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From the excesses of Puritan patriarchs to the barbarism of slavery
and on into the prison-industrial complex, punishment in the US has
a long and gruesome history. In the post-Vietnam era, the prison
population has increased tenfold and the death penalty has enjoyed
a renaissance. Cruel and Unusual offers an exploration of the
history of punishment as mediated in American culture. Grounding
his analysis in Marxist theory, psychoanalysis and Foucault's
influential work on discipline, Brian Jarvis examines a range of
cultural texts, from seventeenth century execution sermons to
twenty-first century prison films, to uncover the politics,
economics and erotics of punishment. This wide-ranging and
interdisciplinary survey constructs a genealogy of cruelty through
close reading of novels by Hawthorne and Melville, fictional
accounts of the Rosenberg execution by Coover and Doctorow, slave
narratives and prison writings by African Americans and the
critically neglected genre of American prison films.
Time Travel Is Real? For Brian, the "Time Traveling Hippie Surfer",
Time Travel is pure fact! It turns out that the exact center of
"Time the Universe and All Things" is a Yellow Pole that sits about
a mile or so behind his house in the coastal pine forest of North
Carolina. Our narrator, "Brian" is living in the year 1974, until
he stumbles upon the Yellow Pole, the Dome of Time and the Keeper
of Time, "Carl the First". Carl takes him 65,000,000 years back in
time to watch the prehistoric dinosaurs. That Time Trip changed
Brian''s world forever; he begins his new life as a "Time
Traveler". Sandra is the only other time traveler in the universe.
She is the perfect "California Surfer Girl", a tall tan blonde who
can't resist "Zapping" around in time with the "Boys". This
fantastic odyssey is narrated by the Hippie Surfer Dude riding the
Cosmic Waves of Time.
This title offers a critical introduction to the contemporary
American novel focusing on contexts, key texts, and criticism.
Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American
novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through
university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a
global circulation. This book provides a critical introduction to
novels produced in the United States between 1980 and the present.
Compact yet wide-ranging, and written in vivid, accessible prose,
it registers the diversity of contemporary American writing and
carefully situates this work in historical contexts that include
Reaganomics, the Clinton years and the post-9/11 'War on Terror'.
Detailed attention is given throughout to how America's current
novelists have responded to shifting gender politics, changes in
the nation's racial configuration, the increasing dominance of a
commodity culture and to adjustments in the United States' place in
the world following the end of the Cold War and the increased pace
of globalisation. Complete with timelines of historical and
literary events, detailed lists of secondary sources both in print
and on the web, and suggestions for students' own research
projects, this is the ideal resource for anyone beginning study of
this vibrant literature. "Texts and Contexts" is a series of clear,
concise and accessible introductions to key literary fields and
concepts. The series provides the literary, critical, historical
context for texts and authors in a specific literary area in a way
that introduces a range of work in the field and enables further
independent study and reading.
This is a critical introduction to the contemporary American novel
focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Adventurous,
engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have
come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university
courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global
circulation. This book provides a critical introduction to novels
produced in the United States between 1980 and the present. Compact
yet wide-ranging, and written in vivid, accessible prose, it
registers the diversity of contemporary American writing and
carefully situates this work in historical contexts that include
Reaganomics, the Clinton years and the post-9/11 'War on Terror'.
Detailed attention is given throughout to how America's current
novelists have responded to shifting gender politics, changes in
the nation's racial configuration, the increasing dominance of a
commodity culture and to adjustments in the United States's place
in the world following the end of the Cold War and the increased
pace of globalisation. Complete with timelines of historical and
literary events, detailed lists of secondary sources both in print
and on the web, and suggestions for students' own research
projects, this is the ideal resource for anyone beginning study of
this vibrant literature. "Texts and Contexts" is a series of clear,
concise and accessible introductions to key literary fields and
concepts. The series provides the literary, critical, historical
context for texts and authors in a specific literary area in a way
that introduces a range of work in the field and enables further
independent study and reading.
Depicting more than 220 African species, the stunning large-scale
mural African Menagerie is artist Brian Jarvi s masterwork.
Lavishly reproduced in an oversize format with a gatefold, this
book brings this landscape masterpiece to the conservationist,
lover of Africa, and fan of wildlife art. In oversized colour
reproductions, the book African Menagerie offers readers a look at
the finer details of the realist renderings of the animals and
birds across the seven panels and thirty feet. There are also
reproductions of the animal studies Jarvi created in the seventeen
years leading up to the final work. Measuring 28 feet across and a
full one-story tall, and connected via seven interlocking panels,
Brian Jarvi s painting includes more than 200 different African
wildlife species, presented as if they are looking at us, the human
viewers, seemingly challenging us to save this planet. Many of the
species featured in Jarvi s painting are, according to experts,
expected to be extinct in the wild by the middle of this century
unless humankind takes bold action to ensure their continued
existence. In oversized colour reproductions, African Menagerie
brings the masterpiece home in an accessible manner. The studies
offer a glimpse into the work and mind of a creative genius. In
addition, the book tells the story of the work, and tracks the
evolution and unlikely journey of Jarvi from once being a Duck
Stamp artist to becoming one of the most notable wildlife painter
of this generation.
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