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A cage went in search of a bird
\"Is there someone out there for everyone? Two lonely souls find each other in this unusual tale of friendship and belonging from award-winning comic writer Cary Fagan. In her North American debut, illustrator Banafsheh Erfanian brings ornate artistry to the cage and birds that inhabit this surprisingly human story\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Malpas the Dragon
This beautifully illustrated children's book is about loss and survival. It will be enjoyed by children and adults alike, and is ideal for parents and professionals to read with children who find it hard to love and be loved.
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Scrawny cat
A lost, lonely, and scrawny cat, hungry and afraid, unexpectedly meets someone who takes him in and loves him.
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The Role of Memory, Security, and Sustainability in Life: A Study of the Immigrant Fiction Goat Days by Benyamin
The memories serve him with a sense of coherence and continuity. [...]the paper endeavours to unravel how Najeeb's memory of his past life serves as a model of security in promising a sustainable future for him. To place it more strategically, memory studies as a research area has always been of interest to social thinkers right from the beginning. [...]memory can define the age old question of who you are and hence, memory applies to the regular structuring of human lives. Memory drives us forward; our mind has a unique power of processing and retrieving huge information in the form of images, sounds and smell. [...]memory is a matter of choice, a matter of carefully drawn personal semantics that make up our life. Memory is an intricate human process and literature plays a substantial role in preserving the past. [...]memory and nostalgia can be linked and is one among the recurring themes in literature. Literature and creative writing exposes the memorial processes, unspoken thoughts, and feelings experienced by the characters created by the writers. [...]literature permeates the memory culture.
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The cat with seven names
A wandering cat brightens the lives of six lonely people--and persuades all of them to feed him until a near accident brings them all together.
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Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Existentialism and IR meet the post-apocalyptic pandemic novel
Mary Shelley mined the ideas of international thought to help develop three new subgenres of modern political science fiction (‘poliscifi’): post-apocalyptic, existential, and dystopian. Her two great works of poliscifi, Frankenstein (1818), and The Last Man (1826) – confront the social problems that arise from humanity's technological and cultural interventions in the wider environment. This article recovers The Last Man not only as the first modern post-apocalyptic pandemic novel, but also as an important source for the existentialist tradition, dystopian literature, and their intersections with what I call ‘Literary IR’. Comparing The Last Man with its probable sources and influences – from Thucydides and Vattel to Orwell and Camus – reveals Shelley's ethical and political concerns with the overlapping problems of interpersonal and international conflict. The Last Man dramatises how interpersonal conflict, if left unchecked, can spiral into the wider sociopolitical injustices of violence, war, and other human-made disasters such as species extinction, pandemics, and more metaphorical ‘existential’ plagues like loneliness and despair. Despite these dark themes and legacies, Shelley's authorship of the great plague novel of the nineteenth century also inspired a truly hopeful post-apocalyptic existential response to crisis and conflict in feminist poliscifi by Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, and Emily St. John Mandel.
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Everyone walks way
\"Frank feels lonely when everyone walks away. Tilly, Paul and Milan are having fun. Frank cries tears into a pan and then adds sugar, and cooks and stirs for hours. Frank has made jam, his very own recipe.He will now invite the others for afternoon tea\"--Publisher's website.
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The very lonely firefly
A lonely firefly goes out into the night searching for other fireflies.
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The Spectre of Austerity in Up Lit: Mike Gayle’s All The Lonely People (2020) and Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)
Since 2010, successive Conservative-led governments in the United Kingdom have implemented austerity, cutting billions of pounds from the welfare state. These measures have adversely impacted disabled people, entrenched regional health inequalities, and exacerbated public health issues such as loneliness, drug addiction, and homelessness. While fictional counternarratives have emerged to expose the human consequences of welfare reform, this article focuses on a different creative response to contemporary austerity Britain: the burgeoning genre of up lit. Up lit has been marketed as a panacea, promising to temporarily reassure readers who seek imaginative worlds of comfort and hope in the contemporary moment of uncertainty. However, as my analysis of Mike Gayle’s All The Lonely People (2020) and Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017) reveals, beneath the seemingly progressive representations of marginalised protagonists and celebrations of community support, lies an emphasis on the neoliberal value of individual responsibility which works to conceal the harmful impact of austerity policies. Both novels celebrate “deserving” citizens who overcome adversity and take responsibility for their health and wellbeing while offering individual acts of kindness as the solution in the absence of state support. Paying close attention to the peripheral characters who are excluded from the central recovery narratives, I conclude that austerity haunts these up lit texts and cannot be contained within their hopeful neoliberal fantasies.
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