Author: Ruth Prigozy File Type: pdf Specially-commissioned essays by major scholars present a clear and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald. No aspect of his career is overlooked--from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with an accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The volume offers readers a complete account of Fitzgeralds work as well as suggestions for further reading.ReviewRuth Prigozy has done a wonderful job of ensuring that her contributors write in an accessible and jargon-free style and cover the full range of Fitzgeralds writings ... If ... the editors aim was to produce a full and accessible picture of the authors life and career, then she is to be congratulated on having assembled a set of contributors who provide exactly that. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review Book DescriptionSpecially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clear and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with an accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The volume offers readers a full account of Fitzgeralds work as well as suggestions for further reading.

Author: Richard Meek File Type: pdf This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early modern emotion has relied on a medical-historical approach, resulting in a picture of emotional experience that stresses the dominance of the material, humoral body. While such scholarship has been important in foregrounding questions related to historical phenomenology and embodiment, it has obscured the extent to which other intellectual and creative frameworks - including religion, philosophy, rhetoric and drama - also shaped cultural beliefs about emotion in the period. The Renaissance of Emotion seeks to redress this balance by examining the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries explored emotional experience from perspectives other than humoral medicine. Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, the volume demonstrates how open, creative and agency-ridden the experience and interpretation of early modern emotion could be. Taken individually, the chapters offer much-needed investigations into previously overlooked areas of emotional experience and signification taken together, they offer a thorough re-evaluation of the cultural priorities and phenomenological principles that shaped the understanding of the emotive self in the early modern period. The Renaissance of Emotion will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, the history of emotion, theatre and cultural history, and the history of ideas. **

Author: Dennis Harding File Type: pdf Archaeologists have long acknowledged the absence of a regular and recurrent burial rite in the British Iron Age, and have looked to rites such as cremation and scattering of remains to explain the minimal impact of funerary practices on the archaeological record. Pit-burials or the deposit of disarticulated bones in settlements have been dismissed as casual disposal or the remains of social outcasts. In Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain, Harding examines the deposition of human and animal remains from the period - from whole skeletons to disarticulated fragments - and challenges the assumption that there should have been any regular form of cemetery in prehistory, arguing that the dead were more commonly integrated into settlements of the living than segregated into dedicated cemeteries. Even where cemeteries are known, they may yet represent no more than a minority of the total population, so that other forms of disposal must still have been practised. A further example of this can be found in hillforts which, in addition to domestic and agricultural settlements, evidently played an important role in funerary ritual, as secure community centres where excarnation and display of the dead may have made them a potent symbol of identity. The volume evaluates the evidence for violent death, sacrifice, and cannibalism, as well as age and gender distinctions, and associations with animal burials, and reveals that formal cemetery burial or cremation was for most regions a minority practice in Britain until the eve of the Roman conquest. **

