Fictional languages are central to numerous creative works. This book examines such languages in a wide range of literature, films, and television shows. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on particular works. Many of these works are widely taught, such as "All's Well That Ends Well," "Gulliver's Travels," "Nineteen Eighty-Four," and "Utopia," while others are popular books, films, and television series, such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Cat's Cradle," "The Lord of the Rings," and "Star Wars." Thus the encyclopedia helps students understand texts central to the curriculum and...
Fictional languages are central to numerous creative works. This book examines such languages in a wide range of literature, films, and television ...
A double-lunged bong hit of mid-Eighties post-punk college rock, Gertrude Stein, art films, and the comedic legacy of Laurel and Hardy (including such great standup teams as HD and Ezra Pound, Jesus and Judas, and Steve McCaffery and bpNichol). Jeff Derksen says: 'If reading is sixty-nining, then dyslexicon satisfies at both ends. Stephen Cain disentangles everyday life into its constituent emotional, intellectual, sexual and cultural parts - people, the city, books, music - only to recombine them into a new set of relations ... It's a sexy m-f of a book. Put it on your...
A double-lunged bong hit of mid-Eighties post-punk college rock, Gertrude Stein, art films, and the comedic legacy of Laurel and Hardy (including s...
Having successfully rescued a group of women from the clutches of a Turkish slave trader, Jonnie McBride returns to Thailand where he is contacted by the CIA to carry-out a covert operation to assassinate the leaders of the Philippines terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and the Muslim Islamic Liberation Front. He is informed that the leaders intend to gather on the island of Siquijor in the Philippines in order to join forces. McBride and a select number of his elite team meet in Cebu before traveling to Leyte and then on to their targets in Siquijor but fi nd the mission is compromised by a mole...
Having successfully rescued a group of women from the clutches of a Turkish slave trader, Jonnie McBride returns to Thailand where he is contacted by ...
