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The Art of Dying

Author : Deborah Suiter Gentry
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820424965
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Dying written by Deborah Suiter Gentry and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the representation of suicide is commonplace in literature, few studies have explicitly dealt with the meaning of suicide in the works of women writers. The Art of Dying applies theories concerning the division of women literary figures into angels or monsters to representative literary suicides of the nineteenth century, including the suicides of women characters in works by Kate Chopin and Sylvia Plath. The Awakening by Kate Chopin is often misunderstood by critics who read it using the Romantic paradigm. Chopin breaks that paradigm by presenting the suicide of Edna Pontellier as heroic. Suicide is a prevalent motif and theme in two works by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar and Ariel. An extensive analysis of Plath's last poem «Edge» portrays the suicide of the speaker as a calm and heroic act in keeping with the tone set by Chopin in The Awakening. The Art of Dying concludes by exploring women's need for self-actualization within the framework of love, marriage, and motherhood - institutions that have always demanded from women an unnatural and harmful degree of unselfishness. The inherent message in the works of artists such as Chopin and Plath is that women should not have to die in order to live.

Restoring Civil Societies

Author : Kai J. Jonas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111834765X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Restoring Civil Societies written by Kai J. Jonas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakdowns in civil societies can be catalyzed by factors ranging from war and genocide to natural disaster, disease and economic downturns. Restoring Civil Societies examines social processes related to civic engagement in the wake of these societal ruptures. The authors show how crises in civil society can be both pervasive and localized, broad-based and limited to defined social sub-groups. Whatever their scale, Restoring Civil Societies identifies models that analyze the social psychology of crises in order to devise ways of re-activating civic engagement and safeguarding civil society. Focusing on these positive interventions, the authors identify a number of key strategies, ranging from the simplicity and directness of bystander interventions to the volunteer armies mobilized in the wake of natural disasters. They include collective action organized to redress systemic inequalities, and the vital healing role played by truth commissions in Rwanda and elsewhere. Restoring Civil Societies fills the gap between basic research on social issues and translation into social policies and programs-an area which, in light of current economic and social unrest, is more important now than ever.

Principles For A Free Society

Author : Richard A. Epstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0786748753
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Principles For A Free Society written by Richard A. Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country's leading libertarian scholar sets forth the essential principles for a legal system that best balances individual liberty versus the common good.

The Half-vanished Structure

Author : Magnus Ullén
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039102006
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Half-vanished Structure written by Magnus Ullén and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes issue with the tendency in twentieth-century Hawthorne-criticism to blur the distinction between symbolism and allegory. Rejecting the long-standing notion that Hawthorne is a symbolist in allegorical disguise, Ullén argues that allegory is the key to understanding how religion, sexuality, aesthetics and politics are interwoven in Hawthorne's writings. The study presents a model for allegorical interpretation of general applicability, which is brought to bear on each of Hawthorne's mature romances, and on the oft-neglected Wonder Books written for children. An unparalleled analysis of the formal intricacies of Hawthorne's writings, this book is an eloquent plea for the necessity of grounding ideological analysis in aesthetical considerations.

Imitation of Life

Author : Douglas Sirk
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813516455
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Imitation of Life written by Douglas Sirk and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s--all of them melodramas--were Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, The Tarnished Angels, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life (made in 1958, released in 1959). This volume includes the complete continuity script of the film, critical commentary and published reviews, interviews with the director, and a filmography and bibliography. It also includes an excellent introduction by Lucy Fischer.

Masquerade and Femininity

Author : Urszula Chowaniec
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144380679X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Masquerade and Femininity written by Urszula Chowaniec and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masquerade and Femininity: Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers introduces the reader to the diversity of women’s writing in Poland and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries in the light of the notion of masquerade. The present articles scrutinize particular works by women writers (Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia, Irina Odoevtseva, Vera Pavlova, Narcyza Żmichowska, Maria Komornicka, Irena Krzywicka and others) and the strategies of masquerading female experience. Taken together, the articles draw attention to the feeling of an inexpressible gap between the living body (and its everyday life experience of pain and suffering or happiness and pleasure) and the culturally constructed, powerfully imposed code of expression that readily makes use of various masks, guises and acts of pretending, applied especially cleverly in literary works. The concept of masquerade illuminates the complexity of what we call “femininity” by combining two sides of the divide: the real feelings and the constructed expressions. This volume uses both feminist and non-feminist approaches to women’s writing and sheds new light on the themes of femininity, woman’s identity, experience, masks, body, gender relations, nature, culture and authorship. Masquerade and Femininity brings together East European literary studies and gender studies, offering a comparative perspective on literature, literary theory and cultural phenomena in Poland and Russia, and featuring a range of both eastern European and western scholars. In its pages, the reader is invited to move beyond Russian literature and language into a dialogic approach between Slavic literatures. This book will also contribute to filling the comparative gap which is still relatively unexplored not only with regard to the application of western scholarship to East European studies, but also with regard to the dialogue between Russian and Polish scholarship.

