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The Disturbing Victims of Chuck Palahniuk
The Disturbing Victims of Chuck Palahniuk Anders Westlie Master thesis at ILOS UNIVERSITETET I OSLO 16.11.2012 II The Disturbing Victims of Chuck Palahniuk III © Anders Westlie 2012 The Disturbing Victims of Chuck Palahniuk Anders Westlie http://www.duo.uio.no/ Trykk: CopyCat Express, Oslo IV Abstract The writings of Chuck Palahniuk contain a large variety of strange and interesting characters. Many of them are victims of the choices they or others made, which is how their lives become interesting. I aim to see if there is any basis in reality for some of the situations and fears that happen. I also mean that Palahniuk thinks people are afraid of the wrong things, and afraid of too many things in general, and will approach this theory in my discussion. V VI Introduction This thesis has been through an abundance of versions and changed shape and content very many times over the years; from being all psychoanalysis to pure close reading, and ended with a study of victims, fears and reactions. In the end, the amount of close reading that has gone into it has bypassed the use of theory. This is mostly a reaction to past criticism to my over-use of critics, and focusing on that rather than the texts at hand. I find my time disposition in the production process of this paper to be shame, but life will sometimes get in the way of good intentions. As such, I hope that you, dear reader, find my efforts not in vain and take some interest in what my efforts have produced. -
Notre Dame Review Notre Dame Review
NOTRE DAME REVIEW NOTRE DAME REVIEW NUMBER 8 Editors John Matthias William O'Rourke Senior Editor Steve Tomasula Founding Editor Valerie Sayers Managing Editor Editorial Assistants Kathleen J. Canavan Kelley Beeson Stacy Cartledge R. Thomas Coyne Contributing Editors Douglas Curran Matthew Benedict Jeanne DeVita Gerald Bruns Shannon Doyne Seamus Deane Anthony D'Souza Stephen Fredman Katie Lehman Sonia Gernes Marinella Macree Jere Odell Tom O'Connor Kymberly Taylor Haywood Rod Phasouk James Walton Ginger Piotter Henry Weinfield Laura Schafer Donald Schindler Elizabeth Smith-Meyer Charles Walton The Notre Dame Review is published semi-annually. Subscriptions: $15(individuals) or $20 (institu- tions) per year. Single Copy price: $8. Distributed by Media Solutions, Huntsville, Alabama and International Periodical Distributors, Solana Beach, California. We welcome manuscripts, which are read from September through April. Please include a SASE for return. Please send all subscription and editorial correspondence to: Notre Dame Review, The Creative Writing Program, Department of English, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Notre Dame Review copyright 1999 by the University of Notre Dame ISSN: 1082-1864 Place/Displacement ISBN 1-892492-07-5 Cover Art: "Diagram for the Apprehension of Simple Forces," cibiachrome, 1997, 12 x 15 inches, by Jason Salavon. Courtesy of Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago. CONTENTS Genghis Khan story ..................................................................... 1 Yanbing Chen Anstruther; Knowledge; Alford -
Chapter 2 Music in the United States Before the Great Depression
American Music in the 20th Century 6 Chapter 2 Music in the United States Before the Great Depression Background: The United States in 1900-1929 In 1920 in the US - Average annual income = $1,100 - Average purchase price of a house = $4,000 - A year's tuition at Harvard University = $200 - Average price of a car = $600 - A gallon of gas = 20 cents - A loaf of Bread = 20 cents Between 1900 and the October 1929 stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression, the United States population grew By 47 million citizens (from 76 million to 123 million). Guided by the vision of presidents Theodore Roosevelt1 and William Taft,2 the US 1) began exerting greater political influence in North America and the Caribbean.3 2) completed the Panama Canal4—making it much faster and cheaper to ship its goods around the world. 