Summer Cannibals

Author : Melanie Hobson
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802146526

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Summer Cannibals by Melanie Hobson Pdf

Sisterly bonds, dark desires, and terrible secrets converge in this “tale of scorching family dysfunction that ranges among the gothic, domestic, and carnal” (Publishers Weekly). Summoned to their magnificent family home on the shores of Lake Ontario—a paradisiacal mansion perched on an escarpment above the city—three adult sisters come together in what seems like an act of family solidarity. Pregnant and unwell, the youngest has left her husband and four young children in New Zealand and returned home to heal. But while their home features immaculate gardens the likes of which few could imagine possessing, it is also a place of trauma and vengeance, where family togetherness leads to feasting on each other’s sexual appetites and weaknesses. Each daughter has her own particular taste, and overlaying everything is their parents, with unquenchable cravings of their own. As the affluent family endures six intense days in one another’s company, old fissures reappear. When long-buried truths finally come to light, the sisters and their parents must face the unthinkable consequences of their actions.

Author : Melanie Hobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143192221

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Author : Nick Johnstone
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857127785

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Patti Smith: A Biography by Nick Johnstone Pdf

Patti Smith is one of pop culture’s true troubadours. Emerging from the New York punk scene of the mid-seventies whilst mixing poetry, underground theatre, jazz and rock, she has left a rebellious and individual legacy like no other. Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Shepard and Bruce Springsteen are just a few who have become associated with the Patti Smith legend. She has toured with Bob Dylan, opened for the New York Dolls, duetted with R.E.M. and written songs for film. Nick Johnstone unravels every facet of this strange and winding career, and makes fascinating sense of a complex creative who refused to compromise. This Omnibus Enhanced edition of Patti Smith: A Biography features an interactive timeline of her life, filled with audio, video and imagery of gigs, interviews, songs and memorabilia. Additionally, curated Spotify playlists allow you to listen to her greatest songs, her contemporaries in the punk scene, and more. Patti Smith: A Biography provides a compelling insight into the journey of a true artist; a unique story of creativity, passion and rebellion.

Author : Jeannette Baxter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351925815

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J.G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination by Jeannette Baxter Pdf

Making the case that J. G. Ballard's fictional and non-fictional writings must be read within the framework of Surrealism, Jeannette Baxter argues for a radical revisioning of Ballard that takes account of the political and ethical dimensions of his work. Ballard's appropriation of diverse Surrealist aesthetic forms and political writings, Baxter suggests, are mobilised to contest official narratives of postwar history and culture and offer a series of counter-historical and counter-cultural critiques. Thus Ballard's work must be understood as an exercise in Surrealist historiography that is politically and ethically engaged. Placing Ballard's illustrated texts within this critical framework permits Baxter to explore the effects of photographs, drawings, and other visual symbols on the reading experience and the production of meaning. Ballard's textual spectacles raise a variety of questions about the shifting role of the reader and the function of the written text within a predominantly visual culture, while acknowledging the visual contexts of Ballard's Surrealist writings allows a very different historical picture of the author and his work to emerge.

Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781569763254

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Dancing Barefoot by Dave Thompson Pdf

Uses interviews, Patti Smith's memoir "Just Kids," and documentaries to enhance a biography of the artist and musician.

Author : William Deresiewicz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781250125521

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The Death of the Artist by William Deresiewicz Pdf

A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work—the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies—from an award-winning essayist and critic There are two stories you hear about earning a living as an artist in the digital age. One comes from Silicon Valley. There's never been a better time to be an artist, it goes. If you've got a laptop, you've got a recording studio. If you've got an iPhone, you've got a movie camera. And if production is cheap, distribution is free: it's called the Internet. Everyone's an artist; just tap your creativity and put your stuff out there. The other comes from artists themselves. Sure, it goes, you can put your stuff out there, but who's going to pay you for it? Everyone is not an artist. Making art takes years of dedication, and that requires a means of support. If things don't change, a lot of art will cease to be sustainable. So which account is true? Since people are still making a living as artists today, how are they managing to do it? William Deresiewicz, a leading critic of the arts and of contemporary culture, set out to answer those questions. Based on interviews with artists of all kinds, The Death of the Artist argues that we are in the midst of an epochal transformation. If artists were artisans in the Renaissance, bohemians in the nineteenth century, and professionals in the twentieth, a new paradigm is emerging in the digital age, one that is changing our fundamental ideas about the nature of art and the role of the artist in society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004313866

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J.G. Ballard by Anonim Pdf

Innovative and interdisciplinary essays on the increasingly significant British writer J.G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in his key works, especially The Atrocity Exhibition, one of the most challenging works in contemporary fiction.

