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Compulsory Happiness

Author : Norman Manea
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300188633
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Compulsory Happiness written by Norman Manea and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of "Compulsory Happiness" create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, fear and solidarity, the humorous triviality of the ordinary, and the painful search for an ideal."Norman Manea's four novellas, written during the later Ceausescu years, offer a comparable contrast to other Eastern European dissident writing. Instead of the energetic irony, the ebullient absurdism, the sharp-eyed wit, we find a dreamy disconnection, a voice that shock has lowered, an air of sweetness driven mad."--Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times""Mr. Manea's voice is radically new, and we are blessedly awakened and alerted by the demand his fiction makes on our understanding."--Lore Segal, "New York Times Book Review"

Compulsory Happiness

Author : Norman Manea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780037412786
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Compulsory Happiness written by Norman Manea and published by . This book was released on 1993-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Compulsory Happiness

Author : Norman Manea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517165409
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Compulsory Happiness written by Norman Manea and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Happiness Fantasy

Author : Carl Cederström
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509523847
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Happiness Fantasy written by Carl Cederström and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. He argues that happiness is now defined by a desire to be "authentic", to experience physical pleasure, and to cultivate a quirky individuality. But over the last fifty years, these once-revolutionary ideas have been co-opted by corporations and advertisers, pushing us to live lives that are increasingly unfulfilling, insecure and narcissistic. In an age of increasing austerity and social division, Cederström argues that a radical new dream of happiness is gathering pace. There is a vision of the good life which promotes deeper engagement with the world and our place within it, over the individualism and hedonism of previous generations. Guided by this more egalitarian worldview, we can reinvent ourselves and our societies.

Pleasures in Socialism

Author : David Crowley
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810126907
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Pleasures in Socialism written by David Crowley and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows how the rise of consumer culture took a unique form in Eastern Europe. It investigates the ways in which pleasurable activities were both a space in which these communist governments tried to insinuate themselves and thereby further expand the reach of their authority.

Journal of the American Medical Association

Author : American Medical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by American Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil's Devices, Or, Control Versus Service

Author : Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Devices, Or, Control Versus Service written by Hilary Douglas Clarke Pepler and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postmodern/Postwar and After

Author : Jason Gladstone
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 160938427X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern/Postwar and After written by Jason Gladstone and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have redefined the field. Postmodern/Postwar—and After aims to be a field-defining book—a sourcebook for the new and emerging critical terrain—that explores the postmodern/postwar period and what comes after. The first section of essays returns to the category of the “post-modern” and argues for the usefulness of key concepts and themes from postmodernism to the study of contemporary literature, or reevaluates postmodernism in light of recent developments in the field and historical and economic changes in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays take the contemporary abandonments of postmodernism as an occasion to assess the current states of postmodernity. After that, the essays move to address the critical shift away from postmodernism as a description of the present, and toward a new sense of postmodernism as just one category among many that scholars can use to describe the recent past. The final section looks forward and explores the question of what comes after the postwar/postmodern. Taken together, these essays from leading and emerging scholars on the state of twenty-first-century literary studies provide a number of frameworks for approaching contemporary literature as influenced by, yet distinct from, postmodernism. The result is an indispensable guide that seeks to represent and understand the major overhauling of postwar American literary studies that is currently underway.

Nonrequired Reading

Author : Wislawa Szymborska
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544618858
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Nonrequired Reading written by Wislawa Szymborska and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unquestionably one of the great living European poets. She's accessible and deeply human and a joy--though it is a dark kind of joy--to read. . . . She is a poet to live with." —Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book World Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading." As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.

Teaching Gender

Author : Beatriz Revelles-Benavente
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135179020X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Gender written by Beatriz Revelles-Benavente and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Gender aims to examine the implications of teaching and learning in a neoliberal context from a feminist perspective.

The Living Age

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Littell's Living Age

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eclectic Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Eclectic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cornhill Magazine

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The War on Sex

Author : David M. Halperin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373149
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The War on Sex written by David M. Halperin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors document the history and operation of sex offender registries and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more harshly than other crimes, while new legal and administrative regulations drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By examining how the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both privileged and marginalized communities, the essays collected here show why sexual liberation is indispensable to social justice and human rights. Contributors. Alexis Agathocleous, Elizabeth Bernstein, J. Wallace Borchert, Mary Anne Case, Owen Daniel-McCarter, Scott De Orio, David M. Halperin, Amber Hollibaugh, Trevor Hoppe, Hans Tao-Ming Huang, Regina Kunzel, Roger N. Lancaster, Judith Levine, Laura Mansnerus, Erica R. Meiners, R. Noll, Melissa Petro, Carol Queen, Penelope Saunders, Sean Strub, Maurice Tomlinson, Gregory Tomso

A Natural History of Human Emotions

Author : Stuart Walton
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555848834
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of Human Emotions written by Stuart Walton and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fresh and entertaining” survey of the human emotional landscape—and how it has shifted over the centuries (Kirkus Reviews). Using Charles Darwin’s survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Walton’s A Natural History of Human Emotions examines the history of each of our core emotions—fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise, and happiness—and how these emotions have influenced both cultural and social history. We learn that primitive fear served as the engine of religious belief, while a desire for happiness led to humankind’s first musings on achieving a perfect utopia. Challenging the notion that human emotion has remained constant, A Natural History of Human Emotions explains why, in the last 250 years, society has changed its unwritten rules for what can be expressed in public and in private. Like An Intimate History of Humanity and Near a Thousand Tables, Walton’s A Natural History of Human Emotions is a provocative examination of human feelings and a fascinating take on how emotions have shaped our past.

LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe

Author : Ana Cristina Santos
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031135083
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe written by Ana Cristina Santos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores partnering, parenting and friendship issues from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in Italy, Portugal and Spain. Chapters offer a cross-national understanding of the relationship between everyday practices of intimacy amongst LGBTQ people and national legal, political and policy contexts in terms of the recognition of otherwise ‘intimate strangers’. The book contributes to further theoretical and policy debates about citizenship, care and choice, as well as, more broadly, sexuality, welfare, health and justice. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender and Feminist Studies as well as Citizenship Studies, Law, Policy, and Politics.