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The Mighty Skullboy Army
Brazen robots! Hostile corporate takeovers! Ill-fated interns! Criminally insane turnips! Distinctly unhelpful helper monkeys! And hats, dear God, hats aplenty! All this and more awaits any brave soul ready and willing to enlist in the ranks of the Mighty Skullboy Army!
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Conrad's the Duel
Readers have been aware that the plot for the Napolonic tale \"The Duel\" derived from an existing account. What has been unknown till now is the large number of venues in which that account variously appeared. This volume traces the tale's fascinating genealogy and the immediate contemporary source that inspired Conrad's 1907 story.
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A blade of black steel
\"After five hundred years, the Sunken Kingdom has returned, and brought with it a monstrous secret that threatens to destroy every country on the Star. As an inhuman army gathers on its shores, poised to invade the Immaculate Isles, the members of the Cobalt Company face an ugly choice: abandon their dreams of glory and vengeance to combat a menace from another realm, or pursue their ambitions and hope the Star is still there when the smoke clears. Five villains. One legendary general. A battle for survival. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Race and Ethnicity
Class
Urbanization
English Nostalgia
Conclusion
References and Further Reading
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The road to the country : a novel
\"At first the vision is grainy-like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When Kunle's younger brother disappears as his country explodes in civil war, Kunle must set out on an impossible rescue mission behind enemy lines. Set in Nigeria in the late 1960s, The Road to the Country is the epic story of a shy, bookish student haunted by long-held guilt and shame who must go to war to free himself. Kunle's search for his brother becomes a journey of atonement that will see Kunle conscripted into the breakaway Biafran army and forced to fight a war he hardly understands\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Writing Fear
In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside - a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, its legacy is much more enduring, persisting within later Russian literary movements. Writing Fear explores Russian literature's engagement with the gothic by analysing the practices of borrowing and adaptation. Katherine Bowers shows how these practices shaped literary realism from its romantic beginnings through the big novels of the 1860s and 1870s to its transformation during the modernist period.Bowers traces the development of gothic realism with an emphasis on the affective power of fear. She then investigates the hybrid genre's function in a series of case studies focused on literary texts that address social and political issues such as urban life, the woman question, revolutionary terrorism, and the decline of the family. By mapping the myriad ways political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode in the age of realism, Writing Fear challenges the conventional literary history of nineteenth-century Russia.
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March 1917
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution,
the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel
Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic work March
1917 , Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel .
The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus about the
Russian Revolution. Solzhenitsyn tells this story in the form of a
meticulously researched historical novel, supplemented by newspaper
headlines of the day, fragments of street action, cinematic
screenplay, and historical overview. The first two nodes- August
1914 and November 1916 -focus on Russia's crises and
recovery, on revolutionary terrorism and its suppression, on the
missed opportunity of Pyotr Stolypin's reforms, and how the surge
of patriotism in August 1914 soured as Russia bled in World War
I.
March 1917 -the third node-tells the story of the
Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial
government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the
opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of
events. The action of book 1 (of four) of March 1917 is
set during March 8-12. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of
more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire
begins to crumble. Bread riots in the capital, Petrograd, go
unchecked at first, and the police are beaten and killed by mobs.
Efforts to put down the violence using the army trigger a mutiny in
the numerous reserve regiments housed in the city, who kill their
officers and rampage. The anti-Tsarist bourgeois opposition,
horrified by the violence, scrambles to declare that it is
provisionally taking power, while socialists immediately create a
Soviet alternative to undermine it. Meanwhile, Emperor Nikolai II
is away at military headquarters and his wife Aleksandra is
isolated outside Petrograd, caring for their sick children.
Suddenly, the viability of the Russian state itself is called into
question.
The Red Wheel has been compared to Tolstoy's War
and Peace , for each work aims to narrate the story of an era
in a way that elevates its universal significance. In much the same
way as Homer's Iliad became the representative account of
the Greek world and therefore the basis for Greek civilization,
these historical epics perform a parallel role for our modern
world.
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The Negotiator. On Translating Francis Walder's Saint-Germain, ou la Negociation
Lees talks about Francis Walder's novel Saint-Germain, ou la Négociation. The novel was a source of instant and lasting fascination. Walder was a Belgian who trained at the military academy in Brussels and spent several years as a prisoner during World War II. After the war, he represented the army in international negotiations, and this experience prompted him to write what he called \"a portrait of the negotiator.\" This short novel--his first--won the Prix Goncourt, France' highest literary accolade, in 1958. Saint-Germain, ou la Négociation is a work of historical fiction based on the negotiation in 1570 of the relatively obscure treaty of Saint-Germain during the French Wars of Religion.
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Deconstructing Disciplina: Disentangling Ancient and Modern Ideologies of Military Discipline in the Middle Republic
This article challenges the idea, presented by both ancient and modern writers, that the armies of the Middle Republic were governed by a clearly articulated ideology of discipline. I contend that the notion of an all-encompassing system of military discipline is a fiction created by a variety of interconnected and historically-constructed intellectual genealogies by examining the two most important sources for the discipline of Middle Republican army, Polybius and Livy, and the reception of their ideas in post-Renaissance Europe.
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The (Un)making of a Man: Aleksandr Aleksandrov/Nadezhda Durova
Aleksandr Aleksandrov, more commonly known under his feminine birthname Nadezhda Durova, is commonly portrayed one of Russian literature's most curious figures. Born female, Aleksandrov-Durova lived, dressed, and identified as male for most of his life, served in the Russian military during the Napoleonic Wars, given a legally-binding name change by Tsar Alexander I in recognition of combat heroism, and became a popular memoirist and fiction writer. My paper seeks to challenge and reevaluate the dominant narrative of Nadezhda Durova—that she was a woman who joined the army out of a sense of patriotism—by focusing instead on the fact that the author's narrative of masculine self has been subverted by publishers and scholars projecting their own interpretations on Aleksandrov's masculinity.
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