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Madmen and Other Survivors

2007-02-01 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Madmen and Other Survivors by : Jeremy Tambling

Download or read book Madmen and Other Survivors written by Jeremy Tambling. This book was released on 2007-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madmen and Other Survivors: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction puts the short stories written by this outstanding Chinese writer between 1918 and 1926 into a broad context of Modernism. The fiction of Lu Xun (1881–1936) deals with the China moving beyond the 1911 Revolution. He asks about the possibilities of survival, and what that means, even considering the possibility that madness might be a strategy by which that is possible. Such an idea calls identity into question, and Lu Xun is read here as a writer for whom that is a wholly problematic concept. The book makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of not only Chinese fiction, but in terms of the art of the short story, and in relation to literary modernism. It attempts to put Lu Xun into as wide a perspective as possible for contemporary reading. To make his work widely accessible, he is treated here in English translation.

MadMen

2020-07-13
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Book Synopsis MadMen by : Nan Klee

Download or read book MadMen written by Nan Klee. This book was released on 2020-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As William, Hannah, Marshall, and the assemblage of survivors blend together to become a Co-op farm community, cattle and horses begin to arrive - thanks to Hannah's Talents. Crops are planted, and hunting parties ride on horseback. Judica has a litter of pup. Penny and Tom's first child arrives, and many speculate about whose child Jennifer carries. Though radio contacts, the Memphis farm survivors learn that the Chinese Army has advanced across the western half of the US killing any American survivors they find. As the threat approaches the Mississippi River, William, Hannah, and the survivors begin to speculate about what can be done. Enemy scouts begin to threaten other survivors in the area, so William leads a select few of his Talented people in early morning raids. Tom and Marshall soon have to use the jet to destroy all the bridges that span the Mississippi to slow the Red Army's advance. An equally Talented nameless nemesis arrives to terrorize the co-op, stealing Marshall's soul, but Hannah and her women thwart that plan. After their successful attack on 3 Chinese tanks, the now-desperate leadership team must determine how the 20+ survivors can safely escape. But... Where can they escape to?

A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism

2016-11-29 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-11-29
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Book Synopsis A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism by : Eric Hayot

Download or read book A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism written by Eric Hayot. This book was released on 2016-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those parameters have expanded in recent decades, but the incorporation of multiple origins and influences has often been tied to older conceptual frameworks that make it difficult to think of modernism globally. Providing alternative approaches, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism introduces pathways through global archives and new frameworks that offer a richer, more representative set of concepts for the analysis of literary and cultural works. In separate essays each inspired by a critical term, this collection explores what happens to the foundational concepts of modernism and the methods we bring to modernist studies when we approach the field as a global phenomenon. Their work transforms the intellectual paradigms we have long associated with modernism, such as tradition, antiquity, style, and translation. New paradigms, such as context, slum, copy, pantomime, and puppets emerge as the archive extends beyond its European center. In bringing together and reexamining the familiar as well as the emergent, the contributors to this volume offer an invaluable and original approach to studying the intersection of world literature and modernist studies.

Among Madmen

1990 Fiction
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Release : 1990
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Among Madmen by : Jim Starlin

Download or read book Among Madmen written by Jim Starlin. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As random citizens begin exhibiting unexplained murderous berserker violence, Tom Laker, a Vietnam vet-turned-Catskills constable, is trapped as he strivesto keep martial law in a world where there is no order. "Exciting, compulsivereading!"--Stephen King.

The Stability of Laughter

2018-12-17 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-12-17
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Book Synopsis The Stability of Laughter by : James Nikopoulos

Download or read book The Stability of Laughter written by James Nikopoulos. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously summed up as "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism has always been characterized by its self-conscious sense of suffering. Why, then, was it so obsessed with laughter? From Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Bergson and Freud to Pirandello, Beckett, Hughes, Barnes, and Joyce, no moment in cultural history has written about laughter this much. James Nikopoulos investigates modernity’s paradoxical relationship with mirth. Why was the gesture we conventionally associate with happiness deemed the only sensible way of responding to a world, as Max Weber wrote, that had been "disenchanted of its gods?" In answering these questions, Nikopoulos also delves into our ongoing relationship with laughter. He looks to contemporary research in emotion and evolutionary theory, as well as to the two-thousand-plus-year history of the philosophy of humor, in order to propose a novel way of understanding laughter, humor, and their complicated relationships with modern life. The Stability of Laughter explores how art unsettles the simplifications we revert to in our attempts to make sense of human history and social interaction.

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