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Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
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Release Date : 1985
ISBN 10 : OCLC:1256249393
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Robert A. Heinlein
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Release Date : 1992
ISBN 10 : OCLC:920483674
Pages : 439 pages
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Author : J. Neil Schulman
Publisher : Pulpless.Com
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : 1584450150
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (445 downloads)
Download The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana in PDF Full Online Free by J. Neil Schulman and published by Pulpless.Com. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, Robert A. Heinlein was sixty-six, at the height of his literary career; J. Neil Schulman was twenty and hadn't yet started his first novel. Because he was looking for a way to meet his idol, Schulman wangled an assignment from the New York Daily News--at the time the largest circulation newspaper in the U.S.--to interview Heinlein for its Sunday Book Supplement. The resulting taped interview lasted three-and-a-half hours. This turned out to be the longest interview Heinlein ever granted, and the only one in which he talked freely and extensively about his personal philosophy and ideology. "The Robert Heinlein Interview" contains Heinlein you won't find anywhere else--even in Heinlein's own "Expanded Universe." If you wnat to know what Heinlein had to say about UFO's, life after death, epistemology, or libertarianism, this interview is the only source available. Also included in this collection are articles, reviews, and letters that J. Neil Schulman wrote about Heinlein, including the original article written for The Daily News, about which the Heinleins wrote Schulman that it was, "The best article--in style, content, and accuracy--of the many, many written about him over the years." This book is must-reading for any serious student of Heinlein, or any reader seeking to know him better.
Author : James Branch Cabell
Publisher :
Release Date : 2020-12-11
ISBN 10 : 9798579844538
Pages : 354 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Jurgen A Comedy of Justice Annotated in PDF Full Online Free by James Branch Cabell and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert A. Heinlein consciously patterned his best-known novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, after Jurgen, and Cabell's influence is also evident in the titles and themes of at least two other novels by Heinlein: his long-unpublished first novel, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (written 1938, published 2003), and his late work Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984), The eponymous hero, who considers himself a "monstrous clever fellow," embarks on a journey through ever more fantastic realms in search of a parodized version of courtly love. Everywhere he goes he meets eccentric knights and damsels, in an acerbic satire of contemporary America
Author : Outlet
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Release Date : 1987-05-01
ISBN 10 : 0517649128
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (764 downloads)
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Author : Bernard Schweizer
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-17
ISBN 10 : 9780429589669
Pages : 254 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (966 downloads)
Download Christianity and the Triumph of Humor in PDF Full Online Free by Bernard Schweizer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic examples. Humor is a powerful rhetorical tool for those who advocate and for those who satirize religious ideals. The book presents a compelling argument about the centrality of humor to the story of Western Christianity’s cultural and artistic development since the Middle Ages, taking a multi-disciplinary approach that combines literary criticism, religious studies, philosophy, theology, and social science. After laying out the conceptual framework in Part 1, Part 2 analyzes key works of religious comedy across the ages from Dante to the present, and it samples the breadth of contemporary religious humor from Brad Stine to Robin Williams, and from Monty Python to South Park. Using critical, historical, and conceptual lenses, the book exposes and overturns past attempts by church authorities, scholars, and commentators to limit and control laughter based on religious, ideological, or moral criteria. This is a unique look into the role of humor and comedy around religion. It will, therefore, appeal to readers interested in multiple fields of inquiry, including religious studies, humor studies, the history of ideas, and comparative literature.
Author : Walter L. Reed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-07-15
ISBN 10 : 0195359887
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (535 downloads)
Download Dialogues of the Word in PDF Full Online Free by Walter L. Reed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the theory of language developed by the Soviet critic Mikhail Bakhtin, this book argues that the historically diverse writings of the Bible have been organized according to a concept of dialogue. The overriding concern with an ongoing communication between God and his people has been formally embodied, Reed shows, in the continuous conversation between one part of the Bible and another. Reed looks beyond the close readings of recent accounts of the Bible as literature to larger paradigms of communication in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament. He considers the Bible in its different canonical states, distinguishing the genres of law, prophecy, and wisdom in the Hebrew Bible and describing how these earlier forms of divine and human communication are appropriated and answered by the New Testament genre of gospel. The dialogic character of the Bible is also discovered within individual books: patriarchal answers to primeval failures in Genesis, cross-talk between justice and providence in Job, and orchestration of judgment and worship in Revelation. Throughout this wide-ranging study, Reed demonstrates the surprising relevance of Bakhtin's ideas of literature and language to the biblical writings as they assume formal coherence within the canon.
Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2007-07-18
ISBN 10 : 9780786430796
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (79 downloads)
Download Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction in PDF Full Online Free by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo Gernsback's career, this critical study explores the many ways in which his work influenced the genre. It summarizes the science fiction theories of Gernsback and his successors, considers his efforts to define science fiction both verbally and visually, and for the first time offers detailed studies of his rarest periodicals, including Technocracy Review, Superworld Comics, and Science-Fiction Plus. An analysis of his ground-breaking novel, Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660, and its influences on a variety of science fiction novels, films and television programs is also offered.
Author : George Edgar Slusser
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 10 : 0820315338
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (31 downloads)
Download Fights of Fancy in PDF Full Online Free by George Edgar Slusser and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fifteen original essays offers new perspectives on armed conflict as a central aspect of science fiction and fantasy writing. Looking past the superficial conventions associated with ray guns and aliens, swords and sorcerers, the contributors show how writers in the genre today are not so much imagining war more fully as they are completely re-imagining it. Science fiction and fantasy writing is no longer mired in epic or chivalric models but is responding to new and more complex "real-world" motivations for armed aggression: advances in weaponry, shifts in the theaters of war, and changes in battlefield conditions. Most of the papers were presented at the annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, the field's most prestigious international gathering. The trend throughout the book is away from critical interest in stories of spatial or territorial conquest and toward works that deal with topics related to wars of temporal logistics and the internationalization of the combat zone, including urban street violence, gender conflicts, and resistance to runaway technology. The essays range from studies of the semantics and linguistics of warfare in science fiction to a critique of Osip Senkovsky's Fantastic Journeys of Baron Brambeus; from writer Joe Haldeman's assessment of the impact of his Vietnam experiences on his fiction to inquiries into a shared author/reader agenda in novels concerning potential mass destruction, including Stephen King's Dead Zone and M. J. Engh's Arslan. The collection also charts new directions in writing, such as the anti-apocalyptic science fiction of Samuel R. Delany, and embraces new modes of presentation, particularly computer animation and the bande dessinee, or illustrated narrative, as exemplified by French novelist Phillippe Druillet's La Nuit. Musician Bob Marley, film actor/directors Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Lee, and the cyberpunk film classics Terminator and the Road Warrior series are among other topics discussed. Together, the essays reinforce the editors' contention that the true function of these fantasies and science fictions is neither nostalgia nor fancy, but analysis. The contributors treat the texts they examine as a means not of playing war games but of understanding the role of war in the present and the future.
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Publisher : Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
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ISBN 10 : 9715740863
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (574 downloads)
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Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2002-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9781587153303
Pages : 342 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (33 downloads)
Download Complete Critical Assembly in PDF Full Online Free by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.
Author : Allen Ahearn
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Release Date : 1997-06
ISBN 10 : 1883060095
Pages : 760 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (36 downloads)
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Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 0313329532
Pages : 520 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (332 downloads)
Download The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy in PDF Full Online Free by Gary Westfahl and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.
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Author : George Colman
Publisher :
Release Date : 1803
ISBN 10 : OXFORD:590249613
Pages : 92 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Release Date : 2013-09
ISBN 10 : 1230611894
Pages : 56 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (61 downloads)
Download Novels by Robert A. Heinlein in PDF Full Online Free by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 54. Chapters: Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Tunnel in the Sky, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Rocket Ship Galileo, Methuselah's Children, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Time Enough for Love, Farmer in the Sky, The Number of the Beast, Friday, Space Cadet, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, The Puppet Masters, The Rolling Stones, Starman Jones, Farnham's Freehold, Between Planets, Double Star, Sixth Column, Job: A Comedy of Justice, Have Space Suit-Will Travel, Podkayne of Mars, Red Planet, Glory Road, The Door into Summer, Beyond This Horizon, The Star Beast, Orphans of the Sky, Citizen of the Galaxy, I Will Fear No Evil, Time for the Stars, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, Variable Star, Future History, World as Myth. Excerpt: Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published (in abridged form) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October, November 1959, as "Starship Soldier") and published hardcover in December, 1959. The first-person narrative is about a young soldier from the Philippines named Juan "Johnnie" Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military unit equipped with powered armor. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs." Through Rico's eyes, Heinlein examines moral and philosophical aspects of suffrage, civic virtue, the necessities of war and capital punishment, and the nature of juvenile delinquency. Starship Troopers won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960. The novel has attracted controversy and criticism for its social and political themes, which some critics claim promote fascism and militarism. Starship Troopers...
Author : Katherine E. Southwood
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-02
ISBN 10 : 9781000163414
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (341 downloads)
Download Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising in PDF Full Online Free by Katherine E. Southwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray. A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the expression of pain in Job focusing specifically on somatic language used in the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors and in the language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology which focuses on illness narratives and expressions of pain. Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising will be of interest to anyone working on the Book of Job, as well as those with an interest in suffering and pain in the Hebrew Bible more broadly.
Author : J. Daniel Gifford
Publisher :
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106019252912
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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