Echoland

Download or read book Echoland written by Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows several major European literary «echoes» still reverberating since the mysterious emergence of such archetypal figures as Faust, Hamlet, Quixote, and Don Juan alongside lingering ancient and medieval protagonists in the Renaissance. Four centuries of attempts to redefine «modern» identity are traced against the evolution of a new genre of totalizing encyclopaedic literature, the «humoristic» tradition which re-weaves the positive and negative strands of the European, and today also New World, «grand narrative.» The book's method, inspired by Joyce, is to «listen» to recurrent motifs in the cultural flow from Humanism to Postmodernism for clues to an identity transcending the personal.

Download or read book Echolands, Volume 1 written by J. H. Williams III and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Earth's last war starts withHope's sticky fingers... The multipleaward-winning Batwoman team, J. H. WILLIAMS III (Promethea, The Sandman:Overture, Batman) and W. HADEN BLACKMAN (Star Wars, Elektra), reunites for anall-new ongoing series! They're joined once again by colorist supreme DAVESTEWART and master letterer TODD KLEIN. In abizarre future world that has forgotten its history, a reckless thief, HopeRedhood, holds the key to excavating its dark, strange past--if only sheand her crew can escape a tyrannical wizard and his unstoppable daughter. Butfate will send them all on a path leading to a war between worlds. ECHOLANDS is a landscape format,mythic-fiction epic where anything is possible--a fast-paced genre mashupadventure that combines everything from horror movie vampires to classicmobsters and cyborg elves, to Roman demigods and retro rocket ships. It'sgoing to be a helluva ride! Early praise forECHOLANDS: "It's every fictionalworld, each with its own artistic style, intersecting and exploding with JHW3magic and crackle. I can't wait to see where he and Haden Blackman are takingus--into a world in which anything can happen, and undoubtedly will."--Neil Gaiman "So complex and unique andexpertly executed it pushes the medium forward in new directions and leads toinvigorated interest in the medium of comics itself." --RobertKirkman "A dazzling, kinetic ride through anexquisitely realized fantasy world, bursting with graphic energy andexcitement." --DaveGibbons "Echolands' fallen fantasySan Francisco is painted as a monstrous blend of magic and technology, and readslike a blockbuster car chase." --Kyle Shutt (TheSword) "Getting an eyeful is a massiveunderstatement. I love looking at the drawings as they expand with more detailsemerging every time I look." --Debbie Harry (Blondie, Face It: AMemoir)

Download or read book Echoland written by Joe Joyce and published by Liberties Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June, 1940. France is teetering on the brink of collapse. British troops are desperately fleeing Dunkirk. Germany is winning the war. Its next target is Britain . . . and Ireland. In neutral Dublin opinions are divided. Some want Germany to win, others favour Britain, most want to stay out of the war altogether. In this atmosphere of edgy uncertainty, young lieutenant Paul Duggan is drafted into G2, the army's intelligence division, and put on the German desk. He's given a suspected German spy to investigate, one who doesn't appear to do much, other than write ambiguous letters to a German intelligence post box in Copenhagen. Before Duggan can probe further, however, he is diverted by a request from his politician uncle to try and find his daughter, who's gone missing, possibly kidnapped. Enlisting the help of witty Special Branch detective Peter Gifford, the two lines of inquiry take Duggan into the double-dealing worlds of spies and politics, and lead him back to a shocking secret that will challenge everything he has grown up believing. An addictive thriller that will keep you glued to the page, right through to its heart-pounding finale.

Download or read book The Crystilleries of Echoland written by Dew Pellucid and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced, high fantasy murder mystery for middle grade & young adult readers, with 82 illustrations LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL RUNNER-UP (2018) Thousands of children disappear from our world. No one sees the kidnapping; or if they do, they forget. But one toddler returns after a week, riding a wolf, with a falcon circling over him. That boy is Will Cleary. Will tries to live a normal life. But his twin sister is still missing, and their parents never stop searching for her. Then just before his thirteenth birthday, Will's pets reveal a secret to him. (Though how it happens will remain a secret, until you read the book.) A hidden world lies beneath our feet, a land filled with see-through trees and lucent people. They call us Sounds, and they are our Echoes; for each one of them is a reflection of one of us. It is a sparkling, beautiful place, a winter wonderland. But there is evil there, a terrible law, the Law of Death. When a Sound dies in our world, his Echo is executed in Echoland. And there are those who reverse the order of things, to achieve their wicked ends. They hunt the Sound of the Echo they want to kill. Then the first death leads to the second as surely as lightning leads to thunder. Is that what happened to the missing children in Will's realm? Did someone want to murder their Echoes? Or are these Sounds still alive, trapped somewhere in Echoland? Will tries to escape the frightening answer. But dangers sweep him into that magical, see-through land. And there, in a fortress filled with castaway children, a two-hundred-year-old riddle lies buried. The most important boy in Echoland will help Will solve it, with a handful of other kids. For the fate of Echoland, and of the Sound realm, depends on the answer. An answer hidden in an ancient book... Deep in a frozen lake of gems... Beyond a buried door... At the foot of the greatest Crystillery of all. But many men and monsters, crystal balls and spying eyes, will try to stop the brave teens. For how see-through your skin is is all-important in Echoland. And when this ancient hate will end, the realm of the Echoes will change forever.

Download or read book Young-Girls in Echoland written by Andrea Jonsson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child? Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl is a controversial work of anticapitalist philosophy that has attracted musicians, playwrights, feminist theorists, and men's-rights activists since its publication in 1999. More than twenty years after its publication the international reverberation of Young-Girls shows no signs of weakening. Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun is a guide to this ongoing postdigital conversation, engaging with artworks and textual criticism provoked by Tiqqun’s audacious, arguably misogynistic textual voice. Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson show how Tiqqun’s polarizing figure has grown and matured but also stayed unapologetically girly in the works of artists and scholars discussed here. Rethinking the myth of Echo and Narcissus by performing a different kind of listening, they take us on a journey from VSCO girls to basic bitches to vampires. With an ear for the sound of Tiqqun’s polemic and its ensemble of Anglophone and Francophone rejoinders, Young-Girls in Echoland offers a model for analyzing the call-and-response of pop philosophy and for hearing the affective rhythms of communicative capitalism.

Download or read book Out Stealing Horses written by Per Petterson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July. Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day—an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys. Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer.

Download or read book Holstein-Friesian World written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: