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Lived Fictions

Author : John Grant
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774836504
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Lived Fictions written by John Grant and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of political unity – or belonging – contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification and hierarchy within the political unit itself. Lived Fictions explores how the notion of political unity generates a collective commitment to imagining the structure of Canadian society. These political imaginaries – the citizen-state, the market economy, and so forth – are lived fictions. They orient our national identity and shape our understanding of political legitimacy, responsibility, and action. John Grant persuasively details why the project of political unity fails: it distorts our lived experiences and allows inequality and domination to take root. Canada promises unity through democratic politics, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, a welfare state that protects the vulnerable, and a multicultural approach to cultural relations. This book documents the historical failure of these promises and elaborates the kinds of radical institutional and intellectual changes needed to overcome our lived fictions.

Live Like Fiction

Author : Francesco Marconi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986148354
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Live Like Fiction written by Francesco Marconi and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN YOU IMAGINE THE NEXT 10 YEARSOF YOUR LIFE, WHAT DO YOU SEE? If you're drawing a blank, breaking into a sweat, or visualizing a finish line but not the course to get there, this book is for you.Live Like Fiction provides an original and provocative four-week roadmap to authoring your own life story, and a raft of surprising tactics to make it your reality. In 30 days, this book will help you:* Unearth your purpose and the values that drive you* Determine how to best spend your energy--andwith whom* Learn how to influence your way to the top withempathy, gratitude and persistenceFrancesco Marconi didn't just write the book on owning yoursuccess--he's lived it, as a journalist, speaker, strategy officer at The Associated Press, and fellow at Columbia School of Journalism. Now he layers the tricks of his trade on top of fresh scientific research to offer a compelling step-by-step approach to achievingbreakthrough professional growth. A must for every ambitious college graduate, job seeker, new hire--and anyone with a hunger to become the best version of themselves.

The Chestry Oak

Author : Kate Seredy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930900813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Chestry Oak written by Kate Seredy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1948.

The Fictions that Shape Men's Lives

Author : Christopher Kilmartin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000375471
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Fictions that Shape Men's Lives written by Christopher Kilmartin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fictions that Shape Men’s Lives is structured around a number of key ‘fictions’ of masculinity, such as beliefs in biological determinism, the inevitability of men’s violence and the opposition of the sexes, and proceeds to expose them to be wholly or partially unfounded. Examining the social pressure to behave and experience the self in ways that culture prescribes for the bodies we are perceived as having, this book provides an awareness of widely-held but distorted assumptions of gender. It also seeks to put men into the position to resist masculine social pressures when conforming to it conflicts with important life goals or values and/or causes harm. Making use of an informal, storytelling style provides an accessibility to those interested in breaking down their preconceptions of gender and masculinity, as well making links to key theories and concepts. This is a lively and engaging book for undergraduates studying introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Masculinity courses.

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction

Author : Laura Oulanne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000388492
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction written by Laura Oulanne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates how Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys use the short story form to evoke the material world as both living and lived, and how the spaces they create for challenging gendered social norms can also be nonanthropocentric spaces for encounters between the human and the nonhuman. Using the unique knowledge created by literary works to spark new conversations between phenomenology, cognitive studies, and new materialisms, complemented with a feminist perspective, this book explores how literature can touch the basic experience of being in, feeling and making sense of a material world that is itself alive and active. From a sensitive reading of how three women used the material world to make their readers see, feel, and question the norms shaping our experience, this volume draws a theory of reading affective materiality that illuminates modernism and the short story form but also reaches beyond them.

Turning Life Into Fiction

Author : Robin Hemley
Publisher : Story Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884910371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Turning Life Into Fiction written by Robin Hemley and published by Story Press Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lively style, good humor and insight, Robin Hemley helps you turn all that you experience into fresh and powerful fiction. By learning to "reimagine", you'll focus on translating real-world people and events into characters and scenes that happen on paper for the first time. You'll think "what if" instead of "what is" in order to take control of your material and cut loose the inhibitions of real life. In these pages, you'll learn how to hone your observation skills and fill your journal with rich and vivid details. (Because, as Hemley writes, "Life is in the details, and so is good fiction".) You'll see how to decide which ideas to bring to fiction and which ones to let go. And you'll learn how to: find the right form - novel, short story, vignette, memoir - for the story you want to tell; use "triggers" to start your reader's imagination rolling; keep your fiction emotionally honest by making the right choices between "the way it happened" and what the story dictates (ask "Is it believable?", not "Did it happen?"); create composites of real people and places that fit the unique needs of your story and empower your imagination; focus your fiction. Make sure everything, every character counts - and eliminate "people who sit at the end of the bar without a role to play"; fictionalize - ethically and legally - other people's stories. Learn your rights as a writer versus their rights to privacy. (Can you use actual names? When do you need to get permission?). To illustrate how writers feed their fiction with reality, Hemley uses examples from his own work and from fiction masters of yesterday and today. At the end of each chapter, challenging exercises help you apply the basictheories and push them even further. An adventurous read, Turning Life Into Fiction will help you create fiction that's just as strange and wonderful and "real" as the life that inspires it.

Real Life Fiction

Author : Edwin Torres
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 164628724X
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Real Life Fiction written by Edwin Torres and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Life Fiction is a book comprised of forty-nine poems which reflect on the world life and fiction. Some of the poems were inspired by real-life events. The writings in this book are from the points of view of the author. I would like to thank Holly Ickes, Sal Furlock, and everyone on the page publishing staff for making this book possible. I would also like to thank the readers who took time out to read this book.

ILLBORN

Author : Daniel T. Jackson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800468962
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book ILLBORN written by Daniel T. Jackson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, The Lord Aiduel emerged from the deserts of the Holy Land, possessed with divine powers. He used these to forcibly unify the peoples of Angall, before His ascension to heaven.

