{"title":"Books by David Simpson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9789491648137","title":"Dordogne","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Dordogne area in south-west France has a remarkable range of wild landscapes. The beautiful rivers includes tidal sections, marshes, cliffs and upland tributary streams set amongst limestone-dominated hills. Elsewhere diverse woodlands, hay meadows, caves, heathlands, arable plateaux plus ancient vineyards and villages also offer visitors great wildlife experiences in what has been called ‘the cradle of mankind’. The Crossbill Guide to Dordogne, France consists of 21 routes and numerous other sites to discover this wonderful region. The book is complemented with extensive chapters on landscape, geology, history, descriptions of the flora and fauna and tips to observe wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLandscape history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEcosystems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlora and Fauna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere to watch birds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinding orchids, dragonflies, butterflies, reptiles \u0026amp; amphibians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21 detailed routes with with tips for finding wildlife and 23 site descriptions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310474277237,"sku":"9789491648137","price":28.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9789491648137.jpg?v=1786032992"},{"product_id":"9-11-the-culture-of-commemoration","title":"9\/11 – The Culture of Commemoration","description":"After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a general sense that the world was different - that nothing would ever be the same - settled upon a grieving nation; and the events of that day were received as cataclysmic disruptions of an ordered world. Refuting this claim, David Simpson examines the complex and paradoxical character of American public discourse since that September morning, considering the ways the event has been aestheticized, exploited, and appropriated, while \"Ground Zero\" remains the contested site of an effort at adequate commemoration. In 9\/11, Simpson argues that elements of the conventional culture of mourning and remembrance - grieving the dead, summarizing their lives in obituaries, and erecting monuments in their memory - have been co-opted for political advantage. He also confronts those who labeled the event an \"apocalypse,\" condemning their exploitation of 9\/11 for the defense of torture and war.   In four elegant chapters - two of which expand on essays originally published in the \"London Review of Books\" to great acclaim - Simpson analyzes the response to 9\/11: the nationally syndicated \"Portraits of Grief\" obituaries in the \"New York Times\"; the debates over the rebuilding of the World Trade Center towers and the memorial design; the representation of American and Iraqi dead after the invasion of March 2003, along with the worldwide circulation of the Abu Ghraib torture photographs; and the urgent and largely ignored critique of homeland rhetoric from the domain of critical theory. Calling for a sustained cultural and theoretical analysis, \"9\/11\" is the first book of its kind to consider the events of that tragic day with a perspective so firmly grounded in the humanities and so persuasive about the contribution they can make to our understanding of its consequences.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466614382965,"sku":"9780226759388","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226759388.jpg?v=1785654671"},{"product_id":"wordsworths-historical-imagination","title":"Wordsworth's Historical Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth’s preoccupation with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as corrupted. Through close examination of a few important poems, both well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is there a conflict or tension between the private and the public. The absence of any clear kind of authority in the voice that speaks the poems makes Wordsworth’s poetry, in Simpson’s phrase, a ‘poetry of displacement’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483254038901,"sku":"9781138804111","price":171.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781138804111.jpg?v=1786178376"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-david-simpson.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}