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The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction
This title was first published in 2003. This text explores the "dark, pessimistic truth that pervades the pages of modern texts", setting a theme of Dante's "Inferno" against the work of modern authors including Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Conrad, Wharton, Kafka, Camus, Waugh and Flannery O'Connor. The author's thesis is that these writers exhibit a hostility towards the reader, an anger that the reader should continue to be so deludedly happy when the writer has become so mortifyingly enlightened. At its most characteristic, Reilly demonstrates, modern fiction seems to achieve a savage satisfaction in inflicting this pain, to an extent that could be described as sadistic. Reilly traces what he calls this "punitive spirit" to a character in the "Inferno", Vanni Fucci, who suffering himself does his best to make Dante suffer too. Through the study he uses the "Inferno" as a guide to the prevailing attitudes in modern fiction, revealing a parallel between the prohibition of pity within the medieval poem and in the pages of modern texts.
Lord of the Flies
Patrick Reilly illuminates Lord of the Flies's place within the Swiftian tradition and looks beyond the novel as a tale of pure lament, finding it a work of joyful imagination that expresses hope.
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Literature of Guilt
An investigation of the roots of twentieth century pessimism as reflected in major European novels. Swift, Conrad, Thomas Mann, Orwell and Golding are linked through this analysis which is seen to stem from a violent reaction in literature against the axioms and assumptions of its predecessor.
Electrostimulation
Electrostimulation is defined as the action of electrical energy on nerve and muscle OCo the two classes of excitable tissue. This cutting-edge resource offers you broad coverage of the subject, expanding the scope of electrostimulation discussions to include accidental, aversive, and possibly harmful biological effects of electrical energy. The book enables you to develop standards for human exposure to electric currents having various waveforms, determine classes of nerve fibers brought to excitation within specified regions of the body due to certain types of exposure, and quantify how harmonic distortions influence the excitability of sinusoidal extrostimulation. This practical reference...
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Rala
Irish rugby as you've never seen it before—from the man who got the job every rugby lover wants to have Patrick 'Rala' O'Reilly has been Bag Man to the Irish Rugby team for nearly twenty years. Loved and respected by players and coaches past and present, here Rala tells of his life in rugby—the highs and lows, the players, the pranks, and the great memories of Irish rugby. In this own imitable style and humor, Rala describes his early days as Bag Man for Terenure College RFC, supplying fruit for the squad from his wife's parents' fruit and veg shop on Meath Street, the lasting friendships he's made throughout the years from Keith Wood to the "Claw" to Brian O'Driscoll and Jamie Heaslip a...
Bills of Mortality
«To study plagues is to understand narratives. With 'Bills of Mortality', Patrick Reilly illuminates literary encounters with pestilence over a period of three centuries. Brilliantly informative, this book illustrates how plague, metaphor for the incomprehensible, is ceaselessly renewed when we tell stories about why some die and others do not.» (Philip Alcabes, Professor of Public Health, Adelphi University; Author of 'Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu') «How can the aesthetic representation of the unspeakable be done? How will our own present day's plagues (physical, religious, political, etc.) be told in the future? Confronting this rea...
