![]() ![]() ![]() His stories have appeared in Italian and foreign magazines and anthologies such as Robot, Futuri, Mamut, Chicago Quarterly Review # 20, Future Affairs Administration, Words Without Borders, The Dying Planet, Sunspot Jungle and The Best of World SF # 1. His latest novel, of the solarpunk genre, is called The Walkers and is made of The Pulldogs and No/Mad/Land. ![]() In 2015 he won a second Urania award with Bloodbusters which was released in the UK by Luna Press and in China by Bofeng. He has written Antidoti umani, e-Doll (2008 Urania Mondadori Award) and Livido (Odissea Award and Italy 2012 Award), published by Apex Books in the United States and by Bofeng in China with the title of Nexhuman. Since 2008 he has devoted himself full time to publishing, both as a genre author and as editor of the Future Fiction project. Born in 1973, Francesco Verso is one of the most interesting Science Fiction authors of recent years. ![]()
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![]() With the consolidation of the epigrammatic tradition in the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE, the distinctively epigrammatic poetic discourse that had evolved in the 3rd century BCE was subsumed into the persona of the poet himself, who is now figured as the very embodiment of the epigrammatic tradition and genre. ![]() This process of generic self-definition begins with the earliest literary epigrammatists’ fusion of inscriptional epigram with elements drawn from other genres, sympotic and erotic poetry and heroic epic, and their exploitation of the formal and conceptual repertoire of epigram to thematize poetic discourse. ![]() In their authorial self-representations (the poetic ego or literary persona), their representation of other poets, and their thematization of poetry more generally, literary epigrammatists define, and successively redefine, the genre of epigram itself against the background of the literary tradition. ![]() ![]() This dissertation offers a new analysis of the treatment of poets and poetics in Greek literary epigram from the early Hellenistic Period (3rd century BCE) down to the early Roman Imperial Period (1st century CE). ![]() ![]() ![]() Stealing just isn’t right, no matter if he’s only trying to survive, avoiding going back to his comfortable home in Ireland to a family which obviously still loves him despite what he might think they feel after he brought his younger cousin’s body home from the war in France, or tying to help those soldiers less fortunate than he. I will admit that I didn’t ever get over Jack’s casual feelings for his recently adopted career as a highwayman. But once I got involved with the story and began to become better acquainted with the characters, I was caught up in their emotions, the interplay of relationships and how it was all going to work out. I do agree that the plot, a young highwayman being abducted by his Dowager Duchess grandmother because she’s convinced he’s the son of her lost middle son and is determined that he take his rightful place as the current Duke thus displacing the grandson she – for some reason – can’t stand, is not to be taken seriously. ![]() I knew nothing about it until I started reading it and then read the review at AAR. Jayne B Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviews Historical Romances / julia-quinn / Regency England 19 CommentsĮven after I failed to appreciate your last book, I was eagerly awaiting this one. REVIEW: The Lost Duke of Wyndham by Julia Quinn ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Donne does not quite cover every emotion of love, but a good deal of them. The Songs and Sonnets of John Donne celebrate the many emotions of love, feelings that are so familiar in love poetry from Sappho to Adrienne Rich. And there is the complex, ambivalent eroticism of 'The Extasie', a much celebrated love poem, and the 19th 'Elegy', where features Donne's famous couplet: Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. In 'The Bait', there is the archetypal Renaissance opening line 'Come live with me, and be my love', as used by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, among others. Like William Shakespeare in his parody sonnet 'my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun', Donne sends up the Petrarchan and courtly love genre with gross comparisons ('Like spermatic issue of ripe menstruous boils'). There are the bawdy allusions to the phallus in 'The Flea', while 'The Comparison' parodies the adoration poem, with references to the 'sweat drops of my mistress' breast'. Donne has written his fair share of love poems. ![]() It is easy to see Donne as a love poet, in the tradition of love poets such as Bernard de Ventadour, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Torquato Tasso. John Donne was, Robert Graves said, a 'Muse poet', a poet who wrote passionately of the Muse. JOHN DONNE: AIR AND ANGELS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the finest poems by British poet John Donne. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Things are no better down south in New Orleans, where the author finds a Mississippi Delta inundated by rising seas. This created an artificial channel that has allowed invasive species from the south, such as Asian carp, into the lakes and creatures such as the zebra mussel from the lakes into the river. In her latest, the author opens with a consideration of America’s most important waterways, the Mississippi and the Great Lakes, which meet near Chicago but “are-or were-distinct aquatic worlds.” We learn the reason for the past tense via Kolbert’s sharp account of the overweening engineering project that reversed the flow of Chicago’s wastewaters to send them not into the lakes but into the river. In the manner of fellow New Yorker contributor John McPhee, every paragraph of Kolbert’s books has a mountain of reading and reporting behind it. More top-notch environmental reportage from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following the story of Stephen Gordon, an upper-class woman who finds love with one Mary Llewellyn and is consequently shunned by society, the work was groundbreaking in its lesbian subject matter.