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Author : Daniel Cojocaru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443883522
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Download or read book Violence and Dystopia written by Daniel Cojocaru and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973), Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) and Rant (2007), and Brad Anderson’s film The Machinist (2004). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-sacrificial crisis as defined by Girard for archaic religion. The third chapter focuses on the psychogeographical writings of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd. Walking the streets of London the pedestrian represents the excluded underside of the world of Ballardian speed. The walking subject is portrayed in terms of the expelled victim of Girardian theory. The fourth chapter considers violent crowds as portrayed by Ballard’s late fiction, the writings of Stewart Home, and David Peace’s GB84 (2004). In accordance with Girard’s hypothesis, the discussed narratives reveal the failure of scapegoat expulsion to restore peace to the potentially self-destructive violent crowds. The fifth chapter examines the post-apocalyptic environments resulting from failed scapegoat expulsion and mimetic conflict out of control, as portrayed in Sinclair’s Radon Daughters (1994), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003), and Will Self’s The Book of Dave (2006).

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Total Pages : 1064 pages
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Download or read book The Building News and Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466851694
Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book Jack London written by Alex Kershaw and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lifelong interest in socialism. Brilliant and self-taught, he haunted California's waterside bars, brawling with drunken sailors and learning about love from prostitutes. His lust for adventure took him from the beaches of Hawaii to the gold fields of Alaska, where he experienced firsthand the struggles for survival he would later immortalize in classics like White Fang and The Call of the Wild. A hard-drinking womanizer with children to support, Jack London was no stranger to passion when he met and married Charmian Kittredge, the love of his life. Despite his adventurous past, London had never before met a woman like Charmian; she adored fornication and boxing, and willingly risked life and limb to sail and explore. She typed his manuscripts while he churned out novels, serving as his inspiration and his critic. Lover, fighter, and onetime hobo, Jack London lived large and died before he was forty. This is a rare biography, from bestselling historian Alex Kershaw, that proves the truth can be more fascinating--and a far greater adventure--than a fiction.

Author : Jonathan Schneer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300089035
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London 1900 written by Jonathan Schneer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900, London was the capital of an empire that spanned the globe. This text examines the powerful city and its relationship with the British Empire at the turn of the century.

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Total Pages : 1052 pages
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Download or read book Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351124862
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating and Defining Borders written by Anthony Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies. Take, for example, the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit referendum, and subsequent debate, where the rhetoric and symbolism of border controls proved fundamental to the outcomes. However, borders are also becoming ever more multifaceted and complex, representing intersections of political, economical, social, and cultural interests. For some, borders are tangible, situated in time and place; for others, the nature of borders can be abstracted and discussed in general terms. By discussing borders philosophically and theoretically, this edited collection tackles head on the most defi ning and challenging questions within the fi eld of border studies regarding the defi nition of its very object of study. Part 1 of the book consists of theoretical contributions from border scholars, Part 2 takes a philosophical approach, and Part 3 brings together chapters where philosophy and border studies are directly related. Borders intersect with the key issues of our time, from migration, climate change vulnerability, terror, globalization, inequality, and nationalism, to intertwining questions of culture, identity, ideology, and religion. This book will be of interest to those studying in these fields, and most especially to researchers of border studies and philosophy.

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Total Pages : 776 pages
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Download or read book John O'London's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 868 pages
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Download or read book The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saraswati Experts
Publisher : New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9350412748
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Me n Mine-Social Science-Term-1 written by Saraswati Experts and published by New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text book on social

Author : Henry Mayhew
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Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book London Labour and the London Poor written by Henry Mayhew and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A seminal study of London street life in the middle of the [19th] century ... [with] details of Victorian lower-class life, such as what kinds of foods were sold on the streets, how financial transactions with street-sellers were conducted, and how vendors 'cried' their wares ... The study had its origin in a series of eighty-two articles, published from October 1849 through December 1850, entitled 'Labour and the poor', in the Morning Chronicle ..."--Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.