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...frequently coupled with resistance.” McGinn intends to draw attention “to a phenomenon on which it is advisable to have a clear grip”: in other words, he aims to prepare and protect us.Coming at the end of the book, however, the author??s stated purpose reads more like a rationalization than a graceful bow and exit. The idea behind the book is intriguing, but McGinn does not offer a thorough treatment of it. He devotes far too much time and energy to defining the concept without impressing its significance...
...were published anonymously. He reclaims these authors’ private lives from obscurity, awakening afresh their dreams of fame or their longing for privacy and their motives for anonymity that have been forgotten in the intervening centuries.Mullan begins his book by seeking patterns to explain the psychology behind various author??s motives for publishing without attribution. His case studies read like a Who’s Who of English literature—from anonymous authors like Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Walter Scott to those like Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) and the Bront?...
...attraction.With 17 paintings and two artifacts, the moderately-sized exhibition attempts to emphasize its theme of tradition manipulated to serve commercial interests, though in some cases the claim lacks evidence. A screen depicting a waterfall is said to represent that nation’s desire for tourism, though the author??s own words indicate only a personal attraction to the subject matter. Similarly, a supposedly symbolic representation of a bamboo forest appears to be only marginally related to tourism, though the plant’s functional and traditional purposes in Japanese history are indisputable. The paintings containing human?...
...Soviet sarcophagus. The remaining three narrators are peripheral characters in Vargalas’ life—Martinas, a pontificating computer(less) programmer, Stefanija, a jealous and infertile seductress, and Gediminias, a brilliant mathematician turned jazz artist. There is no dialogue among these characters, only isolated observations. This completes the author??s metaphor of a poker game in which “everyone hides his cards, raises and raises the bet, grimaces and makes faces, hoping to deceive the others, but no one ever finds out what his cards really are.”While Martinas, Stefanija, and Gediminias...
...what will happen when people stop purchasing books? If they continue to do nothing, publishers will have to lean on extra-book sources of revenue that already exist. Books will be published because of an author??s book tour charisma or the price their storyline fetches from a film studio or video game maker, rather than for their innovative content. This approach does not bode well for either literature or the industry in the long run, but right now it is the only Plan B in place...