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Radical Juxtaposition
Examines the work of Yvonne Rainer, an avante-garde filmmaker with film credits covering over 20 years. Green's attention falls specifically on Rainer's treatment of gender and multiculture issues. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
England and Wales
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Shelley's Italian Experience
Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work. The poet's four years of self-exile in Italy (1818-1822) were, in fact, the most decisive of his career. As he responded to Italy, his poetry acquired a new subtlety and complexity of vision. Endowed with remarkably keen powers of absorption, the poet imaginatively reshaped the rich cultural heritage of Italy and the vital qualities of its landscape and climate.
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste
This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century social and political thought concerning the relationships between humanity and nature. The book is at once grounded in the revolutionary history of the period 1790-1820, and informed by current theoretical issues and anthropological and sociological approaches to literature. Morton provides challenging new readings of much-debated poems, plays, and novels by both Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as the first sustained interpretation of Shelley's prose on diet. With its stimulating literary-historical reassessment of questions about nature and culture, this study will provoke fresh discussion about Shelley, Romanticism, and modernity.
The Diary and the Green Dress
It's the exquisite, vintage, mint green dress that first captures Izzy's imagination. But it's what's underneath the dress, laying at the bottom of the dusty trunk, that grabs and continues to intrigue her-fifteen leather-bound diaries. Starting in 1919, the entries tell the story of Grace, a woman whose life was destined to know both the tenderest of love and overwhelming, heartbreaking grief. The more Izzy reads, the more she wants to know about Grace's life. But soon she finds herself untangling a story of her own. Who is Claudia and what will her arrival mean for Izzy's family? Throw in the purchase of the first house she's ever owned, as well as a new man in her life, a relationship she hadn't been looking for and, isn't sure she's ready for, and Izzy begins to feel overwhelmed. At least she has the diaries she can lose herself in when her own life becomes too complicated. But the more she reads, the more she realises there are similarities between her life and Grace's life.
The Rowfant Library
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The Audacious Mendacity of Lily Green
On her thirty-fourth birthday Lily Green tells her mother a lie. It is her first one ever and it's life-changing. 'I'm engaged to be married,' she blurts out, and discovers that telling a lie can make things happen and - amazingly for such a dull soul - she's good at it. On the wings of deception she soars from her mundane terraced cottage in Hatch End to the glitziest hotel in London. Along the way she locates her candidate for matrimony: a good-looking young man called Tom, who seems to fall for her tall stories and physical charms.But who is Tom really? Is he the simple and gullible soul he appears to be? As for Lily's mother, Eva, an archetypal card-playing suburbanite - who is she when the web of deceit that entangles them all is unpicked? The outcome of the revelations is dramatic, catastrophic - and liberating. THE AUDACIOUS MENDACITY OF LILY GREEN is a darkly comic tale about loneliness, desperation, and the power of self-reinvention. Through her mastery of the art of lying, Lily Green discovers the meaning of truth and love.
Mental Imagery
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