Narrative magic in the fiction of Isabel Allende

The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic

Ascendancies : the best of Bruce Sterling

The Shaper/Mechanist stories: Swarm -- Spider Rose -- Cicada queen -- Sunken gardens -- Twenty evocations -- Early science fiction and fantasy: Green days in Brunei -- Dinner in Audoghast -- The compassionate, the digital -- Flowers of Edo -- The little magic shop -- Our neural Chernobyl -- We see things differently -- Dori Bangs -- The Leggy Starlitz stories: Hollywood Kremlin -- Are you for 86? -- The littlest jackal -- The Chattanooga stories: Deep eddy -- Bicycle repairman -- Taklamakan -- Later science fiction and fantasy: The sword of Damocles -- Maneki Neko -- In paradise -- The blemmye's strategem -- Kiosk.

The best American spiritual writing 2006

Best American series,

fitting desire / Renewing husbandry / big tent / On making the Martyrdom of Saint Polycarp: writing the true icon / After strange gods / Pipistrelle / Eddy / manna for all seasons / cellular church / Moral fiction / tragic fate of John Ruskin / Arguing with Milosz in Vilnius / This soul has six wings / glue is gone / Music's missing magic / Waking / Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles / Into the wonder / kosher conversion / Our near-death experience / After 9/11 / secret of the self / Our American Babylon / Are you there, God? / Seven penitential psalms / lost Buddhas of Bamiyan / Ishi / Ten (possible) reasons for the sadness of thought / Just power / Angel bones / church's way of speaking / Marina / East Boston, 1996 / 20, 40, 60, 80,

A view from the stars

Time enough for love / Whale song / A journey in search of home : on the inclusion of "The Wandering Earth" in the 30th anniversary of Science fiction world / The messenger / Thirty years of making magic out of ordinariness : celebrating Science fiction world's thirtieth anniversary / Butterfly / One and one hundred thousand Earths / On finishing Death's end, the last book in the Remembrance of Earth's past trilogy / The battle between sci-fi and fantasy ; The "Church" of sci fi : on depictions of the universe in science fiction / End of the microcosmos / Poetic science fiction / Civilization's expansion in reverse / Destiny / The dark forest theory / The world in fifty years / Heard it in the morning / On ball lightning, an interview with Liu Cixin ; We're sci-fi fans

Cavalcade of the English novel from Elizabeth to George VI ...

Fiction in Shakespeare's time -- The seventeenth century -- Defoe and his contemporaries -- Psychological realism begins : Samuel Richardson -- Fielding and the prose epic -- Smollett and the novel of humors -- The triumph of sensibility : Laurence Sterne -- Sentimentalists and revolutionaries -- The renascence of wonder -- The romance of the tea-table -- The heights -- From Scott to Dickens -- White magic -- The disciples of Dickens -- Counter-blast : W.M. Thackeray -- The novelist as novelist : Anthony Trollope -- Fire over Yorkshire -- The "new" novel : George Eliot -- The poetic comedy of George Meredith -- Hardy and the cosmic drama -- Romance resurgent : Robert Louis Stevenson -- Victorian sunset -- Towards a new century -- Values and Joseph Conrad -- Novelist of being : Arnold Bennett -- H.G. Wells, "realist of the fantastic" -- Pity, irony, and John Galsworthy -- D.H. Lawrence, pilgrim of the rainbow -- "Stream-of-consciousness" -- News of Tishnar : Walter De La Mare.

The Cambridge companion to the modern German novel

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

German novel in the long twentieth century / Contexts of the novel: society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present / novel in Wilhelmine Germany: from realism to satire / Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers: Musil, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, Jahnn / Franz Kafka: the radical modernist / Modernism and the Bildungsroman: Thomas Mann's magic mountain / Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s: Hermann Broch and Robert Musil / Images of the city / Women writers in the 'golden' twenties / first world war and its aftermath in the German novel / German novel during the third Reich / History, memory, fiction after the second world war / Aesthetics and resistance: BoÌll, Grass, Weiss / kleiner Mann and modern times: from Fallada to Walser / 'critical' novel in the GDR / Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era: Max Frisch and Peter Handke / Subjectivity and women's writing of the 1970s and early 1980s / postmodern German novel

An atlas of lost kingdoms : discover mythical lands, lost cities and vanished islands

Atlantis: legendary sunken city -- Camelot: many-towered castle of King Arthur -- Hy-Brasil: phantom island off the Irish coast -- The lost city of Ys: legendary kingdom swallowed by the sea -- Yggdrasil: the nine worlds of Northlands -- Cockaigne: a dreamland of plenty and luxury -- The Fortunate Isles: paradise islands from Greek mythology -- Buyan: vanishing island from Slavic folklore -- Scholomance: underground school of black magic -- Zerzura: the oasis of little birds -- Sheba: kingdom of an ancient queen -- The lost city of Kalahari: fact or fiction? -- Carthage: once-great rival of Rome -- Ile-Ife: sacred homeland of the Yoruba people -- Troy: city of legend -- Themiscyra: capiatl of the Amazons -- The hanging gardens of Babylon: lost wonder of the world -- Iram of the Pillars: the Atlantis of the sands -- Dwarka: legendary home of a Hindu god -- Shi Cheng: real-life sunken city -- Xanadu: capital of an empire -- Ryūgū-jō: underwater palace from Japanese legend -- The Isle of Demons: phantom island off the coast of Canada -- The Hopi underworld: where it all began -- The seven cities of gold: a dream of impossible wealth -- Aztlan: legendary homeland of the Aztec people -- El Dorado: the fabled city of gold -- Ciudad Blanca: the lost city of the monkey god -- Port Royal: sunken pirate haven -- Baralku: island of the dead -- Hawaiki: homeland of the Māori people -- Agartha: imagined kingdom inside the Earth.

