Bøger af Gilbert McInnis

Human Geography is a story about one woman's and one man's desire to share their love in a pursuit of having a family. At the same time, they are faced with an overreaching power that wants to stop them. So, they decide to risk all their comforts to experience that shared common goal, even when their noble passion provides them with little hope. But in the end their will to exercise their humanity to its fullest becomes a guiding light in this universal quest for individual and communal love. The setting is present or near future, and the place where the play is situated can make it a science-fiction play.

A Resting Place is a poetic exploration into the places where we seek out peace in times of anxiety. The poems were written over a 15 year period and are witnesses to the author's solitary moments in nature. We also find in these poems how the need to know about ourselves through nature is still important, as it was for Emerson or Thoreau a century and half ago. The book's structure imitates nature's cycle, beginning with spring, passing through all the seasons until that moment of rebirth.

The book attempts to understand, in Vonnegut's novels, how Darwin's theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth.

This research monograph is an important contribution to the study of the author, Kurt Vonnegut and the great evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin. The book examines Darwin's influence on the American culture that were Vonnegut's major focus and interest and the source of his importance as a major American writer of the later half of the 20th century.This book is relevant in its attempt to understand, in Vonnegut's novels, how Darwin's theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth that is widely accepted in order to explain why the world is as it is and why things happen as they do, to provide a rationale for social customs and observances, and to establish the sanctions for the rules by which Vonnegut's characters conduct their lives. Moreover, this book deals with how and why Kurt Vonnegut's fiction represents the changing human image resulting from Darwinism. The author discovered and developed his literary theory of "Evolution as a Mythology" from the novel Galápagos (Kurt Vonnegut,1985). McInnis persuasively developed theory suggests changes to the American (and English) literary landscape with a new and dynamic way to interpret literature, something the literary field has not seen since since Jean-Francois Lyotard described his ideas on narrative in his essay, the "Postmodern Condition," published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction in the early 1980's.