That We May Live

Author : Ge Yan
Publisher : Calico
ISBN 13 : 9781949641004
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book That We May Live written by Ge Yan and published by Calico. This book was released on 2020 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An approachable introduction to contemporary speculative fiction from China and Hong Kong that touches on issues of urbanization, sexuality, and propaganda"--

Land Fictions

Author : D. Asher Ghertner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501753746
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Land Fictions written by D. Asher Ghertner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evictions and land grabs. This collection brings together original research on urban, rural, and peri-urban India; rapidly urbanizing China and Southeast Asia; resource expropriation in Africa and Latin America; and the neoliberal urban landscapes of North America and Europe. Through a variety of perspectives, Land Fictions finds resonances between local stories of land's fictional powers and global visions of landed property's imagined power to automatically create value and advance national development. Editors D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake unpack the dynamics of land commodification across a broad range of political, spatial, and temporal settings, exposing its simultaneously contingent and collective nature. The essays advance understanding of the politics of land while also contributing to current debates on the intersections of local and global, urban and rural, and general and particular. Contributors Erik Harms, Michael Watts, Sai Balakrishnan, Brett Christophers, David Ferring, Sarah Knuth, Meghan Morris, Benjamin Teresa, Mi Shih, Michael Levien, Michael L. Dwyer, Heather Whiteside

Casey Over There

Author : Staton Rabin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 : 9780152531867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Casey Over There written by Staton Rabin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this picture book, Aubrey's brother is fighting in the trenches, while he is growing up in Brooklyn during World War I.

The Fictions that Shape Men's Lives

Author : Christopher Kilmartin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000375447
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Fictions that Shape Men's Lives written by Christopher Kilmartin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fictions that Shape Men’s Lives is structured around a number of key ‘fictions’ of masculinity, such as beliefs in biological determinism, the inevitability of men’s violence and the opposition of the sexes, and proceeds to expose them to be wholly or partially unfounded. Examining the social pressure to behave and experience the self in ways that culture prescribes for the bodies we are perceived as having, this book provides an awareness of widely-held but distorted assumptions of gender. It also seeks to put men into the position to resist masculine social pressures when conforming to it conflicts with important life goals or values and/or causes harm. Making use of an informal, storytelling style provides an accessibility to those interested in breaking down their preconceptions of gender and masculinity, as well making links to key theories and concepts. This is a lively and engaging book for undergraduates studying introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Masculinity courses.

Letters, Fictions, Lives

Author : Michael Anesko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195362926
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Letters, Fictions, Lives written by Michael Anesko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and long-awaited volume, Michael Anesko documents the literary cross-fertilization between Henry James and William Dean Howells, collecting 151 letters, nearly all the extant correspondence between the two men, as well as the most significant critical commentary James wrote on Howells and Howells wrote on James. Scholars have long recognized the peculiar importance of the relationship between these two exponents of realistic fiction--their mutual respect and occasional animosity. But the record of their affinities and substantial differences has never before been so amply and compellingly established. Containing dozens of previously unpublished letters by James, and featuring a detailed biographical chronology as well as extensive interpretive commentaries that meticulously chart the development of this remarkable literary friendship, Letters, Fictions, Lives, edited to the highest standards of scholarly excellence, will prove an invaluable resource for scholars and students of James and Howells, and will hold great interest for dedicated readers of their fiction and for those studying epistolary issues and literary influence between contemporaries.

Azadi

Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 164259380X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Azadi written by Arundhati Roy and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom—a chasm or a bridge?—the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.

Living Space in Fact and Fiction

Author : Philippa Tristram
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040013724
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Living Space in Fact and Fiction written by Philippa Tristram and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, Living Space in Fact and Fiction explores the house both in the ‘real’ world of the architect and the built environment, and in the fictional world of the novelist. The role of the house, in fact and fiction, tells us much about the space we live in, while the work of contemporary architects and designers illuminates aspects of the novelist’s art. Profusely illustrated, Living Space takes the history of the house from the Georgian world of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela through the works of novelists such as Jane Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James, up to 1914, when the notion of the house changes its nature. Philippa Tristram is concerned not only with the structure and organization of the house, but with the inner life lived within it. She shows how the subconscious life of the family was transformed over a century and a half, revealed in the shape and structure of the home. This book will be of interest to students of literature, history and architecture.

Fiction and the Figures of Life

Author : William H. Gass
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780879232542
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Fiction and the Figures of Life written by William H. Gass and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1971 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by William H. Gass.

Back to Moscow

Author : Guillermo Erades
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714304
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Back to Moscow written by Guillermo Erades and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuesday night: vodka and dancing at the Hungry Duck. Wednesday morning: posing as an expert on Pushkin at the university. Thursday night: more vodka and girl-chasing at Propaganda. Friday morning: a hungover tour of Gorky's house. Martin came to Moscow at the turn of the millennium hoping to discover the country of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and his beloved Chekhov. Instead he found a city turned on its head, where the grimmest vestiges of Soviet life exist side by side with the nonstop hedonism of the newly rich. Along with his hard-living expat friends, Martin spends less and less time on his studies, choosing to learn about the Mysterious Russian Soul from the city's unhinged nightlife scene. But as Martin's research becomes a quest for existential meaning, love affairs and literature lead to the same hard-won lessons. Russians know: There is more to life than happiness. Back to Moscow is an enthralling story of debauchery, discovery, and the Russian classics. In prose recalling the neurotic openheartedness of Ben Lerner and the whiskey-sour satire of Bret Easton Ellis, Guillermo Erades has crafted an unforgettable coming-of-age story and a complex portrait of a radically changing city.