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Edinburgh University Press Glossalalia An Alphabet of Critical Keywords
Book SynopsisIn this volume, 26 newly commissioned essays provide distinct, original and sometimes playful or unusual definitions of theoretical keywords - both unexpected terms as well as words well established in the critical canon.Trade ReviewThis challenging and entertaining volume!is a celebration of critical theory at its most exciting! a most compelling compilation. I find myself really curious about Wolfreys's Glossalalia - An Alphabet of Critical Keywords . The topics are so diverse and so tantalizing (Flirting! Yarn! X!). The attraction of essays approaching the large topic of theory from such slightly offbeat perspectives is immense. Wolfreys has assembled an impressive collection of collaborators from both Britain and the United States. -- J Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine This challenging and entertaining volume!is a celebration of critical theory at its most exciting! a most compelling compilation. I find myself really curious about Wolfreys's Glossalalia - An Alphabet of Critical Keywords . The topics are so diverse and so tantalizing (Flirting! Yarn! X!). The attraction of essays approaching the large topic of theory from such slightly offbeat perspectives is immense. Wolfreys has assembled an impressive collection of collaborators from both Britain and the United States.Table of ContentsForeword: the alpahbetic body; Brian Rotman, Ohio State University; Animality; Frederick Young, University of Florida; Biotechnologies; Christopher Johnson, Keele University; Chora; Gregory Ulmer, University of Florida; Difference; Arkady Plotnitsky, Director, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, Purdue University; Event; Julian Wolfreys, University of Southern California; Flirting; Ruth Robbins, Nene College; Genetics; Stephanie Smith, University of Florida; Hypertext; Terry Harpold, Department of English, University of Florida; I; Thomas Pepper, University of Minnesota; Jouissance; Juliet Flower MacCannell, University of California, Irvine; Knowledge; Margaret Russett, University of Southern California; Love; Daniel Cottom, University of Idaho; Music; Simon Critchley, Essex University; Nation; John Brannigan, Queen's, Belfast; Origins; Julian Wolfreys; Poetics; Geoff Ward, University of Dundee; Quilting; John P. Leavey, Jr., University of Florida; Reification; Silvia Lopez, Carleton College, Minnesota; Schizoanalysis; Tamsin Lorraine, Swarthmore College; Tele-techno-theology; Martin McQuillan, Staffordshire University; Universals; Mark Currie, University of Westminster; Visuality; Steven Ungar, University of Iowa; Wit; Drew Milne, Cambridge University; X; Tom Conley, Harvard University; Yarn; Valentine Cunningham, Oxford University; Zero; J Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine; Notes on Contributors.
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Edinburgh University Press A Historical Companion to Postcolonial
Book SynopsisThe first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Latin America and the Philippines.Table of ContentsPreface, Walter Mignolo; INTRODUCTION, Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke, Lars Jensen; Acknowledgements; General editors & section editors; List of maps; Map 1: World Colonisation 1550; A selective chronology; Map 2: World Colonisation 1914; BELGIUM & ITS COLONIES; Map 3: The Belgian Colonial Empire; Introduction, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick); Anthropology & Ethnography, Maarten Couttenier (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Anticolonial Resistance, Carina Yervasi (Swarthmore College); Belgian Imperial Policy, Martin Shipway (Birkbeck College, University of London); Belgian Missionaries in the Congo, Pascale Stacey (Liverpool University); Colonial & Postcolonial Exhibitions, Sabine Cornelis (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Brussels); Comics & the Belgian Congo, Nancy Hunt (Michigan University); Evolues, Priscilla Ringrose (Trondheim University); Historiography: The Belgian Congo, Pascale Stacey & Victoria Reid (Liverpool University); Kimbangu, Anne Melice (Liege University); Leopold II, Lieve Spaas (Kingston University, London); Missions in the Danish-Norwegian colonies, Louise Sebro (Lund University); Mobutu, Priscilla Appama (Universit de Franche-Comt, Besanon, France); Narratives of Empire: Postcolonial Congo, Pierre Halen (Paul Verlaine-Metz University); The Red Rubber Scandal, Aisling Campbell (Liverpool University); The Rwanda Genocide of the 1990s, Colette Braeckman (Brussels); Andre Ryckmans, Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde University); Pierre Ryckmans, Therese De Raedt (Utah University); The Scramble for the Congo, Colette Braeckman (Brussels); Tippu Tip, Fiona Barclay (University of Glasgow); DENMARK AND ITS COLONIES; Map 4: Denmark and Norway: Colonial Possessions c.1800; Introduction, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Abolition of Slavery, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Anthropology, Greenland and Colonialism, Ole Hoiris (Aarhus University); Charter Companies, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Colonial Exhibitions, Cheralyn Mealor (Aarhus University); Creolisation, Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde University); The Greenlandic Colonial Administration, Mette Ronsager (Copenhagen University); Greenlandic Writers, Karen Langgard (University of Greenland); Grundtvig, N.F.S., Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Thorkild Hansen and the Critique of Empire, Marianne Stecher-Hansen (University of Washington); Historiography, Michael Bregnsbo (University of Southern Denmark); Home Rule, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Migrancy, Kirsten Hvenegard-Lassen (Roskilde University); Missions in the Danish-Norwegian Colonies, Louise Sebro (Lund University); Modernisation of Greenland, Klaus Georg Hansen (Nuuk); Narratives and Fictions of Empire, Claire Thomson (University College, London); Orientalism and Exoticism, John Botofte (Brussels); Race and Ethnicity, Greenland, Karen Langgard (University of Greenland); Knud Rasmussen, Nanna Folke Olsen (Copenhagen); Thule, Pia Kruger Johansen (Roskilde University); Tropical Colonies, Esther Fihl (Copenhagen Unversity); Viking Settlements, Lasse Wolsgard(Copenhagen); FRANCE AND ITS COLONIES; Map 5: The French Colonial Empire; Introduction, Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University); The Algerian War, Nicholas Harrison (King's College); Anthropology and Ethnography, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick); Anti-colonialism, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); Colonial Administration, Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth); Colonial Education, Claire Griffiths (University of Hull); Creolisation and Creoleness, Maeve McCusker (Queen's University); Decolonization, Stephen Tyre (University of St Andrews); Exploration and Travel, Aedin Ni Loingsigh (University of Edinburgh); France in Asia and the Indian Ocean, Kate Marsh (Liverpool University); France in North America, Bill Marshall (University of Glasgow); France in the South Pacific, Amanda Macdonald (University of Queensland); Francophone, Margaret A. Majumdar (University of Portsmouth); Francophone Black Atlantic, H. Adlai Murdoch (University of Illinois); Francophone Caribbean, Martin Munro (University of the West Indies); Haiti, Mariana Past (Dickinson College); Historiography, Stephen Tyre (University of St Andrews); Imperial Policy, Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth); Internal Colonialism, Eamon O Ciosain (National University of Ireland); Massacres, Charles Forsdick, (Liverpool University), Migrancy, Aedin Ni Loingsigh (University of Edinburgh); Narratives and Fictions of Empire, David Murphy (University of Stirling); Negritude, Patrick Corcoran (Roehampton University); Neo-colonialism, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); North Africa and the Middle East, Patrick Crowley (University College, Cork); Orientalism and Exoticism, Siobhan Shilton (Bristol University); Race and Ethnicity, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); Religion, Kamal Salhi (University of Leeds); Slavery and Abolition, Maeve McCusker (Queen's University, Belfast); Sub-Saharan Africa, David Murphy (University of Stirling); Tirailleurs Senegalais, Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University); Women's Histories, Winifred Woodhull (University of California at San Diego); GERMANY AND ITS COLONIES; Map 6: The German Colonies; Introduction, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); African Playground, Nana Badenberg (Basel); Anthropology and Ethnography, H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa); Anti-colonial Struggles, Tanja Buhrer (Universitat Bern); Askari and Askari Myth, Michelle Moyd (Ithaca); Berlin Conference, Tanja Buhrer (Universitat Bern); Black Germans, Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool); Cameroon, Ralph A. Austen (University of Chicago); Colonial Administration, Jurgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield); Colonial Culture-Impact on Germany, Alexander Honold (Universitat Basel); Colonial Education, Sven Werkmeister (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Colonial Literature, Alexander Honold (Universitat Basel); Colonial Migration and the Law, Pascal Grosse (Universitatsmedizin, Berlin); Colonial Monuments, Joachim Zeller (Berlin); Colonial Revisionism, Susann Lewerenz (Hamburg); Colonialism and African Writing, Nina Berman (Ohio State University); Commercial Ethnographic Exhibitions, Hilke Thode-Arora (Markt Schwaben); German East Africa, Christian Geulen (Universitat Koblenz-Landau); German New Guinea, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); German Samoa, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); German South-west Africa, Daniel J. Walther (Wartburg College); Herero Genocide, Jurgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield); Historiography: Germany, Sebastian Conrad (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut); Hybridity and Race Relations, Frank Becker (Historisches Seminar, Munster); Kiaochow, Klaus Mulhahn (University of Turku); The Language Question, Sven Werkmeister (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Missions, Ulrich van der Heyden (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin), NS-Colonialism, Dirk van Laak (Weimar); Orientalism, Nina Berman (Ohio State University); Race and Ethnicity, Michael Schubert (Universitat Osnabruck); Slavery, the Slave Trade and Abolition, J.-G. Deutsch and M. Zeuske (Universitat zu Koln); Togo, Peter Sebald (Berlin); TheVersailles Conference, Boris Barth (Universitat Konstanz); West Africa: 17th-18th Century, Ulrich van der Heyden (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Women's Histories, Lora Wildenthal (Rice University); ITALY AND ITS COLONIES; Map 7: The Italian Colonies 1940; Introduction, Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University); Adwa, Alessandro Triulzi (Istituto Orientale, Naples); Albania, Nicola Mai (London Metropolitan University); Anthropology and Ethnology, Barbara Sorgoni (Universita Federico II); Anti-colonial Resistance in Eastern Libya, Ali Abdullah Ahmida (University of New England); Anti-colonial Resistance in Italian East Africa, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); Dodecanese Islands, Nicholas Doumanis (University of South Wales); Eritrea to 1935, Tekaeste Negash (Dalarna University); Ethiopian War, Nicola Labanca (Siena University); Fictions and Narratives of Empire, Charles Burdett (Bristol University); Antonio Gramsci and the Southern Question, Nelson Moe (Barnard College); Rodolfo Graziani, Nicola Labanca (Siena University); Haile Selassie, William R. Scott (Lehigh University); Immigration, Jacqueline Andall (Bath Unversity); Italian East Africa, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); Italophone Literature, Cristina Lombardi-Diop (American University in Rome); Land Expropriations, Federico Cresti (Catania University); Land Settlements, Federico Cresti (Catania University); Libya, Mia Fuller (University of California at Berkeley); Orientalism, Cristina Lombardi-Diop (American University in Rome); Racial Policies, Barbara Sorgoni (Universita Federico II); The Sanusi Order or Sanusiyya, 1837-1932, Ali Abdullah Ahmida (University of New England); Somalia before 1935, Tekeste Negash (Dalarna University); Women's Histories, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); THE NETHERLANDS AND ITS COLONIES; Map 8: The Dutch Colonial Empire; Introduction, Luc Allofs (Museum of Aruba), Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State), Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Theo D'haen (University of Leiden); Anthropology and Ethnography, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Anti-colonial Resistance, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Edgar Cairo, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Colonial Administration, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Counts of Orange, Eric Martone (Waterbury); Creolisation and Creoleness, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Patricia Krus (University of Stirling) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Critique of Imperialism/Anti-colonialism, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); December Killings, Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Decolonisation, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); The Dutch Colonisation of N. America J. P. Alessi (Colorado Springs); The Dutch in Brazil, Mark Meuwese (Winnipeg University); The Dutch in Colonial America, Richard C. Kagan (Hamline University); The Dutch in Taiwan, Richard C. Kagan (Hamline University); The Dutch in the Caribbean, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Albert Helman, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Historiography, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), P. Krus and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Immigration in the Netherlands, Jeroen Doomernik (University of Amsterdam); Missionaries and Religion, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Narratives of Empire, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Nationalism/Nationhood, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Orientalism/Exoticism, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Race and Ethnicity, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Race and Language in South Africa, Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Slavery and Abolition, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and P. Krus; Women's Histories, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Patricia Krus (University of Stirling), Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); OTHER EUROPES; Clash of Civilisations, Couze Venn (Nottingham Trent University); The Jewish Diaspora, Ilan Pappe (Haifa University); Postcolonial Russia, Ewa Thompson (Rice University); Postcolonial Sweden, Sheila Ghose (New York University); Turkey, Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS); PORTUGAL AND ITS COLONIES; Map 9: The Portuguese Colonial Empire 1415-1999; Introduction, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Anthropology and Ethnography, Miguel Vale de Almeida (Lisbon University); Anti-Colonial Struggles, David Robinson (University of Western Australia); The Brazilian Independence Process, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Amilcar Cabral, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); The Carnation Revolution, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); Charter Companies/Prazos, Corrado Tornimbeni (Bologna University); Creolisation and Creoleness, David Brookshaw (Bristol University); Explorations and Discoveries, Isabel Moutinho (La Trobe University); FRELIMO (Mozambique), David Robinson (University of Western Australia); FRETILIN and Xanana Gusmao, Anthony Soares (Belfast University); The Frontline States, David Robinson (University of Western Australia); Goa, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Henry the Navigator, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); Historiography, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Independence Movements (Azores and Madeira), Carmen Maria, Ramos Villar (Sheffield University); The Liberation Wars and Decolonisation, Norrie MacQueen (Dundee University); Lusophone African Literature, Russell Hamilton (Vanderbilt University); Lusotropicalism, Race and Ethnicity, Anna Klobucka (University of Massachusetts); Samora Machel, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Eduardo Mondlane, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Moorish Portugal, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); MPLA (Angola), Helia Santos (Coimbra University); Agostinho Neto, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Orientalism in the Lusophone World, Ana Maria Mao-de Ferro Martinho (Lisbon Nova University); Overseas Provinces/The Colonial Act, Robert Moser (Georgia University); PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde); Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Pepetela, Igor Cusack (Birmingham University); Postcolonial African Immigration to Portugal, Sheila Khan (Belfast University); RENAMO (Mozambique), David Robinson (University of Western Australia); Salazar and the New State, Victor J. Mendes (University of Massachusetts); Dom Sebastiao, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Slavery and Abolition, David Brookshaw (Bristol University); Timor and Indonesia: Shared currents, Anthony Soares (Belfast University); UNITA (Angola), Helia Santos (Coimbra University); Vasco da Gama, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Women's Histories, Hilary Owen (Manchester University); Map 10: The Iberian Empires 1581-1640; SPAIN. LATIN AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES; Map 11: The Spanish Colonial Empire; Introduction, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); The Andean Avant-Garde, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); Andean Textiles, Denise Arnold (Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara); Anti-colonial Struggle, Arturo Arias (University of Redlands); Arturo Borda, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); 'Caliban', John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Christian Influences on Philippine Society, Dante L. Ambrosio (University of the Philippines); Colonial Baroque, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Colonialism and Popular Culture, Denise Arnold (Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara); Discovery and Conquest, Gonzalo Lamana (University of Pittsburgh); Uriel Garcia, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); Hibridacion, Joshua Lund (University of Pittsburgh); Indigeneity, Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan); Indigenismo and Mestisaje, Javier Sanjines (University of Michigan); Latin American Critical Thought, Michael Handelsman (University of Tennessee); Marianisation in the Philippines, Evelyn A. Miranda (University of the Philippines); Marronage and Rebellion, Juan Antonio Hernandez (Cornell University); The Philippines-Mexico Connection, Jaime Veneracion (University of the Philippines); The Popol Vuj, Carlos Lopez (Marshall University); Postcoloniality and Alternative Histories, Julia Suarez Krabbe (Roskilde University); Fausto Reinaga, Marcia Stephenson (Purdue University); The Role of Literature in Filipino Resistance, Maria Luisa T. Reyes (University of the Philippines); Spain, Modernity, and Colonialism, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Spanish Colonialism in a World Perspective, Julia Suarez Krabbe (Roskilde University); The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Map 12: World Colonisation 1945; Alphabetical List of Contributors; Index of Authors (cited); Index of Subjects.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music
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Edinburgh University Press On the Margins of Modernism Xu Xu Wumingshi and
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Little, Brown Book Group Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
Book SynopsisNamed by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clichés with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train.In the classic creative writing guide Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, Highsmith reveals her secrets for producing world-class crime and thrillers, from imaginative tips for generating ideas to useful ways of turning them into stunning stories.
