Understanding Hubert Selby Jr
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Understanding Hubert Selby Jr
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Author : James Richard Giles
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1998
Understanding Hubert Selby Jr written by James Richard Giles and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the publication in 1964 of his novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, which arguably achieved the status of a cult classic, Hubert Selby, Jr., has held a place as one of the foremost exponents of American underground literature. His work has yet to receive extensive critical attention, in part because of its deliberately shocking subject matter and its resistance to precise classification. In Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr., James R. Giles examines the writer's four novels and one collection of short stories to make the case that the full complexity of his fiction has not previously been understood. Giles contends that Selby's writings, which are usually labelled as either naturalistic or surrealistic, represent an innovative merger of both narrative modes.
The Room
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Author : Hubert Selby
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2011-12-13
The Room written by Hubert Selby 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 2011-12-13 with Fiction categories.
“A terrifying journey into the darkest corners of the psyche” by the author of Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn (The Guardian). A small-time criminal sits alone in his cell, his mind reeling with sadistic thoughts of retribution against the police and, eventually, all those he believes have failed him throughout his life. A deeply disturbing exploration of a character the Guardian described as “a genuinely frightening American Psycho,” Hubert Selby Jr.’s second novel is made all the more chilling by the narrator’s brief flashes of humanity. The Room is a tale so terrifying the author himself couldn’t read it for decades after writing it. Called “brutal” by the New York Times when it was first published, it is a dark masterpiece about a man who may be temporarily trapped in jail, but whose true prison is his own anger, as he is enslaved by out-of-control passions and sickening fantasies of revenge. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate.
The Demon
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Author : Hubert Selby
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Release Date : 2011-08-01
The Demon written by Hubert Selby and has been published by Penguin Modern Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Men categories.
Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. But with every achievement the desire to destroy what is his grows stronger. A demon within drives him to sexual excess, petty crime and eventually murder. The Demon explores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping twentieth-century tragedy. 'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists.' The New York Times 'A major author of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph Heller.' Los Angeles Times
Song Of The Silent Snow
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Author : Hubert Selby
language : en
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Release Date : 1986
Song Of The Silent Snow written by Hubert Selby and has been published by Marion Boyars Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Short stories categories.
Brutal, poetic and disturbing, fifteen little stabs at unhappiness American-style.
Literary Brooklyn
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Author : Evan Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2011-08-16
Literary Brooklyn written by Evan Hughes and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
For the first time, here is Brooklyn's story through the eyes of its greatest storytellers—Walt Whitman, Henry Miller, Truman Capote, Paula Fox, and others. Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village, Brooklyn today is experiencing an extraordinary cultural boom. In recent years, writers of all stripes—from Jhumpa Lahiri, Jennifer Egan, and Colson Whitehead to Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer—have flocked to its patchwork of distinctive neighborhoods. But as literary critic and journalist Evan Hughes reveals, the rich literary life now flourishing in Brooklyn is part of a larger, fascinating history. With a dynamic mix of literary biography and urban history, Hughes takes us on a tour of Brooklyn past and present and reveals that hiding in Walt Whitman's Fort Greene Park, Hart Crane's Brooklyn Bridge, the raw Williamsburg of Henry Miller's youth, Truman Capote's famed house on Willow Street, and the contested streets of Jonathan Lethem's Boerum Hill is the story of more than a century of life in America's cities. Literary Brooklyn is a prismatic investigation into a rich literary inheritance, but most of all it's a deep look into the beloved borough, a place as diverse and captivating as the people who walk its streets and write its stories. “In a way, the literary history of Brooklyn is like a literary history of America itself—not because America is like Brooklyn, which it isn't, but because it is a story of a certain set of writers describing what they knew as America came into being, as the country invented a literature of its own.” ―Los Angeles Times “An engrossing cultural memoir.” ―New York Daily News
Handbook On Sexual Violence
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Author : Jennifer Brown
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-10-19
Handbook On Sexual Violence written by Jennifer Brown and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-19 with Art categories.
This book situates the complexity of violence within its broader context and covers a wide span of sexual violence including sexual harassment, bullying and murder as well as domestic violence.
Geniuses Addicts And Scribbling Women
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Author : Cynthia Cravens
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2023-01-15
Geniuses Addicts And Scribbling Women written by Cynthia Cravens and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through a critical discussion of an array of written and visual texts that feature a writer as a main character, Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture argues for a more nuanced conception of the role of writers in society, their relationships with their reading publics, the portrayals and realities of their labor, and the construction of a “writing” identity. Expounding upon the critical genre of authorship studies, the contributors take on complex issues such as economics, professionalization, gender politics, and writing pedagogy to shape the dialogue around the nature of representation and the practice of narrative. Ultimately, contributors consider the ways in which debates over art, craft, authorial celebrity, and the literary marketplace define the parameters of culture in a given period and influence the work of culture producers. The implications of such an analysis reveal much about the status and value of creative writers and their work. This collection covers a wide range of historical periods offering a complex understanding of representations of writers from the medieval period to the Netflix era. Such an evolution challenges the perception of the writer as a monolithic presence in society and highlights its multiplicity, diversity, and its transformations through cultural and political movements.
Encyclopedia Of American Literature
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Author : Manly, Inc.
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2013-06
Encyclopedia Of American Literature written by Manly, Inc. and has been published by Infobase Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06 with Literary Collections categories.
Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.
The Man With The Golden Arm
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Author : Nelson Algren
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
The Man With The Golden Arm written by Nelson Algren and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Fiction categories.
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.
Beat Culture
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Author : William T. Lawlor
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2005-05-20
Beat Culture written by William T. Lawlor and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-20 with Social Science categories.
The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of the Age of Spontaneity. Beat Culture captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and Michael McClure, to cover a wide range of musicians, painters, dramatists, filmmakers, and dancers who found expression in the Bohemian movement known as the Beat Generation. Top scholars from the United States, England, Holland, Italy, and China analyze a vast array of topics including sexism, misogny, alcoholism, and drug abuse within Beat circles; the arrest of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti on obscenity charges; Beat dress and speech; and the Beat "pad." Through more than 250 entries, which travel from New York to New Orleans, from San Francisco to Mexico City, students, scholars, and those interested in popular culture will taste the era's rampant freedom and experimentation, explore the impact of jazz on Beat writings, and discover how Beat behavior signaled events such as the sexual revolution, the peace movement, and environmental awareness.