Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (SUNY series, INTERRUPTIONS: Border Testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s)

Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher's experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska.

Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (Interruptions Border Testimon)

Biographies & Memoirs

Brown, Stephen Gilbert

Professionals & Academics

State University of New York Press

Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher's experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska. Using the author’s intensely personal, reflective, provocative account of his time teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska, Words in the Wilderness uniquely draws together individual experience and difficult abstract theory to make an educational, inspiring, and thought-provoking work.

SUNY Press

The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime

Offers a psychocritical reading of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). The Gardens of Desire is at once a model of literary interpretation and a groundbreaking psychocritical reading of a literary masterpiece, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). Shedding new light on the origins of the creative impulse in general, and on the psychological origins of the Recherche in particular, the book illuminates the hidden associations between matricidal, suicidal, sadistic, masochistic, homoerotic, and creative impulses as manifested in Proust’s work. The book moves beyond traditional Freudian readings of Proust to consider the theories of Otto Rank, Jacques Derrida, and others, and provides provocative readings of the “privileged moments” that comprise many of the work’s “critical cruxes,” as well as a thought-provoking rereading of the novel’s ending. Both elegant and accessible, this book boldly explores the violence of desire as it relates not only to Proust’s narrator, but also to Proustian criticism itself, with its own violent desire to appropriate the essence of Proust’s masterpiece.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Offers a psychocritical reading of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). The Gardens of Desire is at once a model of literary interpretation and a groundbreaking psychocritical reading of a literary masterpiece, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past). Shedding new light on the origins of the creative impulse in general, and on the psychological origins of the Recherche in particular, the book illuminates the hidden associations between matricidal, suicidal, sadistic, masochistic, homoerotic, and creative impulses as manifested in Proust's work. The book moves beyond traditional Freudian readings of Proust to consider the theories of Otto Rank, Jacques Derrida, and others, and provides provocative readings of the "privileged moments" that comprise many of the work's "critical cruxes," as well as a thought-provoking rereading of the novel's ending. Both elegant and accessible, this book boldly explores the violence of desire as it relates not only to Proust's narrator, but also to Proustian criticism itself, with its own violent desire to appropriate the essence of Proust's masterpiece. "This book is extremely well written and highly readable—free of jargon but subtle in its grasp of theories. What I like most is Brown's bold use of the theories of Otto Rank to discover and articulate affinities between New Critical and postmodern readings of Proust." — Jefferson Humphries, Louisiana State University

Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)

Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny is at once a model of literary interpretation and a psycho-critical reading of Hemingway’s life and art. This book is a provocative and theoretically sophisticated inquiry into the traumatic origins of the creative impulse and the dynamics of identity formation in Hemingway. Building on a body of wound-theory scholarship, the book seeks to reconcile the tensions between opposing Hemingway camps, while moving beyond these rivalries into a broader analysis of the relationship between trauma, identity formation and art in Hemingway.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Butterflies in the Rain: A Tale of Old Hollywood - The Life, Art, and Tragic Death of Silent Film Starlet, Regina Doyle

Arts & Literature

BearManor Media

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Books by Brown, Stephen Gilbert

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Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (Interruptions Border Testimon)

Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (SUNY series, INTERRUPTIONS: Border Testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s)

The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime

The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime

Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)

Butterflies in the Rain: A Tale of Old Hollywood - The Life, Art, and Tragic Death of Silent Film Starlet, Regina Doyle