Author: Ambrose BiercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary... Research and Ed. by Ernest Jerome Hopkins,....
Author: Ambrose BierceThe Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, Research and Editing by Ernest Jerome Hopkins. Pref. by John Myers Myers
Author: Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, with 851 Newly Discovered Words and Definitions Added to the Previous Thousand-word Collection
Author: Ambrose BierceDictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Empire of Conspiracy
Author: Timothy MelleyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501713000
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic"—an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear—including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory—Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory. Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber Manifesto, from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addiction discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy of freedom from social control.
A Clash of Titans
Author: Ambrose BiercePublisher: Salvador A. Ramirez
ISBN: 0615384552
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1614
Book Description
Catalog of the Communications Library, University of Illinois
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: Catalog of the Communications Library
Author: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description