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Author: R. Mookerjee
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1137341084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk.
Author: R. Mookerjee
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1137341084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk.
Author: Coco d'Hont
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-11-14
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1351384414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransgressive fiction explores the crossing of boundaries. Because of its extreme content and style, it is often considered controversial. However, transgressive fiction is not just shocking or disruptive. It is a continuation of an American tradition of creating culture through the crossing of moral, geographical and social boundaries. Extreme States traces the evolution of American transgressive fiction from the 1960s to 2000, exploring how transgressive fiction reflects, exaggerates and critically interrogates how central American ideologies are perpetually (re)constructed in its extra-textual context.
Author: Trey Whitman
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780473352295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Often beheld as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire. With fiction often dealing in taboo concepts, such as sex, drugs, violence, and crime, transgressive fiction is a literary genre devoted to characters that feel confined by the norms and expectations of society, and who ultimately break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways. Cynical and critical of the myths inherited from tradition, the fiction here rings true for many. This investigation provides a detailed literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Bret Easton Ellis, Ash Lieb, Chuck Palahniuk, Hubert Selby Jr and Irvine Welsh, and includes a thorough examination of their pivotal stories, including American Psycho, Bleach, Fight club, Requiem for a dream, The Technicolor transgressions of the blue rose, and Trainspotting"--Publisher information.
Author: Sallie Bingham
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1936747146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wise and sexy new collection from one of the most important feminist writers of her generation.
Author: Paige Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781737982906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, you'll find the downtrodden and dirty. Because it's in the mud, in the dark-in mainlined misery-that truth reveals herself in all her filth-caked, blood-crusted glory.In this volume, you'll find 20 stories that explore the shadow side of humanity. Stories that might disquiet, upset, or even enrage certain readers. Outcast-Press believes that what you need most often lurks in the recesses you least want to tread: taboo topics, disturbing imagery, and that dreaded, murky "gray area." Outcast-Press doesn't cater to cries for censorship because we believe the best art isn't comfortable or comforting. Reading isn't a spectator sport. And since life doesn't come with a trigger warning, neither should literature.
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Titan Books
Published: 2014-09-05
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1783295538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images—nothing safe or dry. Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive stories hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, as the best of The Cult Workshop, his official fan website, selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process. These stories run the gamut from horrific and fantastic to humorous and touching, but each leaves a lasting impression. Some may say even a scar.
Author: Kevin Corstorphine
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-07
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 3319974068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction.
Author: Christopher Burlingame
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1648894127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile much has been written about Chuck Palahniuk and his body of work, next to nothing has been written about when, where and how it is necessary to teach Palahniuk. This collection will reveal that teaching Palahniuk’s work and the discursive dynamic of the classroom interactions create new opportunities for scholarship by both the faculty member and his or her students. Despite early critical success with ‘Fight Club’, ‘Invisible Monsters’, and ‘Choke’, Palahniuk’s novels are increasingly dismissed for the very transgressive content that makes them essential pedagogical tools in the Age of Trump where “truth isn’t truth,” and tribalism is stoked with claims of “fake news”. This collection aims to broaden the scholarship by examining under-represented and unrepresented works from his oeuvre and situating them in the context of their pedagogical implications. In both form and content, the transgressive nature of Palahniuk’s work demands critical thought and reflection, capacities that are necessary for the preservation of a democratic society. Contributors take various approaches to address what students can learn about writing, literature, and society by reading and analyzing Palahniuk’s texts. The collection will discuss the value of teaching Palahniuk, innovations and various disciplinary contexts for teaching his works, and reflections on some of those pedagogical opportunities. Through its multi-faceted discussion of Palahniuk and pedagogy, this collection will legitimize efforts to bring his work onto syllabi and into the classroom, where it can enhance student engagement, create new avenues for inter-disciplinary scholarship, and re-invigorate an expansion of the canon. It will also provide diverse frameworks for incorporating and interpreting Palahniuk’s writing across disciplines. Finally, the collection will offer post-mortems from faculty members who have found the “guts” to teach Palahniuk and will offer insight into what students have gained and stand to gain from a more intensive Palahniuk pedagogy.
Author: Joseph P. Natoli
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780791416372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese readings are organized into four sections. The first explores the wellsprings of the debates in the relationship between the postmodern and the enterprise it both continues and contravenes: modernism. Here philosophers, social and political commentators, as well as cultural and literary analysts present controversial background essays on the complex history of postmodernism. The readings in the second section debate the possibility--or desirability--of trying to define the postmodern, given its cultural agenda of decentering, challenging, even undermining the guiding "master" narratives of Western culture. The readings in the third section explore postmodernism's complicated complicity with these very narratives, while the fourth section moves from theory to practice in order to investigate, in a variety of fields, the common denominators of the postmodern condition in action.
