10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FREAKISHNESS»
Discover the use of
freakishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
freakishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Embodied Disturbances: Disability and
Freakishness in ...
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Marilyn Deangelis Boyer, 2012
2
Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History
See also The Member of the Wedding, under M: The Ballad of the Sad Café, 154,
155; freakishness and queerness, association with, 155, 160–61; The Heart is a
Lonely Hunter, xviii, 154, 155; “Love's Not Time's Fool,” 153; sexual interests of, ...
3
Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the ...
This chapter focuses on the ways that Carson McCullers's play The Member of
the Wedding (1950) uses freakishness to suggest a breakdown in the
heterosexual/ homosexual binary that American society had been trying to
mandate with ...
Kimball King, Tom Fahy, 2013
4
Hermes and His Children
15 His poetic genius expressed the freakishness in eating and took it to the final
consequence of death. This man was a freak and a great poet. We have to
question whether artists, who live their freakishness and oddness, are possibly
more ...
Rafael Lopez-Pedraza, 2003
5
The Round Table: A Saturday Review of Politics Finance, ...
Audacity is spiced with a relish of complacent superiority; and freakishness,
however unaccountable to reason, implies not a little of paramount wilfulness. It
is this, which is doubtless the saving grace, which works exemption from
complete ...
Kenschaft's “Homoerotics and Human Connections: Reading Carson McCullers '
As a Lesbian'” also briefly links her portraits of freakishness to these feelings of
sexual inversion. 15. Freak shows were central metaphors throughout ...
The figure of Joan Crawford serves as a ready-made symbol of out-of-control,
female freakishness and camp extravagance, but the video encourages no real
participation in the extravagance and not much sympathy with the freakishness.
8
Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of ...
The Freakatorium creates a space for the abnormal, including a recuperation of
freakishness itself. A collection of anomalies, the Freakatorium is anomalous, too.
It is at once a dime museum, a museum of dime museums, a memorial space, ...
9
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and ...
In the Boston Globe in 1992, Matthew Gilbert noted how crowds prized the singer
Madonna's “control-freakishness.” Writing four years later about Barbra Streisand
, the Sunday Times of London could not decide whether she was “America's ...
10
Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson ...
GROTESQUE ADOLESCENCE Freakishness, then, is a social construction and
is thus contingent on ways of reading. The implication is that freak-identi¤cation
is open to anyone, not just to the narrowly de¤ned sideshow freak: “In reality, ...
Sarah Gleeson-White, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FREAKISHNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
freakishness is used in the context of the following news items.
Sports: Another young cricketer killed by a body ball
It was dangerous denial describing it as “unexpected”. The freakishness then and now is more cricketers not suffering serious head or chest ... «Asia Times, Jul 15»
Out of the Mainstream? Time to Thrive, Christians!
Now that Christianity is strange to the larger American culture, Christians have an opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the Gospel ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
Halperin Condones Human Herding, Defends Clinton Campaign …
To him, Clinton's “control freakishness” was “purely logistical.” “I am going to take as much heat as Hillary Clinton for this. It was purely logistical ... «Washington Free Beacon, Jul 15»
Moore: Court ruling sets Christian 'distinctiveness'
The Supreme Court's June 26 decision, while grievous to Christians, gives them "the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of Christianity that ... «BP News, Jul 15»
Sharing codewords and passwords
... even if we think of a million if's, we can never underestimate the creativity of a predator — or the freakishness of actual events that occur), and ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
Throwback Thursday: Sham 69 Rock 'Top of the Pops'
Their music was more accessible and appealed to people who might otherwise be put off by the sneering freakishness of bands like the Sex ... «Diffuser.fm, Jul 15»
Russell Moore: Why Christianity Can Thrive Now That It's Not …
Now that Christianity is strange to the larger American culture, Christians have an opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the Gospel ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
The Spanish Donkey [Joe Morris, Jamie Saft, Mike Pride] – Raoul …
For both Morris and Pride, it's not so much the licks but the fury, freakishness and yes, soulfulness (especially on “Behavioral Sink”). There are ... «Something Else! Reviews, Jul 15»
What's Changed, and What Hasn't, in the Town That Inspired "To Kill …
... odd thing about a great deal of a certain sort of Deep South fiction—its grotesquerie and gothic, its high color and fantastication, the emphasis on freakishness. «Smithsonian, Jul 15»
Jim Messina: Barack Obama is the new Ronald Reagan
He called on evangelicals to “reclaim the freakishness of Christianity” by refraining from pressing for mass acceptance of its principles. «Politico, Jul 15»