3) entered its "Progressive Era" by a) passing anti-trust laws to Break up corporate monopolies, b) abolishing child labor in favor of federally-funded puBlic education, and c) initiating the first federal oversight of food and drug quality. 4) grew to 48 states coast-to-coast (1912). 5) ratified the 16th Amendment—estaBlishing a federal income tax (1913). In addition, by 1901, the Lucas brothers had developed a reliaBle process to extract crude oil from underground, which soon massively increased the worldwide supply of oil while significantly lowering its price. This turned the US into the leader of the new energy technology for the next 60 years, and opened the possibility for numerous new oil-reliant inventions. -
94.1 the Wolf's Second Annual Songwriter Fest Saturday March
For Immediate Release Contact: Cindy DeBardelaben March 7, 2017 Bennett Doyle Office: (901) 384-5900 [email protected] [email protected] 94.1 The Wolf’s Second Annual Songwriter Fest Saturday March 11th Hear the Stories behind #1 Hits on Country Radio Memphis, TN March 7, 2017- 94.1 The Wolf and BMI present the second annual 94.1 The Wolf Songwriter Fest at The Halloran Centre at The Orpheum this Saturday night March 11, 2017 sponsored by Memphis Area Honda Dealers. Hear the stories behind the music from the songwriters themselves in an intimate acoustic performance from hit songwriters Casey Beathard (“Like Jesus Does”, “Like A Wrecking Ball”, Eric Church, “No Shoes No Shirt No Problems”, “Don’t Blink”, Kenny Chesney), Barry Dean (“Moving Oleta” Reba McEntire, “Pontoon” Little Big Town) Sarah Buxton (“Stupid Boy” Keith Urban, co-writer on“Prizefighter” Trisha Yearwood/Kelly Clarkson “Sun Daze” Florida Georgia Line and nominated for a Prime Time Emmy Award for her music on the hit TV show “Nashville”). Country music’s hit song writers take the stage to talk about and perform their hit singles before a limited audience. These artists have written or co-written, produced and played alongside some of country music’s biggest stars like Carrie Underwood, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Keith Urban and Eric Church, to name a few! The story-telling will be just as exciting as hearing the music live on the state-of-the- art stage, and a 361-seat theatre. The festivities begin this Saturday night, March 11th at 7pm. -
Song of the Year
General Field Page 1 of 15 Category 3 - Song Of The Year 015. AMAZING 031. AYO TECHNOLOGY Category 3 Seal, songwriter (Seal) N. Hills, Curtis Jackson, Timothy Song Of The Year 016. AMBITIONS Mosley & Justin Timberlake, A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was Rudy Roopchan, songwriter songwriters (50 Cent Featuring Justin first released or if it first achieved prominence (Sunchasers) Timberlake & Timbaland) during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only. 017. AMERICAN ANTHEM 032. BABY Angie Stone & Charles Tatum, 001. THE ACTRESS Gene Scheer, songwriter (Norah Jones) songwriters; Curtis Mayfield & K. Tiffany Petrossi, songwriter (Tiffany 018. AMNESIA Norton, songwriters (Angie Stone Petrossi) Brian Lapin, Mozella & Shelly Peiken, Featuring Betty Wright) 002. AFTER HOURS songwriters (Mozella) Dennis Bell, Julia Garrison, Kim 019. AND THE RAIN 033. BACK IN JUNE José Promis, songwriter (José Promis) Outerbridge & Victor Sanchez, Buck Aaron Thomas & Gary Wayne songwriters (Infinite Embrace Zaiontz, songwriters (Jokers Wild 034. BACK IN YOUR HEAD Featuring Casey Benjamin) Band) Sara Quin & Tegan Quin, songwriters (Tegan And Sara) 003. AFTER YOU 020. ANDUHYAUN Dick Wagner, songwriter (Wensday) Jimmy Lee Young, songwriter (Jimmy 035. BARTENDER Akon Thiam & T-Pain, songwriters 004. AGAIN & AGAIN Lee Young) (T-Pain Featuring Akon) Inara George & Greg Kurstin, 021. ANGEL songwriters (The Bird And The Bee) Chris Cartier, songwriter (Chris 036. BE GOOD OR BE GONE Fionn Regan, songwriter (Fionn 005. AIN'T NO TIME Cartier) Regan) Grace Potter, songwriter (Grace Potter 022. ANGEL & The Nocturnals) Chaka Khan & James Q. Wright, 037. BE GOOD TO ME Kara DioGuardi, Niclas Molinder & 006. -
Schools' Budget Cut Down by $9.2 Million
FRFRONTONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE Monument RANSCRIPT dedicated to T the unborn See A2 BULLETIN MayM 25,25, 2010 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 116 NO. 103 50¢ Schools’ budget cut down by $9.2 million instructional materials, adminis- tration and utilities. Overall, sala- Less money will result in fewer teachers ries make up 86 percent of the total district budget, according and larger class sizes in some grades to Richard Reese, Tooele County School District business adminis- by Tim Gillie school year by $7.1 million at its trator. STAFF WRITER meeting on May 18. That 8.7 per- “Reducing expenses this year cent cut was necessitated by a $2.1 will mean a reduction in expenses The Tooele County School million reduction in funding from for salaries,” Reese said. District has cut its 2010-11 budget the state and the loss of $4.8 mil- The district will look to make by 8.4 percent to $101 million — a lion in one-time federal stimulus up the shortfall by reducing its concession to decreased funding money the district received last roster of 740 full and part-time at a time when enrollment is once year. teaching positions by 18.5 posi- again expected to rise. The maintenance and opera- tions. The reduction will take place The Tooele County School tions budget comprises 74 percent through natural attrition — teach- District Board of Directors bal- of the district’s total budget for the ers retiring or leaving the district’s anced the new budget by chopping upcoming year. -
English Song Booklet
English Song Booklet SONG NUMBER SONG TITLE SINGER SONG NUMBER SONG TITLE SINGER 100002 1 & 1 BEYONCE 100003 10 SECONDS JAZMINE SULLIVAN 100007 18 INCHES LAUREN ALAINA 100008 19 AND CRAZY BOMSHEL 100012 2 IN THE MORNING 100013 2 REASONS TREY SONGZ,TI 100014 2 UNLIMITED NO LIMIT 100015 2012 IT AIN'T THE END JAY SEAN,NICKI MINAJ 100017 2012PRADA ENGLISH DJ 100018 21 GUNS GREEN DAY 100019 21 QUESTIONS 5 CENT 100021 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN GREEN DAY 100022 21ST CENTURY GIRL WILLOW SMITH 100023 22 (ORIGINAL) TAYLOR SWIFT 100027 25 MINUTES 100028 2PAC CALIFORNIA LOVE 100030 3 WAY LADY GAGA 100031 365 DAYS ZZ WARD 100033 3AM MATCHBOX 2 100035 4 MINUTES MADONNA,JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 100034 4 MINUTES(LIVE) MADONNA 100036 4 MY TOWN LIL WAYNE,DRAKE 100037 40 DAYS BLESSTHEFALL 100038 455 ROCKET KATHY MATTEA 100039 4EVER THE VERONICAS 100040 4H55 (REMIX) LYNDA TRANG DAI 100043 4TH OF JULY KELIS 100042 4TH OF JULY BRIAN MCKNIGHT 100041 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS KELIS 100044 5 O'CLOCK T PAIN 100046 50 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE TRAIN 100045 50 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE TRAIN 100047 6 FOOT 7 FOOT LIL WAYNE 100048 7 DAYS CRAIG DAVID 100049 7 THINGS MILEY CYRUS 100050 9 PIECE RICK ROSS,LIL WAYNE 100051 93 MILLION MILES JASON MRAZ 100052 A BABY CHANGES EVERYTHING FAITH HILL 100053 A BEAUTIFUL LIE 3 SECONDS TO MARS 100054 A DIFFERENT CORNER GEORGE MICHAEL 100055 A DIFFERENT SIDE OF ME ALLSTAR WEEKEND 100056 A FACE LIKE THAT PET SHOP BOYS 100057 A HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS LADY ANTEBELLUM 500164 A KIND OF HUSH HERMAN'S HERMITS 500165 A KISS IS A TERRIBLE THING (TO WASTE) MEAT LOAF 500166 A KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON LOUIS ARMSTRONG 100058 A KISS WITH A FIST FLORENCE 100059 A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES LINKIN PARK 500167 A LITTLE BIT LONGER JONAS BROTHERS 500168 A LITTLE BIT ME, A LITTLE BIT YOU THE MONKEES 500170 A LITTLE BIT MORE DR. -
Libro Miscelanea 50.Indb