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AltaMira Press,U.S. The Portable Postmodernist
Book SynopsisIntroduces key concepts written by postmodernism's leading theorists including Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson. This book defines the postmodernism's most elusive ideas. It explores and challenges postmodernism's role in popular culture. It is suitable for students and those interested in media, social, and cultural studies.Trade ReviewBerger is clearly a well-read and wide-ranging scholar. -- K. Tololyan, Wesleyan University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Postmodernism Defined Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Pastiche Chapter 4 Chapter 3: The "Post" in Postmodernism Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Postmodernism and Pop Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Postmodernism as Eclecticism Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Postmodernism as Illusions Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Four Aspects of Postmodernism Chapter 9 Chapter 8: Nietzsche and Postmodernism Chapter 10 Chapter 9: Feminism and Postmodernity Chapter 11 Chapter 10: Julia Kristeva's "Stabat Mater" Chapter 12 Chapter 11: Postmodernism and Nihilism Chapter 13 Chapter 12: Postmodernism and Hyperreality Chapter 14 Chapter 13: Postmodern Artists and Writers Chapter 15 Chapter 14: Death of the Author Chapter 16 Chapter 15: Modernist and Postmodernist Works Chapter 17 Chapter 16: Saussure and Language Chapter 18 Chapter 17: Derrida and Differance Chapter 19 Chapter 18: Spy magazine and Postmodernism Chapter 20 Chapter 19: Postmodern Novels: Thomas Pynchon Chapter 21 Chapter 20: Modern Novels: Robert Musil Chapter 22 Chapter 21: Postmodern Language and Meaning Chapter 23 Chapter 22: Modernism Defined Chapter 24 Chapter 23: A Critique of Fredric Jameson Chapter 25 Chapter 24: The Postmodernization of Culture Chapter 26 Chapter 25: African Americans and Postmodernism Chapter 27 Chapter 26: Punk and Postmodernism Chapter 28 Chapter 27: Sorties Chapter 29 Chapter 28: Images and Simulation Chapter 30 Chapter 29: Postmodernist Architecture Chapter 31 Chapter 30: Postmodern Sensibility Chapter 32 Chapter 31: The Modernist James Joyce Chapter 33 Chapter 32: The Postmodernist Georges Perec Chapter 34 Chapter 33: Disney and Postmodernism Chapter 35 Chapter 34: Postmodernism as Chaotic Critique Chapter 36 Chapter 35: A Postmodern Hotel Chapter 37 Chapter 36: Signs and Signifiers Chapter 38 Chapter 37: "Conservative" and "Critical" Postmodernism Chapter 39 Chapter 38: Advertising, Women, and Postmodernism Chapter 40 Chapter 39: Postmodernism and Consumer Behavior Chapter 41 Chapter 40: Rescuing Modernism Chapter 42 Chapter 41: Postmodernism and Jenny Jones Chapter 43 Chapter 42: Blade Runner as a Postmodern Film Chapter 44 Chapter 43: Postmodernism and the Novel Chapter 45 Chapter 44: Hypertext and Pastiche Chapter 46 Chapter 45: Postmodern Cuisine Chapter 47 Chapter 46: Postmodern Questions Chapter 48 Chapter 47: Postmodernism and Therapy Chapter 49 Chapter 48: Romantic Love Chapter 50 Chapter 49: Modernism and Postmodernism in the Arts Chapter 51 Chapter 50: Postmodernism/Modernism Chart Chapter 52 A Concluding Note Chapter 53 Bibliography Chapter 54 About the Author
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AltaMira Press,U.S. The Portable Postmodernist
Book SynopsisIntroduces key concepts written by postmodernism's leading theorists including Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson. This book defines the postmodernism's most elusive ideas. It explores and challenges postmodernism's role in popular culture. It is suitable for students and those interested in media, social, and cultural studies.Trade ReviewBerger is clearly a well-read and wide-ranging scholar. -- K. Tololyan, Wesleyan University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Postmodernism Defined Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Pastiche Chapter 4 Chapter 3: The "Post" in Postmodernism Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Postmodernism and Pop Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Postmodernism as Eclecticism Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Postmodernism as Illusions Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Four Aspects of Postmodernism Chapter 9 Chapter 8: Nietzsche and Postmodernism Chapter 10 Chapter 9: Feminism and Postmodernity Chapter 11 Chapter 10: Julia Kristeva's "Stabat Mater" Chapter 12 Chapter 11: Postmodernism and Nihilism Chapter 13 Chapter 12: Postmodernism and Hyperreality Chapter 14 Chapter 13: Postmodern Artists and Writers Chapter 15 Chapter 14: Death of the Author Chapter 16 Chapter 15: Modernist and Postmodernist Works Chapter 17 Chapter 16: Saussure and Language Chapter 18 Chapter 17: Derrida and Differance Chapter 19 Chapter 18: Spy magazine and Postmodernism Chapter 20 Chapter 19: Postmodern Novels: Thomas Pynchon Chapter 21 Chapter 20: Modern Novels: Robert Musil Chapter 22 Chapter 21: Postmodern Language and Meaning Chapter 23 Chapter 22: Modernism Defined Chapter 24 Chapter 23: A Critique of Fredric Jameson Chapter 25 Chapter 24: The Postmodernization of Culture Chapter 26 Chapter 25: African Americans and Postmodernism Chapter 27 Chapter 26: Punk and Postmodernism Chapter 28 Chapter 27: Sorties Chapter 29 Chapter 28: Images and Simulation Chapter 30 Chapter 29: Postmodernist Architecture Chapter 31 Chapter 30: Postmodern Sensibility Chapter 32 Chapter 31: The Modernist James Joyce Chapter 33 Chapter 32: The Postmodernist Georges Perec Chapter 34 Chapter 33: Disney and Postmodernism Chapter 35 Chapter 34: Postmodernism as Chaotic Critique Chapter 36 Chapter 35: A Postmodern Hotel Chapter 37 Chapter 36: Signs and Signifiers Chapter 38 Chapter 37: "Conservative" and "Critical" Postmodernism Chapter 39 Chapter 38: Advertising, Women, and Postmodernism Chapter 40 Chapter 39: Postmodernism and Consumer Behavior Chapter 41 Chapter 40: Rescuing Modernism Chapter 42 Chapter 41: Postmodernism and Jenny Jones Chapter 43 Chapter 42: Blade Runner as a Postmodern Film Chapter 44 Chapter 43: Postmodernism and the Novel Chapter 45 Chapter 44: Hypertext and Pastiche Chapter 46 Chapter 45: Postmodern Cuisine Chapter 47 Chapter 46: Postmodern Questions Chapter 48 Chapter 47: Postmodernism and Therapy Chapter 49 Chapter 48: Romantic Love Chapter 50 Chapter 49: Modernism and Postmodernism in the Arts Chapter 51 Chapter 50: Postmodernism/Modernism Chart Chapter 52 A Concluding Note Chapter 53 Bibliography Chapter 54 About the Author
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Rlpg/Galleys Ciceros Accretive Style
Book SynopsisCicero''s Accretive Style is a book about the nature of the Ciceronian exordium and its rhetorical structure and function. Through a sentence-by-sentence stylistic analysis of the exordia of a selection of Cicero''s judicial speeches, this book explores how Cicero uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to fulfill the aims of the exordium as he himself defined them. The speeches selected for study include the Pro Quinctio, Pro Roscio Amerino, and Pro Rege Deiotaro, and cover the span of Cicero''s career. The focus of the analysis is on Cicero''s accretive stylenot a rhetorical device in the formal sense, but a conscious, stylistic effort whose effect is rhetorical. Because Cicero also wrote important treatises on oratory and rhetoric, this book measures how closely Cicero followed his own guidelines laid down for the exordium, and how and under what circumstances he deviated or departed from them.
