground was not for the faint-hearted – it rapidly became a source of frustration, and in some cases obsession – often driving its custodians to the point of distraction. The solution, when eventually found, would not only revolutionise the movement of people around the city but change the way we visualise London forever. Caroline Roope’s wonderfully researched book casts the Underground in a new light, placing the world’s most famous transit network and its even more famous map in its wider historical and cultural context, revealing the people not just behind the iconic map, but behind the Underground’s artistic and architectural heritage. From pioneers to visionaries, disruptors to dissenters – the Underground has had them all – as well as a constant stream of (often disgruntled) passengers. It is thanks to the legacy of a host of reformers that the Tube and the diagram that finally provided the key to understanding it, have endured as masterpieces of both engineering and design.
London in Contemporary British Fiction
Author : Nick Hubble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-07-28
ISBN 10 : 9781623560614
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (623 users)
Download or read book London in Contemporary British Fiction PDF or another Format written by Nick Hubble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid representations of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio-temporal transformations and emergences; the relationship between multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial equivalent of London's unconsciousness and the suburbs as the frontier of the future. The volume creates a framework for new approaches to the representation of London required by the unprecedented social uncertainties of recent years: an invaluable contribution to studies of contemporary writing about London.
Popular Fiction and Spatiality
Author : Lisa Fletcher
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-31
ISBN 10 : 9781137569028
Pages : 220 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (137 users)
Download or read book Popular Fiction and Spatiality PDF or another Format written by Lisa Fletcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical approaches for interrogating the meaning of space and place across diverse genres, including crime, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Including topics such as classic English ghost stories, blockbuster Antarctic thrillers, prize-winning Montreal crime fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and China Miéville’s Bas-Lag, among others, this book brings together analyses of the real-and-imagined settings of some of the most widely read authors and texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how they have an immeasurable impact on our spatial awareness and imagination.
Poverty in Contemporary Literature
Author : B. Korte
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2014-02-28
ISBN 10 : 9781137429292
Pages : 149 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (137 users)
Download or read book Poverty in Contemporary Literature PDF or another Format written by B. Korte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Author : Mike Carey
Publisher : DC
Release Date : 2007-02-14
ISBN 10 : 9781401252700
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (41 users)
Download or read book Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere PDF or another Format written by Mike Carey and published by DC. This book was released on 2007-02-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comics adaptation of New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's acclaimed novel is now available complete in one collection! Collecting all nine issues of the Vertigo maxiseries, this volume follows the adventures of an ordinary Londoner who stops to help an enigmatic girl and is drawn into a battle to save the strange underworld kingdom of London Below from destruction.
Writing Blurbs That Sizzle--And Sell!
Author : Karen S. Wiesner
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-09
ISBN 10 : 9781925191653
Pages : 281 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (925 users)
Download or read book Writing Blurbs That Sizzle--And Sell! PDF or another Format written by Karen S. Wiesner and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your book fly off the shelves! Every author knows what a back cover blurb is, but crafting an effectively good one is no easy task. Many writers outright dislike writing them or dread the process because so much is at stake if the blurb fails to engage. A sizzling back cover blurb needs to convince readers they absolutely have to read the story inside the pages…or they'll set the book down without ever opening it. Additionally, a powerful series blurb can sell not just one book but all of them in that set! High-concept blurbs are necessary in every author's marketing to provide intriguing "sound bites" that sell books and series'. Writing Blurbs That Sizzle--And Sell! is the definitive guide on how to craft back cover, series, and high-concept blurbs.
Neil Gaiman
Author : Charlotte Guillain
Publisher : Raintree
Release Date : 2010-09
ISBN 10 : 9781406217223
Pages : 34 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (46 users)
Download or read book Neil Gaiman PDF or another Format written by Charlotte Guillain and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and writing career of the British author famous for his science fiction novels and stories, including "Coraline," "Stardust," and The Sandman comic books.
English Topographies in Literature and Culture
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2016-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9789004322271
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (4 users)
Download or read book English Topographies in Literature and Culture PDF or another Format written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Topographies in Literature and Culture takes a spatial approach to the study of English culture, focussing on writing landscapes, London psychogeography, heritage discourses, urban planning and idiosyncratic spatial practices such as suburban gardening. Space thus emerges as both political and shaped by affect.
The London Magazine
Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1824
ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106020393176
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (32 users)
Download or read book The London Magazine PDF or another Format written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Cityscapes of the Future
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2018-02-27
ISBN 10 : 9789004361317
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (4 users)
Download or read book Cityscapes of the Future PDF or another Format written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction examines the central role played by urban spaces in science fictional narratives in diverse media from the literary to the ludic to cinematic.
Cinefantastique
Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106014200536
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (32 users)
Download or read book Cinefantastique PDF or another Format written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Literature for Young Adults
Author : Joan L. Knickerbocker
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-28
ISBN 10 : 9781351067157
Pages : 354 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (351 users)
Download or read book Literature for Young Adults PDF or another Format written by Joan L. Knickerbocker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this book explores a great variety of genres and formats of young adult literature while placing special emphasis on contemporary works with nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions that are well suited to young adult readers. It looks at the ways in which contemporary readers can access literature and share the works they're reading, and it shows teachers the resources that are available, especially online, for choosing and using good literature in the classroom and for recommending books for their students’ personal reading. In addition to traditional genre chapters, this book includes chapters on literary nonfiction; poetry, short stories, and drama; and film. Graphic novels, diversity issues, and uses of technology are also included throughout the text. The book's discussion of literary language—including traditional elements as well as metafictive terms—enables readers to share in a literary conversation with their peers (and others) when communicating about books. This book is an essential resource for preservice educators to help young adults understand and appreciate the excellent literature that is available to them. New to the second edition: New popular authors, books, and movies with a greater focus on diversity of literature Updated coverage of new trends, such as metafiction, a renewed focus on nonfiction, and retellings of canonical works Increased attention to graphic novels and multimodal texts throughout the book eResources with downloadable materials, including book lists, awards lists, and Focus Questions
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-10-27
ISBN 10 : 9781472236036
Pages : 64 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (472 users)
Download or read book How the Marquis Got His Coat Back PDF or another Format written by Neil Gaiman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and touched it. And it was unquestionably his. *** 'Gaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true' The Times
The City's Son
Author : Tom Pollock
Publisher : Jo Fletcher Books
Release Date : 2016-04-05
ISBN 10 : 1623659361
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (659 users)
Download or read book The City's Son PDF or another Format written by Tom Pollock and published by Jo Fletcher Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An impeccably dark parable, endlessly inventive and utterly compelling" --M R Carey, author of The Girl with all the Gifts Beth's world is falling apart. Then she discovers a hidden London, full of marvels, magic . . . and menace. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Hidden under the surface of everyday London is a city where wild train spirits stampede over the tracks and glass-skinned dancers with glowing veins light the streets. When a devastating betrayal drives her from her home, Beth stumbles into the secret city, where she finds Filius Viae, London's ragged crown prince, just when he needs someone the most. For an ancient enemy has returned to the darkness under St Paul's Cathedral, bent on reigniting a centuries-old war. Desperate to find a way to save the city they both love, they find themselves in a desperate race through this bizarre urban wonderland, but when Beth's best friend is captured, she must choose between this wondrous existence and the life she left behind. The City's Son is the first book of The Skyscraper Throne trilogy: a story about family, friends and monsters, and how you can't always tell which is which.
