Christine Buci-Glucksmann has characterized in her work La folie du voir (1986) the period commonly called the "baroque" in early modern Europe as the privileged moment of the "folly of seeing.
14 Shattuck, The Hamlet ofEdwin Booth, 115, 117. Shattuck's book is my primary source for information on Booth's Hamlet. Shattuck has published Charles Clarke's record of the 1870 production along with the history of Booth's Hamlet, ...
Chapter 8 “ Oh , it's you , Father Joyce , ” said Mrs Mangan , without enthusiasm . “ You'd better come in . " The front parlour was intricate and highly polished . A variety of gilt and crystalline surfaces reflected a hectic glitter .
Seeing Things: The Paintings of Gary Evans
There'd been a convenient secret grotto in that inane picture book of Jimmy's – Robin Hood had slipped in there to hide from the Sheriff , wearing immaculate green pantihose and a silly little hat with a feather .
This essay tells the story of Dr. Walker's investigation of this possibility. He calls on a surprising variety of "experts"-philosophers, brain scientists, psychologists, great painters and authors-to assist his understanding.
" Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father.
This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled Squarings, shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and to credit marvels.
" Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father.
Interrelated, twelve-line poems called Squarings are among the works that recreate memories and move on to hallucinatory images
When psychic Leah McKenna sees the abduction of a small boy, she knows she must help find him, no matter the danger to herself.
In this work, Robert Hudson argues that robustness reasoning lacks the special value it is often claimed to have.
The story of Oliver Postgate's extraordinary and adventurous life, and the wonderful characters who populated it, both real and imagined, is witty, charming, beautifully remembered, and beautifully told.
"Birdie Wainwright sees things--purple flowers growing out of floors and alpine slopes where her stairs ought to be.
But nothing prepares her for the trail of blood she sees in the hallway after class - or the ghost she finds crammed inside an abandoned locker.No one believes Abby, of course. She's only seeing things.
A first collection of charcoal drawings by the acclaimed author of The Frank Book captures the artist's obsession with alternate realities, hidden worlds, and the irrational in art in a volume that is organized into four sections--"Lazy ...
Jim Woodring's charcoal drawings take the otherworldly qualities of his comics (The Frank Book) to a higher level of clarity and nuance. These crisply rendered images reflect his life-long obsession...
Molly got the yardstick right across her legs, followed by my mother telling her that she would get another whack if Molly didn't tell her the truth—the truth being that Molly had been drinking. And by the looks of it, according to ...
In an effort to address her obsession with worrying about people, ten-year-old Trina decides to invent an object she calls the Thing.
The book focuses on the drawing-in of family, friends, and nature in those moments that shape us in the crucible. This is the large print edition of Seeing Things, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.