Author : A. M. Homes
Publisher : Clipper Audio
Release Date : 2015-01-04
ISBN 10 : 1471289265
Pages : pages
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Author : Geoff Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781438129709
Pages : 433 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (297 downloads)
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Author : Mary K. Holland
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-04-25
ISBN 10 : 9781441159342
Pages : 233 pages
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Download Succeeding Postmodernism PDF Full Free by Mary K. Holland and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.
Author : Stacy Holman Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 0759106592
Pages : 232 pages
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Download Torch Singing PDF Full Free by Stacy Holman Jones and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an ethnographer's eye, Stacy Holman Jones offers us a cultural critique of torch singing--as much more than the familiar tune of a woman's lamenting her own willing deception and passivity. She takes us into the space between music and language, allowing us to view torch singing not only as an expression of burgeoning desire but also of a more firmly resolved resistance and promise of change. An engaging read for performing arts and music professionals, and instructors in mass media and experimental ethnography.
Author : Kathy Knapp
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2014
ISBN 10 : 9781609382285
Pages : 228 pages
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Author : Geoff Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2015-04-22
ISBN 10 : 9781438140674
Pages : 995 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (46 downloads)
Download Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work PDF Full Free by Geoff Hamilton and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the English-language fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : OCLC:316868316
Pages : pages
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Author : Mary K. Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2020-06-11
ISBN 10 : 9781501362637
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (626 downloads)
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Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher :
Release Date : 2021-08-05
ISBN 10 : 9781108841962
Pages : 417 pages
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Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-30
ISBN 10 : 9781108840521
Pages : 385 pages
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Author : A.M. Homes
Publisher : Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-09-13
ISBN 10 : 9781847087959
Pages : 178 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (879 downloads)
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Author : Rachele Dini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-10-07
ISBN 10 : 9781501367366
Pages : 377 pages
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Download “All-Electric” Narratives PDF Full Free by Rachele Dini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All-electric” Narratives is the first in-depth study of time-saving electrical appliances in American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens between 1945, when the “all-electric” home came to be associated with the nation's hard-won victory, and 2020, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects in the 21st century. The appropriation and subversion of the rhetoric of domestic electrification and time-saving comprises a crucial, but overlooked, element in 20th-century literary forms and genres including Beat literature, Black American literature, second-wave feminist fiction, science fiction, and postmodernist fiction. Through close-readings of dozens of literary texts alongside print and television ads from this period, Dini shows how U.S. writers have unearthed the paradoxes inherent to claims of appliances' capacity to “give back” time to their user, transport them into a technologically-progressive future, or “return” them to some pastoral past. In so doing, she reveals literary appliances' role in raising questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, the ramifications of mechanization, the perils and possibilities of conformity, the limitations of patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking-while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated.
Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2009-09-08
ISBN 10 : 9781440229169
Pages : 4838 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (291 downloads)
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Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-24
ISBN 10 : 9781316184431
Pages : pages
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Author : A.M. Homes
Publisher : Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-09-13
ISBN 10 : 9781847087911
Pages : 224 pages
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Author : Aagje Swinnen
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2015-11-30
ISBN 10 : 9783839427101
Pages : 410 pages
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Author : A.M. Homes
Publisher : Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-09-13
ISBN 10 : 9781847087928
Pages : 288 pages
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