Sherman Alexie

Critical insights

Critical insights.

On Sherman Alexie: American man of letters / Navigating the river of the world: collective trauma in The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / "Doesn't everybody belong to a subculture?": community and history in Sherman Alexie's writing / Articulations of difference: minority existence in white America in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer and Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Postmodern magic, traditional rage: the critical reception of Sherman Alexie's work / Half child/half adult: Sherman Alexie's hybrid young adult fiction / The rhetorical, performative poetics of Sherman Alexie: critical reflections on affect, memory, and subjectivity / A rez kid gone urban: Sherman Alexie's recent short fiction / Dialectic to dialogic: negotiating bicultural heritage in Sherman Alexie's sonnets / Sherman Alexie's indigenous blues / The exaggeration of despair in Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues / Reservation home movies: Sherman Alexie's poetry / A new road and a dead end in Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues / "The res has missed you": the fragmented reservation of the mind in The business of fancydancing / A bridge of difference: Sherman Alexie and the politics of mourning / A world of story-smoke: a conversation with Sherman Alexie / Indian killer / Sex and salmon: queer identities in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / The trans/historicity of trauma in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Building cultural knowledge in the contemporary native novel / Sherman Alexie: interview

Science literacy for the twenty-first century

Introduction / Opening the doors of science / Women and physics, physics and women : a puzzlement / Status of the "two cultures" / Igniting an educational revolution : MIT OpenCourseWare / On creating a "scientific temper" / Rethinking the physical sciences in school programs / On the oneness of nature

Scientific inquiry and nature of science as a meaningful context for learning in science / In praise of audacity : tackling the big problems / Magic of science / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : musings on the teaching and learning of science / University as a partner in transforming science education / Impossible takes a little longer / Selling physics to unwilling buyers : physics fact and fiction

Two modest proposals concerning scientific literacy / The ethical responsibilities of scientists / Scientific responsibility / Science literacy and society's choices / Some current concerns : missile defense, the future of nuclear power, and the hazard of loose nuclear-weapon material in Russia / The DARI : a unit of measure suitable to the practical appreciation of the effect of low doses of ioniziong radiation

Building public understanding of science : a matter of trust / Leon Max Lederman : a brief biography / Partnerships between scientists and educators : a vital ingredient in science education reform / The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy : a commitment to transformation / The Teachers Academy for Mathematics and Science / From laboratory gardens to society jungles with Leon Lederman

Leon Lederman's proselytizing for science / Leon, Fermilab, and other things / Leon Lederman : a true friend of science and education

Tolkien and Shakespeare : essays on shared themes and language

Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ;

Tolkien and Shakespeare : influences, echoes, revisions / Clashing mythologies : the elves of Shakespeare and Tolkien / "How now, spirit! Wither wander you?" diminution : the Shakespearean misconception and the Tolkienian ideal of faërie / Just a little bit fey : what's at the bottom of The lord of the rings and A midsummer night's dream? / "Perilously fair" : Titania, Galadriel, and the fairy queen of medieval romance / "We few, we happy few" : war and glory in Henry V and The lord of the rings / The person of a prince : echoes of Hamlet in J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings / How "all that glisters is not gold" became "all that is gold does not glitter" : Aragorn's debt to Shakespeare / "The shadow of succession" : Shakespeare, Tolkien, and the conception of history / "The rack of this tough world" : the influence of King Lear on Lord of the rings / Shakespearean catharsis in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien / Prospero's books, Gandalf's staff : the ethics of magic in Shakespeare and Tolkien / Merlin, Prospero, Saruman and Gandalf : corrosive uses of power in Shakespeare and Tolkien / "Bid the tree unfix his earthbound root" : motifs from Macbeth in J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings / Hidden in plain view : strategizing unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's portraits of women / Something is stirring in the east : racial identity, confronting the "other, " and miscegenation in Othello and The lord of the rings / Self-cursed, night-fearers, and usurpers : Tolkien's Atani and Shakespeare's Men / Gollum and Caliban : evolution and design / Of two minds : Gollum and Othello

Putting the fact in fantasy : expert advice to bring authenticity to your fantasy writing

World-building with the Spanish Inquisition / Five facts about the American Old West / Female professions in medieval Europe / Historically accurate ways to die / A quick and dirty guide to feudal nobility / Religious culture of the ancient Near East / African and Asian exchanges with Medieval Europe / Religious fundamentalism in fantasy / Fomenting rebellions in fantasy / Enchanted mouras and miracles: Portugal's Moor and Christian ancestry / A brief history of real-world magic / Archeology in science fiction and fantasy / The linguistics in arrival / Realistic translation in fiction / Developing realistic fantasy cultures / Languages in fiction / Legends and folktales in fantasy / Woodworking myths in fiction / Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europe / Traditional European superstitions / Health and wellness implications of world-building / Designing realistic magic academies / Prophets, preachers, and priests in fantasy / Money makes the world go 'round / Political philosophies for fictional worlds / Legal systems in fantasy worlds / Building credible and interesting political systems / World-building with food and drink / Plants in world-building / Organic world-building through ecology / Realistic knife fighting / Medieval versus modern archery / Writing realistic soldiers for fun and profit / Realistic fighting for authors / Building a fantasy army / Martial arts magic: building a fighter from the ground up / Stabbed in the chest: mortal wounds and medicine / How to describe horses in fiction / Horse terminology: gaits and anatomy / Horse terminology: track and riding / How to write horses wrong / Matching horses to use, setting, and character / How to injure horses realistically / Horse psychology 101 / Three ways to write a better hike / Wilderness survival / How to write rock climbing wrong / Castles and ruins / Things authors don't know about the woods / Writing realistic forests