Free Download Aaron Kerner, "Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic: The Beautiful, Sexual Arousal, and Laughter"
English | ISBN: 1399501100 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure―tears, goosebumps, sexual arousal, laughter―even in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethical.

Instructions, Abject & Fuming By Julianna Baggott
2017 | 88 Pages | ISBN: 0809335735 | PDF | 1 MB
In this inventive collection, Julianna Baggott invites readers to reconsider basic assumptions about language, faith, motherhood, and love. With a sharply honed voice featuring parentheticals that often comment on and sometimes undercut what has come before, these poems whirl through contemporary America, engaging with topics as diverse and timely as Russian mail-order brides, Internet bullying, and school shootings. Alongside her cultural commentary, the speaker frankly confronts love and sex, as well as the beauty and brutality of having children. Still other poems reflect questions and considerations of faith: the speaker ponders St. Thomas in a pet store and imagines Jesus explaining to God how it feels to have a body. Baggott's use of obsolete Old English words subverts common language and creates new ways of interrogating the world around us. There is heartache on these pages, but Baggott also offers humor, such as a complaint about a lover's eating habits or an extended discourse on a baby's rattle. Baggott's latest proves to be a rollicking book sui generis.

Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and the Abject Hero by Michael André Bernstein
English | March 17, 1992 | ISBN: 0691069395 | True EPUB | 260 pages | 0.3 MB
"You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. . . . They are running in the streets-and they are coming right at you!" When a real murderer accuses the society he has brutalized, we are shocked, but we are thrilled by the same accusations when they are mouthed by a fictional rebel, outlaw, or monster.