Author: Derek Miller File Type: epub A luminous novel, a police thriller, and the funniest book about war crimes and dementia you are likely to readSheldon Horowitzwidowed, impatient, impertinenthas grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman, who failed his only son by sending him to Vietnam to die. Not until now, anyway.Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When events turn dire, Sheldon seizes and shields the neighbors young son from the violence, and they flee the scene. But old age and circumstances are altering Sheldons experience of time and memory. He is haunted by dreams of his son Sauls life and by guilt over his death. As Sheldon and the boy look for a haven in an alien world, reality and fantasy, past and present, weave together, forcing them ever forward to a wrenching moment of truth.Norwegian by Night introduces an ensemble of unforgettable charactersSheldon and the boy, Rhea and Lars, a Balkan war criminal named Enver, and Sigrid and Petter, the brilliantly dry-witted investigating officersas they chase one another, and their own demons, through the wilderness at the end of the world.ReviewHas the brains of a literary novel and the body of a thriller. *New York TimesTruly a page-turner...Norwegian by Night is about past wars and present-day ethnic strife, family, grief, guilt and, ultimately, redemption. Korea (and phantom Koreans), Vietnam, the Holocaust, ethnic identity Serb, Norwegian, Muslim, and yes, Jewish these are the true characters of the novel....Funny, moving and thoroughly gripping.Jewish WeekA stunning examination of how our lives shape our character, and how our allegiances shape our destiny. Bethanne Patrick, AARP* (1 of 12 Summer Reads for 2013) Both an exciting chase thriller and a poignant story about a man who comes into his own again in his dotage. --Library Journal No brief plot outline can do justice to a book that deserves to find a place on a few best-of-the-year lists. Sheldon is a brilliantly imagined character, a true mensch, made of Greatest Generation stuff...Miller joins the ranks of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Jo Nesb, the holy trinity of Scandinavian crime novelists.--Booklist, starredMillers affecting debut, about a cantankerous Jewish widower transplanted to Norway who becomes party to a hate crime, is an unusual hybrid part memory novel, part police procedural, part sociopolitical tract and part existential meditation. Miller, an American living in Oslo...makes the setting a powerful character...The novel, first published in Norway, was worth the wait. --*Kirkus ReviewsullA literate, thoughtful and unusual thriller...Our image of Scandinavia is one of tolerance Miller doesnt disagree with the image, but Norwegian by Night offers a fascinating fictional exploration of the meaning and implementation of that tolerance.lul--*The Times (UK)ullNorwegian by Night has all the ingredients of a top-notch thriller, but its the superb characterisation of the protagonist that fuels true suspense. Funny and moving as well as thoroughly gripping, this is crime fiction of the highest order. --The GuardianlulMuch more than an enjoyable thriller. It is a beautifully written tale of love and loss...One of the best novels of the year.Jenni Frazer, The Jewish Chronicle (UK) This highly visual storytelling reads like a first draft of the script for an action-packed, emotionally satisfying movie, one that will appeal to both sexes. *Jewish Book Council* Norwegian by Nights n ot just a great title, its also a soulful, humane, and sparklingly funny novel. Spend some time with Sheldon and company in the Scandinavian wilderness and you just might make peace with your god, your ghosts, and yourself. -- Gary Shteyngart, author of *Super Sad True Love StoryullBrilliant, serious literary crime and our favorite thing, Scandi-noir, but with a twist... - Erica Wagner, The Times 100 people to watch in 2013 (UK)lul NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT is an outrageously intelligent thriller, and its philosopher-sniper hero, Sheldon Horowitz, is a character wholl stay in your brain for decades. You might come for the guns and the ruckus, but by the last page, with your heart still pounding, youll be crying at all the goddamned beauty and love in the world. - Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright River and *The CradleullNorwegian by Night shifts along like an inquisitive wind, with characters who enter your mind so easily its as if theyve been there all along, and a voice so confident you would follow it into a leaning house. Generous with its wit, dazzling in its cultural and historical reach, Derek Millers novel is the kind of sweep-you-up tale a reader always wants but rarely finds, the kind where you stand in the bookstore reading the opening pages and whisper, This is the one.Leif Enger, bestselling author of *Peace Like a Riverlul*Have you ever lucked into one of those novels so taut and suspenseful that you cant turn the pages fast enough, yet, at the same time, so magnificently written and psychologically incisive that you find yourself unable to turn those same pages slowly enough? Such novels are as rare as great comets. Norwegian by Night, Im happy to report, is one. Make sure youre in a comfortable spot when cracking this book you wont be putting it down for an obscenely long while.Jonathan Miles, author of *Dear American AirlinesullHumane, blackly funny, heartbreaking, full of believable people and with a touching, magnificent hero in Sheldon, this is one of the best books Ive read this year. Verdict Brilliant.Herald Sun (Australia)lul Norwegian By Night [is] ostensibly a Scandinavian thriller yet recalls Saul Bellow and Philip Roths more cerebral creationsA remarkably confident debut that is at once a rich psychological study, a political parable that seems to be about Americas compulsion to intervene abroad, and a moving story of an old mans last chance to slay his demons.John Dydale, The Sunday Times (UK) A stunningly good debut thriller, subtle and moving, with a truly original heroLiterate, elegant and compelling.Marcel Berlins, The Times (UK) From the synopsis, it is impossible to harness all the themes and subtlety of prose that this book conveys to the reader. On one level, not only does the book contain all the quintessential elements of a Scandinavian crime novel, it also encompasses the Korean, Vietnam, and Balkan conflicts, and on a more emotional level, presents a poignant and meditative examination of aging and regretI would urge everyone to read this exceptional debut, with its powerful and emotive themes[as well as] all the tension of a totally authentic Scandinavian crime thriller. I cannot praise it highly enough, and Norwegian By Night could well be one of my top crime reads of the year. Outstanding. Raven Crime Reads (blog)About the AuthorDerek B. Miller is the director of The Policy Lab and a senior fellow with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Born and raised in Boston, he has lived abroad for over fifteen years in Israel, England, Hungary, Switzerland, and Norway.