The Help
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0425245136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginal publication and copyright date: 2009.
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Sting in the Tale
Author: Antoinette LaFarge
Publisher: Doppelhouse Press
Published: 2021-08-19
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781733957953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner. The shift from the early information age to our 'infocalypse' era of rampant misinformation has given rise to an art form that probes this confusion, foregrounding wild creativity as a way to reframe assumptions about both fiction and art in contemporary culture. At its center, this "fictive art" (LaFarge's term) is secured as fact by employing the language and display methods of history and science. Using typically evidentiary objects such as documentary photographs and videos, presumptively historical artifacts and relics, didactics, lectures, events, and expert opinions in technical language, artists create a constellation of manufactured evidence attesting to the artwork's central narrative. This dissimulation is temporary, with a clear "tell" often surprisingly revealed in a self-outing moment. With all its attendant consequences of mistrust, outrage, and rejection, this genre of art with a sting in its tale is a radical form whose time has come.
Quilt
Author: Finola Moorhead
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780908205042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStitches together essays, reviews and short stories that make a comment on the process of writing.
The Lifespan of a Fact
Author: John D'Agata
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1529404630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNOW A BROADWAY PLAY STARRING DANIEL RADCLIFFE 'Provocative, maddening and compulsively readable' Maggie Nelson In 2003, American essayist John D'Agata wrote a piece for Harper's about Las Vegas's alarmingly high suicide rate, after a sixteen-year-old boy had thrown himself from the top of the Stratosphere Tower. The article he delivered, 'What Happens There', was rejected by the magazine for inaccuracies. But it was soon picked up by another, who assigned it a fact checker: their fresh-faced intern, and recent Harvard graduate, Jim Fingal. What resulted from that assignment, and beyond the essay's eventual publication in the magazine, was seven years of arguments, negotiations, and revisions as D'Agata and Fingal struggled to navigate the boundaries of literary nonfiction. This book includes an early draft of D'Agata's essay, along with D'Agata and Fingal's extensive discussion around the text. The Lifespan of a Fact is a brilliant and eye-opening meditation on the relationship between 'truth' and 'accuracy', and a penetrating conversation about whether it is appropriate for a writer to substitute one for the other. 'A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be' Lydia Davis
The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed
Author: Ina Bergmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1000295702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction explores the renaissance of the American historical novel at the turn of the twenty-first century. The study examines the revision of nineteenth-century historical events in cultural products against the background of recent theoretical trends in American studies. It combines insights of literary studies with scholarship on popular culture. The focus of representation is the long nineteenth century – a period from the early republic to World War I – as a key epoch of the nation-building project of the United States. The study explores the constructedness of historical tradition and the cultural resonance of historical events within the discourse on the contemporary novel and the theory formation surrounding it. At the center of the discussion are the unprecedented literary output and critical as well as popular success of historical fiction in the USA since 1995. An additional postcolonial and transatlantic perspective is provided by the incorporation of texts by British and Australian authors and especially by the inclusion of insights from neo-Victorian studies. The book provides a critical comment on current and topical developments in American literature, culture, and historiography.
Augmentation of Brain Function: Facts, Fiction and Controversy
Author: Mikhail Lebedev
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2018-09-14
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 2889456145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume I, entitled “Augmentation of Brain Functions: Brain-Machine Interfaces”, is a collection of articles on neuroprosthetic technologies that utilize brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). BMIs strive to augment the brain by linking neural activity, recorded invasively or noninvasively, to external devices, such as arm prostheses, exoskeletons that enable bipedal walking, means of communication and technologies that augment attention. In addition to many practical applications, BMIs provide useful research tools for basic science. Several articles cover challenges and controversies in this rapidly developing field, such as ways to improve information transfer rate. BMIs can be applied to the awake state of the brain and to the sleep state, as well. BMIs can augment action planning and decision making. Importantly, BMI operations evoke brain plasticity, which can have long-lasting effects. Advanced neural decoding algorithms that utilize optimal feedback controllers are key to the BMI performance. BMI approach can be combined with the other augmentation methods; such systems are called hybrid BMIs. Overall, it appears that BMI will lead to many powerful and practical brain-augmenting technologies in the future.
A Prosecutor's Analysis of Personal Supernatural Experiences
Author: Bernie Brown
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-12-16
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1662479174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history, there have been stories about extraordinary, unexplainable, supernatural events. You may have read one of these stories, or you may have seen a story on television or heard one from a friend or relative. When you heard the story, you probably thought it was a fantasy or the person telling it was a fake, a fraud, a weirdo, or a phony. If you read the story in the Bible or in a book, you may have thought that stories about supernatural events do not occur in modern-day society. In this new age of science and reason, there is a logical, scientific explanation for everything, right? But is it possible that even today, in our modern society, there are regular people, who are not psychics or mediums or spiritualists, who have had premonitions, sent telepathic messages, witnessed healings, seen deceased loved ones, seen spirits and ghosts, witnessed objects or paintings inexplicably fall from walls just before a critical moment, and experienced other events that scientist simply cannot explain? In this book, Bernie Brown, a twenty-nine-year retired prosecutor, interviews ordinary people who say they have experienced a supernatural event. Each event is critically reviewed with a scathing analysis to assess credibility and legitimacy. Was it a supernatural event, or was it an event that can be explained by logical reasoning, consistent with the ordinary laws of science and physics? Each case is subjected to a prosecutor's analysis for truth and veracity and an evaluation of the probability that a jury of one's peers would validate or invalidate the legitimacy of the supernatural event. Along the way, Bernie describes his own list of personal supernatural events and subjects them to the same critical, common-sense analysis as all other cases. You will be shocked by his stories and the stories he has heard and surprised by his verdicts. In the end, your concept of truth and reality will be expanded, upended, and redefined; and your perception of the realm of human possibilities will never be the same.
A Dictionary of Postmodernism
Author: Niall Lucy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-09-09
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1118902157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture. Explores the names and ideas that have come to define the postmodern condition – from Baudrillard, Jameson, and Lyotard, to the concepts of deconstruction, meta-narrative, and simulation – alongside less canonical topics such as dialogue and punk Includes essays by the late Niall Lucy, a leading expert in postmodernism studies, and by other noted scholars who came together to complete and expand upon his last work Spans a kaleidoscope of postmodernism perspectives, addressing its lovers and haters; its movers and shakers such as Derrida; its origins in modernism and semiotics, and its outlook for the future Features a series of brief essays rather than fixed definitions of the key ideas and arguments Engaging and thought-provoking, this is at once a scholarly guide and enduring reference for the field
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-06
Total Pages: 758
ISBN-13: 1135923736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
From Fact to Fiction
Author: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 019520638X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the lives and careers of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos, Fishkin offers the first full-length study to examine the tradition in American letters since the 1830s of great imaginative writers beginning their careers in journalism. Her probing examination of the poetry and fiction that followed the newspaper and magazine work of these writers reveals how each transformed fact into art and how journalismhas helped to give a distinctively American cast to American literature.
