The Outside Thing

Download or read book The Outside Thing written by Hannah Roche and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lecture delivered before the University of Oxford’s Anglo-French Society in 1936, Gertrude Stein described romance as “the outside thing, that . . . is always a thing to be felt inside.” Hannah Roche takes Stein’s definition as a principle for the reinterpretation of three major modernist lesbian writers, showing how literary and affective romance played a crucial yet overlooked role in the works of Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes. The Outside Thing offers original readings of both canonical and peripheral texts, including Stein’s first novel Q.E.D. (Things As They Are), Hall’s Adam’s Breed and The Well of Loneliness, and Barnes’s early writing alongside Nightwood. Is there an inside space for lesbian writing, or must it always seek refuge elsewhere? Crossing established lines of demarcation between the in and the out, the real and the romantic, and the Victorian and the modernist, The Outside Thing presents romance as a heterosexual plot upon which lesbian writers willfully set up camp. These writers boldly adopted and adapted the romance genre, Roche argues, as a means of staking a queer claim on a heteronormative institution. Refusing to submit or surrender to the “straight” traditions of the romance plot, they turned the rules to their advantage. Drawing upon extensive archival research, The Outside Thing is a significant rethinking of the interconnections between queer writing, lesbian living, and literary modernism.

Download or read book Curious Things of the Outside World written by Hargrave Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Most Perfect Thing written by Tim Birkhead and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bird's egg is a nearly perfect survival capsule--an external womb--and one of natural selection's most wonderful creations. Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016.One of Forbes' Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2016. Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are released into the oviduct, and are fertilized by sperm stored from copulation that took place days or weeks earlier. Within a matter of hours, the fragile yolk is surrounded by albumen and the whole is gradually encased within a turquoise jewel of a shell. Soon the fully formed egg is expelled onto a rocky ledge, where it will be incubated for four weeks before a chick emerges and the life cycle begins again. THE MOST PERFECT THING is about how eggs in general are made, fertilized, developed, and hatched. Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction.

Download or read book 101 Things for Kids to do Outside written by Dawn Isaac and published by Kyle Books. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with games, projects, crafts, experiments and gardening inspiration, 101 Things for Kids to do Outside will have your children racing out to try something new. The huge selection of ideas covers all four seasons and ranges from quick 10-minute activities to a full day of fun. From party games and treasure hunts to simple gardening projects, each idea is simple to follow and illustrated with colour photography, so you can't go wrong! Activities include building a human sundial, creating an outdoor collage, setting up a wormery, planting a potato tower, making natural inks, flying a homemade kite and playing torch tag. This hands-on guide will help children get the most from being outdoors, and you don't need a big garden - a local park or small area will suffice. 101 Things for Kids to do Outside is sure to get your kids away from the computer and provide hours of entertainment for the entire family.

Download or read book Doing Time on the Outside written by Donald Braman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of the unintended social, financial, and personal consequences of incarceration on the families of prisoners

Download or read book Joyous Expansion written by Brett Dupree and published by Avida. This book was released on with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyous Expansion is the key to living an inspired life with passion. Using personal stories, and his Joyous Expansion Intention System, Brett will teach you how to achieve all your dreams while living full of joy. This clear and down-to-earth book is filled with practical tips that will leave you elated. Mike Dooley, bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities states, "Refreshingly original and completely organic! Please do yourself a favor and be a part of Brett Dupree's Joyous Expansion. Reading this book will not only improve your life, but the lives of people you interact with every day!" In Joyous Expansion, you will learn how to incorporate your passion and inspiration in your daily life, achieve life balance, bring your spirituality in your reality, get out of the rat race and enjoy your journey, write powerful intentions that will focus your determination to reach your desires, and celebrate your life and learn from your outcomes. Joyous Expansion will show you how to reach your ultimate potential while having a great time. Let Brett Dupree guide you to live a life of purpose, abundance and inspiration!

Download or read book Aristotle: Semantics and Ontology written by L.M. de Rijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study intends to show that the ascription of many shortcomings or obscurities to Aristotle is due to the persistent misinterpetation of key notions in his works, including anachronistic perceptions of statement making. In the first volume Aristotle's semantics is culled from the Organon. The second volume presents Aristotle's ontology of the sublunar world, and pays special attention to his strategy of argument in light of his semantic views. The reconstruction of the semantic models that come forward as genuinely Aristotelian can give a new impetus to the study of Aristotelian philosophic and semantic thought.