![]() The editors define fan fiction as “historically situated in the last forty years, tending to respond to a specific form of media texts, and encompassing a specific amateur infrastructure for its creation, distribution, and reception” (7). In fact, it is responsible for a new academic anthology, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse. Much has changed since Jenkins’ book, including the mass proliferation of the internet and social media, but its influence hasn’t diminished. ![]() This insight prompted a new wave of scholars to examine audience reception and revise the previously misunderstood relationship between producer and consumer. In his groundbreaking work, Jenkins demonstrates that fans are more than just passive consumers, and that they actively make meaning out of the texts they interpret. ![]() Above: Purple haired trekki from .Īfter the publication of Henry Jenkins’ Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture in 1992, a scholarly revolution had taken place. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Book: All Authors / Contributors: Dan Brown. This was thrilling, and I loved it when I realized what was coming. Dan Brown - When the NSAs invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician. I like it the best out of all Dan Brown's books. The thing is, what could possibly be the answer? I loved this book. Ensei Tankado, a true genius, he creates an unbreakable code that even the TRANSLTR, which usually takes less than one minute-3 minutes to decode the code needed to view emails has taken over twenty-four hours on Tankado's unbreakable code. The only think TRANSLTR can't break are loops, and viruses. Susan Fletcher works for NSA, the National Security Agency, which has TRANSLTR, the code-breaker which allows the NSA to read people's emails. However, if people knew, the world would be full of more crimes. Ensei Tankado, a Japanese man, believed that everyone should have had the right to know that people were reading their emails. As humiliating that may seem, it was thrilling, exciting, wonderful, to discover I had been wrong. Digital Fortress was ingenious! Everytime I thought I knew something, I was evidently proven wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This selectivity makes his book unconventional in today’s egalitarian and multicultural tide. He includes all such things as part of this history, without respect to where they took place or at what time, but he focuses on the history of art in the West. And the rewards are plenty.īy the history of art, Gombrich means “the history of buildings, of picture-making, and of statue-making” (p. He takes us on a journey through the history of art. In the chapters that follow, Gombrich takes us on a voyage into much more than a single picture. But to look at a picture with fresh eyes and to venture on a voyage of discovery into it is a far more difficult but also a much more rewarding task. To talk cleverly about art is not very difficult, because the words critics use have been employed in so many different contexts that they have lost all precision. I should like to help to open eyes, not to loosen tongues. Gombrich aims to steer readers clear of this trap. They may have heard that Rembrandt was famous for his chiaroscuro-which is the Italian technical term for light and shade-so they nod wisely when they see a Rembrandt, mumble “wonderful chiaroscuro,” and wander on to the next picture. When they see a work of art they do not stay to look at it, but rather search their memory for the appropriate label. Gombrich speaks of a trap that some people fall into after studying art history: In his introduction to The Story of Art, E. ![]() ![]() ![]() John is a hard character to stomach because we have been there. The story is tortuous because it reminds its readers of something that seems to go hand and hand with youth – the desire for glory, for greatness, for artistic achievement and admiration without the tedious work of application. ![]() Whatever parallels there may be to Coetzee’s young life, this book is clearly a novel, and it deserves to be judged as a complete work. Many critics have argued that this sparse Beckettian novel is really a memoir, to be read as a prelude to Coetzee’s own great writing career. Youth is a short and tortuous novel which follows John, a young man with lofty literary aspirations through a mathematics degree, a move from a politically unstable South Africa to London where he works towards a Masters degree in literature and begins work as a computer programmer. ![]() ![]() in The Doll: Short Stories, London: Virago, 2011. ![]() ![]() Early Stories Published Separately, then Collected in Later Volumes (5)Ģ1 “And His Letters Grew Colder”, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan (September 1931): 56-59, 180-181. Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier (50) Early Uncollected Stories (3)ġ8“Terror”, The Bystander (26 December 1928): 678-679.ġ9“A Man of Straw”, The Bystander (27 November 1929): 482-484, 488.Ģ0“Portrait of an Actress”, The Saturday Review (): 753-754. ![]() Primary Sources Novels by Daphne Du Maurier (17)ġ The Loving Spirit, London: Heinemann, 1931.Ģ I’ll Never Be Young Again, London: Heinemann, 1932.ģ The Progress of Julius, London: Heinemann, 1933.Ħ Frenchman’s Creek, London: Gollancz, 1941.Ĩ The King’s General, London: Gollancz, 1946.ġ0 My Cousin Rachel, London: Gollancz, 1951.ġ2 The Scapegoat, London: Gollancz, 1957.ġ3 Castle Dor, with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, London: Dent, 1962.ġ4 The Glass-Blowers, London: Gollancz, 1963.ġ5 The Flight of the Falcon, London: Gollancz, 1965.ġ6 The House on the Strand, London: Gollancz, 1969.