CHUCK PALAHNIUK: FIGHT CLUB, INVISIBLE MONSTERS, CHOKE Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, ed. London & New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. (by Paul Mitchell. Universidad Católica de Valencia San Mártir) [email protected] 151 Francisco Collado-Rodríguez’s edited collection of essays on Chuck Palahniuk’s fiction adds to the growing academic interest in the writer’s work and, following on from likeminded compendiums published by Cynthia Kuhn & Lace Rubin and by Jeffrey Sartain in 2009, intends to broaden the focus of earlier studies which gave almost exclusive attention to Palahniuk’s debut novel, Fight Club (1996). Although the three essays that constitute Part I of Collado-Rodríguez’s collection are still dedicated to exploring the now well-trodden path of Fight Club analysis, the editor opens up and simultaneously demarcates the scope of the discussion by focusing an equal number of essays on Palahniuk’s 1999 work, Invisible Monsters (Part II) and his fourth novel from 2001, Choke (Part III). Such a concentration of attention on Palahniuk’s early fiction makes sense —in fact, Collado-Rodríguez insists that the three novels chosen for study are “highly representative of the writer’s particular style and insights” (1)— and yet the absence of any commentaries dedicated to Survivor (1999), Palahniuk’s second published work, seems rather anomalous. Indeed, Survivor is something of an elephant in the room, its omission never explained by Collado-Rodríguez, who only comments that it “garnered acclaim among readers and critics, helping to reinforce Palahniuk’s position in the category of cult writer” (2). James R. Giles’s essay “Violence, Spaces, and a Fragmenting Consciousness in Fight Club” explores the narrator’s problematic identity in relation to the Oedipal miscelánea: a journal of english and american studies 50 (2014): pp. -
THE ROCKIN' RAVERS SONG LIST C/O Jerry Bruno Productions
THE ROCKIN' RAVERS SONG LIST C/O Jerry Bruno Productions MUSIC FROM 2000 TO PRESENT Here It Goes Again--OK GO Vertigo--U2 Are You Gonna Be My Girl—Jet Dirty Little Secret--All-American Rejects Heaven—Los Lonely Boys Can't Get Enough Of You Baby--Smash Mouth Times Like These—Foo Fighters The First Cut Is The Deepest—Sheryl Crow The Middle—Jimmy Eat World I’m A Believer—Smash Mouth Have Love Will Travel--The Black Keys Kryptonite--Three Doors Down Absolutely (Story of a Girl)—Ninedays MUSIC FROM 1990s I'll Be -- Edwin McCain Slide – Goo Goo Dolls The Way – Fastball All The Small Things – Blink 182 Mr. Jones – Counting Crows All For You – Sister Hazel Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong – Spin Doctors Good – Better Than Ezra Found Out About You – Gin Blossoms Again Tonight – John Cougar Mellencamp Wicked Game – Chris Isaak Have I Told You Lately That I Love You – Van Morrison Lay-heed – James Save Tonight – Eagle-eye Cherry There She Goes – The La’s/Sixpence None The Richer Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something Wild Night – John Cougar Mellencamp/Van Morrison All Shook Up – Paul McCartney/Elvis Presley MUSIC FROM 1980s Jessie's Girl -- Rick Springfield Summer of '69 -- Bryan Adams What I Like About You -- Romantics I Got You -- Split Enz I Won't Back Down -- Tom Petty Sweet Child O' Mine -- Guns n' Roses Authority Song – John Cougar Mellencamp Start Me Up – Rolling Stones 500 Miles – Proclaimers Old Time Rock And Roll – Bob Seger Melt With You – Modern English The One I Love – R.E.M. -
Phantasies, Fake Realities and the Loss of Boundaries in Chuck Palahniuk's
1 CLAUDIO VESCIA ZANINI THE ORGY IS OVER: PHANTASIES, FAKE REALITIES AND THE LOSS OF BOUNDARIES IN CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S HAUNTED PORTO ALEGRE 2011 2 UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM LETRAS ÁREA: ESTUDOS DE LITERATURA ESPECIALIDADE: LITERATURAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS LINHA DE PESQUISA: LITERATURA, IMAGINÁRIO E HISTÓRIA THE ORGY IS OVER: PHANTASIES, FAKE REALITIES AND THE LOSS OF BOUNDARIES IN CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S HAUNTED CLAUDIO VESCIA ZANINI ORIENTADORA: PROFª. DRª. SANDRA SIRANGELO MAGGIO Texto de Qualificação de Doutorado em Literaturas Estrangeiras Modernas submetido como requisito parcial para a obtenção do título de Doutor ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. PORTO ALEGRE 2011 3 In loving memory of my father, José João Zanini, and of Professor Ana Maria Kessler Rocha, also known as Lady Bracknell. 