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Narrative, Film, and Identity
Our identities are shaped by narratives, and cinema contributes to that process. While there is substantial scholarship on both narrative identity and film narrative, there is very little investigation of the intersection between them. This book provides that, with particular attention to how the interaction between film narratives and life narratives affect the meaning of life. Traditional issues like spectator activity and realism appear in a different light when viewed through this interaction. It also reveals how film can both help and hinder the meaning of our lives by sustaining oppressive narratives or promoting new narrative possibilities.
Let Carpets Fly
Can sorcery improve a post-technological society? Ambitious Prince Kiran joins forces with a disgraced sorcerer to capture the throne of Carmodia from dreamy King Damian and his loyal flying carpets. The sorcerer's sister Esme is forced to make difficult choices as she gets caught up in a murderous conspiracy, dressed up as boy ... In this tour-de-force fantasy adventure, scenes of fighting and betrayal are interspersed with irreverent footnotes, erotic scenes and wilful magical objects.
Cape Tribulation
A handsome man meets a beautiful woman on a tropical beach. They are attracted to each other. Only one of them is going to return alive... The short stories in this collection show men and women whose hidden fears and self-delusions lead them into alarming or even terrifying situations. Written in a light and ironic tone, these stories appear to tread softly upon the quicksand of human failings.
Taubenblut
Die Galerie-Angestellte Pia Hürlimann will nur in die Mittagspause gehen. Statt dessen wird sie für rasante vierundzwanzig Stunden in eine internationale Rubinschmuggel-Affäre hineingezogen und muss um ihr Leben fürchten. Die dunkle Vergangenheit der Rubine reicht bis ins heutige Zürich. Pia versucht verzweifelt, der Bedrohung durch alte Intrigen aus Indien und England zu entkommen.
Der Koffer
Verloren in einem Meer von Täuschungen Anna Wolf, mitte dreißig, von ihrem Ehemann getrennt, kommt spät abends am Flughafen Zürich an und nimmt versehentlich einen fremden Koffer vom Band. Eine Flut von halb verwischten Erinnerungen, Assoziationen, Albträumen und erotischen Visionen treibt Anna mit dem schweren Gepäckstück auf eine Odyssee durch die Nacht, bis sie in einer Bar von einem Mathematiker vom Problem entarteter Ecken erfährt. Gibt es eine Verbindung zwischen Liebe und Mathematik?
Mord mit Limmatblick
Der erfolglose Krimi-Autor Florian Berger will sich in einem vornehmen Zürcher Hotel erschießen - stattdessen findet er eine leblose Frau mit einer Schusswunde. Dabei wird er vom Portier überrascht. In Panik flieht er, verfolgt von der Polizei. Warum muss kurz darauf eine andere junge Frau sterben? Hängen die Verbrechen mit einem Abbruchhaus zusammen? Die Polizei ermittelt gegen Florian, während dieser zusammen mit seiner Kollegin Cressida Kandel den Mörder sucht und sich dabei in Lebensgefahr begibt.
Das Auge der Ahnen
Südsee-Magie und Mord in Zürich – Warum musste der fremde Besucher in der Kunstgalerie sterben? Eine sympathische Galeristin und ein Kunstmaler werden in ein politisches Komplott verstrickt und versuchen, selbst zu ermitteln. Auf den Spuren eines historischen Amuletts geraten sie im Zürcher Völkerkundemuseum in Lebensgefahr ...
Humanism
Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with making sense of the world through reason, experience and shared human values. In this thought-provoking introduction, Peter Cave explores the humanist approach to religious belief, ethics and politics, and addresses key criticisms. Revised and updated to confront today’s great crises – the climate emergency and global pandemics – and the future of humanism in the face of rapid technological advancement, this is for anyone wishing to better understand what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.
The Infinite Powers of Adam Gowers
Adam Gowers has problems. He is desperately in love with a girl who doesn’t fancy him in the slightest; he’s gone and got himself booked in for a fight with the hardest kid in the school; he’s worried about failing all his GCSEs; his parents can barely stand the sight of each other. And then one day he is granted an infinite number of wishes by a genie who conveniently pops out of a lamp. Infinite! An infinite number of wishes! Effectively he has become a god. Except that he doesn’t really have the skill-set to go with the god-like powers... The Infinite Powers of Adam Gowers is as funny as The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; as full of ideas as The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; and as sweet and easy to read as Nick Hornby’s Slam. These days, all YA novels are ‘edgy’. Either they’re bleak slabs of social realism or dystopian visions of the future. The Infinite Powers of Adam Gowers is that rare thing: a teenage novel that makes you laugh rather than wince.
Literature and Understanding
Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader’s close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of ‘literature’, outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective, provides a fresh account of what we mean by ‘understanding’ and in so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge that we can’t learn anything worthwhile from reading literary fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony, metaphor, play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention. Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the gap between our understanding of a literary text and our understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of great interest for researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of aesthetics, literary theory, literature in education and pedagogy.