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University Press of America The Visible God Staging the History of Money
Book SynopsisThe Visible God examines the semiotics of wealth, in its various representations, in select works from the ancient Greco-Roman comic tradition represented by Aristophanes and Plautus and from the tradition's inheritors in two later periods through Lucian and Shakespeare.Table of Contentschapter 1 Acknowledgments chapter 2 Author's Note chapter 3 Introduction chapter 4 Allegory, Recontainment, Possibility: Aristophane's Peace and Plautus chapter 5 The Masks of Money: Plautus' Auluaria and Trinummus, Vicissitudes of Wealth in Lucian's Timon or the Misanthrope chapter 6 Everything Becomes Allegory: The Instrumentalization of Wealth in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens chapter 7 Bibliography chapter 8
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University Press of America The Poem and the Insect Aspects of Twentieth
Book SynopsisThis book is an extension of Dr. Spooner's previous work on the interplay of insect processes and human culture as discussed in The Metaphysics of Insect Life (ISP, 1995). It continues the application of the literary, philosophical, and scientific methods employed there to the main currents in the evolution of modern Hispanic literature.
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University Press of America Pauls Literary Style
Book SynopsisPaul''s Literary Style determines quantitatively how Paul varies the style of his writing to assist communication with different communities and to ascertain some constant characteristics of his writing. Using 2 Corinthians 11:16-12:13, Romans 8:9-39, and Philippians 3:2-4:13, the author uncovers the performance of ten stylistic operations: sentence changes, complexity of the writing, adverbs and adverbial clauses, propositional reduction; logical diagrams, abstract versus concrete nouns, imagery, Leo Spitzer''s philological circle, verb density, and variety of sentence length. In this study, stylistics denotes the use of linguistics as a tool of literary criticism by which to investigate the aesthetic effects of language. This methodology produces an investigation to compare Paul''s style of communication to three different communities and discover his adaptations to different audiences.Table of Contentschapter 1 Preface chapter 2 Introduction chapter 3 Description of Stylistics chapter 4 The Historical Contexts of II Corinthians, Romans, and Philippians chapter 5 A Stylistic and Historical Comparison of II Corinthians 11:16-12:13, Philippians 3:2-4:13, and Romans 8:9-39 chapter 6 Conclusion chapter 7 Appendices chapter 8 Works Cited chapter 9 Indices chapter 10 Author Biographical Sketch
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Rlpg/Galleys 222
Book Synopsis222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-perfection in Western culture over the last five centuries by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, Kafka, E.M. Cioran, Karl Kraus, Fernando Pessoa, and many others. About four in ten of the entries in 222 consist of conversations between Steven Carter and aphorists of the past, including many of the above. In publishing this initial volume of a projected multi-volume work, Carter hopes to join the ranks of current aphorists and anthologistsJames Richardson and James Geary, to name twowhose recent works help to further the grand tradition of the aphorism, which began in ancient Greece with Hippocrates, the West''s first known aphorist. While 222 is primarily intended for a general college-educated audience, everyone can enjoy a good aphorism-as the Americans Josh Billings, Will Rogers, and especially Mark Twain have shown.Trade ReviewIn his collection of aphorisms...Steven Carter writes that many of his sayings are ?conversations? with aphorists and thinkers of the past. One aphorist Carter has done a lot of talking to is Ambrose Bierce; Carter penned <l>The New Devil?s Dictionary<l>,a kind of sequel to Bierce?s own <l>The Devil?s Dictionary<l>....he?s acquitted himself well in the few paraphrases of Benjamin Franklin he includes in the introduction.... -- James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great AphoristsIn his collection of aphorisms...Steven Carter writes that many of his sayings are “conversations” with aphorists and thinkers of the past. One aphorist Carter has done a lot of talking to is Ambrose Bierce; Carter penned The New Devil’s Dictionary, a kind of sequel to Bierce’s own The Devil’s Dictionary....he’s acquitted himself well in the few paraphrases of Benjamin Franklin he includes in the introduction. -- James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
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Hamilton Books 222
Book SynopsisThe second installment of Steven Carter''s multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of meetings of the mindsdialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.Trade ReviewTo their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done,/all in the diffidence that faltered . . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by. -- Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield CollegeSteven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts. -- Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of LisbonFiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining works. -- Dorota Janowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska UniversitySteven Carter has, I believe, made an important contribution to the study of metaphysics in our time. Such a voice ought to be heard. -- Arthur J. Spring PhD, St. John's University
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Hamilton Books 222
Book SynopsisThe third installment of Steven Carter''s multi-volume series 222: Aphorisms & Reflections features 222 additional entries, including a generous sampling of meetings of the mindsdialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.Trade ReviewSteven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts. -- Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of LisbonTo their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done,/all in the diffidence that faltered. . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by. -- Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield CollegeSteven Carter has, I believe, made an important contribution to the study of metaphysics in our time. Such a voice ought to be heard. -- Arthur J. Spring PhD, St. John's UniversityFiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining works. -- Dorota Janowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University
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Hamilton Books New Aphorisms Reflections
