Dangerous Fictions
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Author | : Lyta Gold |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2024-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1593767706 |
In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous. Within each she asks: How “dangerous” is fiction, really? And what about it provokes waves of moral panic and even censorship? Gold argues that any panic about art is largely a disguised panic about power. There have been versions of these same fights over fiction for centuries. By exposing fiction as a social danger and a battleground of immediate public concern, we can see what each side really wants—the right to shape the future of a world deeply in flux and a distraction from more pressing material concerns about money, access, and the hard work of politics. From novels about people driven insane by reading novels to “copaganda” TV shows that influence how viewers regard the police, Gold uses her signature wit, research, and fearless commentary to point readers toward a more substantial question: Fiction may be dangerous to us, but aren’t we also dangerous to it?
Author | : Barbara Rogan |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-07-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143125656 |
When a glamorous literary agent falls prey to a violent stalker, she discovers that the publishing biz can really be murder, for fans of The Spellman Files and Maisie Dobbs “Suspenseful . . . Barbara Rogan cleverly explores . . . our capacity for self-deception and weaves it into an absorbing mystery that keeps its secret until the very end.” —NPR Jo Donovan always manages to come out on top. Originally from the backwoods of Appalachia, she forged a hard path to elegant lunches and parties among New York City’s literati. At thirty-five, she’s the widow of the renowned novelist (and notorious playboy) Hugo Donovan, the owner of one of the best literary agencies in town, and is one of the most sought-after agents in the business. But all this is about to fall apart, as a would-be client turns stalker, a hack shops around a proposal for an unauthorized tell-all biography of Hugo, and a handsome old flame shows up without warning. Both a seasoned author and a former literary agent herself, Barbara Rogan knows the publishing world from all angles. Fans of Lisa Lutz and Jaqueline Winspear will adore Jo Donovan and Rogan’s wickedly sharp tale that skewers the dangerous fictions we read—and the dangerous fictions we tell ourselves.
Author | : Carolyn Vellenga Berman |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501726838 |
The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels as Jane Eyre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Indiana, as well as in the antislavery discourse of the period. "Creole" in its etymological sense means "brought up domestically," and Berman shows how the campaign to reform slavery in the colonies converged with literary depictions of family life. Illuminating a literary genealogy that crosses political, familial, and linguistic lines, Creole Crossings reveals how racial, sexual, and moral boundaries continually shifted as the century's writers reflected on the realities of slavery, empire, and the home front. Berman offers compelling readings of the "domestic fiction" of Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Jacobs, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others, alongside travel narratives, parliamentary reports, medical texts, journalism, and encyclopedias. Focusing on a neglected social classification in both fiction and nonfiction, Creole Crossings establishes the crucial importance of the Creole character as a marker of sexual norms and national belonging.
Author | : Hamilton Jewett Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Charles Dudley Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Charles Dudley Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Authors |
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Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : R. Reginald |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0941028763 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author | : George Henry Lewes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : George Henry Lewes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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