Hope Isnt Stupid

Download or read book Hope Isn't Stupid written by Sean Austin Grattan and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate within utopian texts. Moving away from science fiction—the genre in which utopian visions are often located—author Sean Grattan resuscitates the importance of utopianism in recent American literary history. Doing so enables him to assert the pivotal role contemporary American literature has to play in allowing us to envision alternatives to global neoliberal capitalism. Novelists William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, John Darnielle, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and Colson Whitehead are deeply invested in the creation of utopian possibilities. A return to reading the utopian wager in literature from the postmodern to the contemporary period reinvigorates critical forms that imagine reading as an act of communication, friendship, solace, and succor. These forms also model richer modes of belonging than the diluted and impoverished ones on display in the neoliberal present. Simultaneously, by linking utopian studies and affect studies, Grattan’s work resists the tendency for affect studies to codify around the negative, instead reorienting the field around the messy, rich, vibrant, and ambivalent affective possibilities of the world. Hope Isn’t Stupid insists on the centrality of utopia not only in American literature, but in American life as well.

Download or read book Six Pack Ranch: Books 1-3 written by Vivian Arend and published by Arend Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three STAND ALONE contemporary western romance novels in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series Six Pack Ranch from Vivian Arend. Box Set Includes: Rocky Mountain Heat The sweet girl next door moves into the house to help the family out, Blake Coleman knows she’s too young for him. Jaxi has other ideas about the man she’s loved forever. Rocky Mountain Haven Beth has enough on her hands as a new widow with three young boys, but Daniel Coleman is far too much of a temptation to turn away. Rocky Mountain Desire The last person Matt Coleman wanted to be attracted to is the younger sister of his cheating ex-girlfriend. But fate seems determined to throw him and Hope together.

Download or read book Unbroken Bonds: Boulder Series (Book 3) written by Eve L. Mitchell and published by Eve L. Mitchell . This book was released on with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opposites attract…and we’re complete opposites in every way. Hope Walker is quiet, studious and someone I have overlooked for far too long. But when I crash her study session in the library it’s clear she knows exactly who I am. It would seem that my playboy reputation precedes me, and for once, I wish it wouldn’t. Because the more I get to know the girl hiding behind the books, the more I want her. After she helps my friends and I out, I wonder how I could have been so blind to what’s been right in front of me all along. My friends are my family, like brothers, but our bond is stronger than blood—and that bond is currently being tested. When a dangerous enemy threatens to take her away from me, I will do anything to keep her safe. Even get my hands dirty…and lie to my brothers. When the truth catches up with me, will it break our bond for good? Unbroken Bonds is book 3 in the Boulder Series. This book must be read after both book one and two, it is a continuation of the story and is not a standalone book.

Download or read book Utopian Drama written by Siân Adiseshiah and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre offers an illuminating appraisal of the objectives of utopianism as manifested in drama through the ages, and carefully ascertains the added value that live performance brings to the persuasion of utopian thought. Siân Adiseshiah scrutinises the distinctive intervention of utopian drama through its examination alongside the utopian prose tradition – in this way, the book establishes new ways of approaching utopian aesthetics and new ways of interpreting utopian drama. This book provides fresh understandings of the generic features of utopian plays, identifies the gains of establishing a new genre, and ascertains ways in which this genre functions as political theatre. Referring to over 40 plays, of which 18 are examined in detail, Utopian Drama traces the emergence of the utopian play in the Western tradition from ancient Greek Comedy to experimental contemporary work. Works discussed in detail include plays by Aristophanes, Margaret Cavendish, George Bernard Shaw, Howard Brenton, Claire MacDonald, Cesi Davidson, and Mojisola Adebayo. As well as offering extended attention to the work of these playwrights, the book reflects on the development of utopian drama through history, notes the persistent features, tropes, and conventions of utopian plays, and considers the implications of their registration for both theatre studies and utopian studies.

Download or read book Everything Is BLEEPED: a Book about Hope written by Mark Manson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......

Download or read book The Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries 3-Book Bundle Volume 1 written by Gail Bowen and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning mystery writer Gail Bowen’s first three masterful mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Joanne Kilbourn are now collected in a single volume. In Deadly Appearances, a successful politician sips his water before a speech at a picnic on a sweltering August afternoon and, within seconds, he is dead; in Murder at the Mendel, Joanne’s childhood friend may have a far more complicated, far more sordid, and far more deadly past than Joanne knows about; and in The Wandering Soul Murders, a centre for street kids holds a dark and disturbing secret, forcing Joanne to act when her own children are drawn into a web of intrigue that will leave you breathless.

Download or read book Murder at the Mendel written by Gail Bowen and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally’s father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of Sally’s work, Joanne is eager to attend and to renew their friendship. But it’s not so easy being Sally’s friend anymore, and soon Joanne finds herself ensnared in a web of intrigue and violence. When the director of a local private gallery is brutally murdered, Joanne finds that the past she and Sally share was far more complicated, and far more sordid, than she had realized.