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First published in 1979, Official Discourse is an unofficial report
of theoretical investigations into a specific state of practice-
the publication of reports of official inquiries into law, order
and justice issues. The commissions, tribunals and committees of
inquiry scrutinized in this book examine problems arising from
wrongful imprisonment, police corruption, industrial picketing, and
communal rioting and internment in Northern Ireland. Focusing on
the reasons why government reports take the form they do, the
authors venture into the areas of linguistics, psychoanalysis and
Marxism. The book is an exercise in discourse analysis, an exercise
in theoretical work that looks at the relationships between theory
and literary production, and a critique of official conceptions of
law, order and justice.
First published in 1979, "Official Discourse "is an unofficial
report of theoretical investigations into a specific state of
practice- the publication of reports of official inquiries into
law, order and justice issues. The commissions, tribunals and
committees of inquiry scrutinized in this book examine problems
arising from wrongful imprisonment, police corruption, industrial
picketing, and communal rioting and internment in Northern
Ireland.
Focusing on the reasons why government reports take the form
they do, the authors venture into the areas of linguistics,
psychoanalysis and Marxism. The book is an exercise in discourse
analysis, an exercise in theoretical work that looks at the
relationships between theory and literary production, and a
critique of official conceptions of law, order and justice.
Sometimes stories that I've used to mythologize my childhood
resurface in my mind as actual memories - Perhaps if you tell a
story enough times, it will become the truth. 'This admission by
Mark Greensleeves, the compulsive liar in the story, "Some Facts
About Me", sums up Frank Burton's sharp, surreal and subversive
short story collection, "A History of Sarcasm". The seventeen
stories in this collection blur the boundaries between fact and
fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed
versions of reality. Among them are a man who insists on living
every aspect of his life in alphabetical order, a girl who believes
she is receiving secret messages through the TV, a paranoiac who is
pursued by an army of giant lobsters, and an academic who turns
into a cat. Funny, dark and relentlessly off the wall, this
collection brings together the best of Frank Burton's published
work with some brand new stories.
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marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
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