The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories
Title | The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Kersh |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2013-10-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0571304516 |
'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father... 'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. 'The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board'... is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre.' Times Literary Supplement (1944)
The Horrible Dummy, and other stories. "Vive la France!" et autres contes. (Traduit par Stéphanie Henri.).
Title | The Horrible Dummy, and other stories. "Vive la France!" et autres contes. (Traduit par Stéphanie Henri.). PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Kersh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | |
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Supplement, 1953
Title | Supplement, 1953 PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel S. Monro |
Publisher | H. W. Wilson |
Pages | 1576 |
Release | 1953-12 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |
Short Story Index
Title | Short Story Index PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1562 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN |
Quinquennial supplements,1950/1954-1979/1983, compiled by Estelle A. Fidell, and others, published 1956-1984.
The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
Title | The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Pepper |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780192781789 |
Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.
Psychoanalysis and Performance
Title | Psychoanalysis and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Campbell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1134616244 |
The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way. But rarely has the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance been mapped out, either in terms of analysing the nature of performance itself, or in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. In this volume some of the most distinguished thinkers in the field make this exciting new connection and offer original perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: · hypnotism and hysteria · ventriloquism and the body · dance and sublimation · the unconscious and the rehearsal process · melancholia and the uncanny · cloning and theatrical mimesis · censorship and activist performance · theatre and social memory. The arguments advanced here are based on the dual principle that psychoanalysis can provide a productive framework for understanding the work of performance, and that performance itself can help to investigate the problematic of identity.
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
Title | The Encyclopedia of Fantasy PDF eBook |
Author | John Clute |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 1110 |
Release | 1999-03-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780312198695 |
Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.