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A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies—provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time. A diverse range of innovative reading strategies—archival, historical, textual, and digital—representing new and exciting approaches to contemporary literary and cultural studies. This groundbreaking volume brings together literature, history, politics, painting, illustration, social media, video games, and other topics to reveal new opportunities to engage with the author's life and work. This unique book includes a re-evaluation of Dickens’ death and burial, new research data drawn from legal records and newspapers, assessments of well-known paintings and lesser-known illustrations, experimental readings of Dickens’ texts in digital form, and more. Much of the evidence presented has never been seen before, such as Dickens' funeral fee account from Westminster Abbey, Dickens' death certificate, and a telegram from Dickens' son asking for urgent assistance for his dying father. Revising and refreshing the critical strategies of traditional Dickens studies, this important volume: Features new research data on aspects of Dickens's life Discusses a range of innovative reading strategies (including physiological novel theory) for clarifying aspects of Dickens' work Examines the presence of Dickens in popular media and technology, such as Assassin’s Creed video game and A Christmas Carol iPad app Features rare illustrations, including documents and images relating to Dickens's death and funeral Edited by world authorities on Dickens and his manuscripts Authoritative, yet accessible, Reading Dickens Differently is a must-have book for Dickens specialists, instructors and students in Victorian fiction and Dickens courses, as well as general readers lookingfor innovative reading strategies of the author's work.

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ignorance into knowledge. In the modern age, argues Ranci?re, this fictional rationality was developed in new ways. The social sciences extended the model of causal linkage to all spheres of human action, seeking to show us how causes produce their effects by inverting appearances and expectations. Literature took the opposite path. Instead of democratizing fictional rationality to include all human activity in the world of rational knowledge, it destroyed its principles by abolishing the limits that circumscribed a reality peculiar to fiction. It aligned itself with the rhythms of everyday life and plumbed the power of the “random moment” into which an entire life is condensed. In the avowed fictions of literature as well as in the unavowed fictions of politics, social science or journalism, the central question is the same: how to construct the perceptible forms of a shared world. From Stendhal to Jo?o Guimar?es Rosa and from Marx to Sebald, via Balzac, Poe, Maupassant, Proust, Rilke, Conrad, Auerbach, Faulkner and some others, this book explores these constructions and sheds new light on the constitutive movement of modern fiction, the movement that shifted its centre of gravity from its traditional core toward those edges in which fiction gets confronted with its possible revocation.

Dieses Spielbuch ist DEINE Eintrittskarte die magische Welt von OZ. Schl?pfe in die Rolle von Dorothy, der Vogelscheuche, des L?wen oder des Zinnmanns und begib dich auf den gefahrvollen Weg zur Smaragdstadt. Doch sei gewarnt! Seit Dorothys letztem Besuch hat sich hier viel ver?ndert. Eine unheilvolle Macht hat von Oz Besitz ergriffen und seltsame Gesch?pfe w?ten nun durch das Land ?ber dem Regenbogen. Ist der ehemalige Zauberer von Oz endg?ltig dem Wahnsinn verfallen? Und welche Rolle spielt dabei die B?se Hexe des Westens? Bewaffnet mit einem W?rfel und Bleistift musst du durch die Welt von Oz reisen, mit seinen bizzaren Bewohnern verhandeln, neue magische Kr?fte sammeln und viele gef?hrliche Monster besiegen. Denn nur so kannst du das Geheimnis l?ften, das ?ber Oz liegt, und das Land hoffentlich von seinem d?steren Schatten befreien!

El detective Alex Ram?rez y la psiquiatra forense Rachel Robinson est?n a cargo de aclarar un asesinato ocurrido en la ciudad de Miami. Dicho crimen amenaza con convertirse en el primero de una larga lista de ejecuciones si no se atrapa pronto al supuesto responsable. El asesino, con habilidad e inteligencia, parece jugar con la Polic?a a trav?s de una serie de pistas verdaderas y falsas que va dejando aqu? y all? sin otro objetivo que despistarlos para poder dar por finalizada su macabra tarea. Con El zorro y los sabuesos el autor consigue hilvanar una obra sorprendente que mantendr? en vilo al lector desde la primera frase hasta la ?ltima. Gracias a la complejidad de los protagonistas y a dos historias en diferentes l?neas temporales y que terminar?n uni?ndose, se da forma a una brillante novela negra, que, a los m?s cin?filos, podr?a recordar, en determinados momentos, a Seven o A la hora se?alada. Tanto Alex como Rachel tienen su propio pasado que condiciona su personalidad y su car?cter, su vida, su forma de relacionarse con las personas, sus decisiones y sus actuaciones. Alex es un apasionado polic?a amante de su trabajo, ?vido de aclarar todos los cr?menes que investigue, especialmente desde que uno de ellos cost? la vida a su padre y, desde entonces, hace tambalear su matrimonio; Rachel es una inteligente y observadora psiquiatra forense capaz de desentra?ar los interiores y debilidades de las personas. Ambos pueden llegar a ser una caja de sorpresas mientras el asesino contin?a con su sangrienta obra. Una gran historia sobre las razones y los l?mites de la venganza que da forma a una extraordinaria novela negra.

Granada, oto?o de 2017. El inspector Julio Vel?zquez investiga la muerte de Rodrigo Barbosa, un hombre cuarent?n y solitario que trabajaba como operario en una f?brica de cartonaje situada a las afueras de la ciudad. Lo que inicialmente es considerado como un suicidio, toma una nueva dimensi?n con la serie de muertes que se desencadenan, de manera tan inesperada como sistem?tica, y en las que la ?nica pista a seguir parece ser un s?mbolo con forma de lanza. Con ayuda del hispanocanadiense Jorge Morrison y la carism?tica subinspectora Rosa Pulido, el joven y brillante inspector tendr? que hacer frente al caso m?s complejo de su carrera, al tiempo que lucha porque no interfieran en su trabajo sus dramas personales: la extra?a relaci?n que mantiene con su exmujer, los sentimientos contradictorios hacia su hermano, vividor y caradura, o el cuidado de una abuela senil que se va alejando de la realidad llev?ndose un inquietante secreto del pasado.