![]() Part one (that is, chapter 3), ‘Dialogic Imaginings’, identifies key topics in the discourse of space and analyses how selected literary works respond to these topics. The work is divided into two major parts. The subject is approached through theories of space and place, represented by radical human geographers such as Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey or Edward Soja, and through a moderate Western Marxist approach pertinent to the left-leaning tendencies of the theoreticians of space and of the urban novels referred to. ![]() The present work provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject of the Scottish urban novel, combining a chronological and thematic perspective to achieve a greater insight into all aspects of the subject. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But Cupid has by now developed a heavy crush on Psyche, pretty as she is (no, pardon me, stunningly beautiful as she is), and he gets the wind god Zephyr to carry her off the mountain to a secret palace, staffed by invisible servants (!). Meanwhile, Psyche’s father is told that she needs to be sacrificed to the gods, exposed on a mountain peak, so that’s what they do. The goddess Venus gets ticked off at her – purely jealous spite on her part because humans are saying Psyche is Venus walking the earth – and sends her son Cupid out to kill the girl. C&P is the story of a king who has three daughters, the youngest of which, Psyche, is extremely beautiful (sound familiar already?). Now why am I even going into that whole thing? Because Cupid and Psyche, a story written by the second-century Latin writer Apuleius, is the earliest prototype of the “Beauty and the Beast” type of tale. ![]() But then I’d just read Cupid and Psyche, which helps a lot. ![]() ![]() It’s been years since I’d read it, if not decades, and mostly what I remembered of it was that I found it kind of confusing. A couple of days ago, in the course of this study, I pulled out my copy of Till We Have Faces and started to reread it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hillary: The chainsaw bit was jarring - but in a very meaningful way. Morgan: And how black kids aren’t really children. It made me so sad because I can see all of that happening right now. Tuning in for a wide-ranging chat about one of last fall’s most important debuts are Vulture contributors Maris Kreizman and Hillary Kelly moderator Boris Kachka literary and cultural critic Morgan Jerkins and Mitchell Jackson, author of the forthcoming memoir Survival Math : Notes on an All-American Family. That’s a lot to process, but the members of our second Vulture Spoiler Book Club are up to the challenge. ![]() But the violence is no gimmick: It’s the serrated leading edge of a broken world we already know, in which no one feels completely safe or is free to be completely good. There’s the gore, of course - from the opening story, “The Finkelstein 5,” in which a white man is acquitted of murder for the chainsaw decapitation of five black kids, leading to revenge killings, all the way to “Through the Flash,” a story aptly summarized below as “ Groundhog Day, but more torture.” There are the theme-park vigilantes of “Zimmer Land,” and the title story’s vicious zombie shoppers. Friday Black, a collection of violent, absurdist, frequently dystopian, and always deeply moral stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, came out more than two months ago, but the shock of it will take much longer to wear off. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I now understand the buzz around her cooking. I've heard of Dorie Greenspan for a few years now, but this was my first time reading one of her books (thanks to a borrow through Prime Reading). Hundreds of other recipes are remarkably easy: a cheese and olive quick bread, a three-star chef’s Basque potato tortilla made with a surprise ingredient (potato chips), and an utterly satisfying roast chicken for “lazy people.” Packed with lively stories, memories, and insider tips on French culinary customs, Around My French Table will make cooks fall in love with France all over again, or for the first time. Julia’s praise was echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which referred to Dorie’s “wonderfully encouraging voice” and “the sense of a real person who is there to help should you stumble.” Now in a big, personal, and personable book, Dorie captures all the excitement of French home cooking, sharing disarmingly simple dishes she has gathered over years of living in France.Īround My French Table includes many superb renditions of the great classics: a glorious cheese-domed onion soup, a spoon-tender beef daube, and the “top-secret” chocolate mousse recipe that every good Parisian cook knows-but won’t reveal. When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, “You write recipes just the way I do,” she paid her the ultimate compliment. ![]() |