Dermaphoria

Author : Craig Clevenger
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385672368

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Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger Pdf

Clandestine chemistry and the L.A. underworld provide the atmosphere for this tale of painful lost memories and the heartbreak of finding them. Eric Ashworth awakens in jail, unable to remember how he got there or why. His only memory is a woman’s name: Desiree. Bailed out and holed up in a low-rent motel, Eric finds the solution to his amnesia in a strange new hallucinogen. By synthesizing the sense of touch, the drug produces a disjointed series of sensations that slowly allow Eric to remember his former life as a clandestine chemist. With steadily increasing doses, Eric reassembles his past at the expense of his grip on the present, and his distinction between truth and fantasy crumbles as his paranoia grows in tandem with his tolerance. In Dermaphoria Clevenger creates a visceral world where divisions between love and loss, violence and tenderness, and fact and fiction prove to be less discernible than they ought to be.

Author : Péter Gaál-Szabó
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443862585

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Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, and Narrative Identity by Péter Gaál-Szabó Pdf

Intertextuality, Intersubjectivity, and Narrative Identity presents recent findings and opens new vistas for research by mapping the potential interconnections of intertextuality and intersubjectivity across a range of fields. Multidisciplinary in its focus, it incorporates various research foci and topoi across time and space. It is largely orchestrated around issues of identity in the fields of narration, gender, space, and trauma in British, Irish, American, South African, and Hungarian contexts. The contributions here centre on narrative identity, mediality, and spatiotemporality; modernism and revivalism; cultural memory, counter-histories, and place; female Künstlerdramas and war testimonies; and parasitical intersubjectivity, trauma, and multiple captivities in slave narratives. The volume brings together the seasoned insight of established researchers and the vivacious freshness of young scholars, providing an engaging read. Ultimately, it will prove to be relevant to researchers, teachers, and the general public given its unique approaches and the diversity of the topics explored.

Author : Phil Jourdan
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781780995908

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Chewing the Page by Phil Jourdan Pdf

This is the first collection of creative writing-related interviews originally posted on Mourning Goats, a website founded by the mysterious Mr Goat. Over a year of mostly anonymous work, the Goat managed to interview some of the most exciting English-language authors around. Edited by Phil Jourdan and the Goat himself, and featuring expanded interviews not available online, Chewing the Page offers a series of weird and hilarious glimpses at the world of writing. Includes interviews with Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger, Paul Tremblay, Donald Ray Pollock, Stephen Elliott, Chad Kultgen, Chelsea Cain, Rick Moody, Christopher Moore and Nick Hornby, and others. ,

Author : Peter Maravelis
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933354651

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San Francisco Noir 2 by Peter Maravelis Pdf

Dashiell Hammett and William Vollmann are just two treats in this stellar sequel to the smash-hit original volume of San Francisco Noir.

Author : Douglas Keesey
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611176988

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Understanding Chuck Palahniuk by Douglas Keesey Pdf

An introduction to the fictions of the Fight Club author, who is both loved and loathed Ever since his first novel, Fight Club, was made into a cult film by David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk has been a consistent presence on the New York Times best-seller list. A target of critics but a fan favorite, Palahniuk has been loathed and loved in equal measure for his dark humor, edgy topics, and confrontational writing style. In close readings of Fight Club and the thirteen novels that this controversial author has published since, Douglas Keesey argues that Palahniuk is much more than a "shock jock" engaged in mere sensationalism. His visceral depictions of sex and violence have social, psychological, and religious significance. Keesey takes issue with reviewers who accuse Palahniuk of being an angry nihilist and a misanthrope, showing instead that he is really a romantic at heart and a believer in community. In this first comprehensive introduction to Palahniuk's fiction, Keesey reveals how this writer's outrageous narratives are actually rooted in his own personal experiences, how his seemingly unprecedented works are part of the American literary tradition of protagonists in search of an identity, and how his negative energy is really social satire directed at specific ills that he diagnoses and wishes to cure. After tracing the influence of his working-class background, his journalistic education, and his training as a "minimalist" writer, Understanding Chuck Palahniuk exposes connections between the writer's novels by grouping them thematically: the struggle for identity (Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Choke); the horror trilogy (Lullaby, Diary, Haunted); teen terrors (Rant, Pygmy); porn bodies and romantic myths (Snuff, Tell-All, Beautiful You); and a decidedly unorthodox revision of Dante's Divine Comedy (Damned, Doomed). Drawing on numerous author interviews and written in an engaging and accessible style, Understanding Chuck Palahniuk should appeal to scholars, students, and fans alike.

