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Book Review: Killarney Clary's By Common Salt And Laynie Browne's Rebecca Letters
Book Review: Killarney Clary's By Common Salt And Laynie Browne's Rebecca Letters
Elizabeth Willis
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Kenneth Koch's Hotel Lambosa; Jessica Treat's A Robber In The House; Nin Andrews's The Book Of Orgasms
Elizabeth Willis
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Killarney Clary's Who Whispered Near Me And Edward Barrett's Common Preludes
Killarney Clary's Who Whispered Near Me And Edward Barrett's Common Preludes
Elizabeth Willis
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Rosemarie Waldrop’S Lawn Of Excluded Middle
To Live Like Fighting Cocks: 'Fight Club' And The Ethics Of Masculinity, Andrew Slade
To Live Like Fighting Cocks: 'Fight Club' And The Ethics Of Masculinity, Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
David Fincher's 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club has prompted many academics to write about this film and has captivated many of their students. As Warren Rosenberg, chair of English at the all-male Wabash College has said, "This seems to be a movie that they all adore so we'll see if we can deconstruct it, and hopefully get them to like it less" (Students, A10). While we may take this flippant comment from a 2001 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education as just that and dismiss it as quickly as it passes, Rosenberg's sentiment reflects a widespread …
Remake As Erasure In 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', Andrew Slade
Remake As Erasure In 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) was remade as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) by Marcus Nispel. The remake erases the progressive critique of gender and family life in the United States that Hooper’s film screened and replaces that critique with a reactionary vision of sex, gender and family in the United States of the early twenty-first century.
On Mutilation: The Sublime Body Of Chuck Palahniuk's Fiction, Andrew Slade
On Mutilation: The Sublime Body Of Chuck Palahniuk's Fiction, Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
Much of Chuck Palahniuk's writing centers on the mutilation of bodies. Bodies are broken from the outside. They are beaten unrecognizable and destroyed beyond recuperation. Bodies are transformed from one sex to another, one gender to another. In Palahniuk's writing, the human body is the site for the inscription of a search for modes of authentic living in a world where the difference between the fake and the genuine has ceased to function. Not just the rules that had regulated behavior and prospects for a good life, but the rules that determine desire, pleasure, gender identity, and family role are …
Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, And The Postmodern Sublime, Andrew Slade
Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, And The Postmodern Sublime, Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
Samuel Beckett's texts are populated with characters who have been so deprived of their humanity that humanity appears as essentially absent from his texts. The characters' presence in the diegesis is marked by unmistakable absences-absence of vision, of mobility, of sense, of name. Beckett's characters are often without: without hair, without teeth, without foreseeable future. The human character is at the limit of humanity and runs the risk of passing over into the grey zone of the inhuman. They lose track of their place, of their time, of their names. They frequently belong to no time and no place. When …
For All The Mias Of This World, Meredith Doench
For All The Mias Of This World, Meredith Doench
Meredith Doench
Over the past few years there has been a lot of attention given to the amount of women, or lack thereof, in the publishing world. Statistics provided by the 2013 Vida Count show that not only should those numbers be much stronger, but so should the representations of women and their variations of sexuality in published works. Roxane Gay writes in the introduction to her 2014 book, Bad Feminist: Essays, “Movies, more often than not, tell the stories of men as if men’s stories are the only stories that matter. When women are involved, they are the sidekicks, the …
Notes On Narrative, Bryan Furuness
Notes On Narrative, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
"What happened is an anecdote. What someone felt about what happened is a story."
Winesburg, Indiana: Fork River Anthology, Michael Martone, Bryan Furuness
Winesburg, Indiana: Fork River Anthology, Michael Martone, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life’s mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans made and destroyed, of births and unexpected deaths, of remembered pasts and unexplored presents told to the reader by as interesting a cast of characters as one is likely to find …
Second Coming, Bryan Furuness
Second Coming, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
Brian Furuness' contribution to the Fall 2014 volume of Fourteen Hills.
The Lost Episodes Of Revie Bryson, Bryan Furuness
The Lost Episodes Of Revie Bryson, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
Revie Bryson, a precocious and dreamy kid from Paris, Indiana, has decided he's the second coming of Christ. His mother, an inventive storyteller, likes to tell him made-up Bible stories which she claims are "lost episodes" from the King James version. When Revie's mother suffers a crisis of identity and leaves home to pursue her dreams of stardom in Hollywood, Revie must learn to sacrifice and forgive in order to be born again.
Advice Advice, Bryan Furuness
Advice Advice, Bryan Furuness
Bryan M. Furuness
Bryan Furuness on why you should ignore writing advice.
Rebellion In The Metropolis: George Gissing's New Woman Musician, Laura Vorachek
Rebellion In The Metropolis: George Gissing's New Woman Musician, Laura Vorachek
Laura Vorachek
In his depiction of Alma Frothingham, the female protagonist of The Whirlpool, George Gissing intersects two cultural debates of the fin de siècle: the New Woman and female musical genius. Setting his novel against the backdrop of the specular economy of late-nineteenth-century London, Gissing’s engagement with these debates sheds light on the vexed question of his feminism. His New Woman’s increased autonomy and sexual freedom is evident in her pursuit of a professional music career. Alma believes she has control over her own sexuality and the sexual response her performances elicit in others. However, she does not recognize that by …