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Book Synopsis Hope Isn't Stupid by : Sean Austin Grattan
Download or read book Hope Isn't Stupid written by Sean Austin Grattan and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate within utopian texts. Moving away from science fiction—the genre in which utopian visions are often located—author Sean Grattan resuscitates the importance of utopianism in recent American literary history. Doing so enables him to assert the pivotal role contemporary American literature has to play in allowing us to envision alternatives to global neoliberal capitalism. Novelists William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, John Darnielle, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and Colson Whitehead are deeply invested in the creation of utopian possibilities. A return to reading the utopian wager in literature from the postmodern to the contemporary period reinvigorates critical forms that imagine reading as an act of communication, friendship, solace, and succor. These forms also model richer modes of belonging than the diluted and impoverished ones on display in the neoliberal present. Simultaneously, by linking utopian studies and affect studies, Grattan’s work resists the tendency for affect studies to codify around the negative, instead reorienting the field around the messy, rich, vibrant, and ambivalent affective possibilities of the world. Hope Isn’t Stupid insists on the centrality of utopia not only in American literature, but in American life as well.
Book Synopsis Weak Nationalisms by : Douglas Dowland
Download or read book Weak Nationalisms written by Douglas Dowland and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question “What is America?” has taken on new urgency. Weak Nationalisms explores the emotional dynamics behind that question by examining how a range of authors have attempted to answer it through nonfiction since the Second World War, revealing the complex and dynamic ways in which affects shape the literary construction of everyday experience in the United States. Douglas Dowland studies these attempts to define the nation in an eclectic selection of texts from writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, John Steinbeck, Charles Kuralt, Jane Smiley, and Sarah Vowell. Each of these texts makes use of synecdoche, and Weak Nationalisms shows how this rhetorical technique is variously driven by affects including curiosity, discontent, hopefulness, and incredulity. In exploring the function of synecdoche in the creative construction of the United States, Dowland draws attention to the evocative politics and literary richness of nationalism and connects critical literary practices to broader discussions involving affect theory and cultural representation.
Download or read book Future Theory written by Marc Botha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theory interrogates how theory can play a central role in dynamic transition. It demonstrates how entangled the highly politicized spheres of cultural production, scientific invention, and intellectual discourse are in the contemporary world and how new concepts and forms of thinking are crucial to embarking upon change. Future Theory is built around five key concepts – boundaries, organization, rupture, novelty, futurity – examined by leading international thinkers to build a vision of how theory can be applied to a constantly shifting world.
Book Synopsis Everything Is BLEEPED: a Book about Hope by : Mark Manson
Download or read book Everything Is BLEEPED: a Book about Hope written by Mark Manson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......
Book Synopsis The Fiction of Dread by : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Download or read book The Fiction of Dread written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermathof the World Wars, with such canonical examples as Brave New World and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre, in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culture-e.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasies-have confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century. Drawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and on TV and film such as The Walking Dead, Black Mirror, and The Last of Us, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. The Fiction of Dread provides an innovative reading of contemporary culture and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice at a moment when, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Book Synopsis Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature by : Raphael Kabo
Download or read book Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature written by Raphael Kabo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'. Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.