4 “We like to imagine that something which we do not understand does not help us in any way. But that is not always so. Seldom does a man understand with his head alone, least of all when he is a primitive.” Carl Gustav Jung in Four Archetypes “We all die. The goal isn‟t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk in Diary "We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning." Jean Baudrillard in Simulacra and Simulation “Welcome to prime time, bitch!” Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street – Dream Warriors, as he sticks a girl‟s head into a TV set. 5 Thank you, Sandra Maggio, for your guidance, friendship, trust, and guts. -
FIGHT CLUB, INVISIBLE MONSTERS, CHOKE Ed. Francisco Collado London: Bloomsbury, 2013
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, nº 18 (2014) Seville, Spain. ISSN 1133-309-X, pp. 77-82 CHUCK PALANIUK: FIGHT CLUB, INVISIBLE MONSTERS, CHOKE Ed. Francisco Collado London: Bloomsbury, 2013. ISBN-13: 978-1441174321. 218p. CRISTINA GARRIGÓS GONZÁLEZ Universidad de León [email protected] Chuck Palahniuk is an uncomfortable author. Reading his texts requires a particular disposition on the part of the reader, who is asked to leave the comfort zone, and to enter a universe where we are confronted with the darkest side of a reality which is undeniable, but hardly ever put in the forefront. The narrative world of Palahniuk is thus made up of marginal characters: outlaws, transvestites, addicts (drug addicts, sex addicts, alcoholics), etc. However, instead of treating these transgressive characters as the exception, they become the norm. The concept of normalcy is immediately reversed in a fiction where nothing is what it seems at first sight. And yet, although we may find in his novels stories about “ex-centric” people and situations, we never find a critique from the narrator or the author. Palahniuk defines this as “writing without passing judgment” (Stranger than Fiction). This writing style has been classified as minimalist, but the thematic in his work is rather the opposite, being excessive in all possible ways. As Collado points out, “Violence, self-destruction, parental absence, pornography, the crossing of gender and body limits, are favorite themes of Palahniuk’s fiction since his first published novel” (6). All of these subjects are explored in the chapters that appear in the book. Published by Bloomsbury, Francisco Collado’s volume offers a study of the controversial and bestselling author who is becoming more and more respected by the academic world, as evidenced by the recent publications of two studies on his work, such as Jeffrey Sartain’s Sacred and Immoral: On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk (2008) and Cynthia Kuhn’s and Lance Rubin’s Reading Chuck Palahniuk: American Monsters and Literary Mayhem (2009). -
A Heart Beating Hard
A HEART BEATING HARD A HEART BEATING HARD Lauren Foss Goodman University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor Copyright © 2015 by Lauren Foss Goodman All rights reserved This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher. Published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America 2018 2017 2016 2015 4 3 2 1 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/tfcp.13240726.0001.001 ISBN 978-0-472-03616-5 (paper : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-472-12097-0 (e-book) For Mom and Dad 1. MARJORIE Ma? 1 2. MARGIE Margie started as a suggestion. A frustration. A night out. A drink. A lot of drinks. A thin-lipped smile and some small talk about the Sox. A beer-cold hand on the inside of a soft warm thigh. A laugh, a nod. A locked bathroom stall and a skirt hiked up high. A hand pulling hair. A space, filled. A need. A cry. A release. A disappointment. Margie started there in that small empty place and there single-celled Margie started to divide and divide and divide. Unseen, unknown Margie, what was Margie before she was Margie, burrowed and billowed and became. Swimming in the warm dark waters where we all live before we live, growing skin to con- tain, lungs to breathe, a heart to beat.