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The Significance of loreth, Wise Woman of Gondor, in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Using key ideas from the field of Narrative Medicine, this essay considers the significance of Ioreth in her role as a wise-woman (midwife) and healer of Gondor. J.R.R. Tolkien developed the character of loreth from the static fairy-tale type of the \"Wise Old Woman\" to a dynamic minor character in her own right in The Lord of the Rings. He gave her a defining characteristic of talkativeness, and he purposefully attributed to her prophetic utterances of proverb, rhyme, and instruction that positively influenced those around her, including her healthcare colleagues Gandalf, Aragorn, and the herb-master, her unnamed kinswoman from the country, and Eowyn, the White Lady of Rohan, who later chose to become a healer herself after being in loreth's care. It is significant that the emotional arc of loreth's character follows a path from sorrow (over Faramir's fever) to joy (over Aragorn's coronation) because loreth serves as a microcosm mirroring the macrocosm of the people of Minas Tirth, who endure the darkness of Morder only later to emerge victorious in the light of a new day.
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J.G. Ballard's politics : late capitalism, power, and the pataphysics of resistance
\"This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. His oeuvre is read as a continuous meditation on late capitalism, at the heart of which lie questions of power and resistance. Drawing on a wide range of concepts from critical theory, the study argues that Ballard's texts respond to the exhaustion of received forms of political struggle by developing a new, pataphysical discourse of resistance\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Finding the Titanic : how images from the ocean depths fueled interest in the doomed ship
\"On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that's where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until it was discovered by oceanographer Robert Ballard and his crew. The pictures and video Ballard brought back from the 1985 discovery helped stir new interest in the Titanic's voyage and its resting spot\"--Amazon.com.
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J. G. Ballard's Politics
The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory. _x000D_.
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The carpet and the connoisseur : the James F. Ballard collection of oriental rugs
Catalogue of one of the USA's premier collections, given to the St Louis Art Museum by a pioneering local businessman and his daughter; the collector's taste was far in advance of his time and highly regarded. Accompanies an eponymous exhibition.
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J.G. Ballard’s Politics
This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. A product of and reaction to the cultural-socio-economic moment commonly designated as the postmodern condition, Ballard’s oeuvre is read as a continuous and developing meditation on the postmodern, examining it specifically as an expression of late capitalism. The book shows that at the heart of this meditation lies the question of resistance. Drawing on a wide range of concepts and ideas taken from the field of critical theory, it argues that in the face of a world marked by an unprecedented expansion of capital, in which modernity’s grand narratives have been invalidated and in which received forms of political struggle have lost their effectiveness, Ballard’s fiction commits itself to a deliberately irrational and extreme, pataphysical thought in order to develop a new discourse of resistance. Against past readings that have construed Ballard’s writing as non-political, decadent, or quietist, the study thus reveals Ballard as a thoroughly political author, committed to a subversive politics. In this way, the book also constitutes a timely intervention in the ongoing discussion concerning the nature and state of the political.
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