Nation and Narration
10 best books like Nation and Narration (Homi K. Bhabha): Corelli's Mandolin, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, The Faerie Queene, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, The Journey Through Wales & The Description of Wales, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy, Screen Burn, The Green Child
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t...
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 0140544518 |
You thought you knew the story of the “The Three Little Pigs”… You thought wrong.
In this hysterical and clever fracture fairy tale picture book that twists point of view and perspective, young readers will finally hear the other side of the story of “The Three Little Pigs.”.
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| ISBN | 0140422072 |
The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts...
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
| Author | Ronald Hutton |
| ISBN | 0192854496 |
Here is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows. The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world--modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca. Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account of an ancient religion that...
| Author | Ronald Hutton |
| ISBN | 0192854488 |
As a dozen good reviews could not begin to provide a fair account of this book, I shall offer a few key points which caught my attention as introduction only.
At the outset I had hoped for a more 'traditionally' pagan account of the ancient seasonal festivals, their origins and meanings.
I...
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Author | Benedict Anderson |
| ISBN | 0860915468 |
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...
| Author | Gerald of Wales |
| ISBN | 0140443398 |
Gerald of Wales was one of the most dynamic and colorful churchmen of the 12th century. His JOURNEY describes a mission to Wales undertaken in 1188 by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Gerald as his companion. THE DESCRIPTION provides a picture of the day-to-day existence of ordinary Welshmen...
| Author | Ronald Hutton |
| ISBN | 0631189467 |
Wish I'd read this years ago. It presents itself as a summary of the evidence of ancient British religion for the general reader, which accounts for the first half of each chronological chapter, and which H. does extremely well (the answer being, in each case, that there isn't much). The fun starts, though,...
| Author | Charlie Brooker |
| ISBN | 0571227554 |
Cruel, acerbic, impassioned, gleeful, frequently outrageous and always hilarious, Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn collects the best of the much-loved Guardian Guide columns in one easy-to-read-on-the-toilet package. Sit back and roar as Brooker rips mercilessly into Simon Cowell, Big Brother,...
| Author | Herbert Read |
| ISBN | 0811201724 |
First published in 1935, The Green Child is Herbert Read's only novel. But if he had written nothing else, this one inspired book would insure his fame. It is a Utopian novel, a unique blend of reality and fantasy which moves from the English countryside to the South American pampas and then to a mysterious...
Witches, Druids and King Arthur
This might be the first book I can't finish and I won't finish. Yes I'm giving it a one star, but it doesn't mean this a bad book. Some people might enjoy this better. Read the first few essays, not for me. I feel like he knows too much and doesn't do a great job explaining. There were so many off-topic references...
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
| Author | Rosemary Jackson |
| ISBN | 0415025621 |
This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973). Dr Jackson,...