Download or read book By Fire Above written by Robyn Bennis and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'All's fair in love and war,' according to airship captain Josette Dupre, until her hometown of Durum becomes occupied by the enemy and her mother a prisoner of war. Then it becomes, 'Nothing's fair except bombing those Vins to high hell.' Before she can rescue her town, however, Josette must maneuver her way through the nest of overstuffed vipers that make up Garnia's military and royal leaders in order to drum up support. The foppish and mostly tolerated Mistral crew member Lord Bernat steps in to advise her, along with his very attractive older brother. Between noble scheming, under-trained recruits, and supply shortages, Josette and the crew of the Mistral figure out a way to return to Durum-- only to discover that when the homefront turns into the frontlines, things are more dangerous than they seem"--Amazon.co
Book Synopsis Deluxe Swirl Romance Collection by : Jamila Jasper
Download or read book Deluxe Swirl Romance Collection written by Jamila Jasper and published by Jamila Jasper Romance. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive contemporary BWWM romance box set filled with delicious alpha men and salacious encounters by African American romance author, Jamila Jasper. QUARANTINED WITH THE CELEBRITY WHO BOUGHT ME (4 BOOK SERIES) I was eighteen years old when my parents sold me to the star of the biggest boyband in the UK. Quarantined with the maniacal superstar with a body like a God and a craving for brown sugar should have been a dream come true. But Master Henry is not like any guy I’ve ever met. He’s obsessed with me and he wants me to return the favor and worship every inch of his chiseled body. I can’t allow myself to fall for him like every other girl… He may have bought my body, but he can’t buy my love. JEALOUS EX-BOYFRIEND A tipsy one night stand with my ex-boyfriend’s best friend. Perfect. Now Ian won’t leave me alone and if my ex finds out… I’m toast. My ex’s best mate is the last person on Earth I expected to sleep with. When I last saw him, he was a science geek and a total failure with women. Now, the 6’4” geek is so much more. He has a body carved by the gods, PhD smarts, and a tongue that could unlock the chamber of secrets. The mega-dong between his legs is only the icing on the cake. If I’m not careful, I’ll fall for him. Hard. POSSESSIVE BEST FRIEND A tipsy one night stand with my ex-boyfriend’s best friend. Perfect… Not. Ian plans to ensnare me forever. Step One: The Penthouse Step Two: The Contract The mega-dong between his legs might make me crazy enough to sign my body over to Ian. While I’m leaning over the counter to show him exactly how much I belong to him… A huge problem walks in: my ex. If we’re not careful, we’ll be toast. CONFEDERATE RUNAWAY A drafted confederate soldier escapes to the North… Elijah knows the war is wrong. When he escapes the battle of Gettysburg he ends up several hundred miles North. Injured and near death, he arrives on the farm of free black woman, Ellen Freeman. She holds a gun to the rebel's head and from thenceforth, his fate is hers to decide... QUARANTINED WITH THE 10-INCH SOLDIER I’m stuck in quarantine with the hottest soldier alive who happens to be off-limits. I shouldn’t fantasize about him but I can’t help it. Quarantine SUCKS bad! He’s supposed to be protecting me, not thinking about bending me over. I’m supposed to be avoiding human contact, not teasing him. I have to say no to this sexy beast no matter how incredibly bored I am. When my teasing goes too far, I don’t know what Tex will do to me… I hope it’s hot. PLOWED BY THE HUNG REDNECK “I’m a red-blooded American man. I know what I want and it’s you.” I’m here to claim his farm, he’s here to claim me… I’m Tee, with the IRS, and here to foreclose the Grambling farm. The enormous redneck sitting across from me man-spreads and then I see it… The BIGGEST hunk of man meat I’ve ever seen. He has another idea of how to settle his debts that include me… Bent over… Begging for him… Becoming his. BLIND LOVE I am marrying a man who I have never met. The first time we see each other will be after I say “YES!” Will the connection we built behind these walls translate to the real world? Will the explosive passion I feel for this man extend to the bedroom? When I meet Connor, the man I’m going to marry, I know I’ve hit the jackpot. He’s smoking hot and let’s just say, sometimes good things come in ENORMOUS packages. If you love African American romance, hood lit, hood romance, BWWM, WMBW, erotic romance, sexy black women and white men romance, billionaires, soldiers, alpha males, pregnancy romance, black romance, romance with a black female lead, interracial and multicultural romance stories with steamy scenes, you'll love this sizzling collection.