Author : Graham S. Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429840708

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Thinking Through Fairbairn by Graham S. Clarke Pdf

Thinking through Fairbairn offers parallel perspectives on Fairbairn's work. It explores an extended interpretation of his 'psychology of dynamic structure' and applies that model to a number of different areas. Fairbairn's Scottish origins are explored through his relationship with the work of Ian Suttie and Edward Glover. A new extended object relations model of phantasy and inner reality that reflects Fairbairn's approach as represented by his contribution to the Controversial Discussions is also developed. In cooperation with Paul Finnegan, this version of Fairbairn's model is applied to an understanding of multiple personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder. This model is combined with Fairbairn's theory of art to provide an understanding of some 'puzzle' films based in trauma and dissociation. Fairbairn's theory is presented here as a synthesis of classical and relational approaches, and his appropriation by relational theorists as a precursor to exclusively relational approaches challenged.

Author : Matthew Colbeck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350077805

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The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury by Matthew Colbeck Pdf

What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the sheer volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that we do. Examining representations of coma and brain injury across a variety of texts, this book investigates common tropes and linguistic devices used to portray the medical condition of coma, giving rise to universal mythologies and misconceptions in the public domain. Matthew Colbeck looks at how these texts represent, or fail to represent, long-term brain injury, drawing on narratives of coma survivors that have been produced and curated through writing groups he has run over the last 10 years. Discussing a diverse range of cultural works, including novels by Irvine Welsh, Stephen King, Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland, as well as film and media texts such as The Sopranos, Kill Bill, Coma and The Walking Dead, Colbeck provides an explanation for our fascination with coma. With a proliferation of misleading stories of survival in the media and in literature, this book explores the potential impact these have upon our own understanding of coma and its victims.

Author : Jordan King
Publisher : Running Wild, LLC
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781955062176

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White Oaks by Jordan King Pdf

Ten years after Jason Miller killed his best friend in Afghanistan, another drug overdose results in him being sent to White Oaks Mental Hospital to be evaluated as a suicide risk, or so he believes. Soon, Jason realizes the one thing he has in common with the other patients: they are all alone in the world, with no one to follow up on anything being done to them.What, at first, appears to be a chance to finally get clean and start rebuilding his life becomes a desperate struggle to save himself and the other patients from the horrible realities waiting for them behind the walls of White Oaks.

Author : Nik Korpon
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780998039

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Stay God, Sweet Angel by Nik Korpon Pdf

Damon lives a content life, playing video games and dealing drugs from his second-hand store while his girlfriend, Mary, drops constant hints about marriage. If only he could tell her his name isn't really Damon. If only he could tell her who he really is. But after he witnesses a friend's murder, a scarlet woman glides into his life, offering the solution to all of his problems. His carefully constructed existence soon shatters like crystal teardrops and he must determine which ghosts won't stay buried - and which ones are trying to kill him - if he wants to learn why Mary has disappeared. ,

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3004 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 083524749X

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Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Craig Clevenger
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781915523105

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Mother Howl by Craig Clevenger Pdf

Compelling literary crime that follows the son of a serial murderer who changes his identity in a bid to escape his past. Sixteen-year-old Lyle Edison recognizes the face of a murder victim on the nightly news – the waitress at his local diner. A place he often frequented with his dad. The following day his father is arrested and charged with her murder. And then eight further bodies are discovered. Following the revelation that his dad is in fact a serial killer, Lyle is outcast and shunned. Forced to abandon his family, illegally obtaining a new identity, he moves away to start all over again. Some years later, Lyle thinks he has finally moved on. But after several brushes with the law, Lyle’s past eventually catches up to him when a mysterious stranger known only as Icarus shows up and seems to know Lyle’s secret...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822034958827

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : IND:30000107430575

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The Hollywood Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015066381453

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015066121404

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Book Review Index by Anonim Pdf

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