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Desert city diva
\"Rolly Waters has many reasons to regret going out for Mexican food at 2.30 in the morning. Not least because then he would never have met dance-club DJ Macy Starr--possibly the most infuriatingly unpredictable and secretive client he has ever taken on. Macy Starr wants Rolly to find out what happened to the young woman she knew as Aunt Betty, the woman who rescued her as a child and who then disappeared without trace. The only clue she has to go on is a curious one-stringed guitar. Rolly's investigation leads to a weird world of alien-obsessed cults, a strange desert hideaway known as Slab City--and to a 20-year-old unsolved murder case. But how can he solve the mystery if he can't even trust his own client?\"--Jacket flap.
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SENSOUS JOCKEYS AND SUICIDAL DRIVERS: THE EQUINE MOTIF IN THREE NOVELS BY JOHN HAWKES
Still not widely read in the United States, John Hawkes confronts his readers with the difficult task of assessing nightmares and forbidden desires conjured up through stylistic finesse. His visions of high speed cars as agents of destruction and his passion for racehorses make for his most enduring literary fetish: the skillful horsewoman, an image of erotic loss and portent of incoming death. The study tackles the literary means employed by John Hawkes in order to refashion classical equestrian representations and thus to aestheticize the erotic conflict.
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Puppy dance party!
\"DJ Rubble is hosting a celebration, but when the guest of honor, Chickaletta, goes missing, it's up to the pups from Adventure Bay to save the day. Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this exciting storybook, which features a lenticular design that makes the party seems to pop off the cover!\"--Amazon.
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Fanfics, Googlagens & Cia.: Apropriação e Autoria no Século XXI
Na contemporaneidade, é notável o surgimento de novas tecnologias atreladas à internet, e um aumento gradativo da oferta cultural. Nesse cenário, novas práticas são pensadas frente aos recursos disponíveis e cada vez mais torna-se evidente o crescimento de expressões artísticas que se baseiam na apropriação de elementos pré-existentes, os quais são reescritos, recriados ou reapresentados sob novas perspectivas. O presente trabalho consiste em refletir a respeito da noção de autoria emergente nessas expressões artísticas, enfocando o autor de escrita não criativa, isto é, apropriativa, como um “gênio não original”, o qual atua no contexto da “cultura do uso” ou cultura do reaproveitamento. A reflexão é feita a partir do mashup literário, da fanfiction, do MixLite da Poesia do Google, que são as modalidades de escrita analisadas nesta dissertação, a fim de discutir a concepção de autoria na contemporaneidade. Debates em torno da autoria são revisitados, tendo como principais fontes teóricas os textos de Nicolas Bourriaud (2009), que cunhou o termo “cultura do uso”, de Kenneth Goldsmith (2011), que define a “escrita não criativa” e de Marjorie Perloff (2013), com seus estudos sobre originalidade e criação, que formulou o termo “gênio não original” para nos ajudar a pensar a autoria nas práticas de apropriação e de reuso. A partir desses teóricos, entre outros, esta dissertação propõe-se a reconhecer que há um esvaziamento das definições dicionarizadas de autoria, genialidade, criatividade e originalidade, as quais não dão conta das quatro modalidades de escrita acima elencadas, levando à necessidade de pensar em novas formas de abordar tais escritas no século XXI.
Dissertation
This song will save your life
Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey.
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Acousmatic Presences: From DJs to Talk-Radio Hosts in American Fiction, Cinema, and Drama
DJs and talk-show hosts are undoubtedly cultural icons in the United States mediascape, and as such they appear in several novels, in films, and in the play Talk Radio, by Eric Bogosian. This essay analyzes the socio-political implications of how DJs and talk-show hosts are depicted by taking them back to their historical background.
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Homestretch
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.
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