David Madden

Author : Peter Marcuse
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1804294942
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Housing written by Peter Marcuse and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 157233701X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abducted by Circumstance written by David Madden and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Abducted by Circumstance, David Madden offers his readers a unique experience simultaneously terrifying and exhilarating. Carol Seaborg makes a risky visit in zero weather to a lighthouse near her house in The Thousand Islands of New York on the Canadian border. A self-confident, attractive woman of about 55 suddenly appears on the observation deck looking out over frozen Lake Ontario. Carol admires the woman as her ideal. Suddenly, the woman disappears, apparently abducted by a serial rapist and killer, stimulating in Carol an immediate empathy that, enhanced by the power of her imagination, is so great as to make her unique. Carol projects her own emotions, imagination, and intellect into Glenda's experience. To render that empathy and imagination, Madden channels everything that the people around her say and do through Carol's perceptions so intimately that he shifts frequently and without transition into her thoughts, which focus mostly on the abducted woman, whose name newscasters reveal is Glenda Hamilton. As Carol imagines Glenda gradually coping with her abductor, she speaks directly, sometimes out loud, to her, encouraging her, advising her, expressing fear for her. If Carol's external experiences are passive almost to paralysis, her memories reveal that her life has been full of more venturesome relationships and events (she once rode across Greece alone on a bicycle) than most wives and mothers in their late thirties have. Carol's emotions and imagination are highly charged and exquisitely presented. The circumstances and relationships of her past and present predispose Carol to empathize with Glenda. Carol's own life among a crude, remote second husband, a somewhat estranged adolescent son, a bright five-year-old daughter, a father who is a rather cold philosophy teacher, and the strong spiritual presence of her mother who committed suicide, is simple and routine. The events involving Glenda's disappearance take place during the week before Carol's second surgery for breast cancer. Gradually, as she takes late night drives with her little girl, visits her ex-boyfriend's father in a nursing home, drives by her ex-lover's house and business, and visits the campus where her father is a prominent teacher, the reader realizes, some pages before Carol herself does, that she has been abducted by the circumstances of her life. Although it is grounded in the realistic detail of everyday life, Abducted by Circumstance is unique in conception, style, and characterization. Madden immerses the reader in an extraordinarily rich and unforgettable psychological experience. Thoroughly absorbing from start to finish--Abducted by Circumstance explores Carol's troubled psyche with the rare precision and insight that have long distinguished David Madden's fiction.

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621900525
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Bizarre Tale written by David Madden and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-08-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though he has authored more than eleven novels including, Cassandra Singing, The Suicide’s Wife, Abducted by Circumstance, and the recent London Bridge in Plague and Fire, David Madden has been publishing short stories for all six decades of his active career. The Last Bizarre Tale consists of works that appeared in journals but that have not appeared together as a collection. Madden used two stories, “The Singer” and “Second Look Presents: the Rape of an Indian Brave,” as chapters in his 1980 novel On the Big Wind. “The Headless Girl’s Mother” was first published as a chapter in a serialized novel entitled Hair of the Dog. Two other stories developed out of longer versions of Madden’s novels. “A Demon in My View” is part of a sequel, not yet published, to Bijou. All of the stories in David Madden’s third collection are distinguished by variety of content and by shifting styles and often innovative techniques. They are to varying degrees and in various ways bizarre in their characters and their relationships, in the kinds of internal and external conflicts, and in locales and themes. The title story, The Last Bizarre Tale, involving a corpse that has hung on a hook in a funeral home garage for decades, is evocative of Poe and, in its dark, grotesque humor, Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers. “Process is as important as product to David Madden,” writes editor James Perkins, “and one can learn as much about the process of writing as about the human condition by a careful reading of these stories.”

Author : Dave Madden
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781419681950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reuben on Wry written by Dave Madden and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of comedian and actor Dave Madden, best known as Reuben Kincaid.

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Touchstone Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Battlefield written by David Madden and published by Touchstone Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating contribution to Civil War history, this book goes to the camps--where, perhaps ingloriously, soldiers spent most of their time--to reveal what they ate, what they wore, and what they did to combat boredom. 75 photos throughout.

Author : Line Grenier
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839436834
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Senior Moment written by Line Grenier and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and for a future, as we move through life. This book focuses on the cultural mediations of ageing and memory, teasing out their complex and largely unpredictable relationships and interconnections. Its overall purpose is to explore different practices, commodities, daily routines, sounds, images and technologies that configure memory and ageing and shape our experiences of living in time and with time. By covering a variety of phenomena, from biopics, music by elderly, and artefacts among other, this edited collection considers the cultural stuff that ageing and memory are made of and interconnected in singular ways, for and by particular people, in specific socio-historical locations.

Author : Randy Hendricks
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334601
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Madden written by Randy Hendricks and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades, Knoxville, Tennessee, native David Madden has been writing compelling bestsellers, such as Bijou and The Suicide's Wife, as well as highly respected literary novels, such as Sharpshooter. David Madden: A Writer for All Genres is the first full-length critical work devoted to the whole of Madden's oeuvre, and collectively the essays make the case that the attention paid to Madden's novels has overshadowed his innovative work as a critic, poet, short-story writer, and dramatist. Madden is indeed a writer for all genres--poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. David Madden: A Writer for all Genres will introduce a new generation of readers to an important and multitalented writer and begin a well-deserved, serious discussion of his place in the American literary tradition.

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Dreams, American Nightmares written by David Madden and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of the American Dream, supposedly shaped by the edenic promises of the American land, has engaged our writers from the beginning, and much of our literature has come out of the national literary experience thus expressed. This collection of nineteen original, unpublished essays written for this book is particularly relevant today, when our col­lective field of vision seems obscured, and when the American Dream seems to have become a cliché, symbolic of the Dream defunct. The nineteen critics here presented include, among others, Leslie Fiedler, Oscar Cargill, Maxwell Geismar, Jules Chametzky, Louis Filler, and Ihab Hassan. Most of them seem to agree with the view expressed by the majority of our best creative writers: that in pursuing the American Dream, America has created a nightmare. Taken together, the nineteen essays provide a comprehensive view of American literature, past and present, as it has dealt with the Dream; but the emphasis is on modern works and present social, cultural, and political problems--poverty, war, and racism. Ten of the essays focus on such key works as Herman Melville's "The Two Temples," F. Scott Fitz­gerald's The Great Gatsby, William Faulkner's "The Bear," Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and Norman Mailer's Why Are We in Vietnam?

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781413015584
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pocketful of Poems written by David Madden and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of David Madden's Pocketful series (including titles in fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay), this slim volume includes over 100 of the most familiar and most taught poems, arranged alphabetically. Priced to be affordably packaged with two or even three other volumes, each book in the Pocketful series can also be used separately.This text will range from classic, traditional poems mixed with contemporary poets.. This text is intended to be an inexpensive alternative to the more expensive anthologies.

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Pocketful
ISBN 13 : 9781413015638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cengage Advantage Books: a Pocketful of Essays written by David Madden and published by Pocketful. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including titles in fiction, poetry, drama, and essays, David Madden's Pocketfuls series are slim volumes including only the essentials of the most familiar and most often taught works in each genre. Priced to be affordably packaged with two or even three other volumes, each book in the Pocketful series can also be used separately. This volume of essays is arranged.