Book Synopsis Costalegre: A Novel Inspired By Peggy Guggenheim and Her Daughter by : Courtney Maum
Download or read book Costalegre: A Novel Inspired By Peggy Guggenheim and Her Daughter written by Courtney Maum and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delightful ... In Lara, Maum has given a little-considered daughter a more hopeful future." —Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review “Maum’s slender, intelligent Costalegre is about many things: art as spectacle and art as discipline; life as joke and life as tragedy; the role of unreason in paintings and politics. But most of all, it’s about the youthful desire to be, in Lara’s words, contemplated and considered — to be, in short, loved." — The Boston Globe One of Glamour's Best Books of the Decade and a Best Book of Summer at AM New York, Moda Operandi, GOOP, Publishers Weekly, TIME, Southern Living, and Thrillist. It is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler is circulating a most-wanted list of “cultural degenerates”—artists, writers, and thinkers whose work is deemed antithetical to the new regime. To prevent the destruction of her favorite art (and artists), the impetuous American heiress and modern art collector Leonora Calaway begins chartering boats and planes for an elite group of surrealists to Costalegre, a mysterious resort in the Mexican jungle. The story of what happens to these artists when they reach their destination is told from the point of view of Lara, Leonora’s neglected fifteen-year-old daughter. Forced from a young age to live with her mother’s eccentric whims, tortured lovers, and entourage of gold-diggers, Lara suffers from emotional, educational, and geographical instability that a Mexican sojourn with surrealists isn’t going to help. But when she meets the outcast Dadaist sculptor Jack Klinger, Lara thinks she might have found the understanding she so badly craves. Heartbreaking and strange, Costalegre is inspired by the real-life relationship between the heiress Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter, Pegeen. Courtney Maum triumphs with this wildly imaginative and curiously touching story of a privileged teenager who has everything a girl could wish for—except a mother who loves her back.
Download or read book HIGH LIFE written by Steven A. Finly and published by SAF Productions LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The price of fame is higher than you think." QUOTES "God bless the Baby Boomers for they have sinned. The 70s were a game changer, so read the trilogy and find out how and why.” --Pamela Jaye Smith, Award-winning novelist. “The Hipsters Trilogy novels are not only great murder-mysteries, but captivating expose of the 1960s psychedelic drug revolution through to the cocaine-fueled 1980s." -- Richard Lowry, Emmy-winning producer and writer. PITCH: "Detective Gil Nelson and Wade Adams are back, and this time they’re the ones being hunted." When a biker gang member’s body is found hanging from a tree by his ankle, his head submerged in a river, the police know this is no run-of-the-mill murder. Six years after taking on Detroit’s drug-dealing hipster underground, Detective Gil Nelson is called into action again. It’s 1975 and the stakes are far more deadly than in the late 60s. There’s a fortune to be made as rival motorcycle gangs seek to take control of the lucrative pleasure drug trade sweeping North America, and the bodies are piling up.
Book Synopsis Hope's Little Hand, Or, The Hills of the Shatemuc by : Shatemuc
Download or read book Hope's Little Hand, Or, The Hills of the Shatemuc written by Shatemuc and published by . This book was released on 187? with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terenmoro Wolfcat written by Sam Ritchie and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At only three moons of age, Hasefi, a young lynx, witnesses the ambush and annihilation of her tribe by a rogue wolfpack lead by the black wolf Sal. Not even the magic of the gifted in her tribe could protect them. Her uncle’s dying wish was that she would continue their mission to follow the rising sun to their home. But first Hasefi will have to overcome the tragedy of her tribe's death. Will she have to face Sal? Is there anyone she can trust? Terenmoro Wolfcat: Rising Sun follows Hasefi as she struggles to survive alone in the wild, striving to complete her mission against insurmountable odds. Help comes from an unlikely companion, a lone wolf named Kolahn, who joins her trek through dangerous territory to finish Hasefi's quest. Your clan judges you by your fur with a story judged by action. Rising Sun demonstrates the power of loyalty in friendship and how that bond can go beyond one's own kind. Sometimes it's hard to find people we can count on, especially when the idea of who and what people are is changing. Rising Sun shows that there's no need for a big circle of friends so long as you have that one who will support you through anything and offer unconditional love.
