[PDF] Phantom Fathers eBook

Author : Mary VanderGoot
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1666796093

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Another story about Maggie Barnes and her family. By digging into online genealogy records and talking with their chatty Aunt Lillian, Maggie's children discover the World War II struggles of their paternal grandparents and their silent father, Ross. It's not a story to make kids proud. They find it easier to be critical of their flawed family and assume the next generation will do better. Like an autopsy, Phantom Fathers exposes the problems of this thinking. Soon enough these critical children will be the parents of their own adult children, and they will have their day in court. As Maggie's children discover the trauma that tore through their father's life and the way their grandparents dealt with it--brutal events during World War II, desperate decisions that fractured the family, and a dishonorable emigration to the United States--they wonder if they could have done better under the circumstances. Ross's silence begins to make sense. Most surprising are events that stir the sympathy of disappointed children and open the way to admitting the truth about imperfect ancestors.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Author Barry Gifford gathers the scattered memories of his childhood to try to understand.

Author : Sharon Estill Taylor
Publisher : Cedar Forge Press
Page : pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781943290222

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A daughter's search and recovery mission to bring home her father, 1Lt. Shannon Estill, a P-38 fighter pilot and one of the last casualties of World War II.

Author : Marc Redfield
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501723170

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Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesthetics, and also that aesthetics exemplifies what is called ideology. He combines a wide-ranging account of the history and theory of aesthetics with close readings of novels by Goethe, George Eliot, and Gustave Flaubert. For Redfield, these fictions of character formation demonstrate the paradoxical relation between aesthetics and literature: the notion of the Bildungsroman may be expanded to apply to any text that can be figured as a subject producing itself in history, which is to say any text whatsoever. At the same time, the category may be contracted to include only a handful of novels, (or even none at all), a paradox that has led critics to denigrate the Bildungsroman as a phantom genre.

Author : Lee Falk
Publisher :
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release :
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :

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The Last Phantom - series of 12 comics

Author : Maureen Murdock
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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For many women, the most important relationship in their lives has been with their father. Using myth, fairy tale, literature, and real-life stories, Jungian therapist Maureen Murdock reveals the unspoken truth about daughters and the immense power the fathers they idealize have over them.

Author : Katie Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350120871

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The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade's most popular films like Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lion King (1994). Interpreting such films through the lens of feminist and queer theory, along with masculinity studies and psychoanalysis, Katie Barnett offers an insightful and interdisciplinary discussion of cinematic fathers. Barnett reveals that the father figure is often portrayed as one that invests in and is part of a discourse of reproductive futurism. This plays out across a range of genres including rom-coms, fantasy, sci-fi, drama, and disaster. By exploring both blockbuster and more low-budget films of the 1990s, Barnett explores the figure of the father against the crisis of masculinity in the United States, and indeed more globally, at this time.