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Business & Money

Ellis, Jim

Marketing & Sales

Abelard-Schuman

Based for the most part on Ovid's Metamorphoses, epyllia retell stories of the dalliances of gods and mortals, most often concerning the transformation of beautiful youths. This short-lived genre flourished and died in England in the 1590s. It was produced mainly by and for the young men of the Inns of Court, where the ambitious came to study law and to sample the pleasures London had to offer. Jim Ellis provides detailed readings of fifteen examples of the epyllion, considering the poems in their cultural milieu and arguing that these myths of the transformations of young men are at the same time stories of sexual, social, and political metamorphoses.Examining both the most famous (Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Marlowe's Hero and Leander) and some of the more obscure examples of the genre (Hiren, the Fair Greek and The Metamorphosis of Tabacco), Ellis moves from considering fantasies of selfhood, through erotic relations with others, to literary affiliation, political relations, and finally to international issues such as exploration, settlement, and trade. Offering a revisionist account of the genre of the epyllion, Ellis transforms theories of sexuality, literature, and politics of the Elizabethan age, making an erudite and intriguing contribution to the field.

Sexuality and Citizenship: Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

University of Toronto Press

Review\n“An imaginative and exciting mixture of literary criticism and cultural analysis, The Poem, the Garden, and the World shows just how important the advent of the pleasure garden was in shaping the imaginations of so many writers after it became popular in the sixteenth century. Whether thinking about escaping from the pressures of real life or the development of a national form and consciousness, literary style or the advent and spread of the British Empire, the reality and idea of the pleasure garden was central to the development of English Renaissance literature, particularly the work of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. Jim Ellis has written an important book that helps us understand the nature of early modern English writing.” —Andrew Hadfield, author of Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance\n“In this thoroughly researched, theoretically sophisticated, and well-written book, Jim Ellis shows how important gardens, both real and fictional, were to English Renaissance culture. As he demonstrates, gardens were important to look at, to move through, and to think with. The Poem, the Garden, and the World is an illuminating work of cultural studies that should be widely read and appreciated.” —Stephen Guy-Bray, author of Shakespeare and Queer Representation\nHow an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature\nHow is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor gained strength with the arrival of a spectacular new art form—the Renaissance pleasure garden—which immersed visitors in a political allegory to be read by their bodies’ movements. The Poem, the Garden, and the World traces the Renaissance-era relationship of place and movement from garden to poetry to a confluence of both. Starting with the Earl of Leicester’s pleasure garden for Queen Elizabeth’s 1575 progress visit, Ellis explores the political function of the entertainment landscape that plunged visitors into a fully realized golden world—a mythical new form to represent the nation. Next, he turns to one of that garden’s visitors: Philip Sidney, who would later contend that literature’s golden worlds work to move us as we move through them, reorienting readers toward a belief in English empire. This idea would later be illustrated by Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queen; as with the pleasure garden, both characters and readers are refashioned as they traverse the poem’s dreamlike space. Exploring the artistic creations of three of the era’s major figures, Ellis argues for a performative understanding of literature, in which readers are transformed as they navigate poetic worlds.

The Poem, the Garden, and the World: Poetry and Performativity in Elizabethan England (Rethinking the Early Modern)

Northwestern University Press

Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life of one of the most provocative, engaged, and important artists of the twentieth century.Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations analyzes Jarman's work-including his famous films Caravaggio, Jubilee, Edward II, Blue, and Sebastiane-in relation to his critiques of the government and his activism in the gay community, from the liberationist movement to the AIDS epidemic. While others have frequently focused on Jarman's biography, Ellis looks at how his politics and aesthetics are intertwined to comprehend his most radical aspects, particularly in films such as War Requiem and The Last of England.Here Jarman is revealed as an artist who keenly understood the role of history and mythology in creating a personal and national identity: as an activist, he sought to challenge old histories while producing new ones to carve out a space for alternative communities in Britain late in the twentieth century.

Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations

Reference

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis considers Jarman's wide-ranging oeuvre to present a broad perspective on the career and life of one of the most provocative, engaged, and important artists of the twentieth century.
Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations analyzes Jarman's work-including his famous films Caravaggio, Jubilee, Edward II, Blue, and Sebastiane-in relation to his critiques of the government and his activism in the gay community, from the liberationist movement to the AIDS epidemic. While others have frequently focused on Jarman's biography, Ellis looks at how his politics and aesthetics are intertwined to comprehend his most radical aspects, particularly in films such as War Requiem and The Last of England.
Here Jarman is revealed as an artist who keenly understood the role of history and mythology in creating a personal and national identity: as an activist, he sought to challenge old histories while producing new ones to carve out a space for alternative communities in Britain late in the twentieth century.

Humor & Entertainment

It is the spring of 1968, and popular D.J. Brad Walker has the coolest job in the world. The morning star at CKLW,-a huge Detroit radio station based just across the river in Windsor, Ontario. From 9 to noon, our hero uses The Big 8's 50,000 watts to send the best of Rock and Soul music to almost half of the U.S. and Canada Then, a chance encounter with two beautiful and dangerous women draws him into a web of deceit, drug smuggling... And murder. Brad becomes number one on the hit parade for angry mobsters, brutal smugglers, outlaw bikers, and suspicious cops on both sides of the border. Will our hero continue to play the hottest hits and solve the crime or become just another corpse in the Murder City?

Death on the Dial: A Brady Ellis RadioMurder

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Brady Ellis

Brady, Jim

Mystery

Bishop Graphics

"I need a favor, Just a little one..." Trey Hughes reluctantly agreed to accompany his girl to a beautiful mountain retreat in the Carolina woods. A chance to relax and reconnect. But when his girlfriend Nina disappears, Trey becomes a key suspect in the crime and begins a desperate search for the missing girl, aided by a unique collection of friends he makes in the wilderness. There is also an evil in the woods, and Trey will soon be forced to chose between the two women he loves, and face dangers that will cost him his friends, his family... or his life.

Double Blind: A Mystery Thriller

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

It's 1999, and J. Robinson Blake is still dead. Spy, traitor, maybe both, Blake was crushed and buried in the rubble of the former Soviet Union. But if Jack Blake is dead, who is the mysterious stranger who has come back to America? Ghost, opportunist, or assasin, the new Jack Blake is a man with a hunger for vengance and an improbable secret that threatens to turn the death of the Cold War into the birth of a World War.

The Ghost of Boris Riley

Dante Rinaldi is born to Italian immigrants in the West of Scotland. Stranded by World War Two in Italy during a summer with his grandfather, Dante grows roots in his family's rural homeland and, as a young adult, identifies with a band of mountain partisans fighting the fascists. Young love delayed and the Rinaldis' struggles in post-war Scotland carry Dante into the life of Chris McCoull: a neglected adolescent who finds his calling and romance while working for a Greek-owned shipping line. Carefully researched and historically detailed, Westburn Blues is a rendering of the Scottish-Italian experience and filled with a cast of colorful characters... from sympathetic to truly evil.

Westburn Blues

Genre Fiction

Independently published

Witness Jock MacNeil's transformative journey from a Confederate serviceman to a Chiricahua Apache warrior and husband.1920's Mexico and the American Southwest still hold many dangers,  as the last Apache strongholds persist against the foreign invaders. Hard as nails, Jock receives an unexpected invitation to guide runaways from a reservation to a stronghold in Sierra Madre.Facing both Mexican and American authorities, and the Apache Wars raging around them, Jock witnesses first-hand the terrors of war, and his own transformation from a man of faith to subtle Apache spirituality.Praise from readers:★★★★★ - "I knew little about this time in America's history, but found this story to be completely gripping. The storytelling is first rate, and Jock is the perfect stand-in for the reader, both observer and participant in the tribes' adventures and heartbreak. Highly recommended."★★★★★ - "Once again, Jim Ellis weaves a tale that showcases historical times and the people who lived them, this time in the American West. Great stuff."

The Last Hundred

United States

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Billboards to Buicks: advertising--as I lived it

Sexuality and Citizenship: Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse

The Poem, the Garden, and the World: Poetry and Performativity in Elizabethan England (Rethinking the Early Modern)

Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations

Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations

Death on the Dial: A Brady Ellis RadioMurder

Double Blind: A Mystery Thriller

The Ghost of Boris Riley

Westburn Blues

The Last Hundred