Nick Davis: 20 books

Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience examines the shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of trust in individualized experience which...

The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "queer cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity,...

Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica...

This is a story of brain verses brawn. A Troll wakes up from his 100 year nap and chases the Old Farmers sons from his wood, and claims it for himself. The Farmers young daughter challenges the Troll to three tasks, the winner takes all...The Wonder Tales are written for my children, and are...

The Archer is sent on an errand to stop Redbeard the Pirate and his Flying ship from entering his King's Realm. Instead of a fight, the Pirate asks the Archer for his help. Alongside the Pirate's Five Amazing Companions the Archer goes on a quest to help Redbeard the Pirate win the hand...

There was a time when the Fairy of Spring and Jack Frost had a daughter named Aneira, who they gave to a childless Woodcutter and his wife, so Aneria could have the love and affection of mortal parents. This is her story, a classic fairy tale of winter, of love, of good, of evil and the power of innocence...The...

Tobisum is a Samurai who is one inch in stature, but is mighty in heart. He has joined the Princess Archer Gwendolyn and her companions Kurt the Wolf-boy & Will'O the Wisp on her quest to find the door to Baba Yaga's house. As they search for Jiki Ninki the Goblin who has the answer to their...

In a land far, far away travels the Princess Gwendolyn and her companions Kurt the werewolf and Will’O the Wisp all banished from their land by the Evil Witch Isabelle. As she begins her search to find her way home she encounters Tobisum, a Samurai who is one inch in stature, but is mighty in heart....

The Princess Gwendolyn is as kind as she is graceful, with emerald eyes and bushy red hair. Sent by her father to marry the King of the Coastal Kingdom. Her procession is betrayed and ambushed in the Tangled Woods. Saved by her secret Guardians, then helped by the Archer and his Horse Keshi. The Princess...

This is the tale of the Archer before he became King. He was as brave as he was noble, as keen-eyed as he was lightning fast with his bow. His loyal Horse as quick-witted and fleet of foot. Together they undertake an Errantry that takes them to Northern Plains to rescue a Maiden with the Golden Braid.The...

The Archer as noble as he is brave, a horse as quick witted as he is fleet of foot, a Princess as beautiful as she is kind, a King as cruel as he is selfish, and a quest of impossible things...The Wonder Tales are written for my children, and are half remembered tales from my childhood, reimagined...

Koshchey the Deathless is abroad in the Ninth Kingdom sowing havoc and destruction. The King sends the Archer on a quest to find a way to stop the unstoppable. A perilous journey that takes the Archer and Keshi his Horse to the house of Baba Yaga, and face to face with her three deathless Knights...The...

After finding Jiki Ninki the Goblin of the Crackling Mountain. The cunning old Goblin sets quest for the Princess Archer before he will answer the location to Baba Yaga’s door. Gwendolyn must travel to the Rolling Hills of Mist to find the Giant Panda Chung and get the Golden Comb from his collection,...

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding practical application for available systems of reasoning, these texts confront in their different ways reason’s...