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  • Shamrock

    by Robert McParland ...
    Shamrock, a notorious figure often described as an assassin, has become a guardian of justice in Northern Ireland in the turbulent days before the Good Friday agreement. He confronts a splinter group of "the real IRA" which has targeted a charismatic female member of Parliament. A Special Branch investigator attempts to unravel the mystery of Shamrock, while protecting the MP. A bookish man ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Alchemist

    by Robert McParland ...
    The Last Alchemist What if an aging Nazi scientist hid away on an American farm, pretending that he was dead because he knew too much? This thriller, grounded in historical research, reveals the frightening prospect of "Hitler's children." Jake Kincaid's chance encounter with an elderly scientist, who calls himself an alchemist, introduces him to a diabolical plot. A past associate of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and The Modernist Novel

    by Robert McParland ...
    Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel is a study of the novel and consciousness in James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. This volume focuses on novels of the 1920s and engages in a study of Joyce’s epiphany and language play, Yeats’s esoteric philosophy, Lawrence’s vitalism, and Woolf’s stream of consciousness techniques. In this book readers ... Read more

    $100.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Melodies

    Popular Music, Ecology, and the Quest for Community

    by Robert McParland ...
    Series series For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    Robert McParland explores American music as a bridge between art, audiences, and the environment.American Melodies is a study of America's varied music genres that is grounded in interviews with folk, rock, and jazz musicians, music listeners, songwriters, and organizers of music programs in local communities. The author explores artists' ecological, social, and technological concerns and the ways ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 50-Year Quest

    Music to Change the World

    by Robert McParland ...
    Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with their distinct vocal harmonies, blending of rock, jazz, folk, and blues, and political and social activism, have remained one of the most enduring musical acts of the 1960s. This book examines their songs and themes, which continue to resonate with contemporary listeners, and argues that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young reflect part of the broader story of ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Rock Music Icons

    Musical and Cultural Impacts

    by Eric Abbey, Claudia Bucciferro, David R. Coon, Thomas R. Davis Jr., Joshua S. Duchan, Candace Ursula Grissom, Anastasia Rose Hyden, Julianna Kirschner, Tanis MacDonald, Robert McParland0, Paul M. Miller2, Keith Nainby3, John Radosta4, Douglas Rasmussen5, Cristian Stromblad6, Dr. Richard D. Driver7 ...
    Series series For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    The music, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. This collection investigates authenticity, identity, and the power of the voices and images of widely circulated and shared artists that have become the soundtrack of our lives. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s

    150+ Profiles

    by Robert McParland ...
    The 1970s saw a wave of singer-songwriters flood the airwaves and concert halls across the United States. This book organizes the stories of approximately 150 artists whose songs created the soundtrack to people's lives during the decade that forever shaped musical composition. Some well-known, others less known, these artists were the song-poets and storytellers who wrote their own music and ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction

    by Kyamalia Bairagya, Sourav Banerjee, Debayan Deb Barman, Nisarga Bhattacharjee, Madhumita Biswas, Stella Chitralekha Biswas, Ipsita Chakrabarty, Purnima Chakraborti, Abhinaba Chatterjee0, Ananya Chatterjee1, Medha Bhadra Chowdhury2, Anne K. B. Erickson3, Amy Lee4, Robert McParland5, Kaustav Mukherjee6, Gouri Parvathy V7, Soham Roy8, Barnali Saha9, Neepa Sarkar0, Jonathan Wilkins1, Deepali Yadav2, Professor or Dr. Sheng-mei Ma3 ...
    Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The People We Meet in Stories

    Literary Characters That Defined the 1950s

    by Robert McParland ...
    Novels bring us into fictional worlds where we encounter the lives, struggles, and dreams of characters who speak to the underlying pulse of society and social change. In this book, post–World War II America comes alive again as literary critic Robert McParland tilts the rearview mirror to see the characters that captured the imaginations of millions of readers in the most popular and influential ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Finding God in the Devil's Music

    Critical Essays on Rock and Religion

    Edited by Alex DiBlasi, Robert McParland ...
    From the rise of the American Evangelical movement to the introduction of Eastern philosophies in the West, the past century has seen major changes in the religious makeup of Western culture. As one result, musicians across the world have brought both "new" and old religious beliefs into their works.This book investigates rock music as an expression of religious inquiry and religious devotion. ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music

    by Robert McParland ...
    Myth pervades heavy metal. With visual elements drawn from medieval and horror cinema, the genre's themes of chaos, dissidence and alienation transmit an image of Promethean rebellion against the conventional. In dialogue with the modern world, heavy metal draws imaginatively on myth and folklore to construct an aesthetic and worldview embraced by a vast global audience. The author explores the ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • The Rock Music Imagination

    by Robert McParland ...
    Series series For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    The Rock Music Imagination is an exploration of rock artists in their social and artistic contexts, particularly between 1964 and 1980, and of rock music in relation to literature, that is, creative expression, fantastic imagination, and contemporary fiction about rock. Robert McParland analyzes how rock music touches our imaginative lives by looking at themes that appear in classic rock music: ... Read more

    $34.79 USD