mercoledì 20 febbraio 2019
martedì 19 febbraio 2019
Stephen King ... The horror factor
Dubeau makes a leap to the
reader with a scene of two boys whose walk in the woods turns for the creepy,
but the best moments of his debut are in the quiet, disturbing distances
between the torrential rains of gore, when the village is in its most pastoral
setting.
Howard's second novel, in which the owner of the book Emily Lovecraft and detective Daniel Carter found them in the developing World, is an alternative universe where things have changed very differently - starting with Germany still in power after the second World War and the Soviet Union collapsed after the Axis bomb exploded. Cantero weaves a fascinating web of mystery, but among the hordes of fishermen is a sincere novel about closure, maturity, talking dogs and a villain who weapons the knowledge of horror tropes to plan around the heroes 'drawings and level the playing field. Schlocky, and finally quite corny, the performance of Warwick Davis as the title character makes it one of the most memorable horror films of the time. Warwick's diabolical performance is not the only thing to watch out for here, as a young Jennifer Aniston makes her debut on the big screen in the film. Kevin Spacey also appears in the film as the elusive architect behind the twisted, transgressional murder of the film. It's just as scary when Ghostface ( now one of the most recognizable "faces" of horror ) begins to stab through the student body in Woodsboro High. The horror film by alexandre Aja is based on two students, Marie and Alex, who go to the last house for a quiet escape, when the murderer brutally murdered the whole family of Alex and then kidnaps Alex. Robert R McCammon was one of the most successful and prolific authors of horror films of the 1980s and early 1990s, before an editorial discussion prompted him to take a ten - year break from writing. Michael McDowell's recently regenerated horror classic is not characterized by queer characters, but by his saga of McCray and wild families - and the sandy spirit that torments their Victorian beach houses - is pure Southern Gothic with a unique gay voice. The king's novel is more like jacek Torrance, a recovering alcoholic writer ( known as "sound familiar" ) who is trying to improve his family's life by working as a janitor in a remote resort with a violent story that is barely hidden. King hates the adaptation of Kubrick, and although it is difficult to discuss the quality of the film or its place in the pantheon of horror movies, the novel is the most varied and, probably, the most frightening version of history, topiary monsters and everything. Sad, bloody and extremely psychologically disturbing, the first book in a series of barkers was praised by Stephen King as "the future of horror" when it appeared in the mid - 1980s.
No, not Courtney loves the regions of the nether ( although ), but rather the novel of the contemporary horror of big Joe Hill. Butler's sci - fi and horror are both frightening and beautiful at the same time - not an easy feat - in which a race of strangers with a tight lid saves the last members of humanity, but they demand a high price.
Howard's second novel, in which the owner of the book Emily Lovecraft and detective Daniel Carter found them in the developing World, is an alternative universe where things have changed very differently - starting with Germany still in power after the second World War and the Soviet Union collapsed after the Axis bomb exploded. Cantero weaves a fascinating web of mystery, but among the hordes of fishermen is a sincere novel about closure, maturity, talking dogs and a villain who weapons the knowledge of horror tropes to plan around the heroes 'drawings and level the playing field. Schlocky, and finally quite corny, the performance of Warwick Davis as the title character makes it one of the most memorable horror films of the time. Warwick's diabolical performance is not the only thing to watch out for here, as a young Jennifer Aniston makes her debut on the big screen in the film. Kevin Spacey also appears in the film as the elusive architect behind the twisted, transgressional murder of the film. It's just as scary when Ghostface ( now one of the most recognizable "faces" of horror ) begins to stab through the student body in Woodsboro High. The horror film by alexandre Aja is based on two students, Marie and Alex, who go to the last house for a quiet escape, when the murderer brutally murdered the whole family of Alex and then kidnaps Alex. Robert R McCammon was one of the most successful and prolific authors of horror films of the 1980s and early 1990s, before an editorial discussion prompted him to take a ten - year break from writing. Michael McDowell's recently regenerated horror classic is not characterized by queer characters, but by his saga of McCray and wild families - and the sandy spirit that torments their Victorian beach houses - is pure Southern Gothic with a unique gay voice. The king's novel is more like jacek Torrance, a recovering alcoholic writer ( known as "sound familiar" ) who is trying to improve his family's life by working as a janitor in a remote resort with a violent story that is barely hidden. King hates the adaptation of Kubrick, and although it is difficult to discuss the quality of the film or its place in the pantheon of horror movies, the novel is the most varied and, probably, the most frightening version of history, topiary monsters and everything. Sad, bloody and extremely psychologically disturbing, the first book in a series of barkers was praised by Stephen King as "the future of horror" when it appeared in the mid - 1980s.
