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Barefoot : a novel
Visiting Nantucket with their children during a summer vacation, three women befriend a local youth and share their struggles with such challenges as infidelity, the loss of a job under scandalous circumstances, and health problems.
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Elizabeth Bowen: “The Demon Lover” and “Mysterious Kôr”
This chapter contains sections titled:
“The Demon Lover”
“Mysterious Kôr”
References and Further Reading
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Mrs. Houdini : a novel
\"Before escape artist Harry Houdini died, he vowed he would find a way to speak to his beloved wife Bess from beyond the grave using a coded message known only to the two of them. When a widowed Bess begins seeing this code in seemingly impossible places, it becomes clear that Harry has an urgent message to convey. Unlocking the puzzle will set Bess on a course back through the pair's extraordinary romance, which swept the illusionist and his bride from the beaches of Coney Island, to the palaces of Budapest, to the back lots of Hollywood\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Chat Me Out of Here!
Conversational user interfaces, aka chatbots, offer new ways of interaction that can be used not only for task-led applications, but also for learning itself. From drill-and-practice assistants to digital tutors and coaches, Conversational learning offers a variety of new and extensive options to support individuals through the learning process and to push the boundaries of classroom-based learning. However, Conversational Learning applications that go beyond simple question-and-answer dialogs are still rare. “Pit in the Warehouse” takes a new stance to Conversational Learning: by combining an dialogical escape room challenge with an interactive fiction approach and compelling storytelling, it creates an engaging and low-threshold type of game-based learning.
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Bury what we cannot take : a novel
After reporting his grandmother's actions to local authorities, Ah Liam and his family attempt to flee their home on Drum Wave Islet to escape the Communist Party's investigation and punishment of their family's disloyalty.
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Occidental discourses, materialities, spaces and assemblages: ersatz suburbs, replica towns and colonial histories and heritage in contemporary China
Since the 1990s, a body of literature has emerged on the idea of Occidentalism in China. Many studies have explored the role of the Chinese state in the construction of a negative narrative of the Occident to legitimise state rule. Drawing upon the ideas of Xiaomei Chen, in this article, we argue that while an official discourse of the Occident exists in contemporary China, ‘counter discourses’ of the Occident are also largely prevalent. However, where Xiaomei Chen examines the role of counter-discourses within contemporary China (through cultural media, television, fiction and theatre), in this article (and drawing upon assemblage theory and neo-Marxian ideas), we argue that discourses of the Occident have also been tied up with economic assemblages of production and consumption. Employing discursive, visual and internet analysis, we investigate two forms of Occidental assemblage that have emerged in the post-Maoist era: 1) a real estate/developer-based assemblage and 2) a conservation-heritage-based assemblage. We argue that ‘producers’ within both constellations create consumerist discourses and imaginaries of the Occident that serve a variety of elitist and nonelitist needs. In relation to both assemblages, we suggest that producers construct narratives of romance, beauty and nostalgia and, in some instances, discourses of ‘other worldliness’. Furthermore, we suggest that in addition to generating discourses, these producers reinforce these narratives through material entities (architecture, statues, display boards, symbols) and space (landscapes, suburbs, replica towns and heritage). Moreover, in interrogating these two assemblages, we also suggest that discourses, narratives and imaginaries within these constellations are reconfigured through forms of experiential consumption. Thus, our analysis of several faux Occidental real estate/developer landscapes (constructed by Assemblage 1) and several colonial heritage sites (constructed by Assemblage 2), leads us to argue that visitors and tourists to these spaces use these landscapes to construct discourses of romance, beauty, nostalgia and, in some instances, imaginaries of ‘escape’. As we suggest, rather than sites of elitism alone, these two Occidental assemblages serve as spaces by which Chinese consumers can escape the pressures and mundanity of everyday Chinese life.
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The Demon Curse
In 1886, a secret organization dedicated to the overthrow of evil sends young escape artist Harry Houdini and his friends to New Orleans to help a local community of fishermen accused of using voodoo magic to put the city's mayor in a zombified coma.
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Dear Sweet Harry
A collage of interlinked stories and items, this unique collection of poetry ties the author's own family history with that of famous escapologist Harry Houdini and spy Mata Hari. Set during World War I, this volume delves into seemingly unrelated topics, such as the Jewish emigre experience, amateur radio, a recipe for cough mixture, and writer Katherine Mansfield, and captures the period flavor of those more innocent times. Thematically interested in courageous attempts and escapes, this offbeat, yet charming compilation is an innovative addition to New Zealand literature.
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Mister Miracle : the great escape
Scott Free, a student at the Goodness Academy on the planet Apokolips, wants to escape to Earth but falls in love with the head of the Female Furies--the one person tasked with ensuring he never escapes.
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Narrating Conspiracy Theories: A Paradoxical Ethics of Otherness, Propaganda and Mistrust
Reflecting conspiracy theories in contemporary fiction actualises conspiratorial thinking as a specific sociocultural phenomenon and narrative. Four symptomatic novels – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia, and Stephen King’s The Institute – have been analysed from a conspiratorial perspective to illuminate the most efficient ways of shaping the human perception of reality. For this purpose, the following conspiracy elements have been delineated to be the basis of the novels’ poetics: otherness, propaganda, and mistrust. They affect the authors’ strategies of storytelling in the books written in the era of the end of truth. Following an interdisciplinary approach that primarily includes the method of narrative construction and semiotic analysis, the article focuses on the conspiracy elements for plotting the selected novels and explicates conspiracy narratives for manifesting the paradoxical ethics of truth as fiction. Conceptualising this idea in the sociocultural context confers to such a kind of literature a new ethical dimension.
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