Book SynopsisNew Aphorisms & Reflections, the fourth volume of a major work in progress, features nearly 500 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of "meetings of the minds"-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.Trade ReviewSteven Carter has, I believe, made an important contribution to the study of metaphysics in our time. Such a voice ought to be heard. -- Arthur J. Spring PhD, St. John's UniversityTo their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgement. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done,/all in the diffidence that faltered. . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by. -- Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield CollegeSteven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts. -- Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of LisbonFiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining works. -- Dorota Janowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska UniversitySteven Carter has acquitted himself well. -- James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
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Hamilton Books New Aphorisms Reflections Second Series
Book SynopsisNew Aphorisms & Reflections: Second Series, the fifth volume of a major work in progress, features more than 400 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of 'meetings of the minds'-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.Trade ReviewSteven Carter has, I believe, made an important contribution to the study of metaphysics in our time. Such a voice ought to be heard. -- Arthur J. Spring PhD, St. John's UniversityTo their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgement. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done,/all in the diffidence that faltered. . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by. -- Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield CollegeSteven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts. -- Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of LisbonFiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining works. -- Dorota Janowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska UniversitySteven Carter has acquitted himself well. -- James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
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Hamilton Books The Judgment of the Crows Parables Fables
Book SynopsisThis book breathes new life into two of the world's oldest art forms. At times hilarious, poignant, and profound, the entries in The Judgment of the Crows are certain to instruct and entertain a diverse modern audience. The volume concludes with a handful of "improvisations" on Aesop's fables.Trade ReviewSteven Carter has acquitted himself well. -- James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great AphoristsExquisite. -- Glenn Lucke, University of VirginiaTo their credit, Steven Carter's books make honorable attempts to shore against our ruins a devotion to the powers of erudition, critical analysis, and judgment. In the words of Ezra Pound in Canto LXXXI, 'Here error is all in the not done, all in the diffidence that faltered. . .' For Steven Carter, these are words to live by. -- Edwin J. Barton, Bakersfield CollegeSteven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts.Amelia de Moura Tavares -- Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of LisbonPerfect little stories. -- Alex Stein, co-editor of Short Flights: 25 Aphorists
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Hamilton Books New Aphorisms Reflections Third Series New
Book SynopsisThis book is the sixth volume in a sequence which began with 222: Aphorisms & Reflections, featuring more than 450 entries, some autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of "meetings of the minds"-dialogues between the author and aphorists and thinkers of the past.Trade ReviewSteven Carter has, I believe, made an important contribution to the study of metaphysics in our time. Such a voice ought to be heard. -- Arthur J. Spring PhD, St. John's UniversitySteven Carter's triumph is to have established a sort of universal ethic of 'how to be,' while promoting at the same time a holistic view of human beings in individual social, cultural, and psychological contexts. -- Amelia de Moura Tavares, University of LisbonFiction prevails over reality, image over object, machine over man. Such is the process of internalizing the Other that Steven Carter presents in his most disquieting, but nevertheless entertaining works. -- Dorota Janowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska UniversitySteven Carter has acquitted himself well. -- James Geary, author of All Aphorisms, All The Time and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
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Hamilton Books Holocaust Memories
Book SynopsisWritten for students, specialists, and a general audience, Claudia Moscovici’s Holocaust Memories offers a series of more than sixty brief and informative reviews of Holocaust memoirs, fiction, histories and films.Trade ReviewThe screen that portrays the horrors of the twentieth Century is fading more rapidly than its audience can bear. Claudia Moscovici’s book will go far to help keep it lit longer. -- Joseph Polak, Author of After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring, Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book AwardThis book fills a present and mounting need for all readers interested in the Holocaust, including scholars and teachers. With the literature about that unprecedented crime becoming steadily more extensive, Claudia Moscovici's work offers a valuable and well-written guide to key works on various aspects of the Holocaust or on its entire history. -- Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University, Director, International Institute of the Righteous Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family CenterHolocaust Memories is a morally urgent book, an encyclopedia of mourning, remembrance, and compassion, an invitation and a behest to keep memory alive and to resist unwaveringly any form of authoritarian temptation. It is particularly recommended to high school and college students, but also to a general audience. I learned a lot from it and I am convinced that many others will share my superlative endorsement. -- Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Politics, University of Maryland (College Park), author of The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth CenturyA well-written series of book reviews that can be used as a solid tool for those who want to study the Holocaust. -- Radu Ioanid, author of The Holocaust in Romania and The Ransom of the JewsIntended for a wide public and a new generation of readers, this bold and ambitious book forms an overview of the Holocaust from a myriad of sources—historical, philosophical, or literary works and films. More than sixty lucid and concise essays (usually two or three pages long) introduce various circumstances of human cruelty in Germany, Hungary, Romania, and Soviet Russia, but also in Cambodia and Rwanda. These focused readings comprise an invaluable source book for anyone seeking to understand the horrors of totalitarian regimes, constantly reminding us that moral courage must prevail over politics. -- Edward K. Kaplan, Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, Brandeis University, author a two-volume biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)Holocaust Memories provides a wealth of reviews and summaries of major memoirs, histories, biographies, novels and films related to the Holocaust. In the breadth of its coverage it provides an important and much-needed resource for teachers and students of all ages who are exploring the record of a tragedy so extensive and horrific it defies understanding. In bringing together testimonials and perspectives from many different voices and a range of genres, Moscovici provides a nuanced and multi-faceted approach that will allow readers to begin to register the unfathomable pain and loss brought about by the Nazis’ decimation of Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other groups. The clarity and vividness of the writing make the reviews intense, each capturing a sense of the impact of the source being described. And since the anthology also covers works about other genocides, such as those in China, Cambodia, and Rwanda, it underscores that genocide is not just a matter of history; it is sadly also a matter of the present. -- Natalie McKnight, Dean and Professor of Humanities, The College of General Studies, Boston UniversityThe Holocaust is much more than a historical event; it is a continuing story playing out in the lives of survivors, their descendants, their communities and entire societies. It is a seminal presence that provokes reflection and alerts us to the risks of falling into the abyss of inhuman depravity—of what could happen because it did happen. In Holocaust Memories, Moscovici has given us a panoramic view of the Shoah and framed it with other modern genocides. This book is at once much broader than virtually any other work I know, deeper than most in its gentle insistence that we persist in wrestling with the most fundamental moral questions. Those questions are as pertinent today as they were in 1945. Holocaust Memories will be an invaluable resource as I write my own memoirs as a survivor. -- Martin Heisler, Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College ParkTable of ContentsForeword by Rabbi Joseph Polak Introduction Preface: A Precedent for the Holocaust 1. Between Fanaticism and Terror: Hitler, Stalin and The Noise of Time 2. Elie Wiesel’s Night: Shedding Light Upon the Darkness 3. Bergen-Belsen and Four Perfect Pebbles 4. The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer 5. Hazy Hints of Memory: After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring 6. Survivors Club: A Family’s Legendary Tale 7. Levi’s Reflection on Humanity in Crisis: Survival in Auschwitz 8. Sarah’s Key and the Holocaust in France 9. The Holocaust in Hungary: Leni Yahil’s The Holocaust 10. A Holocaust Hero in Hungary: Wallenberg by Kati Marton 11. Imre Kertesz’s Fatelessness 12. Anti-Semitism in Hungary Today 13. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism: Why the Jews? 14. The Role of the Masses in The Origins of Totalitarianism 15. Beyond the Jewish Genocide: Inferno by Max Hastings 16. Hitler’s Ban on Modern Art: The “Degenerate Art” Exhibit 17. Saving European Art from the Nazis: The Monuments Men 18. The Holocaust in Austria and The Woman in Red 19. On the Anschluss: Becoming Alice 20. The Gypsy Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies 21. Eichmann in Jerusalem: What is the Banality of Evil? 22. The Real Banality of Evil: Ordinary Men 23. Eichmann’s Extraordinary Evil: Eichmann Before Jerusalem 24. The Concentration Camp Commandants: Soldiers of Evil 25. The Auschwitz Kommandant: Arthur Wilhelm Liebehenschel 26. The Real Story of the Terezin Jewish Ghetto: I am a Star 27. The Wannsee Conference: Planning the Final Solution 28. America First 29. Quiet Neighbors by Allan A. Ryan 30. Action T 4: From “Euthanasia” to the Final Solution 31. Hitler’s Niece and Historical Fiction 32. An Unlikely Hero: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally 33. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: An Instructive Fable 34. Unbroken: Forgiven but Never Forgotten 35. The 1936 Berlin Olympics: The Boys in the Boat 36. Manufacturing Death: Hell’s Cartel 37. Prosecuting War Crimes: The Nuremberg Trial 38. Kamikaze Warfare: Inferno 39. Hateful Words: Nazi Propaganda 40. A Cowardly Success: Bloodlands 41. Planning a Soviet Holocaust: Stalin’s Last Crime 42. Lebensraum: The Second World War 43. The Siege of Leningrad and Genocide by Starvation 44. The Murderous Einsatzgruppen (Task Forces) 45. Poland’s Plight: Gustaw Herling’s A World Apart 46. Children of the War Years: Witnesses of War 47. Sophie’s Choice: Holocaust Literature as Psychological Fiction 48. An Incredible Tale of Survival: Alicia, My Story 49. Revealing the Ugly Truth: The Holocaust in Romania 50. A Romanian Hero: The Memoirs of Wilhelm Filderman 51. Ion Antonescu: Hitler’s Forgotten Ally 52. Anti-Semitism in Romania: The Journal of Mihai Sebastian 53. Heroism in Hell: Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 54. Privilege and Persecution: The Diary of Mary Berg 55. Janusz Korczak: The King of the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto 56. The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of Survival in Warsaw 57. Trapped in the Lodz Ghetto: The Cage 58. The Book Thief: Holocaust Literature as Best Seller 59. The Forgotten Holocaust: The Rape of Nanking 60. A Cataclismic War: Postwar, a History of Europe since 1945 61. The Cultural Revolution and The Great Leap Forward 62. The Killing Fields: Genocide in Cambodia 63. Genocide in Rwanda: Me Against My Brother 64. North Korea’s State of Terror: Nothing to Envy 65. Yad Vashem: “A Place and a Name” of Remembrance 66. An Impossible Conflict in Gaza: Rock the Casbah 67. Anti-Semitism Today and the Assault on Democratic Values 68. Would you Forgive the Nazi Perpetrator? The Sunflower 69. Could the Holocaust Happen Again? Nazi Hunter 70. Ethics Above Politics Conclusion: Judaic Studies and the Holocaust via Reviews Bibliography About the Author
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John Wiley & Sons Becoming Sui Sin Far Early Fiction Journalism
Book SynopsisNewly discovered works by one of the earliest Asian North American writers.Trade Review"A polished and nuanced study that will make an extraordinary intervention into studies of Edith Eaton and scholarship about Asian North American writers. Mary Chapman has done a heroic act of recovery work, and developed a very strong argument about the significance of Eaton' s writing." Martha Curtter, University of Connecticut "A major contribution that will be greeted with great enthusiasm by those familiar with Eaton' s work and captivate the attention of new readers." Jean Lutes, Villanova University
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McGill-Queen's University Press Censored A Literary History of Subversion and Control
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McFarland & Company Arkham House Books A Collectors Guide
Book SynopsisThis reference work covers the supernatural and speculative fiction published by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., of Sauk City, Wisconsin. The text consists of chronologically listed descriptions and current values of the more than 230 titles published by Arkham House and its two imprints, Mycroft and Moran and Stanton and Lee.
