Bøger af David Manning

Nino - a reclusive artist - encounters a familiar but forgotten portrait suddenly hanging on an otherwise blank wall in his grand, rent-controlled New York apartment. The painting awakens decades-old memories and associated Catalan mysteries. After a lingering flashback, Nino embarks on a journey to Barcelona in search of a long-lost love and faded artistic inspiration. Ultimately, his quest takes him for a ride on a magic realism merry-go-round circling Catalunya's cultural and historic enigmas. Within this perfectly serious, humorous, mysterious, serendipitous, surreal, ageless, avant-garde, Romanesque, romantic setting, Nino's evolving memories continue to be inexplicably lost and found in a medieval Catalan book that remains, paradoxically, unwritten.

Since its founding in 1921, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) at the University of London has seen students and teachers come together, socially and intellectually, to engage in lively academic seminars. But for what purpose and with what value? Talking History provides a defence of the seminar as a central element in historians' teaching, research and sense of community. Covering a range of the IHR's long-running seminar series, which are differentiated by historical period, region and/or theme, the book presents the seminars as a local, national and international hub for scholarship that emerges from and is sustained by the ongoing learning practices of historians as scholars and people. Talking History bears witness to a seminar culture of evolving, multifarious synergies between teaching, researching and learning, historiography and participation -- intertextual, interpersonal, intergenerational and intercultural. Viewed as such, the seminars constitute a living tradition, stimulating and incorporating dynamic change over time to contribute not just to the development of historiography but intellectual life more generally, often in conversation with major political events and cultural phenomena. This original and significant book therefore reflects upon, and gives further expression to, the ongoing evolution of historical research and its role in wider society today.

This collection of imaginative short fiction by David Manning is gleaned from a lifetime afflicted with creativity, including selections from his inventive 1970s "Blurbs" column, excerpts from a novel-in-progress set at Duke University in 1968, a metaphysical carnival of short stories, and multi-media formats ranging from radio to stage to film to song lyrics."Cecil knew his shadow was gone because it was a sunny day and it should have been there.""'Isadora," she said breathlessly, bursting in the door, "I was walking along thinking about what you had said the other day when all of a sudden a hole appeared in our reality and my husband fell in.'""GOOD EVENING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. WELCOME TO WYOY'S MENTAL BASKETBALL GAME OF THE WEEK. TONIGHT'S CONTEST PITS MIND AGAINST MATTER FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION." "Satan would be available to interview prospective Dow souls in Room 109, starting at 1 o'clock." "The rats were quite diligent, studied hard and didn't so much as squeak at being experimented on. In addition, they turned out to be very good at baseball.""Suppose someone comes up to you and says: 'We are all just members of an ant colony in the basement rec room of a split-level house in Levittown, Long Island.'" "At the time he took out a policy insuring the church against the possible non-existence of God, Father McGlib had passed all his tests of faith and was considered a good risk."

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