A study of postmodern literature which brings together extracts from the works of contemporary science fiction writers and major theorists of postmodern art and culture in order to examine their shared preoccupation with the theme of technology shaping and over-running modern li…
While conversion into politics has been a standard way of rescuing ethics from antiquated humanistic moralizing for some time now, the recent "ethical turn" of the humanities reclaims ethics as itself open to radical reimagination. Proposes that this revision of ethics can provi…
A dictionary of American idioms
by Makkai, Adam, Boatner, Maxine Tull, Gates, John Edward
Defines over 8,000 idiomatic words, expressions, regionalisms, and informal English expression, cross-referenced for easy access.
A dictionary of American idioms
by Makkai, Adam, Boatner, Maxine Tull, Gates, John Edward
Defines over 8,000 idiomatic words, expressions, regionalisms, and informal English expression, cross-referenced for easy access.
The outlandish and often controversial verses of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, slackers, and other malcontents is collected in this primer of the dispossessed.
"Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commens…
"Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly independent America had chosen to reject the British monarchy and Parliament, class structure and traditions, yet their citizens still made William Shakespea…
"Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly independent America had chosen to reject the British monarchy and Parliament, class structure and traditions, yet their citizens still made William Shakespea…
In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Sh…
In this book, Suzette A. Henke finds evidence that women often use writing in order to heal the wounds of psychological trauma. She terms this method "scriptotherapy," the process of writing out and writing through traumatic experience in the mode of therapeutic re-enactment. Sh…