ġ7 Rule Britannia, London: Gollancz, 1972. ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than enough dark and disturbing stories to scare even the greats of horror literature, Barker’s works have quite a punch. The world is a dimension that can’t be recognized in the work of Barker, where the everyday logic and rationale we have is null and void. The Books of Blood are a series of novels that seamlessly fuse the most mundane with the most bizarre, while the characteristic eroticism of Barker’s writing permeates the pages. The series consists of the following books: The Books of Blood by Barker are some of the most fascinating and spine-tingling novels we’ve picked up to date. With that said, let’s see what the best Clive Barker books actually are.īarker’s Books of Blood series is one of the most famous works of the author. ![]() ![]() The most notable award Barker has received to this date is the Inkpot Award, in 1991. Clive attended Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, before going to the University of Liverpool, where he primarily studied English and Philosophy.Ī notable part of Clive’s early life was, when aged only three, he bore witness to the French skydiver Leo Valentin who, during the course of a performance in Liverpool, slowly fell to his eventual death. ![]() ![]() "ON LIBRARIES", an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers. ![]() "MAKING A CHAIR", a poem about the joys of creating something, even when the words won't come "MAKE GOOD ART", his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts "CREDO", his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings 'ART MATTERS' brings together four of Gaiman's most beloved writings on creativity and artistry: (Neil Gaiman)ĭrawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems and creative manifestos, 'ART MATTERS' is an embodiment of this remarkable multimedia artist's vision - an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives. "The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before". ![]() ![]() A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman. ![]() ![]() Tigerclaw turned to see sleek wet bodies sliding out of the water below the rocks. "Look out! More RiverClan warriors are coming!" "After tonight, Tigerclaw, this will be just another RiverClan hunting ground!" the bracken-colored tom spat back.Ī warning yowl came from the shore, shrill and anxious. "How, dare you hunt in our territory? The Sunningrocks belong to ThunderClan!" And then, as if on a silent signal, the creatures leaped at each other, and suddenly the rocks were alive with wrestling, screeching cats.Īt the center of the frenzy of fur and claws, a massive dark tabby pinned a bracken-colored tom to the ground and drew his head up triumphantly. Unsheathed claws glinted in the moonlight. ![]() There was a stirring in the shadows, and from all around lithe dark shapes crept stealthily over the rocks. The silence was broken only by the ripple of water from the swift black river and the whisper of trees in the forest beyond. ![]() A half-moon glowed on the smooth granite boulders, turning them silver. ![]() ![]() Toronto Film Fest triumph: Here's how Dev Patel's 'David Copperfield' makes Charles Dickens fun again There are many surprises in this "David Copperfield," opening in 1,300 theaters nationwide Friday. "If you do think it's about the magician, you're in for a surprise. ![]() This movie is for everyone," says Iannucci. "I don't care if you haven't heard of the book, or the 19th century or Charles Dickens. "I'm the doofus that totally missed this literary classic growing up," Patel admits to USA TODAY during an interview with his director Armando Iannucci – who uses his star's literary miscue to explain why he made the most wildly madcap adaptation of the Dickens novel ever. Patel, 30, quickly learned he wasn't meant to star as that David Copperfield, but the titular hero of the famed Charles Dickens Victorian-era novel. Why was he chosen to portray the famed Las Vegas illusionist onscreen? Watch Video: Trailer: Dev Patel in 'The Personal History of David Copperfield'ĭev Patel pondered a logical question when he was asked to star in "The Personal History of David Copperfield." ![]() ![]() ![]() But Vadal, a former High Protector who has turned his back on the corrupt Law, will not merely wait meekly, hoping that fleeing to Akershan will spare the rebellion from the clutches of the Great Extermination. ![]() Ashok Vadal is not sure he believes in such a paradise, but he-along with his allies-do seek refuge in the rebellion’s hideout in Akershan. The rebels seek the secret kingdom spoken of by the Prophet Thera, a paradise where water is pure and food plentiful, where there are no castes, where the people rule themselves, and are not slaves to the Capitol. All Devedas must do is find and kill his best friend and order will be restored to Lok. Now, he hunts Vadal and the Sons of the Black Sword, heretics and rebels who seek to live outside the rule of the Law. Once, he and the traitor Ashok Vadal had been like brothers. Lord Protector Devedas has sworn to uphold the Law. Through them, he has convinced the Judges that the genocide will be swift, complete, and without complication. As a member of the Order of Inquisition, Vokkan has no official say in the creation of Law, but he has powerful allies willing to do his bidding. ![]() In the Capitol, Grand Inquisitor Omand Vokkan hatches a plot to kill every member of the untouchable caste in all of Lok, down to the last man, woman, and child. The best of military epic fantasy as the best-selling Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series continues. ![]() |