Crime and Society

Author : Mike Fitzgerald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134972695
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Society written by Mike Fitzgerald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Philosophers on Education

Author : Amelie Rorty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134654332
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Philosophers on Education written by Amelie Rorty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-09 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers on Education offers us the most comprehensive available history of philosopher's views and impacts on the directions of education. As Amelie Rorty explains, in describing a history of education, we are essentially describing and gaining the clearest understanding of the issues that presently concern and divide us. The essays in this stellar collection are written by some of the finest comtemporary philosophers. Those interested in history of philosophy, epistemology, moral psychology and education, and political theory will find Philosophers on Education to be both an engaging and fascinating read.

The Existential Self in Society

Author : Joseph A. Kotarba
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226451410
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Existential Self in Society written by Joseph A. Kotarba and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-07-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Existential Self in Society explores the ways in which we experience and shape our individuality in a rapidly changing social world. Kotarba and Fontana have gathered eleven original essays that form an exciting contribution and an ideal introduction to the emerging field of existential sociology.

Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins

Author : Giorgia Grilli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135868026
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins written by Giorgia Grilli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins, Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges.

The Plural Society in the British West Indies

Author : Michael Garfield Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027794
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Plural Society in the British West Indies written by Michael Garfield Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Bakunin to Lacan

Author : Saul Newman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739102404
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book From Bakunin to Lacan written by Saul Newman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. Saul Newman targets the tendency of radical political theories and movements to reaffirm power and authority, in different guises, in their very attempt to overcome it. In his examination of thinkers such as Bakunin, Lacan, Stirner, and Foucault Newman explores important epistemological, ontological, and political questions: Is the essential human subject the point of departure from which power and authority can be opposed? Or, is the humanist subject itself a site of domination that must be unmasked? As it deftly charts this debate's paths of emergence in political thought, the book illustrates how the question of essential identities defines and re-defines the limits and possibilities of radical politics today.

Dissident Postmodernists

Author : Paul Maltby
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512804436
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Dissident Postmodernists written by Paul Maltby and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics who hold that postmodernist art is essentially adversarial and apolitical have ignored the historical context of the postmodern focus on the problems of language. Paul Maltby examines a major current of postmodernist fiction that can be read as a dissident response to developments of late capitalism that have transformed the field of language and communication.

Politics and Society under the Bolsheviks

Author : Kevin McDermott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349277177
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Society under the Bolsheviks written by Kevin McDermott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between society and the regime has been central to much recent research in the field of Soviet history. In this book, an international team of scholars investigates this theme in the revolutionary period, and in the Stalin years from the 1920s to the 1940s, with an additional section on the Bolshevik's relations with the outside world via the Communist International based in Moscow. The use of fresh archival materials provides challenging new interpretations and insights.

Confounding Images

Author : Susan S. Williams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512808873
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Confounding Images written by Susan S. Williams and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Williams recovers the literary and cultural significance of early photography in an important rereading of American fiction in the decades preceding the Civil War. The rise of photography occurred simultaneously with the rapid expansion of magazine publication in America, and Williams analyzes the particular role that periodicals such as Godey's Lady's Book, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and Atkinson's Casket played in defining how photography was received. At the center of the book are readings of a stunning array of fiction by forgotten and canonical writers alike, including Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, and Sarah Hale, as well as extended interpretations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun and Herman Melville's Pierre. In a concluding section, Williams offers a view of the fictional portrait in the later nineteenth century, when the proliferation of illustrated books once again transformed the relation between word and image in American culture.

Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society

Author : Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society written by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond Bodies

Author : Daphne M. Grace
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210799
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Bodies written by Daphne M. Grace and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Articulations and expressions of gender can be destabilising, transgressive, revolutionary and radical, encompassing both a painful legacy of oppression and a joyous exploration of new experience.” Analysing key texts from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book explores a range of British and Anglophone authors to contextualise women’s writing and feminist theory with ongoing debates in consciousness studies. Discussing writers who strive to redefine the gendered world of “sexualized” space, whether internal or external, mental or physical, this book argues how the “delusion” of gender difference can be addressed and challenged. In literary theory and in representations of the female body in literature, identity has increasingly become a shifting, multiple, renegotiable—and controversial—concept. While acknowledging historical and cultural constructions of sexuality, “writing the body” must ultimately incorporate knowledge of human consciousness. Here, an understanding of consciousness from contemporary science (especially quantum theory)—as the fundamental building block of existence, beyond the body—allows unique insights into literary texts to elucidate the problem of subjectivity and what it means to be human. Including discussion of topics such as feminism and androgyny, agency and entrapment, masculinities and masquerade, insanity and emotion, and individual and social empowerment, this study also creates a lively engagement with the literary process as a means of fathoming the “enigma” of consciousness. Daphne Grace is Professor of English, specializing in postcolonial and transnational literature, gender and women’s studies, in addition to British literature of the 19th to 21st centuries. She currently teaches at the University of the Bahamas, and has also previously taught at Sussex University, England, and Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus.