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Dad Made Dirty Movies

The Erotic World of Stephen C. Apostolof

By: Jordan Todorov,Joe Blevins

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Dad Made Dirty Movies

The Erotic World of Stephen C. Apostolof

By: Jordan Todorov,Joe Blevins

Strippers, zombies, fugitives and jewel thieves. These were just some of the characters who inhabited the weird, wild films of director Stephen C. Apostolof in the 1960s and 1970s. But Apostolof's own life was every bit as improbable as the plots of his lurid movies. Escaping the clutches of the communists in his native Bulgaria, he came to America in 1952 and decided on a whim to reinvent himself as a Hollywood filmmaker, right down to the cigars, sunglasses and Cadillacs. He produced a string of memorable sexploitation classics, including the infamous Orgy of the Dead. Along the way, he married three times, fathered five children and forged a personal and professional relationship with the notorious Ed Wood, Jr. Drawing on rare archival material and interviews with those who knew him best, this first biography of Apostolof chronicles the life and career of a cult film legend.

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327

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McFarland

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147666868X

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9781476668680

Second Stories

The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions

By: Cynthia S. Jordan

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Second Stories

The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions

By: Cynthia S. Jordan

Second Stories offers an innovative reexamination of selected texts by seven major figures in American literature. Combining close reading with a powerful ideological argument, Cynthia Jordan demonstrates that a concern with the patriarchal politics of language informs both the thematic content and overall shape of much of the fiction of these writers.

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268

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UNC Press Books

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0807818399

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9780807818398

The Other Book

Bewilderments of Fiction

By: Jordan Stump

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The Other Book

Bewilderments of Fiction

By: Jordan Stump

An examination of the relationship between a text and its "other" forms--translation, manuscript, critical edition, copy--and what can be gleaned from this textual interplay.

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287

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803234902

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9780803234901

Pulci's Morgante

Poetry and History in Fifteenth-century Florence

By: Constance Jordan

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Pulci's Morgante

Poetry and History in Fifteenth-century Florence

By: Constance Jordan

Places II Morgante Magiore, the great Italian Renaissance epic by Luigi Pulci, in the context of contemporary Florentine polities. This volume also analyzes the poem's narrative structure and demonstrates the poet's understanding of issues that were to become vital to Florentine historiography a generation later.

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232

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Associated University Presses

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0918016894

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9780918016898

Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader

By: Robert M. Jordan

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Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader

By: Robert M. Jordan

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

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192

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Univ of California Press

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0520331044

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9780520331044

The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson

Conspicuous Communities

By: Eamonn Jordan

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The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson

Conspicuous Communities

By: Eamonn Jordan

The spellbinding premiere of The Weir at the Royal Court in 1997 was the first of many works to bring Conor McPherson to the attention of the theatre-going public. Acclaimed plays followed, including Shining City, The Seafarer, The Night Alive and Girl from the North Country, garnering international acclaim and being regularly produced around the globe. McPherson has also had significant successes as a theatre director, film director and screenwriter, most notably, with his award-winning screenplay for I Went Down. This companion offers a detailed and engaging critical analysis of the plays and films of Conor McPherson. It considers issues of gender and class disparity, violence and wealth in the cultural and political contexts in which the work is written and performed, as well as the inclusion of song, sound, the supernatural, religious and pagan festive sensibilities through which initial genre perceptions are nudged elsewhere, towards the unconscious and ineffable. Supplemented by a number of contributed critical and performance perspectives, including an interview with Conor McPherson, this is a book to be read by theatre audiences, performance-makers and students who wish to explore, contextualize and situate McPherson's provocative, exquisite and generation-defining writings and performances.

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249

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350051233

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9781350051232

Medieval Nonsense

Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England

By: Jordan Kirk

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Medieval Nonsense

Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England

By: Jordan Kirk

Five hundred years before “Jabberwocky” and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the rule of the period’s theologically motivated commitment to the kernel of meaning over and against the shell of the mere letter. This book shows that, to the contrary, the foundational object of study of medieval linguistic thought was vox non-significativa, the utterance insofar as it means nothing whatsoever, and that this fact was not lost on medieval writers of various kinds. In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, it inquires into the way that a number of fourteenth-century writers recognized possibilities inherent in the accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity and transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of non-signification. Retrieving a premodern hermeneutics of obscurity in order to provide materials for an archeology of the category of the literary, Medieval Nonsense shows how these medieval linguistic textbooks, mystical treatises, and poems were engineered in such a way as to arrest the faculty of interpretation and force it to focus on the extinguishing of sense that occurs in the encounter with language itself.

