The Invading Body
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Author |
: Einat Avrahami |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813926653 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813926650 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invading Body by : Einat Avrahami
Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. Yet autobiographical criticism--an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship--has lagged behind contemporary queries about the embodied self. In The Invading Body, Einat Avrahami corrects this deficiency by analyzing the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. These personal narratives challenge the world of self-writing in their power to question the assumption that autobiography--and the body--are products of cultural constructs and discursive practices. Their self-disclosures of symptoms, disabilities, and the physical and psychological pains of treatment, especially when combined with thoughts of further deterioration and imminent death, defy the theoretical formulations of identity and alter the definition of autobiography itself. Avrahami investigates an array of autobiographical testimonies of terminal illness ranging from Harold Brodkey's poignant account of his struggle with AIDS to Hannah Wilke's and Jo Spence's gripping self-portraits of cancer. By challenging the artificial and contrived skepticism that critics and theorists bring to their concepts of the self, the author argues, these illness narratives constitute an "invasion of the real," confronting the notions of self-representation and self-invention on which current autobiographical studies are based. The author's examinations of these moving memoirs and photographs will engage not only the growing field of disability studies, but also a more general readership interested in the transition that occurs when one's body suddenly falls out of step with one's mind.
Author |
: Jack Finney |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501117824 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501117823 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Invasion of the Body Snatchers by : Jack Finney
"The classic science fiction novel"--Cover.
Author |
: Don Siegel |
Publisher |
: Rutgers Films in Print |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813514614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813514611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Invasion of the Body Snatchers by : Don Siegel
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is a low-budget science fiction film that has become a classic. The suspense of the film lies in discovering, along with Miles, the central character (played by Kevin McCarthy), who is "real" and who is not, and whether Miles and Becky (played by Dana Wynter) will escape the pod takeover. As the center of the film moves outward from a small-town group of neighbors to the larger political scene and institutional network (of police, the FBI, hospital workers), the ultimate question is whether "they" have taken over altogether. Although Invasion can be interpreted in interesting ways along psychological and feminist lines, its importance as a text has centered primarily on political and sociological readings. In his introduction to this volume, Al LaValley explores the politics of the original author of the magazine serial story on which the film is based, Don Siegel; and of its screenwriter, Daniel Mainwaring. And he looks at the ways the studio (Allied Artists) tried to neutralize certain readings by tacking on an explanatory frame story. The commentary section includes readings by Stephen King, Peter Biskind, Nora Sayre, and Peter Bogdanovich. A section of postproduction documents reproduced here (many for the first time) includes many written by Wanger and Siegel. The volume also contains two previously unpublished framing scripts written for Orson Welles. For students and individual enthusiasts, the contextual materials are particularly interesting in showing how crucial the postproduction history of a film can be. A filmography and bibliography are also included in the volume. Al LaValley is the director of film studies at Dartmouth. He is the author of many articles on film and editor of Mildred Pierce in the Wisconsin screenplay series.
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: 0 |
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: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0815332181 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780815332183 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Molecular Biology of the Cell by :
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: Madeline Drexler |
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: OCLC:1125923228 |
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: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis What You Need to Know about Infectious Disease by : Madeline Drexler
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: 838 |
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: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015013032803 |
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: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Railroad Journal by :
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Total Pages |
: 1066 |
Release |
: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951000877437D |
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: 4/5 (7D Downloads) |
Synopsis Railway Mechanical Engineer by :
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Total Pages |
: 1504 |
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: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: PURD:32754080442738 |
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: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Railway Age by :
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Total Pages |
: 1274 |
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: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112107700673 |
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: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Street Railway Journal by :
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Total Pages |
: 720 |
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: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433007721339 |
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: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Electric Railway Journal by :