There is a single story amid the extensive oral literature of the Marshall Islanders that uncharacteristically has no ending. Tarmalu leaves her baby in the care of others while she leads her fleet of proa from the shelter of the Wotho Atoll lagoon out into the open ocean to save their craft from th
Imagining Mars: a literary history
β Scribed by Crossley, Robert;
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Year
- 2010;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 656 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Meaning of Mars -- Dreamworlds of the telescope -- Inventing a new Mars -- Percival Lowell's Mars -- Mars and Utopia -- H.G. Wells and the great disillusionment -- Mars and the paranormal -- Masculinist fantasies -- Quite in the best tradition -- On the threshold of the space age -- Retrograde visions -- Mars remade -- Being there -- Becoming Martian -- Afterword : Mars under construction
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βJust a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck's, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called Equitable Place. Here you'll find a number of places to eat and drink. Settle yourself in the window of one, shut your eyes, and picture this scene of yore ...ββ¨β¨In this much-lov
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1. Politics of literature in socialist Yugoslavia -- 2. Historical fiction, haunted fiction -- 3. Restless ghosts -- 4. Uncanny histories -- 5. In the shadow of war -- 6. Making war real -- 7. NATO's phantoms.</div>
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