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The story unfolds on the day of the grand opening of the "World Tower Building" skyscraper in Lower Manhattan, New York City, situated several blocks to the north of the former World Trade Center Towers, in a plaza of its own, a building which is 1,527 feet high, with 125 stories. The building has a stainless steel facade, with tinted green ...
In The Tower, people don’t speak up, they don’t say "No", and we know historically, in any place where bad things are happening, good people need to speak up, and when they don’t, catastrophe ensues. The Tower is a story. Saying all police are like the police in The Tower is like saying all kings are like Lear. But there do need to be ...
The Raven Tower is a 2019 fantasy novel by Ann Leckie and her first fantasy novel. The novel recounts the story of Mawat, a prince seeking to overthrow his usurper uncle and regain his rightful place as the servant of a local god. He is accompanied by Eolo, his loyal retainer.
Jane Miller was born in New York and lives in Tucson, Arizona.She served as a professor for many years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona—including a stint as its Director—and is currently Visiting Poet at The University of Texas Michener Center in Austin.
The focus in the novel is the three aspects of the Tower of London. To further this focus, Ainsworth depicts two crownings, a wedding, executions, and even a siege of the Tower. Lady Jane has her first night at the Tower as the Queen of England, and she visits St John's Chapel, located in the White Tower. Later, she is kept as the Tower's prisoner.
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Miller's The Novel and the Police (1988) drew on the writing and teaching of Michel Foucault to consider the novel's setting to work as a technology of discipline. "Disciplinary power," Miller wrote, "constitutively mobilizes a tactic of tact: it is the policing power that never passes for such, but is either invisible or visible only under ...
Miller's home in Indianapolis, 1904. Elizabeth ("Bessie") [3] Jane Miller was born on a farm in Montgomery County, Indiana, [4] near New Ross, Indiana, on August 17, 1878. Her parents were Timothy and Samantha (West) Miller. [5] She first manifested a literary instinct in her childhood. The family removed to Indianapolis in 1883. [5]