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205

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Fordham University Press

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0823294498

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9780823294497

Contemporary French Women's Writing

Women's Visions, Women's Voices, Women's Lives

By: Shirley Ann Jordan

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Contemporary French Women's Writing

Women's Visions, Women's Voices, Women's Lives

By: Shirley Ann Jordan

In the 1990s the French literary arena was enlivened by the emergence of a new generation of women writers. This book selects six of its most distinctive voices and addresses important questions about the very new in French women's writing. What are young women choosing to write about? What do they tell us about changing perceptions of feminine identities? What does it mean to write (and to read) as women at the start of the new millennium? An introductory chapter explores key issues such as the woman writer in the public imagination and continuity and change within French women's writing since the 1970s. It also highlights thematic threads which recur across the work of the authors studied: history and time, wandering and exile, self and other, the body and sexuality and writing and telling. The remaining chapters propose productive approaches to the fictional worlds of Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Marie Ndiaye, Agnès Desarthe, Lorette Nobécourt and Amélie Nothomb through close readings of their most challenging, popular or telling texts. They focus on perennial preoccupations in women's writing which are given new treatment by these writers and discuss important developments such as uses of the pornographic, myth and fairy tale and parody and irony in new women's writing.

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312

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Peter Lang

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3039103156

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9783039103157

When Novels Were Books

By: Jordan Alexander Stein

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When Novels Were Books

By: Jordan Alexander Stein

A literary scholar explains how eighteenth-century novels were manufactured, sold, bought, owned, collected, and read alongside Protestant religious texts. As the novel developed into a mature genre, it had to distinguish itself from these similar-looking books and become what we now call “literature.” Literary scholars have explained the rise of the Anglophone novel using a range of tools, from Ian Watt’s theories to James Watt’s inventions. Contrary to established narratives, When Novels Were Books reveals that the genre beloved of so many readers today was not born secular, national, middle-class, or female. For the first three centuries of their history, novels came into readers’ hands primarily as printed sheets ordered into a codex bound along one edge between boards or paper wrappers. Consequently, they shared some formal features of other codices, such as almanacs and Protestant religious books produced by the same printers. Novels are often mistakenly credited for developing a formal feature (“character”) that was in fact incubated in religious books. The novel did not emerge all at once: it had to differentiate itself from the goods with which it was in competition. Though it was written for sequential reading, the early novel’s main technology for dissemination was the codex, a platform designed for random access. This peculiar circumstance led to the genre’s insistence on continuous, cover-to-cover reading even as the “media platform” it used encouraged readers to dip in and out at will and read discontinuously. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this tangled history, showing how the physical format of the book shaped the stories that were fit to print.

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273

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Harvard University Press

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0674243420

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9780674243422

British Hispanism and the Challenge of Literary Theory

By: Barry Jordan,William Chester Jordan

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British Hispanism and the Challenge of Literary Theory

By: Barry Jordan,William Chester Jordan

These five articles, collected from journals not widely known in the Hispanic field, deal with issues of literary and cultural theory in relation to British Hispanism.

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113

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Liverpool University Press

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1800859155

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9781800859159

Spanish Culture and Society

The Essential Glossary

By: Barry Jordan

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Spanish Culture and Society

The Essential Glossary

By: Barry Jordan

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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317

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Routledge

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1317835875

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Jordan

By: Arthur J. Jordan

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Jordan

By: Arthur J. Jordan

In remote central Montana and northeastern Wyoming colorful pioneers blazed the old west as its history faded into a land of cattlemen and homesteading settlers. Jordan is a story of the closing days of the old West, and the early years of the new West.

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Mountain Press

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0878424792

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9780878424795

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Dad Made Dirty Movies

Dad Made Dirty Movies

Second Stories

Second Stories

The Other Book

The Other Book

Pulci's Morgante

Pulci's Morgante

Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader

Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader

The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson

The Theatre and Films of Conor McPherson

Medieval Nonsense

Medieval Nonsense

Contemporary French Women's Writing

Contemporary French Women's Writing

When Novels Were Books

When Novels Were Books

British Hispanism and the Challenge of Literary Theory

British Hispanism and the Challenge of Literary Theory

Spanish Culture and Society

Spanish Culture and Society

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