Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics: New Edition With Full Color Illustrations
Author: Andrew Hoberek File Type: pdf Alan Moore and Dave Gibbonss Watchmen has been widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It was not only aesthetically groundbreaking but also anticipated future developments in politics, literature, and intellectual property. Demonstrating a keen eye for historical detail, Considering Watchmen gives readers a new appreciation of just how radical Moore and Gibbonss blend of gritty realism and formal experimentation was back in 1986. The book also considers Watchmens place in the history of the comics industry, reading the graphic novels playful critique of superhero marketing alongside Alan Moores public statements about the rights to the franchise. Andrew Hoberek examines how Moore and Gibbons engaged with the emerging discourses of neoconservatism and neoliberal capitalism, ideologies that have only become more prominent in subsequent years.Watchmens influences on the superhero comic and graphic novel are undeniable, but Hoberek reveals how it has also had profound effects on literature as a whole. He suggests that Watchmen not only proved that superhero comics could rise to the status of literatureit also helped to inspire a generation of writers who are redefining the boundaries of the literary, from Jonathan Lethem to Junot Diaz. Hoberek delivers insight and analysis worthy of satisfying serious readers of the genre while shedding new light on Watchmen as both an artistic accomplishment and a book of ideas.
Author: David Damschroder
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Chopins oeuvre holds a secure place in the repertoire, beloved by audiences, performers, and aesthetes. In Harmony in Chopin, David Damschroder offers a new way to examine and understand Chopins compositional style, integrating Schenkerian structural analyses with an innovative perspective on harmony and further developing ideas and methods put forward in his earlier books Thinking about Harmony, Harmony in Schubert, and Harmony in Haydn and Mozart. Reinvigorating and enhancing some of the central components of analytical practice, this study explores notions such as assertion, chordal evolution (surge), collision, dominant emulation, unfurling, and wobble through analyses of all forty-three Mazurkas Chopin published during his lifetime. Damschroder also integrates analyses of eight major works by Chopin with detailed commentary on the contrasting perspectives of other prominent Chopin analysts. This provocative and richly detailed book will help transform readers own analytical approaches.**
Author: Janet Donohoe
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In Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity, Janet Donohoe offers a compelling look into Husserls shift from a static to a genetic approach in his analysis of consciousness. Rather than view consciousness as an abstract unity, Husserl began investigating consciousness by taking into account the individuals lived experiences. Engaging critics from contemporary analytic schools to third-generation phenomenologists, Donohoe shows that they often do not do justice to the breadth of Husserls thoughts. In separate chapters Donohoe elucidates the relevance of Husserls later genetic phenomenology to his work on time consciousness, intersubjectivity, and ethical issues. This much-needed synthesis of Husserls methodologies will be of interest to Husserl scholars, phenomenologists, and philosophers from both Continental and analytic schools. **
Author: Louis Nelson
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Author: Greg Urban
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It is one thing to comprehend how culture makes its way through the world in those cases where something old is reproduced in the same physical shape-where, for example, a song is sung or a story retold. It is another thing altogether, as Greg Urban demonstrates, to think about cultural motion when something new is created-a new song or a new story. And this, the creating of new culture, is the overarching value of the contemporary world, as well as the guiding principle of the capitalist entrepreneur. From the Declaration of Independence to the movie Babe, from the Amazon River to the film studio, from microscopic studies of the words making up myths and books to the large-scale forces of conquest, conversion, and globalization that drive history, Urban follows the clues to a startling revelation metaculture makes the modern, entrepreneurial form of culture possible. In Urbans work we see how metaculture, in its relationship to newness, explains the peculiar shape of modern society and its institutions, from the prevalence of taste and choice to the processes of the public sphere, to the centrality of persuasion and hegemony within the nation. Greg Urban is Class of 1965 Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Public Worlds Series, volume 8 **
Author: James Baldwin
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Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of Americas most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety.But when Margarets estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path. The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.**ReviewHe is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves. --Langston Hughes What style! What intensity! What religious feeling!....The man has mastered his rage and bitterness. Hes a marvel! --John Cheever From the PublisherHe is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves. --Langston Hughes What style! What intensity! What religious feeling!....The man has mastered his rage and bitterness. Hes a marvel! --John Cheever
Author: Brian Duignan
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The burgeoning of Christianity throughout Europe saw an attendant transformation in the field of philosophy. The philosophers of the Middle Ages endeavored to reconcile two seemingly incompatible concepts religion and reason. While both ultimately involve belief in something, their approaches differ radically. By drawing extensively from the work of their predecessors, like Plato and Aristotle, medieval philosophers were able to find logical bases for their theological beliefs, thus using rationality to better comprehend their faith. This fascinating volume looks at the individuals who pioneered these new schools of thought and their lasting effects on our understanding of the nature of reality.
