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Isolarion : a different Oxford journey

Title
Isolarion : a different Oxford journey / James Attlee.
Author
Attlee, James.
Publication
Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Description
xviii, 278 pages; 23 cm
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Contents
Embarkation -- Purification -- Of music and cannibalism -- Doing my part -- The melancholy pilgrim -- Bread and circuses -- Boucherie chatar -- Designated desire-lines : planning a new road -- Further purification of the pilgrim -- Enrobed -- Of love and jewels -- Behind the blue door (inside the private shop) -- From the literal to the allegorical and back -- Wittgenstein's lion and a Cappuccino Sea -- Virtual streets and gateways : the plans revisited -- Cosmonauts and coleslaw -- St. Edmund's Well and a faded warning -- Making do and getting by -- Egyptian vagabonds, afternoon men, and the Malus Genius of our nation -- Losing the key -- Bed-sits and Birardari -- What they think you can bear : football, religion, and nightmares on the Cowley Road -- Between two fires : pulling the dragon's teeth -- Melancholy, an American photographer, and the Irish writer -- Cowley Road calling -- Just less lucky -- Dreadlocks and rim-shots : reggae at the zodiac -- Of lepers, lunatics, and layabouts -- Dancing sand and Zum-Zum water -- Junior Jihad -- Of books and bitumen -- Carnival -- Returning to the source -- A journey in the Hinterland -- Into the furnace -- Blessings and tribulation -- A graveyard reborn -- Finding a clue -- Of bats and mutton curry -- Margaret's story -- A hidden pool -- The liquid kingdom -- The gateways close -- Of robots, wild rhubarb, and the new Oxford way -- Things fall apart : an ending of sorts.
ISBN
  • 0226030938 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226030937 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006029804
  • 9780226030937
OCLC
  • OCM71288773
  • SCSB-5320374
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries