Women on Waves: A Culture History of Surfing--From Ancient Goddesses and Hawaiian Queens to Malibu Movie Stars and Millennial Champion, Kempton Jim

Автор: Kempton, Beth
Название: Wabi sabi
ISBN: 0349421005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349421001
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A guide to using the Japanese concept of wabi sabi to transform every area of your life, and find happiness right where you are.

Автор: Kempton, Adrian
Название: Poetry in the novel
ISBN: 1788744500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788744508
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Taking up Virginia Woolf’s provocative claim that «the best prose is that which is most full of poetry», this study examines the different ways in which novelists have incorporated poetry into the fabric of their fictions. The inclusion of poems in a novel may serve a variety of purposes: to heighten the atmosphere, to represent a character’s sensations and thoughts as «stream of consciousness», to illustrate a protagonist’s creative output, to provide an explicit or embedded literary illusion, to function as an interlude or structural divider, or to create an unclassifiable literary hybrid that highlights an author’s dual talents.

To illustrate these and other forms of integration, twenty-two works of prose fiction are analysed under five headings: textual composites that combine prose, poetry and poetic prose to achieve original effects; apprenticeship novels about the development of fictive poets and their work; fictions concerned with the investigation and appropriation of a dead poet’s opus; works in which a single long poem constitutes a novel’s principal focus; and research-based biofictions relating particular events in the lives of real poets.

Intended to stimulate reflection on the interrelations of prose and poetry, this book works against literary compartmentalization by revealing how poetry can enhance prose narrative and how the novel can bring poetry to the notice of a wider reading public.

Автор: Kempton, Adrian
Название: Epistolary muse
ISBN: 1787074889 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787074880
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Epistolary fiction was in full flower during the period from 1652 to 1802, featuring the masterworks of Guilleragues, Richardson, Rousseau and Laclos. This study traces the development of the art of letter-writing and familiar correspondence and its adaptation by women writers into a remarkable range of literary genres, both fictional and non-fictional. In addition to the better known categories of the monodic love-letter sequence and the polyphonic epistolary novel, these sub-genres include letter miscellanies, essays, travelogues, educational novels and verse epistles. To all these, women writers made a valuable, and sometimes totally original, contribution. Indeed, it could be said that it was essentially through letter-writing that women achieved literary recognition.

This volume examines each of these epistolary categories in turn, revealing how women writers from either country excelled in a particular genre: the French, for example, in the epistolary monody and fictional foreign correspondence, the English in the miscellany and verse epistle, and both in the polyphonic letter-novel. Finally, the study notes how, despite the rapid decline of epistolary fiction in the nineteenth century, a select number of letter-novels by American, English and French women writers still continue to be published.

Автор: Kempton Beth
Название: Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year
ISBN: 0349423555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349423555
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Описание: Bring calm and joy to your festive season and help you plan for the year ahead with Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Автор: Kempton George
Название: The Unlikely Farmer: Biography of a Vermont Hill Farmer
ISBN: 1545632391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545632390
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"I loved that tractor like I would have loved a horse and rode it many long days. I traded it and $3,500 for a Case 730, also bought a hay tedder at auction for $982."
-George Kempton

"We all went to church and then after dinner cut boys hair, and George and mine too, pleasant day at home."
-Pat Kempton

Read this book for a rare, well-rounded picture of what it was like to establish a dairy farm and grow a large family in the beautiful, remote, economically poor Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, 1962-1985. George's dry humor combined with Pat's matter-of-fact, but deeply felt journal entries will draw you into their eventful lives, and before you know it you'll be thoroughly immersed in the rhythm of the family and the seasons.

George Kempton worked as a valued farm laborer in southern Vermont until he and his wife Patty, a nurse, were able to buy their own dairy farm in 1962 in Peacham, Vermont. There, they raised their five children and integrated into a diverse, rural community during the restive years of the 1960s and '70s. Sadly, Patty died in 2012, but she left behind an invaluable record of family life on the farm in the form of a daily journal. George continued to live on the farm until the day after this book went to press in April 2018, when he passed on while reading a detective novel from the library.

Автор: Kempton, Adrian
Название: Mind`s isle
ISBN: 1787073033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787073036
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island fiction as a genre specific to English literature. Close readings of island fictions from the past four centuries reveal the many ways in which they adapt, rewrite and refer back to these foundational texts, forming an important and intriguing literary tradition. Examples of the genre include such universal classics as Utopia, The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Treasure Island and Lord of the Flies.

Islands have always attracted travellers, writers and dreamers. This book leads the reader on a voyage of exploration to understand exactly what lies behind the island’s powerful appeal to the literary imagination. Along the way, it explores the cultural and historical background to Britain’s island status and its legacy of colonialism and imperialism.

Автор: Kempton Murray
Название: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
ISBN: 1258327481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258327484
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