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Demands Of The Dead
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Author : Katy Ryan
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2012-04-15
Demands Of The Dead written by Katy Ryan and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penalty–abolitionist writing, Demands of the Dead demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States. Gathering personal essays, scholarly articles, and creative writings on the death penalty in American culture, this striking collection brings human voices and literary perspectives to a subject that is often overburdened by statistics and angry polemics. Contributors include death-row prisoners, playwrights, poets, activists, and literary scholars. Highlighting collaborations between writers inside and outside prison, all within the context of the history of state killing laws and foundational concepts that perpetuate a culture of violent death, Demands of the Dead opens with a pamphlet dictated by Willie Francis, a teenager who survived a first execution attempt in Louisiana’s electric chair before he was subsequently killed by the state in 1947. Writers are a conspicuous part of U.S. death-penalty history, composing a vibrant literary record of resistance to state killing. This multigenre collection both recalls and contributes to this tradition through discussions of such writers as Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Gertrude Atherton, Ernest Gaines, Sonia Sanchez, Kia Corthron, and Sherman Alexie. A major contribution to literary studies and American prison studies, Demands of the Dead asserts the relevance of storytelling to ethical questions and matters of public policy. Contributors Sherman Alexie John Cyril Barton Steve Champion Kia Corthron Thomas Dutoit Willie Francis H. Bruce Franklin Tom Kerr David Kieran Jennifer Leigh Lieberman Jill McDonough Anthony Ross Katy Ryan Elizabeth Ann Stein Rick Stetter Matthew Stratton Jason Stupp Delbert Tibbs
Demands Of The Dead
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Author : Katy Ryan
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2012-04-15
Demands Of The Dead written by Katy Ryan and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-15 with Literary Collections categories.
This collection by death-row prisoners, playwrights, poets, activists, and literary scholars provides literary perspectives on the subject of the death penalty.
The Demands Of The Dead
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Author : Kathleen Anne Fleming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-04
The Demands Of The Dead written by Kathleen Anne Fleming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
When executive Kate Russell wakes up in a cemetery dressed in Victorian garb, she is confused and embarrassed. Then she is accused of murdering her boss and all evidence seems to point to a dead woman who, 90 years earlier, was accused of murdering her husband. With a friend and amateur detective, Kate tries to figure out the murder and save herself from the demand of the dead.
The Demanding Dead
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Release Date : 2007
The Demanding Dead written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Peter Owen Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Ghost stories, American categories.
With eight outstanding ghost stories, this collection highlights Edith Wharton's ability to switch genres seemingly without effort. The same literary genius evident in her best known works such as The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The House of Mirth is here dedicated to giving the reader a damned good scare. Stories such as "Kerfol" (adjudged by aficionados to be Wharton's best ghost story) and "Pomegranate Seed" are perfect illustrations of consummately crafted horror fiction. Wharton's vivid sense of the supernatural betrays her deeper anxieties about the claustrophobia of domestic life and the pain of a failing relationship.
The Vital Needs Of The Dead
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Author : Igor Sakhnovsky
language : en
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Release Date : 2018-01-01
The Vital Needs Of The Dead written by Igor Sakhnovsky and has been published by Glagoslav Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The Vital Needs of the Dead is a tender coming-of-age story set in the provinces of the Soviet Union during the second half of the 20th century. At the center of this story, praised by Russian critics for its blend of realism and lyrical sensibility, lies the relationship of young Gosha Sidelnikov with his alluring and mysterious grandmother Rosa, who becomes his caregiver when he is virtually abandoned by his busy and distant parents. This relationship colors Sidelnikov’s subsequent forays into first love and sexual awakening. Even after her death, memories of Rosa accompany him into his adventures and misadventures as a provincial student. Then, one miserably cold winter night, her voice commands him to immediately depart for a place he’s never been before, precipitating a mysterious chain of events.
Breaking Bread With The Dead
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Author : Alan Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2020-09-10
Breaking Bread With The Dead written by Alan Jacobs and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Spectator Book of the Year It's fashionable to think of the writers of the past as irredeemably tarnished by prejudice. Aristotle despised women. John Milton, the great champion of free speech, wouldn't have granted it to Catholics. Edith Wharton's imaginative sympathies stopped short of her Jewish characters. But what if it is only through the works of such individuals that we can achieve a necessary perspective on the troubles of the present? Join literary scholar Alan Jacobs for a truly nourishing feast of learning. Discover what Homer can teach us about force, what Machiavelli has to say about reading and what Charlotte Brontë reveals about race. Not all the guests are people you might want to invite into your home, but they all bring something precious to the table. In Breaking Bread with the Dead, an omnivorous reader draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with minds across the ages, from Horace to Donna Haraway.
Dead By Popular Demand
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Author : Teddy Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co.
Release Date : 2005
Dead By Popular Demand written by Teddy Hayes and has been published by Justin, Charles & Co. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
"Devil Barnett, ex-CIA wet-ops agent turned Harlem tavern owner, is a modern day ronin, a highly skilled, highly trained street samurai who no longer fights for "the company," but picks his own battles. A London rap group hs been flown into New York by their record label, Grooveline Records, and are poised to take America by storm, when two of their members turn up dead on the same night."--Cover.
The Dead Do Not Improve
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Author : Jay Caspian Kang
language : en
Publisher: Hogarth
Release Date : 2012-08-07
The Dead Do Not Improve written by Jay Caspian Kang and has been published by Hogarth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Fiction categories.
Hailed as The Awl’s 2012’s novel to anticipate, this glorious debut stars hippie detectives, a singular city, and an MFA student on the run. On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a window in his apartment building and end up killing one of his neighbors. Philip only learns about the murder the next day when bored and Googling himself. But when he gets caught up in the investigation and becomes the focus of an elaborate, violent scheme, he will learn far more than he ever wanted to about his former four-eggs-at-a-time borrowing neighbor Dolores Stone, aka “The Grey Beaver,” and her shocking connections to an underworld only a city like this one could create. Siddhartha “Sid” Finch, a homicide detective bitter about everything except his gorgeous wife, and his phlegmatic, pock-marked partner Jim Kim, land the case. Sid and Jim race after Philip through a menacing, unknowable San Francisco fending off militant surfers, vaguely European cafes, and aggressive Advanced Creative Writing students as they all try to figure out just who’s causing trouble in this city they love to hate. Exceedingly unique, pulsing with vigor and heart, and loaded with fierce, fresh language, The Dead Do Not Improve confirms Jay Caspian Kang as a true American original as obsessed with surfing and surviving as with the power of unforgettable storytelling.
Summer Of The Dead
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Author : Julia Keller
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Summer Of The Dead written by Julia Keller and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with Fiction categories.
High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia—but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley—who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past. In Summer of the Dead, the third Julia Keller mystery chronicling the journey of Bell Elkins and her return to her Appalachian hometown, we also meet Lindy Crabtree—a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets of her own, secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence. Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments—a place where the dead rub shoulders with the living, and demand their due.
Print Is Dead
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Author : Jeff Gomez
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2008
Print Is Dead written by Jeff Gomez and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Computers categories.
Contends that printed books will be replaced by digital books and that book distributors and readers should actively support the transformation by encouraging digital book creation and the standards required for storage and delivery.