Jim Morrison S Adventures In The Afterlife

Author : Mick Farren
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312268367

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Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife by Mick Farren Pdf

Part devil, part angel, the specter of Jim Morrison has haunted America's consciousness since his premature death in 1971. His spirit seemed dark, and the graphic despair of his Lizard King persona reigned supreme in his lifetime, but Jim Morrison died with a smile on his face. Was his journey through the afterlife as tumultuous as his journey through life? This is the question Mick Farren answers in his fascinatingly complex novel based on one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic figures. Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife picks up the story of Morrison as he hurtles through a purgatory-like afterlife in search of some way to bring his soul to peace. Along the way he finds Doc Holliday--and together they find themselves chasing the restless fire-and-brimstone evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, whose soul has broken after death into two warring halves. McPherson's sexier half becomes the object of Jim's obsession, and as the two struggle to find each other in this disordered land, their wild, careening chase through a dozen dystopiae recalls imagined worlds as diverse as Burgess's A Clockwork Orange or Terry Gilliam's Brazil. This is a daring, hilarious romp through the landfill of millennial society. Possessed of an imagination that rivals that of any of our edgiest fantasists, steeped in the detritus and ephemera of three decades of pop culture, Mick Farren has crafted in this new novel a bizarre and compelling fantasia.

Author : Allen Stroud
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781538166079

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Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature by Allen Stroud Pdf

Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810863456

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The A to Z of Fantasy Literature by Brian Stableford Pdf

Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.

Author : Barry Hankins
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0230110029

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Jesus and Gin by Barry Hankins Pdf

Jesus and Gin is a rollicking tour of the roaring twenties and the barn- burning preachers who led the temperance movement—the anti-abortion crusade of the Jazz Age. Along the way, we meet a host of colorful characters: a Baptist minister who commits adultery in the White House; media star preachers caught in massive scandals; a presidential election hinging on a religious issue; and fundamentalists and liberals slugging it out in the culture war of the day. The religious roar of that decade was a prologue to the last three decades. With the religious right in disarray today after its long ascendancy, Jesus and Gin is a timely look at a parallel age when preachers held sway and politicians answered to the pulpit.

Author : Mick Farren
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781909394001

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Elvis Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine by Mick Farren Pdf

You cannot believe a word Mick Farren tells you!” John Lydon A literary life railing against the machine, in the company of Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry and more. Mick Farren has spent more than 4 decades in the thick of the culture wars as a commentator, activist, essayist, poet, performer, and rebel with multiple causes. A founding figure of the 60s underground press, he careered on through the London birth pangs of punk, the intoxicated madness of Lower Manhattan under Ronald Reagan, earthquakes and urban insurrection in LA. Here you'll meet Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry and Gore Vidal, and steam open correspondence between the author and Pete Townshend.

Author : Matthew Avery Sutton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674032538

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Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton Pdf

Matthew Sutton's definitive study of Aimee Semple McPherson reveals the woman, most often remembered as the hypocritical vamp in Sinclair Lewis's 'Elmer Gantry', as a trail-blazing pioneer.

Author : Peter Jan Margry
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789089640116

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Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World by Peter Jan Margry Pdf

The modern pilgrimage—to sites ranging from Graceland to the veterans’ annual ride to to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Jim Morrison’s Paris grave—is intertwined with man’s existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly changing world. In a climate that reproduces the religious quest in seemingly secular places, it’s no longer clear exactly what the term pilgrimage infers—and Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World critiques our notions of the secular and the sacred, while commenting on the modern media’s multiplication of images that renders the modern pilgrimage a quest without an object. Using new ethnographical and theoretical approaches, this volume offers a surprising new vision on the non-secularity of the “secular” pilgrimage. "This book will be sure to stoke our intellectual fire and heat up the discussion over the highly charged topic of secular pilgrimage.”—Simon Bronner, Penn State University

Author : Mick Farren
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446412480

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Give the Anarchist a Cigarette by Mick Farren Pdf

Through a long and chequered career, Mick Farren has functioned as a writer, poet, rock star, recording artist, rabble-rouser, critic and commentator, and even won a protracted obscenity trial at the Old Bailey. After resisting the idea for a long time, he has finally written his own highly personal and insightful account of the British counterculture in the 1960s and '70s, from the perspective of one who was right there in the thick of it. With a continuing and unashamed commitment to the tradition of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, he recounts a rollercoaster odyssey - sometimes violent and often hilarious - from early beatnik adventures in Ladbroke Grove, through the flowering hippies to the snarl of punk. He gives a firsthand, insider's account of the chaos, disorder and raging excess of those two highly excessive decades. At the centre of the book is Farren's career in the underground, as the man on the door at the UFO club, driving spirit at IT and, of course, lead singer with the Social Deviants. He describes his encounters with the celebrated and the notorious, who range from Jimi Hendrix and Germaine Greer to Julie Burchill and Sid Vicious, and concludes that the pop history of bohemian culture does not neatly divide itself into easy decades, but continues to this day, perhaps in different guises, but frequently with the same goals and motivations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175025288534

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Nette,Iain McIntyre
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781629639024

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Dangerous Visions and New Worlds by Andrew Nette,Iain McIntyre Pdf

Much has been written about the “long Sixties,” the era of the late 1950s through the early 1970s. It was a period of major social change, most graphically illustrated by the emergence of liberatory and resistance movements focused on inequalities of class, race, gender, sexuality, and beyond, whose challenge represented a major shock to the political and social status quo. With its focus on speculation, alternate worlds and the future, science fiction became an ideal vessel for this upsurge of radical protest. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 details, celebrates, and evaluates how science fiction novels and authors depicted, interacted with, and were inspired by these cultural and political movements in America and Great Britain. It starts with progressive authors who rose to prominence in the conservative 1950s, challenging the so-called Golden Age of science fiction and its linear narratives of technological breakthroughs and space-conquering male heroes. The book then moves through the 1960s, when writers, including those in what has been termed the New Wave, shattered existing writing conventions and incorporated contemporary themes such as modern mass media culture, corporate control, growing state surveillance, the Vietnam War, and rising currents of counterculture, ecological awareness, feminism, sexual liberation, and Black Power. The 1970s, when the genre reflected the end of various dreams of the long Sixties and the faltering of the postwar boom, is also explored along with the first half of the 1980s, which gave rise to new subgenres, such as cyberpunk. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds contains over twenty chapters written by contemporary authors and critics, and hundreds of full-color cover images, including thirteen thematically organised cover selections. New perspectives on key novels and authors, such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, John Wyndham, Samuel Delany, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Judith Merril, Barry Malzberg, Joanna Russ, and many others are presented alongside excavations of topics, works, and writers who have been largely forgotten or undeservedly ignored.

Author : Gale Group
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0787649643

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What Do I Read Next? 00 V2 by Gale Group Pdf

Author : Gillian G. Gaar
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760346907

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The Doors by Gillian G. Gaar Pdf

Take an up-close and behind the scenes look at the Doors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction genres
ISBN : IND:30000053713784

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What Do I Read Next? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111050469

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1816 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054026961

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Forthcoming Books by Rose Arny Pdf