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Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a
variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American
identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative
stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject
matters invite close analysis, and the new essays in this
collection offer fascinating insights about Palahniuk's texts,
contexts, contributions, and controversies. Addressing novels from
Fight Club through Snuff, as well as his nonfiction, this volume
will be valuable to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary
literature.
Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a
variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American
identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative
stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject
matters invite close analysis, and the new essays in this
collection offer fascinating insights about Palahniuk's texts,
contexts, contributions, and controversies. Addressing novels from
Fight Club through Snuff, as well as his nonfiction, this volume
will be valuable to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary
literature.
Fully updated, this matter-of-fact handbook includes the most
recent discoveries about drug use, including new information on
electronic smoking devices, abuse of prescription stimulants and
the opioid crisis. "Lively, highly informative, unbiased, [and]
thorough" (Addiction Research & Theory), Buzzed surveys drugs
from caffeine to heroin to reveal how these drugs affect the body,
the different "highs" they produce and the circumstances in which
they can be deadly. Neither a "Just Say No" treatise nor a "How to"
manual, Buzzed is based on the conviction that people make better
decisions with accurate information at hand.
Covering a variety of genres and periods from medieval epic to
contemporary speculative fiction, Styling Texts explores the
fascinating ways in which dress performs in literature. Numerous
authors have made powerful-even radical-use of clothing and its
implications, and the essays collected here demonstrate how
scholarly attention to literary fashioning can contribute to a
deeper understanding of texts, their contexts, and their
innovations. These generative and engaging discussions focus on
issues such as fashion and anti-fashion; clothing reform;
transvestism; sartorial economics; style and the gaze;
transgressive modes; and class, gender, or race "passing." This is
the first academic volume to address such an extensive range of
texts, inviting consideration of how fashionable desires and
concerns not only articulate the aesthetics, subjectivities, and
controversies of a given culture, but also communicate across
temporal and spatial divisions. Styling Texts is an essential
resource for anyone interested in the artistic representations and
significations of dress.
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