Gothic Literature Horner, Avril
Gothic Studies,
11/2008, Letnik:
10, Številka:
2
Book Review
Recenzirano
...inclusions enrich Gothic Literature and give it a distinctive flavour. ...the author takes great care not only to relate all these Gothic texts to historical and cultural contexts but also to ...remind the reader that they derive from particular literary conventions and traditions. While many readers of the Gothic will be familiar with most of the films mentioned here (for example, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Golem and Tod Browning's Dracula), they are perhaps less likely to have considered how Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist indicate anxiety about the war with Vietnam and the nature of America's power base. A close reading of The Silence of the Lambs follows on neatly from the chapter's last section entitled 'Contemporary Fiction: Postmodern Gothic?' A number of writers (Stephen King, Clive Barker, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter and Toni Morrison) are touched on here in relation to the claim that 'postmodernism seems to be peculiarly suited to the Gothic because it questions the notion that one inhabits a coherent or otherwise abstractly rational world' (p. 141).
Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the Poynter Institute and the author of seventeen books on writing and journalism, examines the work of more than twenty-five writers, including Ernest Hemingway, ...Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, William Shakespeare, and Donna Tartt, to reveal the strategies and techniques deployed in examples of great literature. Creative Nonfiction: Resolutions While some people vow not to make any resolutions for the New Year, others are busy drawing up fresh goals-often involving self-improvement measures such as diet and exercise regimens; reading more; picking up a new language or hobby; or improving a financial situation.
Writing without Formulas Stein, Mary M
Teaching English in the Two Year College,
03/2011, Letnik:
38, Številka:
3
Book Review
Recenzirano
The book has three sections with chapters including short stories, personal essays, op-ed pieces, news stories, political satire, and observations of the human condition from professional writers ...such as Anna Quindlen, Shirley Jackson, P. J. O'Rourke, Gloria Naylor, and Joyce Carol Oates, and pieces by those who write as part of their professions, including Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Thelin also uses student writings to show that writing well is a skill that can be acquired through learning and practice. Each chapter has discussion topics after selected readings, to get students thinking and talking, and collaboration topics that provide opportunities for classes to break into smaller discussion groups or write collective pieces. ... Thelin empowers students by teaching them critical analysis, solid research skills, audience awareness, and writing techniques they can use to make intelligent and informed use of rhetoric when communicating.
During the years 1960 to 1966, contrary to theories of exhaustion, entropy, parody, and nihilism, a new democratic protagonist emerges in the American novel. Twelve novels with female protagonists, ...Joan Didion's Run River, H. D.'s Bid Me to Live, Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Larry McMurtry's Leaving Cheyenne, Anais Nin's Seduction of the Minotaur, Joyce Carol Oates' With Shuddering Fall, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, James Purdy's The Nephew, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey and Wallace Stegner's A Shooting Star contain an excitement, full of fear and curiosity that resembles that of the American frontier tradition. The protagonists heroically push themselves into challenges and untried paths of action, with varying outcomes. Through a growing understanding of the past, the protagonists yearn to create a future, which may or may not include the traditional family structure, but which always includes a quest for identity distinct from convention. They desire power over their own life only, avoiding the sensationalism of victimizing others or of violence. Consciously, they learn to make decisions in areas previously barred to them. Just as earlier Americans, these protagonists make incorrect decisions but rarely do they fail, for with incorrect choice they learn of a wider world and of their own ability to survive. Implicit in the active life of these protagonists is the belief in the individual; the characters are fully drawn, with no reliance on female stereotypes. The novels generally use a quest motif as an apt means of capturing the characters' journey to find themselves. Reflecting the women's search for their future, the novels are experimental, in style, plot, and theme, as well as in the characterization of these democratic protagonists.
Graphic novels Cornog, Martha; Raiteri, Steve
Library Journal,
09/2016, Letnik:
141, Številka:
15
Book Review
Many books are reviewed, including: 1. Hole in the Heart: Bringing Up Beth, by Henny Beaumont. 2. Shirley Jackson's The Lottery: A Graphic Adaptation, by Shirley Jackson. 3. Cosplayers, by Dash Shaw.
