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Author : Kate Lacour
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis Vivisectionary II by : Kate Lacour
Download or read book Vivisectionary II written by Kate Lacour. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Lacour
Release : 2019-08-21
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 125/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vivisectionary by : Kate Lacour
Download or read book Vivisectionary written by Kate Lacour. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if lactating snakes gestated inside fetuses? What if factory-farmed pigs were bred as giant, insentient cubes? What if the human spine generated methamphetamine capsules? These single page sequential images illustrate these and many other marvelous, hideous, enigmatic physiological mysteries. Each comics sequence is stitched together (pun intended) by a narrative thread that forms a strange and mesmerizing voyage through the body.
Author : John Fraser
Release : 2013-01-24
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 913/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Nihilism, Modernism, and Value by : John Fraser
Download or read book Nihilism, Modernism, and Value written by John Fraser. This book was released on 2013-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nihilism, Modernism, and Value consists of three jargon-free lectures addressed to the general reader. It explores a variety of ways in which writers responded to the phenomenon of nihilism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, By "nihilism" here is meant a sense, at times paralyzing, of the instability and perhaps groundlessness of all values. The book goes into some of the factors— psychological, sociological, philosophical—involved in that destabilizing. But its principal focus is on reintegration, and it draws freely on real-world experiences to illuminate concepts and strategies. Among the writers whose names figure in it are Conrad, Nietzsche, Beckett, Woolf, Heidegger, Rhys, Pushkin, Baudelaire, Hemingway, Lessing, Stevens, Valéry, and James (William), with particular attention at one point to Kafka and Borges. But no prior knowledge of them is required for following the argument, with its numerous lively quotations. The author himself is advancing heuristically, not just performing an academic exercise. The problems confronted are as relevant still as they were generations ago. A reviewer of John Fraser's first book spoke of "an extremely agile and incessantly active mind which illuminates almost every subject it touches." A reviewer of the second one, both of them published by Cambridge University Press, called it "a brilliant and utterly absorbing work," and said that "There are not many learned books which have the unputdownable quality of a thriller; this is one of them."
Author : Ebony Flowers
Release : 2020-10-14
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 190/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hot Comb by : Ebony Flowers
Download or read book Hot Comb written by Ebony Flowers. This book was released on 2020-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT EXAMINING THE CULTURE OF HAIR FROM THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. It’s a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. The story “My Lil Sister Lena” traces the stress resulting from being the only black player on a white softball team. Her hair is the team curio, an object to touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Among the series of cultural touchpoints that make you both laugh and cry, Flowers recreates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s needs for hair relaxers and product. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers’ stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her PhD, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.
Author : Julia Clara Byrne
Release : 1889
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Book Synopsis De omnibus rebus by the author of Flemish interiors by : Julia Clara Byrne
Download or read book De omnibus rebus by the author of Flemish interiors written by Julia Clara Byrne. This book was released on 1889. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
