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Speaking the Unspeakable
This book studies the literary and cinematic functions of the pornographic as a development from a poetics of obscenity. It focuses on the developments of French, British, and American artistic pornography since the eighteenth century. Discussing female literary figures including Hall, Wharton, Nin, Reage, Jong, and Shulman; such men as Cleland, Sade, Beardsley, Lawrence, Joyce, and Miller; and film makers such as Brakhage, Jack Smith, Bruce Conner, Bertolucci, Oshima, and Wertmuller; Michelson analyzes both the use of aesthetic pornography and the philosophical, cultural, and legal implications of its use. He proposes that realizing the obscene in the sense of speaking the unspeakable is the principle aesthetic function of pornography.
Gravity's Shadow
According to the theory of relativity, we are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation. When stars explode or collide, a portion of their mass becomes energy that disturbs the very fabric of the space-time continuum like ripples in a pond. But proving the existence of these waves has been difficult; the cosmic shudders are so weak that only the most sensitive instruments can be expected to observe them directly. Fifteen times during the last thirty years scientists have claimed to have detected gravitational waves, but so far none of those claims have survived the scrutiny of the scientific community. Gravity's Shadow chronicles the forty-year effort to detect gravitational waves, while ...
The Extant Poetry and Prose of Max Michelson, Imagist (1880-1953)
Max Michelson was closely associated with Harriet Monroe and Poetry magazine from 1915 to 1921, until he was interned in a state mental hospital until his death. His work, both verse and prose, mediated between the populist orientation of Sandburg and Masters and the intellectualized European inclination of Pound and Eliot. This study includes a biographical essay which evolves into a historical and critical consideration of him and his work. The body of Michelson's extant verse consists of the 57 published poems. This volume also includes prose, reviews, an essay, and letters from Michelson to Harriet Monroe.
Privileged Moments
One of the most critically acclaimed biographers working today, Jeffrey Meyers offers in Privileged Moments a window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. Describing these portraits -- of Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Ed Dorn, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Naipaul, Francis King, and J. F. Powers -- Meyers writes, "I wanted to learn everything about their lives, what they looked like, how they lived, what they said. I was most curious about the creative process, the relation between authors' lives and their art, the public image and the real self".Meyers himself becomes the ninth writer encountered in Privileged Moments, displaying the master biographer's sharp eye for telling details. In lively and compelling style, he offers us insights into the writers' lives: their reactions to criticism; how they advanced their careers and achieved fame; how feuds and quarrels started and ended; their struggles with money, illness, marriages, and love affairs. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Lunatic Magnet
When Andy Quinn was a child, his mother told him he used to talk to the angels. Now theyre doing more than talking. Theyre sending him horrific visions of people who desperately need his help. Andy is struggling to put his life back together after losing the man he loved and nearly dying himself from a brutal assault by a serial killer. Hes returned to UMass Boston to continue working toward a teaching degree. However, the nightmares have begun again, and his sleep has once more become a terrifying place in which he experiences someone elses violent murder. Worse yet, somebody is stalking Andy, disrupting and even sabotaging his life. Can he live up to the grim burden entrusted to him by the angels? But how can he save others when he may not be able to save himself?
The Magic Kingdom
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva
Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence of this new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement through important milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine to the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez.
Why We Suffer
Why We Suffer is the amazing story of what mainstream psychology has failed to teach the world. The author, Peter Michaelson, is a former journalist and science writer who has been in private practice as a psychotherapist for more than 25 years. This book reveals how we hide from our awareness--through resistance, denial, and psychological defenses--the existence of a hidden flaw in our psyche. This unconscious, mental-emotional processing dysfunction is a grave danger to each of us personally and to all of us collectively. Through our defense system, we cover up awareness of this inner dysfunction.This flaw in human nature produces irrationality, self-defeat, and negative emotions. It gets ...
Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits
Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits: The Changing Images of the Businessman through Literature originally began as a conversation about a hybrid course at Quinnipiac University. Its purpose was to take an online English course for non-traditional business majors and create a theme that would be relevant to the business world. Being given the task to create this course from the ground up was exciting and intriguing. There turned out to be a lot more material that could be used for this theme than previously thought. To gauge the temperature of the topic, a panel was set up with the theme of businessmen (or women) and their changing image through literature. At the 2009 NeMLA (Northeast Moder...
Talking to Angels
Andy Quinn is a shy twenty-one-year old college student studying to be a teacher. For most of his life, hed suspected that he was gay, but being raised in the Bible belt kept him firmly in the closetuntil he met Matt. Matt is an out and proud Boston attorney whose strength and confidence finally win Andy over. Deeply in love despite their differences, the two men make plans to marry. However, there is a dark shadow on their happy horizon in the form of a serial killer who is stalking young gay men in Boston. Even more terrifying is the fact that Andy begins having horrific nightmares in which he is experiencing each victims death. As a child, Andys mother told him he used to talk to the angels. Does that mean he is psychic? Or is he just going crazy? Matt is a diehard skeptic who refuses to accept a paranormal explanation. The only one who believes Andy is the relentless police detective in charge of the case. But he is battling his own homophobic feelings in his pursuit of the killer, and Andy cant help but wonder if he will soon be under suspicion himself. The answer hits closer to home than anyone suspects, and Andy must find his strength or lose his very life.
