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Adopting the term "new death," which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both sanctified and denied; notions of heroism were both essential and far-fetched; and civilians had opportunities to hear about the ugliness of death at the front but often preferred not to. By historicizing and analyzing the work of such writers as Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, the author shows how their novels reveal, conceal, refigure, and aestheticize the violent death of young men in the aftermath of the war. These writers, James argues, have much to say about how the First World War changed death's cultural meaning.
Catherine and Richard Berg live a charmed life...until the day their car crashes in the midst of a tropical Florida forest. Lost and alone, they stumble upon a mysterious family of Native Americans who possess uncanny powers of perception. What happens next changes their lives forever. www.nadinevaughanbooks.com
He was a good cop until he ran into a bad one. Then, to save what was left of his family and his sanity, Michael Hogan, Jr., entered the Fed's Witness Protection Program and became Pastor Matthew Hayden. Small town Wilks, Texas, should be the perfect place for him to hide. But his new home is no paradise. It may not even be safe. When the remains of a local woman missing for years are discovered, Matt wants only to comfort his grieving congregation. Then a a parishioner with the same build and coloring as Matt is shot, right in the church. Worried that his own cover has been blown, Matt must find the killers—before they find him. He might be a man of God now, but Matt is still a man. And someone wants this man dead
When a bolt of lightning strikes mild-mannered astronomer James Wilder, his blood is electrified, shocking him into a fearless, irreverent adventurer! The first piece of a supernatural treasure map is burned into the floor at his feet, setting him on the course of an epic, madcap expedition! With a skittish former sailor and a beautiful warrior woman at his side, James leads his ragtag crew across the world to collect the scattered pieces of the map in a hunt for a deathly powerful treasure. But, the exotic lands between are fraught with danger, and the trio must face giants, sea monsters, ruthless criminals and brawling mermaids – all leading to an inescapable clash with Olaf Riddeck, the red scourge of the seven seas, who is hot on their trail and determined to collect the treasure for himself to harness its evil potential. Captain Wilder is the first book in the action-packed Captain Wilder trilogy!
Even a century after its conclusion, the devastation of the Great War still echoes in the work of artists who try to make sense of the political, moral, ideological, and economic changes and challenges it spawned. France, the military major power of the Western Front, carries the legacy of battles on its own soil, and countless French lives lost defending the nation from the Central Powers. It is no surprise that the impact of the First World War can still be seen in French films into the present day. French Cinema and the Great War: Remembrance and Representation provides the first book-length study of World War I as it is featured in French cinema, from the silent era to contemporary films...
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