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Crimes of Writing

Author : Susan Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195362091

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From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pioneering book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of "crimes of writing"--the forgeries of George Psalmanazar, the production of "fakelore," the "ballad scandals" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the imposture of Thomas Chatterton, and contemporary legislation regarding graffiti and pornography. In this way, she emphasizes the issues which arise once language is seen as a matter of property and authorship is viewed as a matter of originality. Finally, Stewart demonstrates that crimes of writing are delineated by the law because they specifically undermine the status of the law itself: the crimes illuminate the irreducible fact that law is written and therefore subject to temporality and interpretation.

Crimes of Writing

Author : Susan Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law and literature
ISBN : 9780195066173

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Crimes of Writing by Susan Stewart Pdf

From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pioneering book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of "crimes of writing"--the forgeries of George Psalmanazar, the production of "fakelore," the "ballad scandals" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the imposture of Thomas Chatterton, and contemporary legislation regarding graffiti and pornography. In this way, she emphasizes the issues which arise once language is seen as a matter of property and authorship is viewed as a matter of originality. Finally, Stewart demonstrates that crimes of writing are delineated by the law because they specifically undermine the status of the law itself: the crimes illuminate the irreducible fact that law is written and therefore subject to temporality and interpretation.

Wretched Writing

Author : Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781101624975

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Wretched Writing by Kathryn Petras,Ross Petras Pdf

Wretched writing is the lowest of the low; it is a felonious assault on the English language. Exuberantly excessive, it is a sin committed often by amateurs and all-too-frequently by gifted writers having an off day. In short, it’s very bad writing. Truly bad. Appallingly bad. It’s also very funny. A celebration of the worst writing imaginable, Wretched Writing includes inadvertently filthy book titles, ridiculously overwrought passages from novels, bombastic and confusing speeches, moronic oxymorons, hyperactive hyperbole, horribly inappropriate imagery in ostensibly hot sex scenes, mangled clichés, muddled metaphors, and unintended double entendres. Sit back and enjoy these deliciously dreadful samples, and try not to cringe too much.

Nonsense

Author : Susan A. Stewart
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801839815

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Nonsense by Susan A. Stewart Pdf

From a "comic strip" papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, "nonsense" texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of "making sense" from which they are derived. Examining palindromes, children's rhymes, puns, anagrams, code languages, and other texts, Susan Stewart explores the labyrinthine relationships between common sense and nonsense—and presents an original contribution to the fields of folklore, literary theory, anthropology, and sociology by analyzing nonsense within an expansive context of the social manufacture of order and disorder.

Tiny Crimes

Author : Lincoln Michel,Nadxieli Nieto
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936787890

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Tiny Crimes by Lincoln Michel,Nadxieli Nieto Pdf

Forty very short stories that reimagine the genre of crime writing from some of today’s most imaginative and thrilling writers “An intriguing take on crime/noir writing, this collection of 40 very short stories by leading and emerging literary voices—Amelia Gray, Brian Evenson, Elizabeth Hand, Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Laura van den Berg and more—investigates crimes both real and imagined. Despite their diminutive size, these tales promise to pack a punch.” —Chicago Tribune, 1 of 25 Hot Books for Summer Tiny Crimes gathers leading and emerging literary voices to tell tales of villainy and intrigue in only a few hundred words. From the most hard–boiled of noirs to the coziest of mysteries, with diminutive double crosses, miniature murders, and crimes both real and imagined, Tiny Crimes rounds up all the usual suspects, and some unusual suspects, too. With illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook and flash fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Amelia Gray, Adam Sternbergh, Yuri Herrera, Julia Elliott, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Evenson, Charles Yu, Laura van den Berg, and more, Tiny Crimes scours the underbelly of modern life to expose the criminal, the illegal, and the depraved.

And No Birds Sang

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771000307

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And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat Pdf

Mowat's gripping account of how a young man, excited by the prospect of battle, is transformed into a war-weary veteran.

Slumber Party from Hell

Author : Sue Ellen Allen
Publisher : Inkwell Productions
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780982958926

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Slumber Party from Hell by Sue Ellen Allen Pdf

What happens to a successful woman when her world falls apart and she is faced with betrayal, breast cancer, and prison? What happens when her pain Is unimaginable and her choices look bleak. When all this happened to Sue Ellen Allen, she chose to turn her pain into power. The death of Gina, her young roommate, coupled with an atmosphere of darkness and negativity, led her to find her passion and purpose behind the bars. Her experience of cancer, prison, and Gina s death is an inspirational story of courage, wisdom, and choices.