Īlthough it was received favourably by many publications including the Daily Heraldand Lady’s Pictorial, Sunday Express editor James Douglas began a campaign on 18 August 1928 to have Hall’s book banned – naming The Well of Loneliness as the ‘Book That Should Be Suppressed.’Īs we continue to celebrate Pride Month here at The Archive, we take a look at the reaction towards Radclyffe Hall’s pioneering work, and the persecution it faced at the hands of the English legal system, using newspapers to be found in the British Newspaper Archive. In 1928, novelist Radclyffe Hall published her seminal LGBTQ work The Well of Loneliness. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Kate has always wanted more than the small town of Silver Creek has to offer. There's a different vibe between Brody and Kate from the moment they first see each other again (helped along on Kate's side by her cousin Kristyn, who's convinced that they're destined for an epic friends-to-lovers romance), making Brody think that his crush might not be so hopeless after all. ![]() Just as they're heading out, Kate reaches out to let Brody know she's returning to their hometown to help her mother get her late grandmother's house ready to sell. School's out for the summer and Brody has decided to spend two weeks hiking the Appalachian Trail with his oldest brother, Perry. Even though they've been out of touch for the past four years, high school chemistry teacher and whitewater kayaking instructor Brody Hawthorne still hasn't gotten over his unrequited crush on his childhood best friend, travel writer Kate Fletcher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bella is struggling within the new confines of her work, surrounded by family who only want to help her through a difficult time - and one sister, Sophia, who happens to leap on Bella’s ex-husband’s newfound freedom. It’s a huge, gregarious and complicated bunch. Recently divorced, lipstick-loving heroine Bella Shaughnessy works as a stylist and makeup artist at her father’s salon in Boston - along with her myriad of sisters, brothers, half-sisters, their children, her father’s ex-wives and. That being said, I would like to consider myself somewhat of a devoted reader - I can put aside my personal chills and sweaters long enough to be absorbed in what many would consider a “good beach read” in the fall, jumping into the world of the big, “fake” Italian Shaughnessy clan in Boston. I’m sure it would have helped had I read Claire Cook’s Summer Blowout in the Outer Banks this summer, instead of in the cold, dank light of my living room in November. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of Goldhagen's book is concerned with the actions of the same Reserve Battalion 101 of the Nazi German Ordnungspolizei and his narrative challenges numerous aspects of Browning's book. The book, which began as a Harvard doctoral dissertation, was written largely as an answer to Christopher Browning's 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. These "myths" include the idea that most Germans did not know about the Holocaust that only the SS, and not average members of the Wehrmacht, participated in murdering Jews and that genocidal antisemitism was a uniquely Nazi ideology without historical antecedents. The book challenges several common ideas about the Holocaust that Goldhagen believes to be myths. Goldhagen asserts that this mentality grew out of medieval attitudes rooted in religion and was later secularized. Goldhagen argues that eliminationist antisemitism was the cornerstone of German national identity, was unique to Germany, and because of it ordinary German conscripts killed Jews willingly. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust is a 1996 book by American writer Daniel Goldhagen, in which he argues that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent " eliminationist antisemitism" in German political culture which had developed in the preceding centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The small town of the title is what drew me to Small Town Nightmare. If you like books with a strong female lead that keep you on the edge of your seat, you’ve found your next favourite read. What connects her missing brother to this grim boondock? And why do the townsfolk want rid of Lucy?Īs the story unfolds we are immersed in a creepy, claustrophobic drama in which everything is at stake. The town has secrets and they seem to centre on the enigmatic Samuel Nightmesser, its wealthy benefactor. Yet he is not quite who he says he is.Īs the locals begin to resent her presence in the town, danger quickly mounts. She befriends a man who might help her cause. ![]() Lucy tries to enlist the help of the local police, but she is met with hostility. It’s a rural backwater deep in the forests of south western Australia. When she sets out to find him, the trail takes her to Night Town. My thanks to Emma Welton from damppebbles for the place on the tour and the review copy.Ī young drifter is in deep trouble, his sister is his only hope… I’m so pleased to be helping to kick off the blog tour for Small Town Nightmare by Anna Willett today. ![]() |