Books tagged: deconstruction

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Thoughts on The Speckled Band    by Jocelyn Macdonald
Price: Free! 1880 words. Published on October 1, 2009. .

This is a short paper concerning gender representation in the popular Sherlock Holmes mystery "The Adventure of the Speckled Band."
Sunny Ella    by Sally Zybert
Price: $2.99 USD. 28940 words. Published on April 7, 2011. .

It seems to be the classic Cinderella story. With the help of a fairy godmother, beautiful Ella meets and falls in love with a handsome prince. But Ella has lost her mind from years of abuse from her stepmother and things aren't as she imagines.
The Augmented Chronicles    by Samuel Fleming
Price: $2.99 USD. 42490 words. Published on June 19, 2012. .

The world has already ended once. The Augmentation they called it. People changed: Some could pick up cars, others woke up as gods. Not all of them were nice people. Now there is a new order. The powerful rule over the weak. But their world will not last forever. No amount of power can hide the very human flaws that lie within each of us.
The Longing of Shiina Ryo vol. 2    by Ryuno from AvalonRK
Price: Free! 72200 words. Published on October 1, 2012. .

The second book in the trilogy! After the uncanny events of "first week case", new possibilities appear in front of the main characters. However, things are not what they seemed to be at first and so many issues have deeper roots than they assumed...
The Formula    by Peter Johnston
Price: $0.99 USD. 4840 words. Published on October 24, 2012. .

A hero unlike any other fights to save the world.
Hollywood and the Killer Lesbian    by Robert Cettl
Price: $4.99 USD. 10610 words. Published by Wider Screenings | Transgressor  on January 9, 2013. .

Amidst the socio-sexual upheavals of the 1970s, Hollywood used a re-envisioning of the detective character from traditional film noir to essay the threat to heterosexual patriarchy posed by transgressive homosexuality. Thus, in one 1972 film emerged American cinema's way of dealing with that threat - the archetype of the Killer Lesbian was cemented!
Turning Point: People's History meets Nationalist Narrative in Pakistan    by Bilal Hamid
Price: $5.99 USD. 55660 words. Published on April 11, 2013. .

What happens when a nationalist discourse falls apart? When major events after the creation of a country are explained only in terms of conspiracy because the nationalist discourse would be challenged? Does it mean the entire narrative of creating a country is flawed? In the last decade of his life, the official historian of Pakistan turned against all his writings he had earlier authored.