Tag: Fiction

Free Download Christina Bieber Lake, "Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism"
English | ISBN: 0268106258 | 2019 | 212 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism argues that theology is crucial to understanding the power of contemporary American stories. By drawing on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin, Christian personalism, and contemporary phenomenology, Lake argues that literary fiction activates an irreducibly personal intersubjectivity between author, reader, and characters. Stories depend on a dignity-granting valuation of the particular lives of ordinary people, which is best described as an act of love that mirrors the love of the divine. Through original readings of the fiction of Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Toni Morrison, and others, Lake enters into a dialogue with postsecular theory and cognitive literary studies to reveal the limits of sociobiology’s approach to culture. The result is a book that will remind readers how storytelling continually reaffirms the transcendent value of human beings in an inherently personal cosmos.

Free Download Timothy Cleveland, "Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable"
English | ISBN: 1793614849 | 2022 | 140 pages | EPUB, PDF | 412 KB + 2 MB
It is commonplace to regard many great works of literature-poems, dramas, works of fiction-as in some sense philosophical. Yet ever since Plato, there has been a tension between the kind of abstract theorizing that goes on in philosophy and the focus on concrete particulars that occurs in poetry and fiction. Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable elaborates on and addresses this Platonic tension, asking in what sense, if any, literature in the form of poetry, drama, short stories, and novels can contribute significantly to our philosophical understanding. Timothy Cleveland suggests there is something in certain poems, novels, and stories that makes them especially suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works show us something that a theoretical-scientific or philosophical-discourse cannot literally say.

Free Download Stephen Watt, "Bernard Shaw’s Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319715127, 3030100677 | PDF | pages: 245 | 2.1 mb
This book traces the effects of materiality – including money and its opposite, poverty – on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters. While this study focuses on the protagonists of the five novels Shaw wrote in the late 1870s and early 1880s, it also explores how materialism, feeling, and emotion are linked throughout his entire canon. At the same time, it demonstrates how Shaw’s conceptions of human subjectivity parallel those of two of his contemporaries, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel. In particular, this book explores how theories of so-called ‘marginal economics’ influence fin de siècle thought about human psychology and the sociology of the modern metropolis, particularly London.

Free Download Fact or Fiction 2: 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained (Audiobook)
English | July 28, 2020 | ASIN: B084GX8QN8 | M4B@125 kbps | 6h 34m | 358.89 MB
Author: Scientific American
Narrator: Suzie Althens
The editors of Scientific American’s best-selling Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths return with Fact or Fiction 2: 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained.

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Free Download Mark Andryczyk, "Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965"
English | ISBN: 1802061649 | 2022 | 368 pages | EPUB | 1525 KB
Under USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. There are fifteen authors included in this book, both established and emerging, and in this anthology we see them grappling with history and the future, with big questions and small moments. From essays about Chernobyl to poetry about Robbie Williams, from fiction discussing Jimmy Hendrix live in Lviv to underground Ukrainian poetry of the Soviet era, WRITING FROM UKRAINE offers a unique window into a rich culture, a chance to experience a particularly Ukrainian sensibility and to celebrate Ukraine’s nationhood, as told by its writers.

Free Download Robert T. Tally Jr., "The Fiction of Dread: Dystopia, Monstrosity, and Apocalypse"
English | ISBN: 1501375857 | 2024 | 184 pages | EPUB, PDF | 318 KB + 2 MB
A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread.

Free Download Tarja Laine, "Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film"
English | ISBN: 1793651949 | 2023 | 228 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
In Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film, Tarja Laine provides insights into how cinema engages its spectator emotionally with the pathology of memory that lies at the heart of trauma. By arguing that cinema communicates the inability to process a traumatic event by means of its aesthetic specificity, Laine demonstrates that traumatic cinema can be an important source of ethical knowledge, both within and beyond the cinematic world. The films discussed in this book do not necessarily narrate trauma but embody that aspect of trauma which resists narrativization. This is why there are modes of affective engagement beyond storytelling by which spectators can meaningfully relate to trauma. Scholars of film studies, media studies, and philosophy will find this book of particular interest.

Free Download Nike Sulway Dallas John Baker, Donna Lee Brien, "Recovering History through Fact and Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1527503259 | 2017 | 200 pages | PDF | 1334 KB
This edited collection brings together research that focuses on historic figures who have been largely neglected by history or forgotten over time. The question of how to recover, reclaim or retell the histories and stories of those obscured by the passage of time is one of growing public and scholarly interest. The volume includes chapters on a diverse array of topics, including semi-biographical fiction, digital and visual biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs, among others. Apart from the largely forgotten, the book provides fresh perspectives on historical figures whose biographies are distorted by their fame or limited by public perception. The subjects explored here include, among others, a child author, a Finnish grandmother, a cold war émigré, an Elizabethan era playwright, a castaway, a celebrated female artist, and the lauded personalities Mary Shelley, Judy Garland and J.R.R. Tolkien. Altogether, the chapters included in this collection offer a much-needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations and hybrids which will be of interest to academics and students of biography and life writing in general.

Free Download Glenda R. Carpio, "Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy "
English | ISBN: 0231207573 | 2023 | 304 pages | PDF | 3 MB
By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to expect stories of identity formation, of how immigrants create ethnic communities and maintain ties to countries of origin. Yet such narratives can center exceptional stories of individual success or obscure the political forces that uproot millions of people the world over.