"Creating A Custom Fit In An Off-The-Rack Genre World" is about the three main kinds of characters found in murder fiction: the investigators, the victims, and the suspects. It is possible to place these characters along a creative continuum. from the relatively formulaic to the relatively unique, from stock characters to more fully-realised human beings. "Custom Fit" takes a fresh perspective on these characters, suggesting new terms for each role. The detective or investigator becomes the Proximal Investigator, and the victim the Corpse of Convenience. The collective term for the suspects is the Family of Circumstance, remembering that, initially at least, everyone in a murder novel is suspect.
Using examples from novels by Peter Hoeg, Henning Mankell, Walter Mosley, and Sara Paretsky, this text asks questions such as: how do murder fiction's characters achieve a sense of difference in their roles, even as they abide by established conventions, demonstrating traits and behaviours similar to other investigators, suspects and victims? How do they flout convention while following it? And how do they contribute to the genre's evolution and development?
"Creating A Custom Fit in an Off-the-Rack Genre World" is a stand-alone text but also a companion essay to the novel, "Summon Up The Blood," both of which formed the author's doctorate in Creative Writing, which received a University of Queensland Dean's Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis.
Автор: McKay Ace Название: Just Chill: Finding God`s Peace in Every Day Circumstance ISBN: 1644265729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644265727 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"Ace is one of the great radio guys I've had the honor to know in my career. No Matter what station I've seen him at God has used Him in major ways and I love seeing a fellow Bama boy serving the Lord in this way." Mac Powell from Third Day
As Christians, we strive to enter each day of life and search for teachable moments. Many of the lessons learned come from the School of Hard Knocks. Just Chill is a lesson in when you do not learn from the educational moments life provides.
Ace McKay places his own experiences and lessons he's learned on paper in this book. He creates a tangible extension of his daily radio show where he shares these parts of his life with listeners. He is convinced that if we continue to learn to be who we are in Christ, then we will find true love, deeper freedom, and vibrant joy.
It is McKay's hope that through his willingness to be honest, open, and vulnerable within the pages of Just Chill, readers will gain a new filter to change the way they see life. And change their lives for the better.
Автор: Patricia Leavy Название: American Circumstance: Anniversary Edition ISBN: 9463005749 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789463005746 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 17270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Paige Michaels comes from the kind of wealth that few experience. The daughter of a notoriously successful banker who wielded great political power, she grew up in an extraordinary world peopled by the leaders of tomorrow. Now one mistake rooted in her past is threatening to unravel her perfect life.After years as a stay-at-home mother in New Jersey, Mollie Johnston convinces her husband to move back New York, to fulfill her dream of living amid the bright lights. Mollie is uncomfortable in her own body and always worried about how others see her. Once she sees how the other half lives, will she come to see herself and her marriage more clearly? Gwen McAndrews is the ultimate New York socialite, and the envy of those impressed by her grandeur, but is there more than meets the eye? Along with Paige, Mollie and Gwen, a cast of characters’stories are interwoven into the text—parents, children, care-takers, childhood friends, old lovers and spouses. American Circumstance is a novel about appearance versus reality; how people’s lives and relationships look to others versus how they are experienced, and the complex ways that social class shapes identity and relationships. American Circumstance provides a window into the replication of wealth, power and privilege. Through the protagonist’s work with an international women’s organization the novel is underscored with a narrative about how gender, social class and race intertwine on a global scale, and problems are all relative. There are also strong narratives about how family and friends influence identity and the things we say and don’t say to each other. While fictional, American Circumstance is grounded in autoethnographic observations and more than a decade of teaching and research about gender, class, race, identity and relationships. The novel can be used as supplemental reading in courses that deal with gender, social class, power, family systems, relational communication, intimate relationships and/or identity, or it can be read entirely for pleasure.The author is happy to provide you with sample class assignments, activities and discussion questions. If you adopt this book the author is also available to Skype into your class for a book talk upon mutually convenient scheduling. To request class materials or schedule a Skype visit please email her at pleavy7@aol.comClick here to view and download SAMPLE CLASS ACTIVITIESAmerican Circumstance has been nominated for the following awards:Bonnie Ritter Book Award 2014 (Top 10 Finalist) sponsored by the National Communication AssociationPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2014The Mirra Komarovsky Award for the Outstanding Sociology Book of the Year 2014 sponsored by the Eastern Sociological SocietyThe Emily Toth Award for the Best Single Work In Women’s Studies by One or More Authors 2014 sponsored by the Popular Culture Association and American Culture AssociationOutstanding Qualitative Book of the Year 2014 sponsored by the International Congress of Qualitative InquiryCover Art by Gioia Chilton
Автор: Hult Raymond A. Название: The Roots of Human Circumstance ISBN: 1698705328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781698705323 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 31250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Throughout his 27-year career as an FBI Special Agent in big cities and small, the author has personally associated with persons of all backgrounds living in circumstances ranging from extreme poverty to ultimate opulence. That has afforded him the unique perspective in analyzing not only the varied living conditions of those observed, but also the multitude of varied causes resulting in those wide-ranging circumstances. Add to that living for two years each in Morocco and Germany and traveling extensively around the world, he became convinced his experience would enable him to pinpoint in a concise manner some of the most significant roots and resulting circumstances encountered by humans throughout their sojourn in mortality; the purpose being to help facilitate an analysis of how to best maximize the worldly challenges faced by each of us. In addition to a joy of writing (this is his 6th published book), Ray and his wife have settled down in Utah having celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary while enjoying their five happily married daughters and 15 grandchildren. Oh yeah, and he probably plays too much golf.
Автор: Barker Freya Название: Victim of Circumstance ISBN: 1988733472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781988733470 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: They didn't know each other, but the events of one single day heralded a pivotal change that would alter their lives forever.
Almost two decades spent locked away in a dark, dank cell, Gray Bennet isn't used to the sun, the sounds, the scents. It's overwhelming. Each year Robin Bishop returns, and while everyone around her is solemn, she lifts her face to the sun and celebrates her freedom. It's liberating. He sees her.She stands out in the grieving crowd-her head thrown back, her face bright with contentment-like a beacon offering to guide him into the light.
Автор: Small Meredith F. Название: Female Choices: Circumstance and Choice in International Relations ISBN: 0801426545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801426544 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 53770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Translated into English for the first time in this edition, The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics is an essential text in the study of the development of Hegel`s thought. It is the climax of Hegel`s efforts to construct a neutral theory of the categories of finite cognition ("logic") as the necessary bridge to the theory of infinite, or philosophical, cognition ("metaphysics").
Автор: Bell, Suzanne Название: Crime and circumstance ISBN: 0313353867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780313353864 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 49500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Tells the tale of how a corner of medicine dating back to ancient times matured into modern forensic science. This title introduces readers to the cases and personalities across history, countries, and cultures. It helps them translate the popularity into the reality of forensic science and laboratory investigation.
Автор: Small Meredith F. Название: Female Choices: Circumstance and Choice in International Relations ISBN: 0801483050 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801483059 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 35470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Ole Bruun`s work depicts the life of a community of Mongolian livestock herders as they begin to adjust to life outside of their contained Soviet-style collectives. The author identifies and addresses the most essential conditions for their continued existence in the age of the market the adaptability of their own culture and working strategies, government policy, and international attention.
A hybrid inquiry into Australia's experimental, radical, artist-run initiatives
Excavating a shared history of independent practice stretching back to the 1980s, Permanent Recession situates new research into artist-run initiatives within a rich continuum of debate about the Australian artmaking context. Hybrid in form, the book is part research, part advocacy document and part literary review.
