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Two Dollar Radio Landscapes
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Steerforth Press What Kingdom
Book Synopsis“An incredibly moving and gripping novel . . . so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette.” — Olga RavnAn incandescent debut about young adults learning how to care for themselves — from within the limits of the psychiatric systemPerfect for fans of Tove Ditlevsen and devotees of Sylvia PlathIn honest, crackling investigations of the psychiatric system and the young people trying to find their way, Gråbøl’s soaring debut offers a critique of institutionalization and an urgent recalibrating of the language and conceptions of care.“I’m not inarticulate, but I leave language to the room around me,” says Fine Gråbøl’s nameless narrator as she dreams of furniture flickering to life in the room she occupies at a temporary psychiatric care unit for young adults. A chair that greets you, or shiny tiles of floor that follow a peculiar grammar of their own. Our narrator is obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming personalities and private motives. She also cannot sleep, and practices her daily routines with the urgency of survival – peeling a carrot, drinking prune juice – all an acutely calibrated exploration into having a home.Structured as a series of intimate vignettes like those of Olga Ravn, What Kingdom thrums with the swirling voices of this shared home. Hector blares Michael Jackson from the recreation room and recalls a past in Peru when his psychoses were treated with exorcism. The town would shake the devil out of his small, teenage body before he was relocated to Denmark. Or Marie, who has lived in the temporary unit since she was eighteen, has no idea that her mother lives just four floors below in a permanent care unit.Echoing the aching writings of Janet Frame on electroconvulsive therapy, or Linda Boström Knausgård’s mythical meditations on silence and mental health, Fine Gråbøl renders a delicate and deep uncoupling from the world.
£15.30
Tin House Books Hazardous Spirits
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£15.72
Blackwater Press Loveland
£16.16
Myers Education Press Writing Beyond Recognition: Queer Re-Storying for
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£121.60
Myers Education Press Writing Beyond Recognition: Queer Re-Storying for
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£32.00
Rutgers University Press Artificial Generation: Photogenic French
Book SynopsisArtificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity investigates the intersection of film theory and nineteenth-century literature, arguing that the depth of amalgamation that occurred within literary representation during this era aims to replicate an illusion of life and its sensations, in ways directly related to broader transitions into our modern cinematic age. A key part of this evolution in representation relies on the continual re-emergence of the artificial woman as longstanding expression of masculine artistic subjectivity, which, by the later nineteenth century, becomes a photographic and filmic drive. Moving through the beginning of film history, from Georges Méliès and other “silent” filmmakers in the 1890s, into more contemporary movies, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the book analyzes how films are often structured around the prior century’s mythic and literary principles, which now serve as foundation for film as medium—a phantom form for life’s re-presentation. Artificial Generation provides a crucial reassessment of the longstanding, mutual exchange between cinematic and literary reproduction, offering an innovative perspective on the proto-cinematic imperative of simulation within nineteenth-century literary symbolism. Trade Review“From a 'photogenic literary imperative' in 19th century literature through early cinema to Hitchcock’s Vertigo and on to contemporary cinematic fantasies of replication as translated in Blade Runner: 2049’s stunning digital effects, this thoroughly engrossing book demonstrates the persistence and the force of the artificial woman, and the male fantasies of reproductive power it grounds, across a formidable array of texts—from literature to photography to film—in an intermedial history of aesthetic 'generation.'” -- Sharon Willis * author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in Popular Film *“From a 'photogenic literary imperative' in 19th century literature through early cinema to Hitchcock’s Vertigo and on to contemporary cinematic fantasies of replication as translated in Blade Runner: 2049’s stunning digital effects, this thoroughly engrossing book demonstrates the persistence and the force of the artificial woman, and the male fantasies of reproductive power it grounds, across a formidable array of texts—from literature to photography to film—in an intermedial history of aesthetic 'generation.'” -- Sharon Willis * author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in Popular Film *"In Artificial Generation Christina Parker-Flynn skillfully explores the obsession with the artificial woman in nineteenth-century literature and early film. In close dialogue with film theory, she shows how the literary interest in female automatons, statues, and mummies in works by Gautier, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, and Wilde is replicated and reinterpreted in early cinema. With its cross-aesthetic perspective, Parker Flynn’s discussion advances our understanding of how various art forms grappled with questions regarding life, animation and generation. Artificial Generation uncovers a rich aesthetic tradition and deftly demonstrates its relevance for contemporary culture." -- Marit Grøtta * author of Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Modernity’s Reori-gene-ation Part I Literary Simulations 1 The Literary Afterlife: Théophile Gautier’s Aesthetic of Resurrection 2 Book of Genesis: The Villi-fication of Woman in L’Ève future 3 Salomania: The Unnatural Order of (Beautiful) Things in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé Part II Cinematic Replications 4 Statuesque Cinema: Adapting Literature, Animating Film 5 See-Through Woman: Reproductive Delusions in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo Epilogue: Still Mother—Adapting to Life in Blade Runner 2049 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage
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Barlow Book Publishing inc. Repairing the World: Sheila Kussner and the Power
Book SynopsisThis is the story of a champion of cancer treatment and care, Sheila Kussner, and her best-known achievement, Hope & Cope, a pioneering, peer-based support service for cancer patients. Sheila also raised tens of millions of dollars to create the oncology department of McGill University. But as this biography explores, fundraising only scratches the surface of the character and deeds of this remarkable figure. A survivor of bone cancer that claimed a leg at age 14, Sheila Kussner has been a visionary in transforming the way cancer is researched and treated, and an indefatigable friend to anyone in need of support. Repairing the World delves deeply into Sheila’s story, to help us understand how someone so publicly and privately influential emerged, and how empathy has been her defining motivation. The reader learns of the personal challenges and crises that she confronted and overcame, and why her determination to improve support for cancer patients, by harnessing the experience and empathy of cancer patients themselves, was so revolutionary on a global scale.
£25.16
Brepols N.V. Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in
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£87.08
Theologischer Verlag Wo Bleibt Die Rechtsgleichheit?: Dora
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£37.22
Dietrich Reimer Staging Desires: Japanese Femininity in Kusakabe
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£58.90
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gender Und Beratung: Auf Dem Weg Zu Mehr
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£43.21
V&R Unipress Pretty in Space: Die Frauendarstellung in Star
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£71.25
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El segundo sexo / The Second Sex
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£16.16
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Mafalda: Femenino Singular / Mafalda: Feminine
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£13.46
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial ¿Qué haría Frida?: Una guía para vivir
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£18.00
Prh Grupo Editorial Fortuito El otro lado de la criminalización del
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£16.11
Prh Grupo Editorial Tu argumentario feminista en datos 150 razones para combatir el machismo Your Fe minist Argument in Facts 150 Reasons to Combat Machismo
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Prh Grupo Editorial La primera que camina The First One Who Walks
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£16.96
Roca Editorial Machismo
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£16.21
Roca Editorial Feminismo vibrante: Si no hay placer no es
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£25.64
Almuzara Feminismo Sin Complejos
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£24.58
Herder & Herder Las Mujeres Y El Desarrollo Humano
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Anagrama Ahora Contamos Nosotras
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£17.59
El Sometimiento de Las Mujeres
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£11.75
Horas y Horas la Editorial CUADERNOS INACABADOS 24 CUERPO INDISPENSABLE
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£17.01
Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U Humor de género: del texto a la identidad en
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£18.04
Editorial Kairos Despertando a la Bruja: Sobre La Magia Y El Poder
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