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Fictions of Totality

2008 History
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Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 87X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Fictions of Totality by : Ryan Fred Long

Download or read book Fictions of Totality written by Ryan Fred Long. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines the cultural impact of this watershed event through historically contextualized readings of five paradigmatic novels: Carlos Fuentes's La region mas transparente (1958), Fernando del Paso's Jose Trigo (1966), Maria Luisa Mendoza's Con el, conmigo, con nosotros tres (1971), Jorge Aguilar Mora's Si muero lejos de ti (1979), and Hector Aguilar Camin's Morir en el golfo (1986).

Being in the Shadow

2017-06-08 Nature
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Release : 2017-06-08
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 804/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Being in the Shadow by : Kate Russo

Download or read book Being in the Shadow written by Kate Russo. This book was released on 2017-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through personal stories of six ordinary people, this narrative non-fiction book describes what it is like to experience a total eclipse for the first time. After these stories, you will understand why you MUST try to experience this eerie and awe-inspiring event yourself. Essential reading, written by an eclipse-chasing psychologist.

Totality

2015-07-30
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Release : 2015-07-30
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Book Synopsis Totality by : Wendy Moos

Download or read book Totality written by Wendy Moos. This book was released on 2015-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raymond Chandler

2016-08-23 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-08-23
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 173/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Raymond Chandler by : Fredric Jameson

Download or read book Raymond Chandler written by Fredric Jameson. This book was released on 2016-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler’s work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler’s invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a megalopolis uniquely distributed by an unpromising nature into a variety of distinct neighborhoods and private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.

Tar for Mortar

2018 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 505/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Tar for Mortar by : Jonathan Basile

Download or read book Tar for Mortar written by Jonathan Basile. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TAR FOR MORTAR offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story "The Library of Babel" is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges's narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator's claims of the library's universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library - is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges's imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.

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