The Rape of the Nation and the Hymen Fantasy

The Rape of the Nation and the Hymen Fantasy
Author: Mizuho Terasawa
Publisher: Upa
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Rape of the Nation and the Hymen Fantasy demonstrates how William Faulkner's fictional works, normally considered extremely complex and incomprehensible, can be thoroughly understood and explicated. The volume urges scholars of Faulkner, and literature in general, to liberate themselves from ideological bondage.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner
Author: John E. Bassett
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2009-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810867427

Considered one of the great American authors of the 20th century, William Faulkner (1897-1962) produced such enduring novels as The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and As I Lay Dying, as well as many short stories. His works continue to be a source of interest to scholars and students of literature, and the immense amount of criticism about the Nobel-prize winner continues to grow. Following his book Faulkner in the Eighties (Scarecrow, 1991) and two previous volumes published in 1972 and 1983, John E. Bassett provides a comprehensive, annotated listing of commentary in English on William Faulkner since the late 1980s. This volume dedicates its sections to book-length studies of Faulkner, commentaries on individual novels and short works, criticism covering multiple works, biographical and bibliographical sources, and other materials such as book reviews, doctoral dissertations, and brief commentaries. This bibliography provides an organized and accessible list of all significant recent commentary on Faulkner, and the annotations direct readers to those materials of most interest to them. The information contained in this volume is beneficial for scholars and students of this author but also general readers of fiction who have a special interest in Faulkner.

The Outsider Within

The Outsider Within
Author: Tomoko Kuribayashi
Publisher: Upa
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The Outsider Within contains ten articles written by new and veteran scholars of Japanese women writers, both from the U.S. and abroad, with a focus on their fictional works available in English translation. Preceded by a general introduction, which discusses the position of the Japanese woman writer as an outsider within their native society, the ten essays offer general information on Japanese women's literature, society, and culture, along with detailed analyses of individual works.

One Break, a Thousand Blows!

One Break, a Thousand Blows!
Author: Maxi Kim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2008
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

Tiré du site Internet de Book Works: "One Break, A Thousand Blows! is a novel about Japan. The protagonist is a metaphor, wanting to negate Japan, but not by writing a novel about Japan, but by writing falsely about it, using Japan as a screen for the author's innermost hopes and desires. One Break, A Thousand Blows! aims to express the claim that there is no gap between sexuality and textuality; it aims to be anti-metaphorical, to escape the logic of modernism and postmodernism and express a pre-modernist, post-human morphogenetic aesthetics in all its wild sacred expressivity. Cannibalising every book it references One Break, A Thousand Blows! is heavily invested in bibliolatry, its polymorphous protagonists subjected to the occult use of books for divination. Maxi Kim is the grandson of illiterate Korean peasant farmers. He is a recent graduate of CalArts MFA Writing Program, currently researching a Phd at the University of Greenwich. He has worked with performance artists Gina Clark & Janice Lee, editorially with Matias Viegener and Christine Wertheim, and organised events with Chris Kraus and Mark von Schlegell. This is his first novel."

The Study of Culture at a Distance

The Study of Culture at a Distance
Author: Margaret Mead
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2000
Genre: Civilization
ISBN: 9781571812162

In 1953 Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux produced The Study of Culture at a Distance, a compilation of research from this period. This work, long unavailable, presents a rich and complex methodology for the study of cultures through literature, film, informant interviews, focus groups, and projective techniques.

The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom

The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom
Author: Tison Pugh
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0813591759

The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. The book examines how queerness, at first latent, became a vibrant yet continually conflicted part of the family-sitcom tradition. Taking into account elements such as the casting of child actors, the use of and experimentation with plot traditions, the contradictory interpretive valences of comedy, and the subtle subversions of moral standards by writers and directors, Pugh points out how innocence and sexuality conflict on television. As older sitcoms often sit on a pedestal of nostalgia as representative of the Golden Age of the American Family, television history reveals a deeper, queerer vision of family bonds.

Book Review Index

Book Review Index
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1320
Release: 2004
Genre: Books
ISBN:

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