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McFarland & Company A Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms
Book Synopsis What is a corrido? What is the difference between a tanka, a choka and a renga? What does it mean when you''re doing the dozens? What is a Bildungsroman? This dictionary of literary terms provides the student, scholar, librarian, or researcher with definitions, explanations, and models of the styles and forms of works of literature. Along with novel, tone, tragedy, and scansion are haiku, noh, griot, and other terms that derive from works long undervalued by the literary world. The examples come from a very broad field of authors--reflecting a spirit of inclusion of all people, races and literary traditions. The editors have elected to quote from literary examples that students are likely to have read and to which they most readily relate (for instance, Angelou''s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was preferred over a work such as Paradise Lost, which fewer students have read and understand). Incl
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McFarland & Company Literally Entitled A Dictionary of the Origins of the Titles of Over 1300 Major Literary Works of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Book SynopsisFeatures titles that are primarily from fiction (including, along with novels, particularly important poetry, plays, and short stories), though a few are from literary works of non fiction. This work contains entries that give title, author, year of publication, and a detailed explanation of the story behind the title.Trade Reviewhelpful index and a good bibliography...a ready reference tool"—Library Journal"useful to have this information in one volume"—Booklist"a literary dictionary for book lovers and scholars of the obscure...comprehensive bibliography and index...fascinating book"—Public Library Quarterly.Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Titles 11 Select Bibliography 231 Index 235
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McFarland & Company Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature
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McFarland & Company The Margaret Mitchell Encyclopedia
Book SynopsisDocuments the life and work of Margaret Mitchell - her effect on Atlanta and the city's memorials to her, her residences, details of her death, and information about her family, the establishment of The Margaret Mitchell House, and her relationship with the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Junior League. It includes little-known photographs of her from about 1902 to 1949.
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McFarland & Company Characters and Plots in the Fiction of Kate
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewa good reference...this volume may also help bring awareness of the breadth and relevancy of the other writings of this prolific, rather enigmatic, writer" - ARBA"commendable reference" - Reference Reviews
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McFarland and Company, Inc. Gay American Novels 18701970 A Readers Guide
Book SynopsisExamining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works - novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem - in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role. Iconic works are included, along with titles not given attention by earlier surveys.
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Argo-Navis US Crack in the Earth
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Cornell University Press Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus Manuscript Materials
Book SynopsisThis edition presents photographs and transcriptions of three revised typescripts of "Oedipus at Colonus" that Yeats prepared and extensively revised over a period of eight-and-a-half months and a reading text based on the first publication of the play.
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Cornell University Press Ariadnes Thread A Guide to International Stories
Book SynopsisFrom Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an...Trade ReviewAriadne's Thread may prove an invaluable sourcebook not only for classicists but, perhaps more importantly, for folklorists.... Written in Hansen's clear, pleasant style, it is overall a fascinating collection that, one hopes, will encourage folklorists to learn more about the earliest extant versions of many tales and motifs and the labyrinthine paths they follow in their migrations. -- Debbie Fulton * Marvels and Tales Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies *Hansen's volume will be an indispensable addition to the libraries of classicists working on traditional tales and myths, but the audience that will benefit from it is much wider... Pleasant surprises and interesting connections lurk on almost every page.... This is an important reference and a joy to use. -- Stephen M. Trzaskoma * Religious Studies Review *
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University of Nebraska Press A Dictionary of Narratology
Book SynopsisCutting across many disciplines, narratology describes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in novels, cartoons, or case studies. This book offers access to terms and concepts that are defined, illustrated, and cross-referenced.Trade Review“An essential book for the study of narrative.”—Southern Humanities Review“A Dictionary of Narratology is a remarkable feat. It is a specialized dictionary documenting important research, compiled by a scholar who has been centrally involved in the field and who writes with clarity, precision, and a sense of humor.”—Substance“A very useful compilation of definitions of the terms used in narrative theory. . . . Prince is eclectic and uses the elements of many schools of theory. The book is well cross-referenced and it contains a carefully selected bibliography of the essential works in the field.”—American Literary Scholarship
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group What We See When We Read
Book SynopsisA gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.“A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York TimesWhat do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page—a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so—and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved—or reviled—literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winnin
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Rowman & Littlefield American Republic Masterworks of Literature
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Rowman & Littlefield American Republic
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Rowman & Littlefield Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the
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Rowman & Littlefield Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd
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