Showing results for "An Encounter" in Literary History & Criticism

Beware of what lurks in the shadows of the dark forests. Encounters with mysterious creatures in the woods have occurred for centuries. Many of these frightening encounters tell of elusive monsters which haunt the deep forests, terrifying hikers, campers, hunters and anyone who ventures on a trail. Encounters in the Woods: Volumes 5-8 details some of the encounters with creatures such as Bigfoot and Sasquatch.

Jane Austen is famous for such books as Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Now learn about the author’s journey through a life spent making up stories that touched the lives of millions.

In the second, action comic-like installment, DragonMan - The Poseidon Encounter, Luke seems to have come to terms with his legacy and appears well in control of his superpowers - which he will be called upon to use this time around to save the world from an evil demon who seeks to claim the souls of every human being on earth.

日本のとある場所で開催される暗闇の読書会。 異なる職業、年齢層、バックグラウンドのゲストをお招きし、 人生を変えた一冊との「偶然ではなく、必然の出会い」を語り合います。 あなたは、この本から何を感じますか？

Each week we pull a random monster from a random monster manual and discuss.

This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. The story captures the author's emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet more than 200 times in the text. This is a courageous memoir that wrestles with the historic stain of racism and the ongoing impact of racist language in postmodern society. The book is about Harris' flashbacks, conversations, and dilemmas spawned by use of the epithet in a classroom setting where the author was the only Black person.

In Extinction and the Human, Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them. He focuses especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison. Ultimately, he argues, it is the critical assessment of ideas of human exceptionalism that provides a necessary counterpoint both to apologies for human mastery over nature and deep ecology's attempts to erase the human.