Scott Durham

Genet: In the Language of the Enemy

Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism

Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism

Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism

Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum—sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model—in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy, and cultural studies.The author pursues two int...

The Killing of Perry Santos: And Other Short Stories

Scott Durham offers a fast-paced sampling of his story telling style in his debut book. In this captivating compilation of short stories, Durham brings readers into a rift in time, government conspiracies, a chance encounter, espionage, Armageddon, kidnapping, and the twists and turns found in every...

Canyon Riddle

This murder is set in the high plains and deep canyon of West Texas. When 3 young boys find a human skeleton in Palo Duro Canyon Texas Ranger Scott Durham is asked to find out what happened. Finding who left a body in the second largest canyon in the United States leads to discovering more than a mu...

Yale French Studies, Number 91: Genet: In the Language of the Enemy (Yale French Studies Series)

"I couldn't change the world alone, I could only pervert it: that is what I attempted by a corruption of language, that is to say from within this French language that appears so noble." It is in these terms that Jean Genet describes his ambiguous role in the French literary canon: that of an enemy ...