No, not Courtney loves the regions of the nether ( although ), but rather the novel of the contemporary horror of big Joe Hill. Butler's sci - fi and horror are both frightening and beautiful at the same time - not an easy feat - in which a race of strangers with a tight lid saves the last members of humanity, but they demand a high price.
The novel of Koja's debut novel is both an existential masterpiece and a terrifying as hell. Created by American director Wes Craven, the 1984 Nightmare on Elm Street was created by filmgoers with one of the most original villains in history to adorn the silver screen.
The film, directed by American filmmaker William Friedkin, tells the story of a young girl possessed by a demon in 1971, based on the novel by author William Blatey.
Unlike other films in the haunted house genre, Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell added their own original touch, changing the source of paranormal activity. Frank Darabont has completed his King's trilogy with the story of ordinary people trapped in a supermarket and fighting mysterious monsters from a fog that surrounds them. There's nothing supernatural about it - just decades of pain and suppressed memories, with Bates being the protagonist and Jennifer Jason Leigh as her daughter, a tortured and tormented daughter. She is as fantastic as Annie hammond, a popular romantic writer named Paul Sheldon ( James Caan), who is imprisoned in her house until she agrees to give up her new manuscript - which she hates - and write something more to her liking. Annie could have been a simple, misogynist monster, but in the hands of Bates, the character becomes a complicated portrait of obsession, revealing the dangers of losing himself in the work of others.
Most people associate Stephen King with pictures of jacek Nicholson in a murderous fury or a terrifying clown that looks at you from the other side of the street. The king's inspiration for the book was his real stay in the famous Stanley Hotel in Colorado, and one of the most important beef with Kubrick's movie was that Kubrick didn't manage to shoot in Stanley because of the lack of snow. King deals with the nature and functionality of horror from a wide range of angles, and shows a deep knowledge of speculative fiction from every stripe, ranging from discussions about contemporary science fiction writers to medieval Gothic literature from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1950s to the horrors of beach films.
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Per il Tempo di un caffè il Progetto Crizia (Sofistica 3.0) oggi al 300mila lounge Bar a Lecce. Si parla di Parmenide e retorica
Alle origini la parola
sofista rappresentava il sapiente ed il saggio, facendo riferimento ad un
uomo esperto conoscitore e dall' ampia cultura. A partire dal V secolo, invece,
si denominarono «sofisti» quegli intellettuali che professavano la loro
conoscenza per poi insegnarla dietro compenso. Questa commercializzazione del
sapere rese i sofisti antipatici a molti poichè, per l'aristocrazia del
tempo, il fatto che un filosofo si facesse remunerare per i suoi insegnamenti
era un vero scandalo. Solo a partire dal XIX secolo la Sofistica venne
rivalutata, e oggi è riconosciuta come un periodo fondamentale della filosofia
antica. Ecco i principi del loro sapere: Centralità dell’uomo. I sofisti si
interessarono soprattutto di problematiche umane ed antropologiche. Per i
sofisti non esiste una verità, ma molte verità. Vi sono una molteplicità di opinioni
soggettive le quali, proprio perchè relative, divengono similmente valide ed
equivalenti. Dialettica e retorica sono le basi dunque per la trattazione e
divulgazione del sapere. E partendo da queste basi e sull’idea
dell’azione editoriale come azione di politica culturale per e con la società
civile l’editore de I Quaderni del bardo Edizioni Stefano Donno,
organizza periodicamente una serie di appuntamenti chiamate Lezioni
Pubbliche nella rassegna Il tempo di un Caffè inaugurando il Progetto Crizia
(Sofistica 3.0) Lezioni pubbliche sul Sapere (storia, letteratura filosofia,
arte, altro e oltre). Intervento sull’arte della retorica a cura di Mauro
Ragosta. Il secondo appuntamento che si terrà in data 19 febbraio 2019 presso
il 300 mila lounge bar in Via Centoquarantesimo Reggimento Fanteria 11 avrà
come oggetto della seconda pubblica lezione i principi fondamentali che sono
alla base del pensiero di Parmenide. Nel Poema sulla natura Parmenide indica
che la molteplicità e i cambiamenti del mondo fisico sono illusori, e afferma,
contrariamente al senso comune, la realtà dell'Essere: non transeunte e,
ingenerato, finito, immortale, unico, omogeneo, immobile, eterno. La narrazione
si snoda intorno al percorso intellettuale del filosofo che racconta il suo viaggio
immaginario verso la sede della dea Dike (dea della Giustizia) la quale lo
condurrà al «cuore inconcusso della ben rotonda verità». L ‘avvenente donna, in
quanto tutrice dell'ordine universale, sarebbe vista in tal senso anche come
garante dell'ordine logico, cioè del retto filosofare. La dea illustra al
filosofo la via dell'opinione, che conduce all'apparenza e all'inganno, e la
via della verità che conduce alla sapienza e all'Essere (τὸ εἶναι, tò èinai).
