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Novel Shocks
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Author : Myka Tucker-Abramson
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2018-12-04
Novel Shocks written by Myka Tucker-Abramson and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Throughout the 1950s, a coalition of developers, politicians, and planners bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects, cultural centers, and skyscrapers. While the program was national, New York was ground zero, and the demolition and monumental reconstruction of the city created a distinctive urban sensorium, rooted in the new segregated landscapes of prosperous white private space and poor black public space. Novel Shocks situates these landscapes at the center of the midcentury novel, arguing that James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Ayn Rand, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath, and Warren Miller all registered these new urban spaces as traumatic “shocks” that required new aesthetic forms. Rejecting older shock-based modernisms, these novelists forged a new modernism, which reimagined shock as a therapeutic force that would create a more flexible, self-reliant, and resilient subject that would nourish neoliberalism’s roots. In offering a cultural prehistory of neoliberalism, Novel Shocks resituates the Cold War novel as a key archive for understanding neoliberalism’s emergence and offers a more materialist and historically grounded account of neoliberalism’s subjective, affective, and ideological structures.
Natural Shocks
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Author : Richard Stern
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-12-16
Natural Shocks written by Richard Stern and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-16 with Fiction categories.
A high-flying journalist comes to ground in this brilliant and bittersweet novel about coming to terms with the traumas of life Fred Wursup has an enviable existence. Paid to travel around the world “harvesting the annual crop of stars and villains,” he has a beautiful geophysicist girlfriend and a friendly relationship with his ex-wife, Susannah, whose living room he can see into from the roof of his Lexington Avenue apartment. His latest book, a collective portrait of brilliant but flawed leaders called Down the American Drain, had the good fortune to be published at the height of the Watergate scandal, sending it to the top of the bestseller lists. A new assignment, however, threatens to bring an end to Wursup’s recent string of successes. Asked to write an article on dying—still “undiscovered country,” according to his editor—he becomes unsettled by the seemingly random course of his life, the nature of his work, and the mortality that surrounds him. A troubled playwright he once profiled commits suicide. His elderly father, a retired meter reader who writes poetry about the last years of famous old men, seems to be on the verge of something drastic. Cicia, a young woman dying of cancer at St. Vincent’s Hospital, is gorgeous, vibrant, and doomed, and Wursup just might be falling in love with her. A charming and richly intelligent story about the disasters, major and minor, that are bound to happen to us all, Natural Shocks showcases the fine craftsmanship and depth of feeling that have established Richard Stern as one of America’s most admired authors.
Shock Wave
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Author : John Sandford
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-02-16
Shock Wave written by John Sandford and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-16 with Fiction categories.
The fifth Virgil Flowers novel by internationally bestselling author John Sandford The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site itself. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage - and they do. Who's behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's job to find out . . . before more people get killed. * * * Praise for John Sandford and the Virgil Flowers novels * * * ‘Along the way to the satisfying ending, Virgil displays the rough humor and rough justice that make him such an appealing character’ Publishers Weekly on Deep Freeze ‘A knowing portrait of small-town life layered into a very well plotted mystery. Virgil understands that, in small towns, no one ever outgrows high school... One of the very best novels in a superior series’Booklist (starred review) on Deep Freeze ‘Add a gripping storyline, a generous helping of exquisitely conceived characters and laugh-out-loud humor that produce explosive guffaws, not muted chuckles, and you’re in for the usual late-night, don’t-even-think-of-stopping treat when Flowers hits town’ Richmond Times-Dispatch on Deep Freeze ‘An outstanding novel’ Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Escape Clause
Box Of Shocks
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Author : Chris McMahen
language : en
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Release Date : 2011-10
Box Of Shocks written by Chris McMahen and has been published by Orca Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Oliver, a pampered only child, collects souvenirs from his daring exploits, but discovers that the most shocking things of all can't be catalogued or contained.
Office Shocks
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Author : Sumit Aggarwal
language : en
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Release Date : 2011-04
Office Shocks written by Sumit Aggarwal and has been published by Rupa Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04 with Fiction categories.
First day at work: Greenhorn B-school graduate enters corporate maze. Office Shocks is the quirky and humorous chronicle of a fresh and opinionated recruit trying to fathom his way through the baffling arena of the working world. Along the way he encounters a fickle-minded boss, flirtatious colleagues, an erudite family man with a secret life, all of whom unwittingly set the stage for a very bizarre first day at work.
Natural Shocks
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Author : Richard Stern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980-12
Natural Shocks written by Richard Stern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-12 with categories.
Natural Shocks
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Author : Richard Stern
language : en
Publisher: Coward McCann
Release Date : 1978
Natural Shocks written by Richard Stern and has been published by Coward McCann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Fiction categories.
A high-flying journalist comes to ground in this brilliant and bittersweet novel about coming to terms with the traumas of life.
Behind The Shock Machine
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Author : Gina Perry
language : en
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date : 2013-09-03
Behind The Shock Machine written by Gina Perry and has been published by New Press, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-03 with Psychology categories.
When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that fully 65 percent of the volunteers had repeatedly administered electric shocks of increasing strength to a man they believed to be in severe pain, even suffering a life-threatening heart condition, simply because an authority figure had told them to do so. Such behavior was linked to atrocities committed by ordinary people under the Nazi regime and immediately gripped the public imagination. The experiments remain a source of controversy and fascination more than fifty years later. In Behind the Shock Machine, psychologist and author Gina Perry unearths for the first time the full story of this controversial experiment and its startling repercussions. Interviewing the original participants—many of whom remain haunted to this day about what they did—and delving deep into Milgram's personal archive, she pieces together a more complex picture and much more troubling picture of these experiments than was originally presented by Milgram. Uncovering the details of the experiments leads her to question the validity of that 65 percent statistic and the claims that it revealed something essential about human nature. Fleshed out with dramatic transcripts of the tests themselves, the book puts a human face on the unwitting people who faced the moral test of the shock machine and offers a gripping, unforgettable tale of one man's ambition and an experiment that defined a generation.
Blasted Literature
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Author : Deaglan O Donghaile
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-24
Blasted Literature written by Deaglan O Donghaile and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dynamite novels meet highbrow modernism via the impact of terrorism. Between 1880 and 1915, a range of writers exploited terrorism's political shocks for their own artistic ends. Drawing on late-Victorian 'dynamite novels' by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Greer and Robert Thynne, radical journals and papers, such as The Irish People, The Torch, Anarchy and Freiheit, and modernist writing from H.G. Wells and Joseph Conrad to the compulsively militant modernism of Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists, O Donghaile maps the political and aesthetic connections that bind the shilling shocker closely to modernism.
Toxic Shock
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Author : Sara Paretsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-01
Toxic Shock written by Sara Paretsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.
Vic Warshawski agrees to investigate the paternity of Caroline Djiak, whose mother, Louisa, is dying. Following some leads, Vic visits Louisa's old workplace, the Xerxes Chemical Plant. What she finds is corruption and cruelty on a horrifying scale, where profit has more value than human life.