Life of Pi...

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Life of Pi : a novel / Yann Martel. by Martel, Yann

Yann Martel, Life of Pi / NewsHour Productions LLC.

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Castaway tales : from Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi / Christopher Palmer. by Palmer, Christopher, 1948-

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Castaway tales : from Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi / Christopher Palmer. by Palmer, Christopher, 1948-

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Ang Lee : interviews / edited by Karla Rae Fuller. by Lee, Ang, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Ang Lee Tackles the Hulk / Paul Fischer -- Ride the High Country / Peter Bowen -- Firestorm / Rebecca Davies -- Cruel Intentions / Nick James -- Based on a Truly Gay Story / David Colman -- Ang Lee Interview for Taking Woodstock / John Hiscock -- Crossing Borders / Glenn Kenny -- Spinning Platters Interview: Ang Lee on Life of Pi / Jason LeRoy -- Interview: Ang Lee on the Journey of Bringing Life of Pi to the Screen / Alex Billington -- Ang Lee Interview: How He Filmed the Unfilmable for Life of Pi / John Hiscock.…”
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The cinema of Ang Lee : the other side of the screen / Whitney Crothers Dilley. by Dilley, Whitney Crothers

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Ang Lee: a history -- Ang Lee as director: his position in Asian and world cinema -- Confucian values and cultural displacement in Pushing hands -- Transgressing boundaries of gender and culture in The wedding banquet -- Globalization and cultural identity in Eat drink man woman -- Opposition and resolution in sense and sensibility -- Fragmentary narratives/fragmented identities in The ice storm -- Race, gender, class, and social identity in Ride with the devil -- Wuxia narrative and transnational Chinese identity in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon -- The ultimate outsider: Hulk -- Transcending gender in Brokeback Mountain -- Eroticism and performance in Lust/Caution -- Memory, narrative, and transformation in Taking Woodstock -- Storytelling and truth in Life of Pi: a spiritual journey -- Conclusion: the dream of cinema.…”
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Masters of FX Failes, Ian. by Failes, Ian

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Politics and literature at the turn of the millennium / Michael Keren. by Keren, Michael

Table of Contents: “…A Canadian alternative to the clash of civilizations : Yann Martel's Life of Pi.…”
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Psychoanalytic Technique and Theory : Taking the Transference / Judith L. Mitrani. by Mitrani, Judith L.

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER SIX The past presented: bodily centered protections in puberty and adolescenceCHAPTER SEVEN "Trying to Enter The Long Black Branches": some technical extensions for the analysis of autistic states in adults from the work of Frances Tustin; CHAPTER EIGHT Minding the gap between neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understanding of autism; CHAPTER NINE Surviving unthinkable trauma: dissociation, delusion, and hallucination in Life of Pi; REFERENCES; INDEX.…”
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Under the Sun of Satan.

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Memory and movies : what films can teach us about memory / John Seamon. by Seamon, John G., 1943-

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EnvironMentality : ecocriticism and the event of postcolonial fiction / Roman Bartosch. by Bartosch, Roman

Table of Contents: “…Negotiating the Human-Animal Boundary: Intertextualityand Metafiction in Life of Pi and Beatrice and Virgil; 8. ""Zero Time"" and the Apocalypse: Postnatural Survival in Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood; 9. …”
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Magical realism and Deleuze : the indiscernibility of difference in postcolonial literature / Eva Aldea. by Aldea, Eva

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: magical realism: a history of magical realism: typologies and definitions; reality and text: postcolonial or postmodern; realism and the resolution of antinomy -- Gilles Deleuze and magical realism: introduction: the importance of ontology; Deleuze and the univocity of being; Deleuze and redemption; series and systems; series and magical realism; Hallward and the postcolonial problem -- Models of magical realsim: introduction: a model of magical realism: One hundred years of solitude (1967); reading One hundred years of solitude in Deleuzian terms: the state of Macondo; a regime of signs and the apprenticeship of signs; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children (1981): the state as identity; Angela Carter's Nights at the circus (1984): reterritorialization through relation; Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987): the imperative to reterritorialization -- Magical realism and the signs of art: introduction: the magical signs of art; Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002): becoming non-human at sea; André Brink's Devil's valley (1998): what is real and what is magic?…”
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Pi: The Next Generation A Sourcebook on the Recent History of Pi and Its Computation / by David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein. by Bailey, David H., Borwein, Jonathan M.