Book Synopsis RaeAnne Thayne Hope's Crossings Series Volume Two by : RaeAnne Thayne
Download or read book RaeAnne Thayne Hope's Crossings Series Volume Two written by RaeAnne Thayne and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne welcomes you to Hope's Crossing, Colorado, where love always finds a way… Currant Creek Valley Workaholic chef Alexandra McKnight doesn't need a serious relationship. Sam Delgado seems perfect for a fling, but the single dad wants more than she can give. Now it's up to him to help Alex see that they can build a bright future together. Willowleaf Lane Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine has iron self-control, but she can't resist heartbreaker Spencer Gregory. He and his daughter are dangerous to Charlotte's heart. But in Spencer's soulful eyes, can she find the hero she's always wanted? Christmas in Snowflake Canyon Genevieve Beaumont is forging a new life for herself, and wounded veteran Dylan Caine is her salvation. Despite their mutual attraction, surely an heiress and an ex-soldier wouldn't work! But a Christmas miracle might prove them both wrong…
Book Synopsis Finding Washington by : Richard Raines
Download or read book Finding Washington written by Richard Raines and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the social, moral, and ethical turmoil in this country, what can Americans learn from George Washington that will help restore the values we hold so dear? In Finding Washington: Why America Needs to Rediscover the Virtues of Her Most Essential Founding Father, Richard Raines masterfully examines George Washington's life by retelling familiar stories and introducing stories most have never heard. Richard uses these historical accounts to identify virtues displayed by the first president and, through the use of humor, personal anecdotes, and social commentary, walks the reader through ways to revive these virtues in contemporary society. In Finding Washington you will discover * how Washington's biggest failure can help modern Americans, * how Washington's choice of clothing said more than words could ever say, * why Native Americans issued a prophecy about Washington, * why Washington's choice to race toward the British alone reveals the type of character needed in modern culture, and * how Washington stared down a would-be assassin and how his example of courage can inspire us. Finding Washington: Why America Needs to Rediscover the Virtues of Her Most Essential Founding Father is essential reading for those desiring to turn the rising tide of immorality in America and revive the virtues exhibited by George Washington. Readers will laugh, think, and be inspired as Richard invites you to join him and a growing chorus of like-minded people on this journey towards cultural change.
Book Synopsis Baine Family Love and War Book 1: She Belongs to Us!! by : Danielle Lea
Download or read book Baine Family Love and War Book 1: She Belongs to Us!! written by Danielle Lea and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liza is a human female that has no knowledge of the dragons and wolves. She happens to be the mate to both the Dragon King and Wolf king. There was a great war between the shifters with many casualties on both sides. Both sides kept the war hidden from humans and decided it was best to never show their animal side to humans. Dragons are powerful and protected by magic. The King is a powerful CEO. Wolves are strong in numbers but since they aren’t protected by magic they won’t fight a dragon alone. Since the wolves animal forms can go undetected they’ve become the perfect assassin so they run the Underworld Mafia. Liza must decide if she wants to be the wife of a powerful dragon. Or Luna of the underground Mafia. She could also choose both. Will she be able to end the centuries long war and bring peace to the shifter community or cause another war? Who will she choose?
Book Synopsis I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by : Tucker Max
Download or read book I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell written by Tucker Max and published by Citadel . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible” #1 New York Times bestseller—now with sixteen pages of photos and a new introduction (The New York Times). My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. --from the Introduction Actual reader feedback: "I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don’t believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist." "I’ll stay with God as my lord, but you are my savior. I just finished reading your brilliant stories, and I laughed so hard I almost vomited. I want to bring that kind of joy to people. You’re an artist of the highest order and a true humanitarian to boot. I'm in both shock and awe at how much I want to be you."
Book Synopsis He Who Gets Slapped by : George A. Carlin
Download or read book He Who Gets Slapped written by George A. Carlin and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel was adapted from the Leonid Adreyev drama and the Victor Seastrom photoplay. Illustrated with scenes from the MGM motion picture starring Norma Shearer and John Gilbert.
