![]() ![]() Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. ![]() ![]() Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K. ![]()
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I’m happy to report that I have a review of Michael Chabon’s latest novel Moonglow in the inaugural issue of the Hoxie Gorge Review. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I was licking my lips, ready to taste sweet revenge. I knew I’d go back to it because, if I know anything about this author’s writing, Author Kennedy Ryan always offers redemption in her books. I had to take a break and remember that it wasn’t real, that I really didn’t need to find someone and smash their head in. I was so overcome with grief and anger I couldn’t continue right then. Now gives birth to forever.”Īt one point in reading, I put my Kindle down. We pierce the firmament, peer into infinity, and tread on time and space. We bathe in stardust, drink from the Milky Way, and dance on the moon. “Ours is a love that reimagines-that peels back the sky at high noon searching for the stars, collecting them like shells in a bucket. 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My main questions are: in what way is this a form of intermediality? How does the intermediality in the painting work? What is the effect of that in the painting? Background ![]() Intermediality is often considered as a modern form of art in which several forms of media or performance are brought together. ![]() This essay will examine what form of intermediality can be found here, how it works, and the effects it entails. The painting ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1888) by John William Waterhouse can be considered as a form of intermediality. ![]() ![]() Short film collaboration with experimental video artist Adebukola Bodunrin. *Nominated for 2019 Ringo Award for Best Artist and Best Original Graphic Novel* *Nominated for 2019 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Graphic Novel* *Nominated for 2019 Harvey Award for Book of the Year* *Winner of the DiNKy Award for Diversity in Comics* *Winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics* *Nominated for 2019 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint* *Vulture - Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2018* ![]() *Paste Magazine’s #1 Graphic Novel of 2018 (tie)* Soon, it becomes clear that only one version of each individual can survive, and a psychological battle for dominance begins. When the procedure experiences a fatal complication, the couple is faced with severely disfigured, though intellectually superior duplicates of themselves. 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Fitzwilliam Darcy ( When I saw him playing Mr. ![]() And thanks to Colin Firth made me re-watch a million times of his version of Mr. Elizabeth Bennet is always gonna be one of my favorite literature characters. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid” ![]() ![]() Donoghue looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the “unspeakable subject,” examining whether such desire between women is freakish or omnipresent, holy or evil, heartwarming or ridiculous as she excavates a long-obscured tradition of (inseparable) friendship between women, one that is surprisingly central to our cultural history.ĭonoghue writes about the half-dozen contrasting girl-girl plots that have been told and retold over the centuries, metamorphosing from generation to generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() From a writer of astonishing versatility and erudition, the much-admired literary critic, novelist, short-story writer, and scholar (“Dazzling”- The Washington Post “One of those rare writers who seems to be able to work on any register, any time, any atmosphere, and make it her own” - The Observer), a book that explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Agatha Christie, and many more.Įmma Donoghue brings to bear all her knowledge and grasp to examine how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Spiritual Turn and the Decline of Tradition: The Spread of Post-Christian Spirituality in 14 Western Countries, 1981–2000.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46(3): 305–320. Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.īruce, S. Sanctifying Misandry: Goddess Ideology and the Fall of Man by Katherine, K. The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine by Matthew Fox. ![]() The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch by Constance Classen.University of Illinois Press, 2012. Perceiving the Divine Body Through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality by Thomas Cattoi and June McDaniel. ISBN-13: 9780227173572.įlights of the Soul: Visions, Heavenly Journeys and Peak Experiences in the Biblical World by John J. Subversive Spirituality: Transforming Mission Through the Collapse of Time by Paul L. Legacy of the Founders: From Monks to Missionaries by Nicki Verpoegen. ![]() The body, gender, Judaic-Christianity, mysticism, spirituality Abstract ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the evening of his 21st birthday, Tolkien wrote a proposal to his love interest, Edith Mary Bratt, but in the five years since she had spoken to him, she had gotten engaged to someone else. In 19, he attended King Edward’s School in Birmingham and in 1911, enrolled at Exeter College, Oxford. His guardian disapproved of Tolkien’s interest (she was Protestant) and barred him from speaking to her until he was 21.Īs a teen, Tolkien excelled in Classical and modern languages at school. At the age of 16, Tolkien met Edith Mary Bratt, who was an orphan as well. Then, when Tolkien was twelve, Mabel passed away as well, leaving him in the care of Father Francis Morgan, a Catholic priest. Although Mabel was raised Protestant, she converted to Roman Catholicism a few years after the passing of her husband. Tolkien and his younger brother Hilary struggled with the climate of South Africa, and Mabel took the boys back to England to live with her parents, and when he was just four years old his father passed away. His father was of German ancestry, while his mother Mabel’s family, the Suffields, had been settled in Birmingham, England, since the 1810s. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien was born on January 3rd, 1892, in the Orange Free State, part of present-day South Africa. ![]() |