Representations: Vol. 137, Winter 2017 (Special Issue: Language-in-Use and the Literary Artifact)
Author: Michael Lucey File Type: pdf IntroductionLanguage-in-Use and Literary FieldworkMichael Lucey, Tom McEnaney(pp. 1-22) DOI 10.1525rep.2017.137.1.1The Fieldwork Encounter and the Colonized Voice of IndigeneityMichael Silverstein(pp. 23-43) DOI 10.1525rep.2017.137.1.23Talking with TextsHazlitts Ephemeral StyleTristram Wolff(pp. 44-67) DOI 10.1525rep.2017.137.1.44The Blacksmiths FeetEmbodied Entextualization in Northern Italian Vernacular PoetryJillian R. Cavanaugh(pp. 68-87) DOI 10.1525rep.2017.137.1.68The Metapragmatics of the Minor WriterZoe Wicomb, Literary Value, and the Windham-Campbell Prize FestivalAaron Bartels-Swindells(pp. 88-111) DOI 10.1525rep.2017.137.1.88Transducing a Sermon, Inducing ConversionBilly Graham, Billy Kim, and the 1973 Crusade in SeoulNicholas Harkness(pp. 112-142) DOI 10.1525rep.2017.137.1.112Real-to-ReelSocial Indexicality, Sonic Materiality, and Literary Media Theory in Eduardo Costas Tape WorksTom McEnaney(pp. 143-166) DOI 10.1525rep.2017.137.1.143AfterwordTristram Wolff(pp. 167-173) DOI 10.1525rep.2017.137.1.167
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sartrecontemplates the human emotional experience by analyzing phenomenological psychology and existentialism In The Emotions Outline of a Theory, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to understand the role emotions play in the human psyche. Sartre analyzes fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy while asserting that human beings begin to develop emotional capabilities from a very early age, which helps them identify and understand the emotions names and qualities later in life.Helping to complete the circle of Sartres many theories on existentialism, this vital piece of literature is a must-have for the philosopher-in-trainings collection.
Author: Norman L. Geisler
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Amazon.com ReviewThe Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics by Norman L. Geisler is the ultimate one-volume reference for Christians who seek meaningful responses to criticisms of their faith. Geisler, a professor of theology and apologetics at Southern Evangelical Seminary, is the encyclopedias sole author. His previous books--Answering Islam and When Cultists Ask--help qualify Geisler to respond to a wide range of challenges to Christian belief. And this encyclopedia covers almost every conceivable philosophical challenge to Christianity, from Agnosticism to Zen Buddhism. It also summarizes the key points regarding oft-challenged Christian doctrines and beliefs (Adam, Historicity of, Virgin Birth of Christ). Each article is cleanly written and clearly organized. Indeed, Geislers greatest talent is for logical thinking. Whether he is considering Jesus view of the Bible or the tenets of Deism, he writes with confident assurance, so that no reader will feel lost. About the AuthorNorman L. Geisler (PhD, Loyola University of Chicago) has taught at top evangelical schools for over fifty years and is distinguished professor of apologetics and theology at Veritas Evangelical Seminary in Murrieta, California. He is the author of more than seventy books, including the Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics.
Author: Jason L. Riley
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Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why increased black political power has not paid off in the ways that civil rights leadership has promised. Recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of black elected officials, culminating in the historic presidency of Barack Obama. However, racial gaps in employment, income, homeownership, academic achievement, and other measures not only continue but in some cases have even widened. While other racial and ethnic groups in America have made economic advancement a priority, the focus on political capital for blacks has been a disadvantage, blocking them from the fiscal capital that helped power upward mobility among other groups. Riley explains why the political strategy of civil rights leaders has left so many blacks behind. The key to black economic advancement today is overcoming cultural handicaps, not attaining more political power.The book closes with thoughtful responses from key thought leaders Glenn Loury and John McWhorter.
Author: Joe Rollins
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Argues that cultural conceptions of children and childhood played a key role in legalizing gay marriage Legally Straight offers a critical reading of the legal debates over lesbian and gay marriage in the United States. The book draws on key judicial opinions to trace how our understanding of heterosexuality and marriage has changed. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that the cultural value of marriage was becoming tarnished and the trouble appeared to center on one very specific issue reproduction. As opponents of lesbian and gay marriage emphasized the link between marriage and accidental pregnancy, the evidence mounted, the arguments proliferated, and resistance began to turn against itself. Heterosexuality, it seemed for a moment, was little more than a set of palliative prescriptions for the worst of human behavior, and children became the victims. It thus became the province of the courts to reinforce the cultural value of marriage by resisting what came to be known as the procreation argument, the assertion that marriage exists primarily to regulate the unruly aspects of heterosexual reproduction. Cultural conceptions of children and childhood were being put at risk as gays and lesbians were denied marriage, so that writing lesbian and gay families into the marriage law became the better option.
Author: Tariq Omar Ali
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Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the worlds grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the deltas peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital. Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century. A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal deltas peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation. **
Author: Robert Arp
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In the era of big data, science is increasingly information driven, and the potential for computers to store, manage, and integrate massive amounts of data has given rise to such new disciplinary fields as biomedical informatics. Applied ontology offers a strategy for the organization of scientific information in computer-tractable form, drawing on concepts not only from computer and information science but also from linguistics, logic, and philosophy. This book provides an introduction to the field of applied ontology that is of particular relevance to biomedicine, covering theoretical components of ontologies, best practices for ontology design, and examples of biomedical ontologies in use.After defining an ontology as a representation of the types of entities in a given domain, the book distinguishes between different kinds of ontologies and taxonomies, and shows how applied ontology draws on more traditional ideas from metaphysics. It presents the core features of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), now used by over one hundred ontology projects around the world, and offers examples of domain ontologies that utilize BFO. The book also describes Web Ontology Language (OWL), a common framework for Semantic Web technologies. Throughout, the book provides concrete recommendations for the design and construction of domain ontologies. **
Author: A. Storm
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Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular movements and to relations between industrial workers and those in power. The metaphor of the scar pinpoints the inherent ambiguity of memory work by signifying both positive and negative experiences, as well as the contemporary challenges of living with these physical and mental marks. In this book, Anna Storm explores post-industrial landscape scars caused by nuclear power production, mining, and iron and steel industry in Malmberget, Kiruna, Barseback and Avesta in Sweden Ignalina and VisaginasSnie?kus in Lithuaniaformer Soviet Union and Duisburg in the Ruhr district of Germany. The scars are shaped by time and geographical scale they carry the vestiges of life and work, of community spirit and hope, of betrayed dreams and repressive hierarchical structures. What is critical, Storm concludes, is the search for a legitimate politics of memory. The meanings of the scars must be acknowledged. Past and present experiences must be shared in order shape new understandings of old places. **