Jeffrey DeShell

S & M

S & M relentlessly questions the roles langu age and imagination play in the construction of sexual and e motional desire. The novel revolves around a lesbian relatio nship and a married university professor experimenting with sex. '

A Novel

On the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music. In his newest novel, Jeffrey DeShell draws on the musical innovations of Arnold Schoenberg—by turns traditional, serial, and atonal—to inform his grammar and language. Moving progressively through specific Schoenberg compositions, DeShell complicates the surface of his text into lyrical derivatives, all the while drawing us into a murder mystery like no other as Detective Francisca Fruscella pursues both the killer and her own complicated personal history. By turns rapturous, rigorous, and gripping, Expectation is a thriller of another kind—and a bold venture to the limits of the mystery genre and language itself.

A Francesca Fruscella Mystery

Expectation

A fierce portrait of memory, family, and regret The Trouble with Being Born is a stark meditation on memory and the struggle-both necessary and impossible-to remember.

The Trouble with Being Born

Jeffrey DeShell's Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen Modernist films.

Arthouse

Cris Mazza

Chick Lit Postfeminist Fiction

Elisabeth Sheffield

The follow-up volume to Mazza and DeShell's hugely popular Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction Chick-Lit 2: No Chick Vics features new work by Rikki Ducornet, Eurydice, Elizabeth Graver, Ursule Molinaro, and fourteen other witty and deadly serious writers. Chick-Lit 2 discovers new and alternative voices in women's fiction whose stories do not involve trauma that comes from the outside. As Mazza writes in her introduction, "Sexual assaults and harassments and injurious poor body images do exist and have waged a war on women (the American Medical Association says so). But for this book, I was interested in seeing what action(s) women characters can incite on their own, whether bad or good, hopeful or dead-end, progressive or destructive."

(no Chick Vics)

Chick-lit 2

A fierce portrait of memory, family, and regret"The Trouble with Being Born" is a stark meditation on memory and the struggle both necessary and impossible to remember."

Argues that Poe's fiction remains outside the realm of critical analysis and that its nature resists interpretation.

An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction

The Peculiarity of Literature

Isabelle Dervaux

Mary-Kay Lombino

"Col.or explores intimate works produced over the past 12 years, which illustrate Breuer's practice of subjecting photographic paper to a range of erosive treatments. By folding, scoring, burning, scouring, abrading or striking the paper, Breuer coaxes a vivid range of colours and textures from his material. Scarred and lacerated, the works become alloys of light and physical contact, records of their own coming-into-being."--Publisher's website.

Jeffrey DeShell

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