Lessons in Love and Other Crimes

Author : Elizabeth Chakrabarty
Publisher : Black Spot Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781911648239

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Lessons in Love and Other Crimes by Elizabeth Chakrabarty Pdf

'One of the most gripping and powerful books I've ever read; I feel so represented as a queer, brown woman.' — Nikita Gill An innovative hybrid of auto-fiction, crime fiction and critical race memoir, this multi-layered yet compulsively readable novel is inspired by the author´s real and extended experience of serious racial harassment, as well as exploring her search for justice and for love“/P> **Shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2022** **Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022** Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the enigmatic Holly. But this idyllic new start quickly sours. Tesya finds herself victimized again at work by an unknown assailant, who subjects her to an insidious, sustained race hate crime. As her paranoia mounts, Tesya finds herself yearning for the most elemental of desires: love, acceptance, and sanctuary. Her assailant, meanwhile, is recording his manifesto and plotting his next steps. Inspired by the author's personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualize the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a heartbreaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes. 'A story you won't be able to get out of your head.' — Cosmopolitan

The Crime Writer

Author : Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670063215

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Awakening in a hospital with a scar on his head and no memory of being found holding a knife over his ex-fiancée's murdered body, crime novelist Drew Danner struggles to reconstruct clues to determine his own guilt or innocence. By the author of The Tower.

The Crime of Writing

Author : Haim Lapid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110264475

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This is an intelligent, sensitive and tense novel about the intimate triangle of man, woman and child. "The Crime of Writing explores sexual identity and the relationship between life and literature. A young woman meets an elderly Englishman, George Brown, while she is visiting London. After his death, she receives his written confession. Her husband, a novelist, decides to publish it. The confession opens with the so-called sin of writing. Brown, who never married or had a family of his own, persistently tries to find out the secret of his mother's disappearance. His relationship with his father and longing for his absent mother creates a conundrum, which is only revealed to Brown in the closing pages.

Rhyme Crime

Author : Jon Burgerman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735231047

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Rhyme Crime by Jon Burgerman Pdf

From the creator of Splat! comes more playful, irreverent, kid-empowering fun--with a rhyming twist. In this buoyant rhyming romp, words have gone mysteriously missing: Who stole Marlow's happy smile, and replaced it with a crocodile? Who swiped Dingle's sneeze--aaaaachooo!--and left a stinky cheese? The thief took Tumble's orange, and switched it with a . . . with a . . . Hey, does anything rhyme with orange? No? Aha! Could this be the rhyming robber's undoing? Guided by bright, clever artwork, kids are empowered to put the final clues together for themselves to solve this silly rhyme crime, then guess at the name-nabber's next sneaky move. Splendid, satisfying, inspiring. "Rhyming wordplay. . . [and] even more hysterical laughter." --Kirkus "The creator of Splat! offers more page-turn-based tomfoolery" --Booklist

No Place Like Murder

Author : Janis Thornton
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780253052797

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A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after. True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song "Frankie and Johnny" already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun. Thornton's tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed "Gun Girl" and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations, No Place Like Murder also features such folks as Chirka and Rasico, the first two Hoosier men to die in the electric chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn't meet until their fateful last night. An enthralling and chilling collection, No Place Like Murder is sure to thrill true crime lovers.

Writing True Crime

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Straightforward co Ltd
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 184716126X

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Writing True Crime by Stephen Wade Pdf

Stephen Wade introduces the aspiring crime writer to the skills needed to write true crime and crime history. The chapters cover everything from finding a subject, working on a creative treatment and researching in libraries and archives.

Small Crimes

Author : Dave Zeltserman
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847656247

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Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman Pdf

Chosen by NPR and the Washington Post as one of the best crime & mystery novels of 2008, Small Crimes is now a major film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones' Jaime Lannister) Bent copper Joe Denton gets out of prison suspiciously early after disfiguring the district attorney. Nobody wants Joe to hang around, not his ex-wife, his parents or his former colleagues - if he had any decency he'd get out of town and start over. Unfortunately, Joe has precious little decency - and a whole lot of unfinished business to attend to. A tale of redemption and revenge as dark and violent as it's bitterly comic, Small Crimes is the UK debut of hard-boiled hotshot Dave Zeltserman.

First Class Murder

Author : Robin Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481422208

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First Class Murder by Robin Stevens Pdf

A murdered heiress, a missing necklace, and a train full of shifty, unusual, and suspicious characters leaves Daisy and Hazel with a new mystery to solve in this third novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series. Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are taking a vacation across Europe on world-famous passenger train, the Orient Express—and it’s clear that each of their fellow first-class travelers has something to hide. Even more intriguing: There’s rumor of a spy in their midst. Then, during dinner, a bloodcurdling scream comes from inside one of the cabins. When the door is broken down, a passenger is found murdered—her stunning ruby necklace gone. But the killer has vanished, as if into thin air. The Wells & Wong Detective Society is ready to crack the case—but this time, they’ve got competition.