This fascinating compilation of early Edinburgh photographs takes us on a tour of Scotland's historic capital city, but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the tradit

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

This fascinating compilation of early Edinburgh photographs takes us on a tour of Scotland's historic capital city, but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the tradit

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

‘Work hard, get paid.’ It’s simple. Self-evident. But it’s also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, wellpaying job in the future. Far from equating to riches and fulfilment, ‘work’ means precarity, anxiety and alienation. Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How ...(展开全部)

The history of art from the early nineteenth century onward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism. In "Art and Crisis", first published in 1948, Hans Sedlmayr argues that the aesthetic disjunctures of modern art signify more than matters of style and poi...(展开全部)

Reeling from recent events, even Hawkeye wants to know what his new status quo is. Who's with him? Who's against him? Who's trying to kill him and why? So many dang questions! And just when Clint's rock bottom couldn't arrive fast enough...his brother shows up. After a lifetime of decisions both good and bad, Clint and Barney Barton have to realize that they are brothers and ul...(展开全部)

◎聯合推薦 淡江大學美洲研究所副教授兼所長／陳小雀 政治大學台灣文學研究所助理教授／紀大偉 小說家／王聰威 拉美文學界頂峰，最強悍的一朵金花 蘿拉．芮絲垂波－作品首度中文版在台上市 大師馬奎斯、諾貝爾獎得主薩拉馬戈一致推崇 《癲狂》出自當今拉丁美洲最重要的作家之一 本書已獲頒數項文學殊榮，亦為感人至深的文學傑作。 失業的文學系教艾吉拉出差四天返家之後，發現太太奧葛絲提娜發了瘋。他不曉得自己離家期間發生了什麼事，在追尋答案的過程中，逐漸挖掘出有關他太太過去的重大祕密。 從某個角度而言，《癲狂》讀來甚似偵探小說：讀者彙整種種資訊，逐漸發掘出奧葛絲提娜瘋狂的淵源。但《癲狂》也是一部極為細膩的小說，書中脈絡深沉，由三個第一人稱的敘事者及一個第三人稱的敘事者架構出故事的始末：艾吉拉深愛妻子，下定決心要幫她脫離瘋狂；美麗的奧葛絲提娜出身哥倫比亞上流階級，卻深受癲...(展开全部)

◎聯合推薦 淡江大學美洲研究所副教授兼所長／陳小雀 政治大學台灣文學研究所助理教授／紀大偉 小說家／王聰威 拉美文學界頂峰，最強悍的一朵金花 蘿拉．芮絲垂波－作品首度中文版在台上市 大師馬奎斯、諾貝爾獎得主薩拉馬戈一致推崇 《癲狂》出自當今拉丁美洲最重要的作家之一 本書已獲頒數項文學殊榮，亦為感人至深的文學傑作。 失業的文學系教艾吉拉出差四天返家之後，發現太太奧葛絲提娜發了瘋。他不曉得自己離家期間發生了什麼事，在追尋答案的過程中，逐漸挖掘出有關他太太過去的重大祕密。 從某個角度而言，《癲狂》讀來甚似偵探小說：讀者彙整種種資訊，逐漸發掘出奧葛絲提娜瘋狂的淵源。但《癲狂》也是一部極為細膩的小說，書中脈絡深沉，由三個第一人稱的敘事者及一個第三人稱的敘事者架構出故事的始末：艾吉拉深愛妻子，下定決心要幫她脫離瘋狂；美麗的奧葛絲提娜出身哥倫比亞上流階級，卻深受癲...(展开全部)