Bøker av Philip Armstrong

Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature identifies and analyses literary encounters with unexpected, disconcerting, and unsettling aspects of the natural world. It includes in-depth discussion of a wide range of literary texts from the British, American, and European literary traditions, and from the Classical period to today.

Exhausted from the day's trials, Nath collapses into sleep in his New York apartment, only to awaken in the extraordinary world of Plesia. This planet, hailed as the most splendid in the cosmos, is home to 740 eternally youthful inhabitants who, though appearing to be mere eight-year-olds, have thrived on Plesia for millennia. Governed by a benevolent king from a neighboring realm, Plesia is a utopia where every need is seamlessly met.Amidst this perfection, Nath discovers his heritage as a royal prince of Plesia and that his arrival is serendipitously timed. The peaceful planet faces a grave threat, and it is Nath whom the king and the Plesians need. As Nath joins forces with the king and a valiant group of Plesian allies, he must confront perils and navigate the pernicious disease known as Peur et Haine. His journey is one of courage, friendship, and destiny as he rises to defend the idyllic world that is now his home.

The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells-from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures and descents into the underworld. The cast of characters includes members of the poet's family alongside heroes from myth and literature, such as Orpheus, Scheherazade, and Frankenstein's Creature. And crowding in upon these, at all times, a multitude of non-human protagonists: sun and stars, wind and water, mud and sand, body fluids, decaying matter, chemicals organic and inorganic, and a great many fishes and birds and beasts. Sinking Lessons is the first collection of poetry from Philip Armstrong, winner of the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.

A unique exploration of the biology and history of sheep, as well as their place in literature and the other creative arts.

Significantly advancing our notion of what constitutes a network, Philip Armstrong proposes a rethinking of political public space that specifically separates networks from the current popular discussion of globalization and information technology.

Focuses on the complex and fruitful relationship between Shakespeare's texts and psychoanalytic theory.

Describes measures that were taken to deal with the post-war slump and the ways in which capitalist economies achieved growth and affluence in the 1950s and 1960s. The book then shows how this boom was undermined by inflation and falling profits, and how high unemployment ensued.