Wenke John (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Tales from the Post-Contemporary Tundra In The Critical List, John Wenke explores the fraying family ties and impending disasters of modern life. A widowed young woman, her leg broken during an abusive incident, attends a child's birthday party at a seedy play rink. A retired cop can't stop fixing a brain-damaged war vet's problems. These stories tangle with the anxieties erupting on what Wenke calls "the post-contemporary tundra." People teeter on the edge in these pages: a former jailbird under house arrest, a would-be teenage parricide, a former philosophy professor now homeless and living in the subway underground. With dark humor and sharp observation, Wenke's stories capture the precariousness of life and the human struggle to find meaning in a world on the brink. For readers of literary fiction, short stories, and dark comedies.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Tales from the Post-Contemporary Tundra In The Critical List, John Wenke explores the fraying family ties and impending disasters of modern life. A widowed young woman, her leg broken during an abusive incident, attends a child's birthday party at a seedy play rink. A retired cop can't stop fixing a brain-damaged war vet's problems. These stories tangle with the anxieties erupting on what Wenke calls "the post-contemporary tundra." People teeter on the edge in these pages: a former jailbird under house arrest, a would-be teenage parricide, a former philosophy professor now homeless and living in the subway underground. With dark humor and sharp observation, Wenke's stories capture the precariousness of life and the human struggle to find meaning in a world on the brink. For readers of literary fiction, short stories, and dark comedies.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. A widowed young woman, her leg broken during an abusive, sexually charged incident with her brutal second husband, attends a child's birthday party at a seedy indoor play rink. A retired cop can't stop fixing a brain-damaged war vet's problems. The Critical List tangles with fraying family ties, while anticipating disasters about to erupt on what Wenke calls "the post-contemporary tundra." In this world, people teeter on the edge-a former jailbird under house arrest; a would-be teenage parricide; a former philosophy professor, now homeless, mind blown, living in the subway underground.…

Paperback. Condition: New. A widowed young woman, her leg broken during an abusive, sexually charged incident with her brutal second husband, attends a child's birthday party at a seedy indoor play rink. A retired cop can't stop fixing a brain-damaged war vet's problems. The Critical List tangles with fraying family ties, while anticipating disasters about to erupt on what Wenke calls "the post-contemporary tundra." In this world, people teeter on the edge-a former jailbird under house arrest; a would-be teenage parricide; a former philosophy professor, now homeless, mind blown, living in the subway underground.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction Number 25. Second printing. Fine in black cloth. No dust jacket.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Pristine Book, Noi Marks Or Inscriptions . One Of The Series 'Tywayne's Studies In Short Fiction '. Black Hardcovers With Bright Gilt Title On The Spine. The Dj Is Blue And Gold, Complete, Not Clipped. No Apparent Wear. No Brodart Protected.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 336 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.90 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: New. A widowed young woman, her leg broken during an abusive, sexually charged incident with her brutal second husband, attends a child's birthday party at a seedy indoor play rink. A retired cop can't stop fixing a brain-damaged war vet's problems. The Critical List tangles with fraying family ties, while anticipating disasters about to erupt on what Wenke calls "the post-contemporary tundra." In this world, people teeter on the edge-a former jailbird under house arrest; a would-be teenage parricide; a former philosophy professor, now homeless, mind blown, living in the subway underground.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'AMERICAN PROTEUS seeks to explain what it means for Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) to have created out of his life-experiences and encompassing cultural milieu a novel kind of fiction for a new kind of country. As a work of biographical criticism, this study charts the emergence of Brown's authorial voice as it developed throughout an amorphous, multifaceted, and conflicted apprenticeship. This eleven-year period of literary experimentation established the foundation for his brief yet momentous career as a publishing novelist that lasted from 1798 through 1801. Throughout such novels as WIELAND (1798), ORMOND (1799), ARTHUR MERVYN (1799-1800), and EDGAR HUNTLY (1799), Brown dramatizes how authorship and self-making constitute reciprocal processes. Throughout his novels, authorship appears variously as a compositional act, a histrionic activity, and an expression of political provocation and domination. This concern with authorship achieves its most complex manifestation via the agency of narrative self-making. From this perspective, the poetics and politics of self-making have distinct personal, cultural, and political ramifications, especially considering how Brown constructs synergistic versions of the 'American Tale' out of the importation and transfiguration of transatlantic literary and ideational materials. By drawing on and reconfiguring Gothic and epistolary aesthetics as well as Enlightenment principles, Brown reveals how his subversive artist-figures reject ideological confinements of attending social forms, whether theological, cultural, or political. In their attempts to control the social stage, these incendiary antiheroes seek to challenge, disrupt, or destroy those'-- Provided by publisher.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Almost Like New. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Paperback. Condition: New. A widowed young woman, her leg broken during an abusive, sexually charged incident with her brutal second husband, attends a child's birthday party at a seedy indoor play rink. A retired cop can't stop fixing a brain-damaged war vet's problems. The Critical List tangles with fraying family ties, while anticipating disasters about to erupt on what Wenke calls "the post-contemporary tundra." In this world, people teeter on the edge-a former jailbird under house arrest; a would-be teenage parricide; a former philosophy professor, now homeless, mind blown, living in the subway underground.…

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 488 Seiten, ISBN: 9783830930990 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1032.

Condition: New. Dieses Handbuch legt ein solides Fundament fuer die individualpsychologische Beratung in Theorie und Praxis und eignet sich auch als Lektuere fuer potentielle Klienten. Das Verstaendnis des Beratungsansatzes kann ihnen in einer Krise helfen, indem es ihr Vertra.