The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre, Paperback - Camelia Elias

Reducere. This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragm...

Reducere. This book aims to cover four basic questions: Why do we read cards? What's so special about the Marseille Tarot? How can the cards uncover our blin...

Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical...

An ambitious intervention, asserting the importance of a Marxist interpretation of literary style and moving towards a new Marxist poetics.

Whether a precondition of poiesis, aisthesis and noesis, an ideological assumption, an elaborate artifice, a strategy of mystification, or a destab...

Reducere. This short history of divination with cards looks at three main traditions: the French, the British, and the Anglo-American gone 'French'. The styl...

"To dive into Phil Smith's writing - a dazzling blend of poetry, ethnography, social critique, and gleefully mad wordplay - can feel more like taki...

Reducere. What happens when writers vacation together ...And challenge each other to write ghost stories?On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Mary Shelley,...

Reducere. What happens when writers vacation together ...And challenge each other to write ghost stories?On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Mary Shelley,...

Reducere. DescriptionONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVER PUBLSHED, it's the work of a creative genius whose observation, analysis, ingenuity, and daring lai...

Reducere. This book is for all the diviners who want to hear what else we can do with the Tarot cards other than what a particular school or tradition prescr...

Reducere. Normally we say that we use the Tarot to go beyond the habitual. We simply want to see if there's anything that makes us go, aha! Texts in general ...

Contributor(s): Author: Camelia EliasThe Power of the Pips: Courting Numbers in Cartomancy introduces the reader to the following method of reading...

DescriptionThis book depicts manifestations of folk magic, black magic, and practical magic as courage and everyday wisdom, and it demonstrates how...

Reducere. This edited volume gathers eight cases of industrial materials development, broadly conceived, from North America, Europe and Asia over the last 20...

Reducere. This book is the second in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of...

Reducere. 'Don't have any children, ' the author's mother said, in response to the question: 'what's your greatest wisdom?' posed to her by her own daughter ...

Reducere. This book is the third in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of ...

Reducere. This book is the first in a trilogy of books based on courses in cartomancy under the signature Read Like the Devil. It is packed with examples of ...

Reducere. Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.This book is the result of various ongoing assembly platforms linked toge...

Greening the Past argues that "western civilization" is rapidly approaching a crisis unique in world history, and that a new world-view now emergin...

Reducere. Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops a...

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeleta...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States,...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a collection of essays that gathers the voices of both reputed veteran and young cartomancers.The book captures the heart of car...

Charts the facts and myths surrounding the invention of the bicycle in the 19th century, and then to consider its cultural impact on western and no...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; th...

If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. This book presen...

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 ...

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 ye...

In 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty...

The Genre of Acts and Collected Biography - Sean A. Adams

Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and sett...

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: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Kate HeslopIllustration(s): 10 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Collection: Fordham Series in M...

DescriptionThe idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet toda...

This book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity. Presenting a Durkheimian topology of cross-cultural boredom, it g...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncIllustration(s): fig. and tablesNumber of pages: 397Collection: History of Schools and SchoolingPublication dat...

First publication in English of a groundbreaking book of revolutionary queer theory.

A transformative exploration of queer theology and the debate around same-sex marriage within the Church. Clare Herbert draws on her experience as ...

Gate of the Sun is the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. After their country is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted mak...

Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radical...

Publisher: Institute of Education PressAuthor(s): Meryl ThompsonNumber of pages: 88Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 144 x 211 x 3Cover type: Paper...

This book explores how ethics and the moral context of business has evolved historically in the influential management theories and concepts. It lo...