Bøker av Ross Wilson

Investigates the meaning of 'life' in British Romantic poetry and poetics - analyzing the work of Blake, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, and others - to open up fresh terrain in Romantic poetry's relation to literary theory, the history of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics.

[Centuries ago, the grey wolf was the predator prince of the Scottish Highlands and its forest floors before being hunted to extinction... and then men folk, the same species which had before exterminated it, began to reintroduce wolves once again into the wilds of Scotland.] A salesman's bloody end in a remote Scottish motel room leaves the local police force with few clues as to the identity of the perpetrator - or could it have been perpetrators: a pack of wolves? Reports had come in of the bloody end of sheep, dogs and chickens, was this the same pack at work? And then other bodies are found, including farmers and policemen. The authorities scornfully discount the tales of werewolves - until a grisly discovery leaves even the sceptics with no other explanation. The author takes the reader on a horror trail of blood and gore in this thrilling whodunnit with a dramatic finale.

Provides readers with the tools required to interpret Adorno's works, whilst also introducing readers to his interpretation of classical German philosophy and his relationship to his contemporaries.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, in the essay 'On Life' (1819), stated 'We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life'. Ross Wilson uses this statement as a starting point to explore Shelley's fundamental beliefs about life and the significance of poetry. Drawing on a wide range of Shelley's own writing and on philosophical thinking from Plato to the present, this book offers a timely intervention in the debate about what Romantic poets understood by 'life'. For Shelley, it demonstrates poetry is emphatically 'living melody', which stands in resolute contrast to a world in which life does not live. Wilson argues that Shelley's concern with the opposition between 'living' and 'the apprehension of life' is fundamental to his work and lies at the heart of Romantic-era thought.

A young archaeologist comes upon a startling discovery on a dig in the Great Zimbabwe ruins: a clearly identifiable sword of a Templar Knight. How had this artefact, from almost a thousand years before, ended up in the earth of central Africa?Going back to the time of the Crusades, a story unfolds, full of trials and perils as two groups of soldiers set out on different missions. One group, of Christian knights, is fleeing the defeats at the hands of the Muslim armies, on a quest to find The Ark of the Covenant. One of the knights has in his possession a relic sacred to Islam: the Tears of Ensiah. Hot on their heels is a band of Saracen warriors, tracking the Christian knights, determined to reclaim the precious item for Islam. In this action-packed novel, the author takes us through shipwrecks, treks over mountain ranges & deserts and bloody scenes of slaughters & massacres - and all against the backdrop of searchers for glory relentlessly pursued by men intent on revenge and recovery.

"What do you do when the fabric of the Multiverse has been ripped asunder, the Sisterhood of Wicca has fixed a price on your head and it's literally raining cats and dogs?" So starts this roller-coaster of a book as our intrepid hero, Howard, finds himself transported through a time warp into another world. He meets strange creatures such as Benecia, a shape-shifting Meriodon who disdains food and survives by sucking the life force out of living creatures, including humans. And then there's Arnie, his Aardvark sidekick and fellow adventurer who just happens to talk. Constantly pursued by the Sisterhood of Wicca, a female mafioso gang intimidating and controlling the local people, Howard and his new friends must negotiate their way through all sorts of dangers as he seeks a way back to his own planet and time plane. With more twists & turns in the plot than a warehouse of Mobius Strips, the author has created a highly enjoyable romp through time & space, written in his own inimitable and deadpan style.

Betrayed by his superiors, branded an outcast, his daughter murdered. Khris Modahl is forced from his dark world and thrust into one even darker. Driven by the uncontrollable need to avenge his daughter's death he is drawn into the shadowy world of the "Bruderschaft", a secret brotherhood of Neo-Nazis, uncovering a plot that has been in the making since the early days of the Third Reich. He has become an unwitting player in a deadly game, hunted by both sides. He must track down all those responsible for his daughter's death and destroy them. Not only for the sake of his daughter; But for the very existence of the free world. "The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes" Benjamin Disraeli