[PDF] Lanark eBook

Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1841959073

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This novel is a work of extraordinary imagination and wide range. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying.

Author : David Greig
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571329233

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The first thing I remember is... falling. A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn't know who he is, or how he got here. He goes by the only name he can think of: Lanark. Lanark is a portrait of the outsider artist as a young man, an exploded life story like no other. This theatrical re-imagining of Alasdair Gray's classic novel takes us from the Dragon Chambers to the Cathedral of Unthank, from the post-war Glasgow School of Art to the sinister underground Institute, from the heavenly city of Provan to the hellish Elite Café, combining science-fiction, realism, fantasy, and playful storytelling. 'Insanely ambitious... a heady, unsettling, unpredictable dream... this is a darkly playful and intriguingly dislocated evening in which chronological time, theatre's fourth wall, character conventions and all expectations get smashed.' Guardian Lanark: A Life in Three Acts was conceived in collaboration by David Greig and Graham Eatough and adapted for the stage in collaboration with the creative team. It was presented as a co-production between the Citizens Theatre and the Edinburgh International Festival at the Edinburgh International Festival 2015.

Author : Ophélie Siméon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 3319642278

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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early socialism in Britain. Drawing from previously unpublished archival sources, this study shows that New Lanark was not merely on the receiving end of Owen’s innovative brand of industrial paternalism, but also acted as a major source of inspiration for many aspects of his social system, including his desire to remodel society along communitarian lines. This book therefore reaffirms the centrality of New Lanark as the cradle of socialism in Britain, and provides a contextualised, social history of Owen’s ideas, tracing direct continuities between his early years as a paternalistic businessman, and his later career as a radical political leader. In doing so, it eschews the myth of New Lanark as a unidimensional ‘model’ village and addresses the ambiguities of Owen’s journey from paternalism to socialism.

Author : Anna Leask
Publisher : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1908999152

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This case study is part of the Contemporary Cases Online series. The series provides critical case studies that are original, flexible, challenging, controversial and research-informed, driven by the needs of teaching and learning.

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1473005558

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This 12-hour free course explored the ideas of Robert Owen and a range of social issues he sought to address in the early 1800s.