Author: Jennifer M. Denbow File Type: pdf Reproducing AutonomybyJennifer M. DenbowA dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of therequirements for the degree ofDoctor of PhilosophyinJurisprudence and Social Policyand the Designated EmphasisinWomen, Gender, and Sexualityin theGraduate Divisionof theUniversity of California, Berkeleysee alsohttpswww.youtube.comwatch?v=Az202quofFo

Author: Cormac McCarthy File Type: pdf he searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthys masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they dont know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged foodand each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, each the others world entire, are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. From the Trade Paperback edition.Amazon.com ReviewBest known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century, Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books weve read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. Read his glowing review below. --Daphne Durham hrGuest Reviewer Dennis LehaneCormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, its not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner. Stealing across this horrific (and thats the only word for it) landscape are an unnamed man and his emaciated son, a boy probably around the age of ten. It is the love the father feels for his son, a love as deep and acute as his grief, that could surprise readers of McCarthys previous work. McCarthys Gnostic impressions of mankind have left very little place for love. In fact that greatest love affair in any of his novels, I would argue, occurs between the Billy Parham and the wolf in The Crossing. But here the love of a desperate father for his sickly son transcends all else. McCarthy has always written about the battle between light and darkness the darkness usually comprises 99.9% of the world, while any illumination is the weak shaft thrown by a penlight running low on batteries. In The Road, those batteries are almost out--the entire world is, quite literally, dying--so the final affirmation of hope in the novels closing pages is all the more shocking and maybe all the more enduring as the boy takes all of his fathers (and McCarthys) rage at the hopeless folly of man and lays it down, lifting up, in its place, the oddest of all things faith. --Dennis Lehane hrFrom Publishers WeeklyMcCarthys latest novel, a frightening apocalyptic vision, is narrated by a nameless man, one of the few survivors of an unspecified civilization-ending catastrophe. He and his young son are trekking along a treacherous highway, starving and freezing, trying to avoid roving cannibal armies. The tale, and their lives, are saved from teetering over the edge of bleakness thanks to the mans fierce belief that they are the good guys who are preserving the light of humanity. In this stark, effective production, Stechschulte gives the father an appropriately harsh, weary voice that sways little from its numbed register except to urge on the weakening boy or soothe his fears after an encounter with barbarians. When they uncover some vestige of the former world, the man recalls its vanished wonder with an aching nostalgia that makes the listeners heart swell. Stechschulte portrays the son with a mournful, slightly breathy tone that emphasizes the childs whininess, making him much less sympathetic than his resourceful father. With no music or effects interrupting Stechschultes carefully measured pace and gruff, straightforward delivery, McCarthys darkly poetic prose comes alive in a way that will transfix listeners. Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

Author: Dan Gerber File Type: epub Dan Gerbers Trying to Catch the Horses is his first full-length collection since his I highly acclaimed selected poems, A Last Bridge Home, published in 1992. Many of these fifty-eight poems have appeared in the finest literary magazines and anthologies, including Poetry, New Letters, The Ohio Review, and The Best American Poetry 1999, selected by Robert Bly.Long recognized as a meditative poet with an almost mystical connection to animals and the natural world, Gerber begins this collection with a quote from Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh Contemplate seeing your bodily form present before you -- in the trees, the grass and leaves, the river. In the manner of Rilke and Juan Ramn Jimenez, Gerbers unadorned poems are acts of discovery, inviting us into a place deep within ourselves through a conversation between human consciousness and the consciousness of things. In the title poem Trying to Catch the Horses, the poet achieves his apparent goal not through will or ambition, but by letting go, to become a clump of grass they (the horses) must graze, and to reach up and touch the sky itself as far as it goes. In two of the books most riveting poems, Gerber focuses his imagination on both our centurys World Wars, envisioning a burst of shrapnel as a flight of blackbirds, and questions the entire enterprise of a great battle in the Pacific and how we never thought of fish in the sea and how this was their home though not their war.... Whether Gerber writes about horses or war, hiking a canyon or encountering a wolf, his backdrop is a profound silence against which these poems become necessary song.

Author: Ross A. Kennedy File Type: pdf A Companion to Woodrow Wilson presents a compilation of essays contributed by various scholars in the field that cover all aspects of the life and career of Americas 28th president.Represents the only current anthology of essays to introduce readers to the scholarship on all aspects of Wilsons life and careerOffers a one stop destination for anyone interested in understanding how the scholarship on Wilson has evolved and where it stands now