![]() ![]() He implies that Don Quixote is a real historical figure, but also states later on in the story that Arabs are addicted to lying – so is Don Quixote a real or fictitious character? And if he is fictitious, who is his real author? In Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605) – one of the earliest and most seminal examples of metafiction – the narrator explicitly tells the reader that the text of Don Quixote was originally written by an Arab historiographer, translated into Spanish by an anonymous Moor, and finally edited by Cervantes. The narrative voice often steps out of their narration to remind the reader that they are reading a book, and sometimes, may even don the role of a character and enter the story to prove a point. It draws attention to the fact that the story, characters, and sometimes the author themselves, may or may not be fictitious. Metafiction – literally, beyond-fiction – presents fiction as fiction it is a narrative of a narrative, a story within a story, that questions the nature, method, and presumptions of fiction, and thus of reality itself. Fiction is a narrative consisting of imaginary people, events, and descriptions presented as reality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For eleven years, in the pages of “Ultimate Spider-Man,” Bendis explored the motivation that drove Peter he put a fresh coat of paint on his rogue’s gallery, expanded and played around with his large cast of supporting characters, and pushed them to conclusions the regular line of comics would not possibly dare to venture. Brian Michael Bendis was brought on board to rediscover the relevance behind those words. In the year 2000, Marvel Comics was looking to revitalize their line by rebooting a few key titles. Those words, however, do not belong to Peter Parker. They are a call to action an oath to never again falter on the lessons of the father figure that sacrificed so much for his welfare. Peter Parker has a gift, and he must use it for the benefit of those that don’t. The words are a memory of betrayal to his Uncle’s selflessness that ultimately resulted in his murder. ![]() ![]() For the character of Peter Parker, they represent a moment of shame, an instant in which he used his gifts for profit over altruism. They are the backbone of every Spider-Man narrative. With great power there must also come – – great responsibility! Those words, originally written by Stan Lee in 1962 for “ Amazing Fantasy” #15, have appeared and reappeared in numerous comic books, cartoons, and films. ![]() ![]() For Bonaparte, the fireplace symbolizes female genitals. With the logic he developed, he finds the place of the letter hidden in Minister’s apartment, in full-view hanging over the fire-place. Dupin then takes it and brings it back to Queen. In the story, the letter is stolen and then it goes to the Minister. ![]() Let’s continue to focus on the story with psychoanalytical perspectives. The child, according to Lacan, wishes to be the phallus for the mother. ![]() Lacan as well, takes maternal penis not as an anatomical object, but as an apparatus which enables the first encounter with otherness and lack when the child senses that s/he is not the mother’s entire world and that the mother wants something more than and apart from the child. Maternal penis in Freudian understanding refers to the perspective of child, in which he considers the mother as castrated. Briefly, Bonaparte stresses that “purloined letter” in the story symbolizes regret for missing maternal penis and reproach for its loss. ![]() Freud did never write on Poe himself, but he wrote a preface as an introduction for Bonaparte’s book on Poe, in which he praised and approved Bonaparte’s work. Bonaparte was Poe expert, she evaluated his works and life on the basis of Freudian psychoanalysis. ![]() Before Jacques Lacan has proposed psychoanalytical literary criticism on Poe’s well known story Purloined Letter, already established classical-Freudian psychoanalytical approach was practiced on the story not by Freud himself but by French psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte. ![]() ![]() She must survive blackmail, a bloodthirsty rival syndicate, and enemies within her own House to claim her spoils: vengeance for the deaths of her friends and gold to buy independence.īut all Ilanna's skill may not suffice to protect the one person who matters most: her son. What hope does one girl have in a world of ruthless men?Ī cunning thief of unrivaled ingenuity, Ilanna is determined to secure her freedom.Ĭommanding a crew of pickpockets, bounty hunters, poisoners, and assassins, Ilanna schemes to disgrace the Duke. A sadistic rival apprentice, threatened by her strength, is out for blood. The cutthroat streets of Praamis will test her mettle, and she must learn to dodge the City Guards or swing from a hangman's rope. She has only one choice: steal enough to pay her debts. Thrown into a life among criminals, she has no time for grief as she endures the brutal training of an apprentice thief. Viola, a child sold to pay her father's debts, has lost everything: her mother, her home, and her identity. The ultimate girl-power series were Ilanna must deal with betrayal, murder, cruelty, and wicked intentions. ![]() ![]() Welcome to the Dark Grim Fantasy world of the Queen of Thieves, where a young girl works her way up through the ranks of an outlaw guild to become the Queen of All. ![]() ![]() She decides to throw caution to the wind and go visit her brother, who she hasn’t seen in 3 years and discovers this whole new life he’s been leading with Alex, and everything seems to lead back to her mum’s death. She’s living awkwardly with her dad in London, while her brother stayed in America with his best friend Alex (who she has been in love with all her life), oh and she has special powers. After the first 2-3 chapters your in: Lila’s mum was recently killed, Its snappy, funny and straight to the point. ![]() ![]() She does a good job of getting you straight down into her world. I feel snug and happy, is all I can explain it. If you have never read her stuff before and NA isn’t your thang (although I can’t imagine why you poor soul), I think this is the best intro and a bargain with 2 books for 5 quid!