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Grey gardens
The Maysles brothers' Grey Gardens (1975) is one of the most important documentary films of the past thirty years. In the past decade the film has gained the status of cult classic, inspiring both a Broadway musical and a 2009 HBO feature film. In this first single volume study of the film, Matthew Tinkcom argues that Grey Gardens reshaped documentary cinema by moving the non-fiction camera to the heart of the household, a private space into which film-makers had seldom previously ventured. Already well-established figures in the 'direct cinema' movement of the 1960s (with their previous films, including Salesman and Gimme Shelter), the brothers' visual record of a summer spent in the Beale household demonstrated that the private lives of their subjects were rich materials for the camera.By the time the film-makers appeared on their front porch, the film's two central figures, 'Big Edie' Beale and her daughter 'Little Edie', had been living for two decades in near-poverty in their beach-side East Hampton mansion (the 'Grey Gardens' of the title). Close relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, by the early 1970s the Beales had lost much of their personal wealth and their everyday lives had descended into a state of barely-controlled squalor. However, as the film-makers discovered, the women were hardly victims of their poverty; rather they saw themselves as artists who were willing to make seemingly any sacrifice for their singing and dancing talents. When the Edies perform for the camera, audiences are challenged by the question of how much anyone would be willing to give up in order to lead a life of eccentric pleasure. Tinkcom argues that the film is one of the first to combine documentary with the conventions of fiction film melodrama, and that the film's appeal arrives in the rich melodramatic dimensions of the Beales' everyday lives in which they argue, dress up, flirt, laugh, sing, dance and reminisce about their experiences in New York's social elite in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Come and find me
After her lover and partner, Daniel dies during their climbing vacation in Switzerland, computer security expert and reformed hacker Diana Highsmith became a recluse. She didn't need to leave her home, she could do all her work on the computer. But when her sister goes missing, she's forced to face her demons and the outside world again.
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Fictional Mechanics: Haywood, Reading, and the Passions
This essay argues that Eliza Haywood, in consciously using philosophies of the passions in her later fiction, develops a narrative theory that privileges the role of the reader. Haywood claims that reading and feeling passion are analogous, in that they both depend on passive sensation, and that each gives rise to the other. Haywood thus develops a sophisticated theory of fiction oriented around the productive possibilities of \"absorptive\" or passive reading, a kind of reading closely associated with female readers of romance and the novel. These claims allow her, in turn, to defend her career-long interest in the passions as essential to the project of fiction itself, and further, to suggest that philosophical theories of the passions are simply participants in a field long defined by fiction.
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Pie man
Pie Man explores the story of a boy, Adam Olszewski, who on his seventh birthday tries to leave his family house but can't. When his mother opens a successful pie-making business out of the house (using a self-portrait drawn by the boy as its logo), Adam's world begins to expand and he takes on a keen, almost scientific interest in the lives of his neighbors.
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\Abstain, and Hide Your Life\: The Hidden Narrator of \Flaubert's...\
\"Julian Barnes’s [1984 novel] Flaubert's Parrot is told from the first-person viewpoint of Geoffrey Braithwaite, a retired doctor. Ostensibly, the novel is Braithwaite's account of his meticulous research on Gustave Flaubert. Like any first-person narrator's, his account of other characters in the novel is colored by personal bias; indeed, it reveals as much about Braithwaite as about the characters concerned. As we read the novel, it becomes apparent that Braithwaite's interest in Flaubert is intimately related to traumas in his own personal life--in particular, to the adultery and suicide of his wife Ellen. In telling us about various characters, Braithwaite alternates between using the Flaubertian world as a means of avoiding these traumas and of seeking to understand them. In addition, because Braithwaite lacks a sense of his own self-worth, he tries, in his account of Flaubert, to identify himself with the great author in terms of both his life experience and his character; Braithwaite is particularly attracted to the fact that Flaubert was solitary and withdrawn from life.\" (Critique) This essay examines the \"hidden narrative\" in Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, illuminating ways in which the novel's \"complicated and profoundly troubled\" narrator adopts a \"Flaubertian ethos, which states that one should 'Abstain, and Hide' from life.\"
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Fuzz McFlops
Written in different forms, such as fables, post scripts, and recipes, each of which is defined at the end.
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Hermits and Saviors, Osagyefos and Healers: Artists and Intellectuals in the Works of Ngũgĩ and Armah
Ngugi wa Thiong'o of Kenya and Ayi Kwei Armah of Ghana have shown in thier writings over the years a major preoccupation with feelings of self doubt and alienation. The role of hermits, saviors, osagyefos, healers, artists and intellectuals in the works of Ngugi and Armah is examined.
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The other
When two boys--John William Barry and Neil Countryman-- meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they're brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Washington's remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive. Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path that will lead him toward a life as a devoted schoolteacher and family man. But John Willliam makes a radically different choice, dropping out of college and moving deep into the woods, convinced that it is the only way to live without hypocrisy. When John enlists Neil to help him disappear completely, Neil finds himself drawn into a web of secrets and often agonizing responsibility, deceit, and tragedy--one that will finally break open with a wholly unexpected, life-altering revelation.--From publisher description.
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Barbarian and Alien (1908–14)
Lovecraft is very reticent about the causes or sources of what we can only regard as a full-fledged nervous breakdown in the summer of 1908. Beyond the mere fact of its occurrence, we know little. Consider four statements, made from 1915 to 1935:
In 1908 I should have entered Brown University, but the broken state of my health rendered the idea absurd. I was and am a prey to intense headaches, insomnia, and general nervous weakness which prevents my continuous application to any thing.¹
In 1908 I was about to enter Brown University, when my health completely gave way—causing
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