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From the corner of his eye
Bartholomew Lampion grows up a prodigy, blinded by surgery required to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but he regains his sight at the age of thirteen and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him. It is the story of a courageous band of seekers, and a relentless killer. It is the story of all that is right with the world and all that is terribly wrong. It is the story of a revelation so terrifying that those who dare to look will be changed forever.
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The Geography of Friendship
We can't ever go back, but some journeys require walking the same path again. When three young women set off on a hike through the wilderness they are anticipating the adventure of a lifetime. Over the next five days, as they face up to the challenging terrain, it soon becomes clear they are not alone and the freedom they feel quickly turns to fear. Only when it is too late for them to turn back do they fully appreciate the danger they are in. As their friendship is tested, each girl makes an irrevocable choice; the legacy of which haunts them for years to come. Now in their forties, Samantha, Lisa and Nicole are estranged, but decide to revisit their original hike in an attempt to salvage what they lost. As geography and history collide, they are forced to come to terms with the differences that have grown between them and the true value of friendship.
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I'm not who you think I am
Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who believes that she is her dead daughter.
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Love Hurts?: Identifying Abuse in the Virgin-Beast Trope of Popular Romantic Fiction
Popular romantic fiction dating back to the 1700s often portrays a submissive/virginal female character and an aggressive/beastly male character. This binary portrayal of heterosexual relationships is problematic because it presents a power imbalance within the couple as essential for romance. Although several scholars have described this phenomenon, it has yet to be named and applied to violence prevention work. In response, the purpose of this study is to develop the term “virgin-beast trope” to capture this relationship dynamic and situate this concept within the larger body of relationship violence research. We use three of the most popular romantic fiction films (Beauty and the Beast, Twilight, and Fifty Shades of Grey) to illustrate the virgin-beast trope and demonstrate its continuity from childhood to adulthood. We then use the Abuse Litmus Test to identify examples of relationship abuse embedded within the virgin-beast trope as evidenced in these films. Although unhealthy features of these three relationships are often masked in romanticization, the inherent disproportional power dynamic of the virgin-beast trope results in the male partners using their ‘beastly power’ through threats, intimidation, isolation, and stalking to control the subordinate and virginal female partner. In response, the female partners try to ‘tame the beast’, but ultimately suffer harm as a result. The prominent virgin-beast trope across romantic fiction could be added to existing media literacy education to support more engaging conversations that address relationship violence prevention across developmental stages.
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Milkman : a novel
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
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'No shadow of another parting': Unrequited Love, Stalking, and Dickens's Rejected Men
Throughout his fiction, Dickens's work depicts predatory behavior that could be defined as stalking or obsessional following. Recurrent in the plots and subplots are disturbing instances of unwanted intrusion that interrogate the act of stalking by various individuals. Many such encounters focus on intimacy-seeking male suitors who not only pursue love interests but become fixated to an irreversible degree, even after being rejected. Dickens positions such men throughout his novels, initially caricaturing them as fools or hopeless romantics before developing their characters with greater complexity and critical emphasis. Ultimately such rejected men are foregrounded to the point that their passion, pathology, and violence play a central role in the author's narratives.
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Perception : a clarity novel
Trying to decide between her old boyfriend, who betrayed her but wants her back, and the new boy with whom there are definite sparks, Cape Cod high school junior and psychic Clare is puzzled by a secret admirer even as she tries to solve the mystery of a classmate who has suddenly disappeared.
Dialogic, but Monologic: Toxic Masculinity Meets #MeToo in Teddy Wayne’s Campus Novel Loner
Teddy Wayne’s 2016 Loner tells the story of a Harvard freshman’s sexual obsession with a fellow student, leading to stalking and attempted rape. On a deeper level, the campus novel can be interpreted as a critique of wider processes taking place in American academia and generally in the US: the mainstreaming of the so-called “woke” movement and the growing impact of “political correctness.” The novel also reflects on class inequality, privilege, gender politics, the ongoing crisis of white (heterosexual) masculinity, toxic masculinity, and online “incel culture.” The present paper will analyze the problematic “dialogic, but monologic” nature of the book’s unreliable narrative addressing the above problems. The paper’s goal will be to read Loner in light of the #MeToo movement as an illustration of the current stage of the now decades-long reckoning with rape culture, and with patriarchy.
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Operation hero's watch
When a stalker haunts Cassidy Grant's every move, she turns to Jace Cahill to keep her safe. Pretty soon Jace realizes that his best friend's little sister is all grown up. But with danger menacing, can the brilliant guard dog Cutter keep Cassidy safe...and nudge her and Jace toward the scariest proposition of all--a future together?
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Humanizing Harmont: Place and Desire in Roadside Picnic
The novel frames that question in relation to extraterrestrial visitors and the mysterious objects they leave behind, but the text's titular Visit is not accompanied by other tropes of the genre that one might expect: no war to save humanity breaks out and no plucky hero rises to the occasion. Following the Visit, Harmont goes from being a small, tightly-knit industrial town to a bustling frontier populated by entrepreneurs, scientists, entertainers, and agents of the military industrial complex who seek to cash in on the Zone's promise of wealth, power and fame. Science fiction authors, however, were still subject to persecution under Krushchev - Andrei Sinyavsky ('Abram Tertz') was imprisoned in a labour camp on account of his novel The Makepeace Experiment (1965) - so the Strugatskys had to engage with political themes obliquely to protect themselves. Red is not a hero in the conventional sense, but rather an ordinary person, confused and alienated - the proper inhabitant of a science Action novel as defined by Le Guin: 'a fundamentally unheroic kind of story' that constitutes a 'carrier bag full of wimps and klutzes' (Le Guin 2019: 35).
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