Table of Contents: “…Ramanujan, modular equations, and approximations to pi or how to compute one billion digits of pi -- Pi, Euler numbers, and asymptotic expansions -- A spigot algorithm for the digits of pi -- On the rapid computation of various polylogarithmic constants -- Similarities in irrationality proofs for pi, ln 2, ζ(2), and ζ(3) -- Unbounded spigot algorithms for the digits of pi -- Mathematics by experiment: Plausible reasoning in the 21st century -- Approximations to pi derived from integrals with nonnegative integrands -- Ramanujan's series for 1/π: A survey -- The computation of previously inaccessible digits of π2 and Catalan's constant -- Walking on real numbers -- Birth, growth and computation of pi to ten trillion digits -- Pi day is upon us again and we still do not know if pi is normal -- The Life of pi -- I prefer pi: A brief mathematical history and anthology of articles in the American Mathematical Monthly -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Navigating Cultural Spaces : Maritime Places. by Horatschek, Anna-Margaretha

Table of Contents: “…: Thomas Hardy, James Cameron, and the Titanic; 7 The Coastal Figuration of the Caribbean Pirate in the Late Seventeenth Century; 8 'Managing Wilderness': Insular Topographies, Outcast Identities, and Cultural Representation in James Hawes' Speak for England, Scarlett Thomas' Bright Young Things, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi; 9 Bliss and War on the Island: Undoing Myth and Negotiating History in Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883) and Garland's The Beach (1996).…”
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Other selves : animals in the Canadian literary imagination / edited by Janice Fiamengo.

Table of Contents: “…Mason -- Yann Martel's Life of Pi: Back in the World, or "The Story with Animals in the Better Story" / Jack Robinson -- pt. …”
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Seaing through the past : postmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction / Joanna Rostek. by Rostek, Joanna

Table of Contents: “…3.3 Small Men at Big History: Graham Swift's Last Orders (1996) and lan McEwan's On Chesil Beath (2007)3.4 Seaing through Biographies -- 4 Salvaging the Self: Narratives of Personal Trauma -- 4.1 In Search of a Life Line: Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002) -- 4.2 Plotting a Course in the Sea of Memory: John Banville's The Sea (2005) -- 4.3 Seaing through Trauma -- 5 Influential Sources: Discourses of Origin and the Politics of Power -- 5.1 Historiographic Darwinism and Ark-ology: Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters (1989)…”
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Contested communities : communication, narration, imagination / edited by Susanne Mühleisen.

Table of Contents: “…Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimaraâ#x80;#x99;s Follow the Rabbit-Proof FenceA â#x80;#x98;furry subjunctive caseâ#x80;#x99; of Empathy: Humanâ#x80;#x93;Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism -- Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melvilleâ#x80;#x99;s Short Story â#x80;#x9C;Eat Labba and Drink Creek Waterâ#x80;#x9D; -- IV. …”
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Substance, judgment, and evaluation : seeking the worth of a liberal arts, core text education : selected papers from the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Text...

Table of Contents: “…Core Texts and Context: Reading Poems of World War I in 2005-2006Expanding the Core Text Canon; Non-Canonical Core Texts Reflections from Experience: Liberal Arts Education in a Columbian Technological University; Sulwan Al-Muta': The Wisdom of Stories for Leaders; Core Texts as Critical History: How Studying Works by Dead White Men Can Be Radical; Reading Bob Dylan's Chronicles as a Required Freshman Text; ""Be Not Afraid of My Body"": Whitman's Courageous Corporeality; The Selective Transformation of Reality in Life of Pi: A Model for Artful Living.…”
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