Essays and Fictions
Author: Brad Phillips
Publisher:
Published: 2019-01-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780999218648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShort stories about drugs and sex that blur the lines of reality and fiction
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Futures and Fictions
Author: Simon O'Sullivan
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1910924644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFutures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different ‘political imaginary’ or, more simply, the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present. In particular, the book contributes to prescient discussions around decolonization, post-capitalism and new kinds of social movements – exploring the intersections of these with contemporary art practice and visual culture. Contributions range from work on science, sonic and financial fictions and alternative space-time plots to myths and images generated by marginalized and ‘minor’ communities, queer-feminist strategies of fictioning, and the production of new Afro- and other futurisms. Contributors to thsi volume include Ursula K. Le Guin, Theo Reeves-Evisson, Bridget Crone, Kodwo Eshun, Louis Moreno, Laboria Cuboniks, Luciana Parisi, Stefan Helmreich, Mark Fisher, Judy Thorne, Annett Busch, Harold Offeh, Robin Mackay, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Kemang Wa Lehulere, and Oreet Ashery.
On Histories and Stories
Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0674008332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing and remembering, gifted novelist and critic Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time.
Political Fictions
Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2002-08-27
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0375718907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In these coolly observant essays, the iconic bestselling writer looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth about the way we vote, the candidates we vote for, and the people who tell us to vote for them. These pieces build, one on the other, into a disturbing portrait of the American political landscape, providing essential reading on our democracy.
The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.
Popular Fictions
Author: Peter Humm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1136492631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2002. Amongst a time of rapid and radical social change, New Accents is a positive response to change, with each volume seeking to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. All the essays collected here deal in their different ways with 'popular fictions', but they were all, also, first published in the journal Literature and History. In that sense, then, they are quite literally 'essays in literature and history'.
Murder Suey
Author: Gideon Jacobs
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-30
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781737550600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the course of 2020, Gideon Jacobs and Brad Phillips wrote a 12-chapter serial novella. Written exquisite-corpse style, they alternated writing each chapter and didn't have access to previous chapters until they had been published online.
Fact and Fiction
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1135195250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere Russell reflects on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. This book provides valuable insight into the range of interests and depth of conviction of one of the world’s greatest philosophers.
Detective Fiction
Author: Robin W. Winks
Publisher: Foul Play Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrump Fiction
Author: Stephen Hock
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1498598056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrump Fiction:Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literature, film, and television, including works that took up the subject of Trump before his successful presidential campaign (in terms that often uncannily prefigure his presidency) as well as those that have appeared since he took office. Covering a range of texts and approaches, the essays in this collection analyze the place Trump has assumed in literary and popular culture. By investigating how authors including Bret Easton Ellis, Amy Waldman, Thomas Pynchon, Howard Jacobson, Mark Doten, Olivia Laing, and Salman Rushdie, along with films and television programs like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sesame Street, Sex and the City, Two Weeks Notice, Our Cartoon President, and Pose have approached and shaped the discourse surrounding Trump, the contributors collectively demonstrate the ways these cultural artifacts serve as sites through which the culture both resists and abets Trump and his rise to power.
