Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262740159
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan. Žižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.
The Crocodile Under the Bed
Author: Judith Kerr
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007593953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A magical new classic in the making from the creator of the beloved favourite, The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007593953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A magical new classic in the making from the creator of the beloved favourite, The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
There's a Crocodile Under My Bed!
Author: Ingrid Schubert
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The crocodile under Peggy's bed ends up being her playmate.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781932425482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The crocodile under Peggy's bed ends up being her playmate.
There's an Alligator under My Bed
Author: Mercer Mayer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101650516
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The nightmare's gone, but what about that alligator? You have to be so careful getting in and out of bed! Maybe a midnight snack to lure him into the garage will do the trick. In this funny and beloved follow-up, Mercer Mayer faces another nighttime fear head-on.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101650516
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The nightmare's gone, but what about that alligator? You have to be so careful getting in and out of bed! Maybe a midnight snack to lure him into the garage will do the trick. In this funny and beloved follow-up, Mercer Mayer faces another nighttime fear head-on.
How to Hold a Crocodile
Author: Diagram Group
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781552978054
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781552978054
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Explains how to do practical and improbable things, such as how to roast an ox, handle a hamster, photography a fish, play the bagpipes, and vanquish a vampire.].
I Need My Monster
Author: Amanda Noll
Publisher: Flashlight Press
ISBN: 1936261162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Scholastic Book Club Selection Alabama Camellia Award list, 2010-11, K-1 category A unique monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this picture book relies on the power of humor over fear, appeals to a child's love for creatures both alarming and absurd, and glorifies the scope of a child's imagination. One night, when Ethan checks under his bed for his monster, Gabe, he finds a note from him instead: "Gone fishing. Back in a week." Ethan knows that without Gabe's familiar nightly scares he doesn't stand a chance of getting to sleep, so Ethan interviews potential substitutes to see if they've got the right equipment for the job—pointy teeth, sharp claws, and a long tail—but none of them proves scary enough for Ethan. When Gabe returns sooner than expected from his fishing trip, Ethan is thrilled. It turns out that Gabe didn't enjoy fishing because the fish scared too easily.
Publisher: Flashlight Press
ISBN: 1936261162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Scholastic Book Club Selection Alabama Camellia Award list, 2010-11, K-1 category A unique monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this picture book relies on the power of humor over fear, appeals to a child's love for creatures both alarming and absurd, and glorifies the scope of a child's imagination. One night, when Ethan checks under his bed for his monster, Gabe, he finds a note from him instead: "Gone fishing. Back in a week." Ethan knows that without Gabe's familiar nightly scares he doesn't stand a chance of getting to sleep, so Ethan interviews potential substitutes to see if they've got the right equipment for the job—pointy teeth, sharp claws, and a long tail—but none of them proves scary enough for Ethan. When Gabe returns sooner than expected from his fishing trip, Ethan is thrilled. It turns out that Gabe didn't enjoy fishing because the fish scared too easily.
The Selfish Crocodile
Author: Faustin Charles
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408839318
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
All of the animals are afraid of the Selfish Crocodile - he never let's them into his river, and he's always so snappy! And so when the Selfish Crocodile finds himself in terrible pain, no-one wants to help him - after all, what if he gobbles them up? But, to everyone's surprise, there is one animal in the forest who is willing to help . . . A brilliant tale of friendship, The Selfish Crocodile has become a picture book classic.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408839318
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
All of the animals are afraid of the Selfish Crocodile - he never let's them into his river, and he's always so snappy! And so when the Selfish Crocodile finds himself in terrible pain, no-one wants to help him - after all, what if he gobbles them up? But, to everyone's surprise, there is one animal in the forest who is willing to help . . . A brilliant tale of friendship, The Selfish Crocodile has become a picture book classic.
Crocodile Blues
Author: Coleman Polhemus
Publisher: Templar Books
ISBN: 9781840115802
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A surprising adventure unfolds when a man buys himself an egg for breakfast. The egg starts to hatch and out pops something entirely unexpected! Coleman Polhemus's retrostyle artwork gives this quirky story-in-pictures instant appeal.
Publisher: Templar Books
ISBN: 9781840115802
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A surprising adventure unfolds when a man buys himself an egg for breakfast. The egg starts to hatch and out pops something entirely unexpected! Coleman Polhemus's retrostyle artwork gives this quirky story-in-pictures instant appeal.
There's a Gator Under My Bed!
Author: Amanda M. Thrasher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988856875
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Children often fear monsters in the closet or under the bed. But what happens when monsters aren't a problem, alligators are instead? There's a Gator Under My Bed is a delightful story that addresses just that: children's bedtime fears, in the form of an alligator, named Fred. Complete with an activity, this fast paced book will entertain, ease bedtime fears, and become a nighttime favorite. Meet Fred. 'There's a Gator Under My Bed'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988856875
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Children often fear monsters in the closet or under the bed. But what happens when monsters aren't a problem, alligators are instead? There's a Gator Under My Bed is a delightful story that addresses just that: children's bedtime fears, in the form of an alligator, named Fred. Complete with an activity, this fast paced book will entertain, ease bedtime fears, and become a nighttime favorite. Meet Fred. 'There's a Gator Under My Bed'.
The Crocodile
Author: Maurizio de Giovanni
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 1405519533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal. But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a strange and sinister killer whom police and locals take to calling The Crocodile, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that the killings are more than simple Mafia hits, and that the labyrinthine streets of Naples are more deadly than he'd dared imagine. Can he catch the assassin in time to save the city's innocents? A bestseller in Italy, The Crocodile is a dark, bloody story of murder and revenge that will grip and thrill you.
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 1405519533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal. But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a strange and sinister killer whom police and locals take to calling The Crocodile, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that the killings are more than simple Mafia hits, and that the labyrinthine streets of Naples are more deadly than he'd dared imagine. Can he catch the assassin in time to save the city's innocents? A bestseller in Italy, The Crocodile is a dark, bloody story of murder and revenge that will grip and thrill you.
Looking Awry
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262740159
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan. Žižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262740159
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan. Žižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.