Īlderson’s writing always makes me feel comfortable. Alderson offers some of the best deals on Amazon for YA, I think. This is a two-book combo with an extra chapter, and sneak preview into another YA book, Fated. I just finished two books of the Lila series, her debut into YA. I started off with the NA book Come Back to Me , which was her latest book at the time, kick starting my love affair. I feel like I’m reading Sarah Alderson in reverse. Published by Simon & Schuster, Jan 2014, 672 pages, £4.99 ![]() ![]() ![]() Spider reads fluently enough, but its action and characters seem to have come out of some movie-inspired never-never land. Soneji/Murphy is eventually captured-but can the bad part of him be proven guilty? There is even a hint at the end that he may survive for a sequel, though the reader has virtually forgotten him by then. Alex is soon on the case, more enraged by Gary's killing of poor ghetto blacks than by the Lindbergh-inspired kidnapping, and becomes involved with a gorgeous, motorcycle-riding Secret Service supervisor who is not what she seems. The villain is Gary Soneji/Murphy (read Hyde/Jekyll), who kills for recognition, and finally kidnaps the kids of prominent parents. Hero Alex Cross is in fact a black senior detective in Washington, D.C., who is also a psychiatrist and has a facile but not entirely convincing line of sentimental-cynical patter. ![]() Unfortunately, the novel has few merits of its own to set against those authors' works. 19) features a villain (a multiple-personality serial killer/kidnapper) whom the publisher hopes will remind readers of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter, and a hero who is compared to those of Jonathan Kellerman. This second big winter thriller by a writer named Patterson (see Fiction Forecasts, Oct. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, the essay also appears under the title On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, perhaps to contrast it with William Paley's Of the Duty of Civil Obedience to which Thoreau was in part responding. ![]() In 1866, four years after Thoreau's death, the essay was reprinted in a collection of Thoreau's work ( A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers) under the title Civil Disobedience. Resistance also served as part of Thoreau's metaphor comparing the government to a machine: when the machine was producing injustice, it was the duty of conscientious citizens to be "a counter friction" (i.e., a resistance) "to stop the machine". Nonetheless, Thoreau was initially inspired by the Christian anarchist ideals espoused by Ballou and Garrison. The latter title distinguished Thoreau's program from that of " non-resistants" or Christian anarchists like Adin Ballou and William Lloyd Garrison, as Thoreau argued that their insistence on nonresistance as praxis against the state was grossly ineffectual. This formed the basis for his essay, which was first published under the title Resistance to Civil Government in an 1849 anthology by Elizabeth Peabody called Æsthetic Papers. In 1848, Thoreau gave lectures at the Concord Lyceum entitled "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government". ![]() ![]() ![]() The main title song for the show is Perfect Day sung by Miriam Stockley. The animation style of The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends keeps very close to Potter's artwork in the original books. Dianne Jackson, director of the 1982 Christmas special The Snowman, was involved in the planning of the series and received series director and writer credit on the first six episodes, but she died of cancer on New Year's Eve 1992. The first six episodes cost approximately £5 million to produce. TVC London, in association with the BBC and the Japanese companies Pony Canyon Inc and Fuji Television Network Inc., produced the show for the publishing company Frederick Warne & Co. For the initial VHS releases, some of the characters' voices were dubbed-over by actors with more American-like accents. on Family Channel between 23 October 1992 and 23 October 1995. ![]() ![]() It was subsequently broadcast in the U.S. on the BBC between 20 December 1992 and 25 December 1998. 14 of Potter's stories were adapted into 9 films, and the series was originally shown in the U.K. The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends is a British animated anthology television series based on the works of Beatrix Potter, featuring Peter Rabbit and other anthropomorphic animal characters created by Potter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Agnes knows good and well that calling upon one giant monster to get rid of another is a bit like saving a drowning cat by throwing another cat into the water, what she doesn’t realize are the dangerous lengths King Vislor is willing to undertake to keep the people of Verbena Fields safe. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Agnes isn’t exactly a people-type person, so she says “no,” except with a bit of profanity attached.īut her refusal has some unintended consequences: Driven by fear, the townsfolk summon King Vislor - a powerful, albeit neurotic monster hound with an obsessive reverence for humankind - to watch over them. So, they turn to ex-monster hunter and professional curmudgeon Agnes Stegall for a bit of assistance in ridding them of the creature. There’s a giant monster living on the outskirts of the small town of Verbena Fields, Alabama, and the residents there are, quite naturally, a bit concerned. This is a story about big monsters and small people…and small monsters and big people. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Southern Poverty Law Center also asserted that the film endorsed the " Lost Cause" myth. Although film critics complimented its performances and historically accurate details such as costumes, they criticized its length, pacing, and screenplay. The film was both a critical failure and a commercial failure at the box office. Originally running over five hours in length, the film was cut by an hour and a half for its 2003 theatrical release, with the full "Extended Director's Cut" being released eight years later in 2011. ![]() It stars Stephen Lang as Stonewall Jackson, Jeff Daniels as Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and Robert Duvall as General Robert E. The film follows the story of Stonewall Jackson from the beginning of the American Civil War to his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Most of the film was personally financed by media mogul Ted Turner. It is an adaptation of the 1996 novel of the same name by Jeffrey Shaara and prequel to Maxwell's 1993 film Gettysburg. ![]() Gods and Generals is a 2003 American epic war drama film written and directed by Ronald F. ![]() |