Pur non comunicando cosa sia questo essere, Parmenide è il filosofo che per
primo ne mette a tema esplicitamente il concetto; su di esso egli esprime
soltanto una lapidaria formula, la più antica testimonianza in materia, secondo
la quale «l'essere è, e non può non essere», «il non-essere non è, e non può
essere»- Si tratterà di appuntamenti agevoli nell’approccio, utili
didatticamente, che si svilupperanno nell’arco di non oltre un’ora e sono
rivolti sia ad un pubblico generalista che a studenti che vogliano approfondire
le tematiche affrontate di volta in volta
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lunedì 18 febbraio 2019
To be Philip Roth
New jork - the award - winning novelist and the
intrepid storyteller of sex, death, assimilation and destiny, from the comical
craziness of the "Portnoy Complaint" to the elegicuous lyrics of
"American shepherd ", died on Tuesday evening at 85. In recent years,
Roth has become increasingly concerned about history and its puncture, as
ordinary people have been overwhelmed by events beyond their control, such as
Jews in "The story Against America" or "The student in
outrage" who dies during The Korean War. The story told by Nathan
Zuckerman tells the story of the vietnamese era and tells the story of the rise
and fall of the slipped Irving Levov, known as "the Swede" for its
good Aryan appearance. Although it is Jewish, Levov is not as alienated as many
other Roth Jewish characters, but in reality it becomes a dominant athlete and
later a successful husband and father - someone who lives the dream of the
1950s, fully immigrating to American life. Once again told by Zuckerman, along
with his 90 - year - old high school teacher Murray, the novel follows the
story of the radio star, the radio star known as Iron Rinn, who turned into
communism during the second World War and then vili. Nathan Zuckerman, an alter
ego of roth, first focuses on the fact that he decides that a young woman he
meets in the house of a renowned Jewish writer, EI Lonoff, is Anne Frank. Roth
looks at the political turmoil of the Vietnam war years, and Zuckerman re -
imagines Swede's life, a young promising man who thought he had made the
American dream come true - until his life began to unravel around him. The
fascist acquisition, rooted in the children of Newark Roth, seemed completely
plausible after 11 september and is increasingly urgent in the Donald Trump
era. And Mickey, the main character of the Sabbath theatre, one of Roth's great
novels at the end of his career, is in many ways old - fashioned Portnoy, but
still in the hands of lust and desire, he is angry with the indignation of old
times, but saved from suicidal impulses. Roth's autobiographical phase began in
1974 with My Life as a Man, which he said was probably The least changed in
fact from his books, and continued with The Zuckerman trilogy - The Writer of
The spirit ( 1979 ) and The Lesson of Anatomy ( 1983 ). Like Portnoy's
Complaint, The Sabbath theatre seemed to release its author, but The ensuing
work - which Roth called his American trilogy : American pastor, I Married a
Communist and a Human Stain - is less about sex than about history or traumatic
moments in American culture. Zuckerman, like Roth, a Jewish writer who was
attacked by Jewish critics at the beginning of his career, was one of the many
characters that Roth had repeated in his fiction. Philip Milton Roth was born
to the first generation of Americans in 1933 - Herman Roth, a Life insurance
salesman, and his wife, the former Bess Finkel. U. s. President Barack Obama
will present the National Medal of Humanities to the writer Philip Roth at a
ceremony at the White House in Washington in 2011. If few American writers
compare with Roth's direct analysis of the desires and decline of the male
body, it's because Roth wrote about so many of his own physical challenges with
almost unbearable clarity. Where John Updike, his competitor in a literary
marathon of the mid - 1970s - in which each of them had the other, step by
step, step by step, breaking books such as sweat - regularly published eight
poems in the format, essays, jeux d 'esprit' esprit 'esprit' esprit's regularly
published. In the meantime, adultery is the most American of the acts, being a
form of search for happiness that is accessible to other limited actors : in
Roth, the removal of the Jewish tribe is the cost of cosmopolitan education
promoted by the jews. Philip Roth, whose life is an open book that spans three
decades of autobiographical fiction and fact, ironically does not like to give
public lectures and is a reluctant topic of interrogation. Roth and Kennedy
belong to more than 170 Writers in 50 cities to participate in the first
National Reading on Tuesday : Writers Harvest for the Homeless, the son of
fryderyk Busch, a novelist and college professor. Roth considers Newark to be
an American success story in the 1930s and 1940s. While predecessors such as
Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud wrote about the painful adaptation of Jews from
the lives of immigrants, Roth's heroes were the next generation. According to
Alexander Portnoy's story, Roth's novel satirized the boring expectations of
"nice Jewish boys" and immortalized the most heartbreaking
manifestations of sexual obsession.
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