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Author : Alain-Philippe Durand
Release : 2006-06-23
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Novels of the Contemporary Extreme by : Alain-Philippe Durand
Download or read book Novels of the Contemporary Extreme written by Alain-Philippe Durand. This book was released on 2006-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts a new international writing phenomenon - 'contemporary extreme literature'.
Author : Alain-Philippe Durand
Release : 2006-06-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 135/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Novels of the Contemporary Extreme by : Alain-Philippe Durand
Download or read book Novels of the Contemporary Extreme written by Alain-Philippe Durand. This book was released on 2006-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates a new form of fiction that is currently emerging in contemporary literature across the globe. 'Novels of the contemporary extreme' - from North and South America, from Europe, and the Middle East - are set in a world both similar to and different from our own: a hyper real, often apocalyptic world progressively invaded by popular culture, permeated with technology and dominated by destruction. While their writing is commonly classified as 'hip' or 'underground' literature, authors of contemporary extreme novels have often been the center of public controversy and scandal; they, and their work, become international bestsellers. This collection of essays identifies and describes this international phenomenon, investigating the appeal of these novels' styles and themes, the reasons behind their success, and the fierce debates they provoked.
Author : Leslie Hill
Release : 1997
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 732/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blanchot, Extreme Contemporary by : Leslie Hill
Download or read book Blanchot, Extreme Contemporary written by Leslie Hill. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War.
Author : Mike Ashley
Release : 2010-07-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 35X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction by : Mike Ashley
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction written by Mike Ashley. This book was released on 2010-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."
Author : Susan Fraiman
Release : 2017-01-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 751/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Extreme Domesticity by : Susan Fraiman
Download or read book Extreme Domesticity written by Susan Fraiman. This book was released on 2017-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious. Fraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call "home," Extreme Domesticity vindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.
