Carnivale And The American Grotesque

Author : Peg Aloi,Hannah E. Johnston
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786448166

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Carnivale and the American Grotesque by Peg Aloi,Hannah E. Johnston Pdf

HBO's Carnivale was a critically-acclaimed, elaborate period narrative set in Depression era America that set the stage for the current explosion of cinematic storytelling on television. Despite an ambitious and unusual storyline, remarkable production design and stellar cast, the show was cancelled after only two seasons. No other television series has been so steeped in history, spirituality and occultism, and years later it retains a cult-like following. This collection of fresh essays explores the series through a diverse array of topics, from visual aesthetics to tarot symbolism to sexuality to the portrayal of deformity.

Author : David K. Danow
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813191076

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The Spirit of Carnival by David K. Danow Pdf

The remarkable meshing of these two diametrically opposed yet inextricably intertwined facets of literature (and of life) makes for an intriguing sphere of investigation, for the carnival spirit is animated by a human need to dissolve borders and eliminate boundaries - including, symbolically, those between life and death - in an ongoing effort to merge opposing forces into new configurations of truth and meaning.

Author : David Keevin Danow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Carnival in literature
ISBN : OCLC:1311136186

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The Spirit of Carnival by David Keevin Danow Pdf

Author : Alex Bevan
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786839961

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Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism by Alex Bevan Pdf

Gothic tourism is a growing phenomenon and a medium through which Gothic fictions and folkloric tales are re-imagined and generated. This book examines the complex relationship between contemporary English Gothic attractions and storytelling, uncovering how works of Gothic fiction can both inspire Gothic tourism and emerge from the spaces of Gothic tourism, contending that Gothic tourist attractions are multi-layered storytelling experiences. Contributing to the study of literature and place, Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism draws together the study of literary Gothic tourism and spatial philosophy, offering interdisciplinary analysis into the interface between Gothic narrative(s) and the spaces in which the tourist navigates. The storytelling practices taking place in Gothic caves, theme parks, ghost tours and rural walks serve to reflect contemporary fears and anxieties. This book situates the act of touring a Gothic site as a process of literary and social discovery.

Author : James B. Twitchell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0231078315

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Carnival Culture by James B. Twitchell Pdf

Examines the changes in publishing, movie making, and television programming since the 1960s that have affected Americans' tastes.

Author : William Van O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258437546

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The Grotesque by William Van O'Connor Pdf

Author : Philip McGowan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015053753029

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American Carnival by Philip McGowan Pdf

Through the presentation and representation of the deemed exotic and unconventional, American carnival forms operate in alternative ways to European variations (typically delineated through a suspension of time and ordinary social conventions). Using an analysis of overt carnival forms, the book demonstrates how America reads society and culture through a dualistic vision contoured by race, class, ethnic, and gender concerns. It then examines a range of 19th- and 20th-century texts by such authors as Hawthorne, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Bellow to identify the operations and mutations of American carnival forms.

Author : Harold Lowther Beaver
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Imports
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0389205850

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The Great American Masquerade by Harold Lowther Beaver Pdf

American culture, by definition, lacked a coherent identity. The new-found man was necessarily initiated into an intricate masquerade, whose postures often seemed grotesque in comparison to the more staid contentions of transatlantic visitors. The carnival tradition of America, asserts the author of this volume, insists on an inexhaustible play of mobility, transformation and fun. Such masks may be festal masks of joyous regeneration, or secretive masks hiding nothing but vacuum or dread. The essays in this book explore that dichotomy.

Author : John Kennedy Toole
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197627

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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Author : Beth Macy
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316337564

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Truevine by Beth Macy Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? TRUEVINE is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.

Author : Rolando Hinojosa
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611921929

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Klail City by Rolando Hinojosa Pdf

Klail City is the pivotal novel in HinjosaÍs continuing saga, the Klail City Death Trip Series. It is concerned with power as articulated through the disjunctive class and race relations between Texas Mexicans and Texas Anglos in the lower Rio Grande Valley. In his desire to help recreate the kaleidoscopic past, Hinojosa employs four generations of storytellers who thoroughly mesmerize the reader with their tales of tragic realism, alienation and desire. Klail City (in its Spanish version) is the winner of Latin AmericaÍs most prestigious literary award, the Casa de las Am?ricas Prize. It has been published in German and now, HinojosaÍs own English-language version is available. Rolando Hinojosa is the best known and most prolific Mexican American novelist. His works, which form a continuing, ever-evolving saga of life in the small border towns in TexasÍs lower Valley, are acclaimed for their fine sense of wit and pathos and their ability to capture the nuances of oral language.

Author : Various Haikasoru
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421577012

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Battle Royale Slam Book by Various Haikasoru Pdf

Koushun Takami’s Battle Royale is an international best seller, the basis of the cult film, and the inspiration for a popular manga. And fifteen years after its initial release, Battle Royale remains a controversial pop culture phenomenon. Join New York Times best-selling author John Skipp, Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm, Philip K. Dick Award-nominated novelist Toh EnJoe, and an array of writers, scholars, and fans in discussing girl power, firepower, professional wrestling, bad movies, the survival chances of Hollywood’s leading teen icons in a battle royale, and so much more! -- VIZ Media

Author : Theodore Sturgeon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375703737

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The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon Pdf

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards "One of the masters of modern science fiction."—The Washington Post Book World Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. Performing alongside the fireaters, snakemen and "little people," Horty is accepted. But he is not safe. For when he loses three fingers in an accident and they grow back, it becomes clear that Horty is not like other boys. And it is a difference some people might want to use. But his difference risks not only his own life but the lives of the outcasts who provided for him, for so many years, with a place to call home. In The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon renders the multiple wounds of loneliness, fear, and persecution with uncanny precision. Vividly drawn, expertly plotted, The Dreaming Jewels is a Sturgeon masterpiece. "An intensely written novel and very moving novel of love and retribution."—Washington Star

Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Dark Horse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN : 1616554274

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Nightmare Carnival by Ellen Datlow Pdf

A boy's 11th birthday heralds the arrival of a bizarre new entourage, a suicidal diva just can't seem to die and a washed-up wrestler goes up against a strange new foe. All of these weird marvels, and more, can be found at the Nightmare Carnival! Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow presents a masterwork of terror featuring contributions from Terry Dowling, Joel Lane, Priya Sharma, Dennis Danvers and Nick Mamatas.

Author : Aldona Kobus,Łukasz Muniowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476679624

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Sex, Death and Resurrection in Altered Carbon by Aldona Kobus,Łukasz Muniowski Pdf

The 2018 Netflix series Altered Carbon is a vital contribution to the cyberpunk renaissance, among such titles as Snowpiercer or Blade Runner 2049. This collection of new essays answers the question: is this increasing popularity of cyberpunk a sign of recognition of the genre's transgressive aspects, such as a stark critique of capitalism, or is it the opposite--a sign of the genre's failure to successfully criticize modernity? The contributors consider the series as taking on current issues, from a critique of neoliberalism, through the ethical aspects of biotechnology, up to thanatology. They provoke questions about what it means to be human in a world in which death does not exist. Essays evaluate the surging popularity of the series and cyberpunk at large from a variety of critical perspectives, shedding new light on a challenging and inventive series.