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Brawler
High school champion wrestler Eddie MacIntyre does not mind his well-earned reputation as a loose cannon, but when he punches a referee he not only loses his chance at the state championships, he gets expelled from school--facing the strong possibility of joining his father in prison, he runs away and joins an illegal underground fighting ring, where he and a girl fighter named Khajee find themselves trapped in a violent world, run by bad men and gamblers.
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Examining Colonial Expansionism, Patriarchal Violence and Eco-Spiritual Subversion in Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin's dystopian science fiction describes a shockingly recurring pattern of patriarchal, colonial quests in post-apocalyptic worlds, seeking domination over nature and women. This paper analyses her texts The Word for World is Forest (1972) and Always Coming Home (1985), delineating the crisis of industrial modernity and the spectre of aggressive masculinity constructed on the system of hierarchical privilege and an oppressive nature/culture dualism. At the same time, they are informed by an eco-feminist subversive consciousness in multiple manifestations which resists the destructiveness of the archetypal \"heroic\" quest and suggests alternative healing possibilities in their collective narratives. For example, in her influential novella, The Word for World is Forest, the native, colonized inhabitants of an alien world practice sleep-dreaming as a ritualized eco-spiritual belief to harmonically connect with other natives and with their forest eco-system. Their mostly endemic non-violent culture has replaced physical aggression with ritualized singing. The eco-feminist characteristic of Kesh culture in Always Coming Home is situated in its allpervasive religious/ and spiritual symbol, the \"heyiya-if\" i.e. two spirals moving and growing inward, suggesting ecological connection as well as the possibility of change. This communally practiced nature based spirituality of the native inhabitants in these novels, will be read in conjunction with the evolution of what is known as \"dark, green religion\" by the conservationist Bron Taylor, and which offers a much needed worldview of ecological interdependence, diverging with our anthropocentric planetary approach.
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Aggressive Fictions
A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis'sAmerican Psycho, Katherine Dunn'sGeek Love, and Don DeLillo'sUnderworldseem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers-or to disorient them by shunning traditional plot patterns and character development. Kathryn Hume calls such works \"aggressive fiction.\" Why would authors risk alienating their readers-and why should readers persevere? Looking beyond the theory-based justifications that critics often provide for such fiction, Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who wants to better understand and appreciate books that might otherwise seem difficult to enjoy.
In her reliable and sympathetic guide, Hume considers roughly forty works of recent American fiction, including books by William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cormac McCarthy. Hume gathers \"attacks\" on the reader into categories based on narrative structure and content. Writers of some aggressive fictions may wish to frustrate easy interpretation or criticism. Others may try to induce certain responses in readers. Extreme content deployed as a tactic for distancing and alienating can actually produce a contradictory effect: for readers who learn to relax and go with the flow, the result may well be exhilaration rather than revulsion.
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Choosing and enjoying violence in narratives
We use an interactive story design in which participants read short stories and make two consecutive plot choices about whether protagonists commit low- or high-violence actions. Our study has four main findings. 1) People who choose high violence report greater satisfaction with the story, while those switching to or staying with no violence show lower satisfaction. 2) However, when participants encounter these stories without choices, they reliably rate higher-violence stories as less satisfying than lower-violence stories. 3) Regret seems to account for the low satisfaction of those who choose or switch to low violence. 4) There is a large segment of people (up to 66%) who can be persuaded by different story contexts (genre, perspective) to choose extreme violence in interactive fiction and as a consequence of their choice feel satisfaction. We hypothesize that people who opt for high violence enjoy the story as a result of their choice. Overall, we suggest that choosing violence serves as a gateway for enjoyment by creating an aesthetic zone of control detached from morality.
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The relevance of Crime Fiction in the Twenty-first century and its Ever-increasing Popularity Thorough the Translation of Regional Texts in this Genre
Crime is as old as humanity. It has played an essential role throughout the progression of human civilization. Talking about the myriad aspects of it is nothing new in fiction. However, what is indeed new is that how in the last two decades the appeal of it has grown exponentially simply because of several vernacular texts in this genre being translated. Some aspects of criminal activities have regional significance while some can have global relevance. The numerous subgenres of regional crime fiction that has emerged over the years and the issues that they bring up in front of society as a mirror has challenged the condescending attitude of treating this genre. Crime has multiple dimensions. When major nations of the world talk about the issues plaguing the society through this medium and it gets translated to gain a worldwide audience, then for sure a lot of change can be anticipated. The paper intends to find out the reasons behind the trend of a global explosion of vernacular crime fiction, whether or not they can leave an impact and what future trends can be expected.
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Female Sexuality, Nationalism and Large Group Identity
Nationalist movements are emerging today everywhere in the world. Many of them display a high level of aggression and a negative attitude toward sexuality and especially female sexuality. Along with this, erotic fiction with a sadomasochistic orientation has achieved great success and has hundreds of millions of readers in the world. This collective fantasy allows some integration of aggression in sexual life while questioning liberal morality and its equality in gender roles and conservative morality and its idea of control over passion. Both phenomena may represent different responses to the appearance of a new female sexuality threatening the social structure we know.
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Love's Shadow: The Unconscious Underside of Romance in Hardy's \The Woodlanders\
This essay uses Stephen Mitchell's psychoanalytic relational theory to explore the unconscious dynamics of romance in Hardy's The Woodlanders, examine how aggressive, sexual, and idealizing fantasies determine as well as destabilize romantic love, and how passion is structured by the tension between subjective fantasy and external reality.
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LA INFLUENCIA DE LOS RELATOS AUDIOVISUALES DESNARRATIVIZANTES EN LA DESESTRUCTURACIÓN DEL PENSAMIENTO: Una forma de violencia social
ANDERSON,C.A Y BUSHMAN,B.J (2001) Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, physiological arousal, and prosocial behavior: A meta-analytic review of the scientific literature. 1-15 HUESMANN, L.R. Y MILLER, L.S. (1994) Long term effects of repeated exposure to media violence in childhood. HUESMANN, L. R.; MILLER, L. S. (1994) Long-term effects of repeated exposure to media violence in childhood. WOOD, W, WONG, F Y CHACHERE, J (1991) Effects of media violence on viewers' aggression in unconstrained social interaction.
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