Author : Shonni Enelow
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810131415

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Method Acting and Its Discontents by Shonni Enelow Pdf

Winner of the 2016 George Jean Nathan Award Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama provides a new understanding of a crucial chapter in American theater history. Enelow’s consideration of the broader cultural climate of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically the debates within psychology and psychoanalysis, the period’s racial and sexual politics, and the rise of mass media, gives us a nuanced, complex picture of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and contemporaneous works of drama. Combining cultural analysis, dramaturgical criticism, and performance theory, Enelow shows how Method acting’s contradictions reveal powerful tensions inside mid-century notions of individual and collective identity.

Author : Thomas M. Disch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0472068962

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On SF by Thomas M. Disch Pdf

A last judgment on the genre from science fiction's foremost critic

Author : Colin Greenland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135699079

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Entropy Exhibition (Routledge Revivals) by Colin Greenland Pdf

When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as ‘New Wave’ science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in science fiction and analyses developments in stylistic theory and practice.

Author : Aidan Levy
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780912777030

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Patti Smith on Patti Smith by Aidan Levy Pdf

From the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene, chanting "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine," the irreverent opening line to Horses, her 1975 debut album, the punk movement had found its dissident intellectual voice. Yet outside the recording studio—Smith has released eleven studio albums—the punk poet laureate has been perhaps just as revelatory and rhapsodic in interviews, delivering off-the-cuff jeremiads that emboldened a generation of disaffected youth and imparting hard-earned life lessons. With her characteristic blend of bohemian intellectualism, antiauthoritarian poetry, and unflagging optimism, Smith gave them hope in the transcendent power of art. In interviews, Smith is unfiltered and startlingly present, and prescient, preaching a gospel bound to shock or inspire. Each interview is part confession, part call-and-response sermon with the interviewer. And there have been some legendary interviewers: William S. Burroughs, Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), and novelist Jonathan Lethem. Her interview archive serves as a compelling counternarrative to the albums and books. Initially, interviewing Patti Smith was a censorship liability. Contemptuous of staid rules of decorum, no one knew what she might say, whether they were getting the romantic, swooning for Lorca and Blake, or the firebrand with no respect for an on-air seven-second delay. Patti Smith on Patti Smith is a compendium of profound and reflective moments in the life of one of the most insightful and provocative artists working today.

Author : D. Harlan Wilson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252050039

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J. G. Ballard by D. Harlan Wilson Pdf

Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by Surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself.

Author : Eric Wendell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810886919

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Patti Smith by Eric Wendell Pdf

Nicknamed the “Godmother of Punk,” Patti Smith rose to fame during the 1970s New York counterculture movement where she welcomed a new breed of rock and roll. Smith sanctioned the presence of a strong-willed woman in the mainstream rock community by breaking not only the fragile glass ceiling, but also the “rules” about women on the rock stage. Smith pushed right up to the front of the punk scene, stripping down sexual, religious, and emotional barriers to create a raw, viscerally personal message. In Patti Smith: America’s Punk Rock Rhapsodist,musician and historian Eric Wendell delves into the volatile mix of religious upbringing and musical and literary influences that gave shape to Smith’s lyrics, music, and artistic output. Wendell explores how Smith’s androgynous stage presence pulled the various societal triggers, adding a new layer of meaning to popular music performance. Songwriter and singer, performance artist and poet, Smith created work that drew together biography, history, and music into a powerful collage of an artist who shaped a generation of musicians. For poets and performers, as well as fans of Patti Smith and punk rock history, Patti Smith: America’s Punk Rock Rhapsodist is the perfect introduction to Smith’s achievements and the politics and art of a generation that is still felt.

Author : Robert Frank
Publisher : Scalo Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114340602

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Frank Films by Robert Frank Pdf

Robert Frank has always faced up to one thing only, himself. That is shown by this work, the films even more than the photographs. This book is dedicated to Frank's film even more than the photographs. This book is dedicated to Frank's film and video oeuvre, which grew and developed impressively in the years between 1959 and 2002, though unnoticed by most of the world. ...

Author : Joseph Nicolello
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781725269828

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Until the Sun Breaks Down: A Künstlerroman in Three Parts by Joseph Nicolello Pdf

Written when the author was in his early and mid-twenties, Until the Sun Breaks Down is a contemporary American Kunstlerroman modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy. In three parts and one hundred chapters that mirror Dante's classic poem, Nicolello takes the reader through present-day American towns and cities: infernal, purgatorial, and paradisal aspects with nothing left off the table. In the third and final volume, structurally modeled on Dante's Paradiso, the national themes of interior and exterior decline reach a head before anything like peace is found for anyone. For that matter, the text takes on an Augustinian turn: the City of Man vs. the City of God, with William Fellows coming to the end of the line of temporal pleasures and escapes, and even disillusionment with San Francisco, or the furthest end of western civilization. It is here that the character Octavia begins to take on the role of Beatrice, guiding William to safe passage--but not before hallucinatory episodes in both the city and the town, or San Francisco and Jerusalem.