Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, Paperback

This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishm...

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

DescriptionNovel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michelle Mary LelwicaWhat happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel,...

This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as ""bodies in commotion"" - bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, c...

Physical training in the US Army has a surprisingly short history. Bodies for Battle is the first in-depth analysis of the US Army's particular set...

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book helps girls understand and get along with the people they are closest to: their families. It includes activities for bringing ...

Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness an...

Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and BowenPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Jere...

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Paul K. LongmoreEditor: Lauri UmanskyDisability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From anteb...

Articulating Bodies shows how Victorian fiction's narrative form as well as narrative theme to negotiate how to categorize bodies, both constructin...

DescriptionIn Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an individual a particular, unique self. He draws on cognitive and affect...

A useful, concise introduction to Sartre's thinking, Politics and Literature investigates concepts and highlights conflicts, interrogations and deb...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

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This collection explores the Black body in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. Contributing t...

The Companion provides an introduction to the relationship between law and literature in medieval England. It will be of interest to advanced stude...

Reducere. Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve, " this surprising and ...

Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Zibby OwensNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 209 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softb...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: New York University PressNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

DescriptionSpike Lee's challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, howeve...

Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-f...

Reducere. Description"Medicine still contains an oral tradition, passed down in stories: the stories patients tell us, the ones we tell them, and the ones we...

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, La...

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collect...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the th...

Reducere. Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, with di...

This remarkable book explores the history of fairies in literature and tradtion.

Reducere. Fyodor Dostoevsky was not a theologian, and his books are not books of theology. However, there is a "living way" that emerges from the study of hi...

Reducere. Discover a wide variety of interesting texts relating to the culture and literature of the English-speaking world, including the UK, the US, Austra...

This book introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism, offers new readings of literary conventions and...

Reducere. An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively pr...

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

Reducere. Discover a wide variety of interesting texts relating to the culture and literature of the English-speaking world, including the UK, the US, Austra...

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern En...

DescriptionOur current less-is-more impulse may have contemporary trappings, says David E. Shi, but the underlying ideal has been around for centur...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Murhammad Mursrtafba A0rzameiAuthor: Mustafa AzamiAuthor: Muhammad Mustafa AzamiAn introduction to the science of Hadith an...

The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieua s most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics.Publisher: Polity PressAutho...

In the summer of 2020, the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital apologized to their former intersex patients who endured early childhood sur...

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth ce...

DescriptionA century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design ...

Reducere. Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Ale...