Author: Cian O'Driscoll
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This book examines the manner by which the just war tradition has been invoked, engaged, and developed in the context of the war on terror. It pays particular attention to the questions of anticipatory war, humanitarian intervention, and punitive war, and looks to compare current thinking on these issues to classical ideas about when and how war might be justified. In doing so, it draws our attention to the renegotiation of the right to war that is taking place in the post-911 world, while also illuminating the stories of change, continuity, and contestation that underpin the ongoing development of the just war tradition. ReviewThe Iraq war has given rise to a full-scale debate about just war theory (and practice)not only among professors but also among political leaders and right and left-wing intellectuals. Cian ODriscoll provides a remarkably comprehensive and nuanced account of this debate, sets it in its historical context, and expertly explains all its historical references. And then he joins the debate himself, with an appealing judiciousness, without polemical zeal.--Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study In this lucid volume, Cian ODriscoll examines critically the use of the idiom of just war proffered by President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair to justify the invasion of Saddam Husseins Iraq. ODriscoll takes up the arguments of contemporary just war scholars who either contested or accepted the rationale of the two war leaders, engaging their positions in a balanced, hard-hitting analysis. [This book] is a significant contribution to just war scholarship and Cian ODriscoll is a scholar we will hear more from in years to come.-- Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago, author of Just War against TerrorThe Just War tradition is playing an increasingly prevalent role in shaping public debates about the legitimacy of force. This book sheds important new light on the role the tradition plays and demonstrates how politicians and public commentators draw upon particular interpretations of the tradition to justify potentially controversial policies. Lucid, engaging and sophisticated, ODriscoll reminds us that critical moral dialogue about war is an indispensable feature of civilised society--Alexander Bellamy, Professor, Department of Politics, University of Queensland, Australia.About the AuthorCian ODriscoll is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow. He completed his PhD in 2006 at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Prior to this he studied at the University of Limerick, Dalhousie University, and the University of Oslo. Cian has published a number of articles on the just war tradition, contributing to The Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Relations, and the Journal of Military Ethics. Cian currently convenes the MSc in International Politics at the University of Glasgow.
Author: Marele Day
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In the great sweep of history, of winds, tides and seasons, there is a story of courage and survival that belongs not to a great sea captain, but to his wife.While James Cook circumnavigated the globe, travelling further than any man had before, Elizabeth Cook travelled with him in her thoughts, imagining the exotic, the sensual and the strange. There were months, sometimes years, with no word.But as James sailed into the blue, earning his place in history, Elizabeth Cook made discoveries of her own. Though she rarely left London, she was propelled on a journey into the far reaches of the human heart, a journey marked by James departures and those of her six children, whom she lost one by one.This is a rich portrayal of the life of a woman whose passion and intellect matched that of her celebrated husband. It is a lyrical exploration of imagined interior worlds, shaped by historical fact. It is, above all, a celebration of love and endurance.
Author: Ben Dorfman
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This collection of essays addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and conceptualizations of the political past. Taking a global perspective, the volume examines the history of dissent both inside and outside the West, through events in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries both nearer to our own times as well as more distant, and through a range of styles reflecting how contested and pressing the problem of dissent in fact is. Drawing on a range of authors and international problematics, the contributions discuss the multiple ways in which we refract memories of dissent in cultural, historical and aesthetic context. It also discusses the diverse ideas, images and phenomena we use to do so. **About the Author Ben Dorfman is Associate Professor of Intellectual and Cultural History at the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University (Denmark). This collection of essays addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and conceptualizations of the political past. Taking a global perspective, the volume examines the history of dissent both inside and outside the West, through events in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries both nearer to our own times as well as more distant, and through a range of styles reflecting how contested and pressing the problem of dissent in fact is. Drawing on a range of authors and international problematics, the contributions discuss the multiple ways in which we refract memories of dissent in cultural, historical and aesthetic context. It also discusses the diverse ideas, images and phenomena we use to do so. **