Author: Hilda Hilst File Type: epub Hilda Hilst (19302004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time. With My Dog-Eyes is an account of an unravelingof sanity, of language . . . After experiencing a vision of what he calls a clear-cut unhoped-for, college professor Amos Keres struggles to reconcile himself with his life as a father, a husband, and a member of the university with its meetings, asskissers, pointless rivalries, gratuitous resentments, jealous talk, megalomanias. A stunning book by a master of the avant-garde. From the Trade Paperback edition.**
Author: Heather Elko McKibben
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Bargaining between states in the international system is governed by rules, which shape and constrain their bargaining behavior. However, these rules can be changed. When, why, and how do states bargain differently? Drawing on original qualitative and quantitative evidence, this book demonstrates how the rules of the game influence the cooperative or coercive nature of the strategies adopted by all states in a negotiation. These effects influence each states incentives regarding whether to play by the rules or to change them. Examining these incentives, as well as the conditions under which states can act on them, McKibben explains the wide variation in states bargaining strategies. Several bargaining interactions are analyzed, including decision-making in the European Union, multilateral trade negotiations, climate change negotiations, and negotiations over the future status of Kosovo. This book provides a rich understanding of the nuances of states behavior in international bargaining processes.**
Author: Samuel Butler
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The Novels EREWHON OR OVER THE RANGE EREWHON REVISITED TWENTY YEARS LATER THE WAY OF ALL FLESH The Non-Fiction A FIRST YEAR IN CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT THE EVIDENCE FOR THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST, AS GIVEN BY THE FOUR EVANGELISTS, CRITICALLY EXAMINED THE FAIR HAVEN LIFE AND HABIT EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY ALPS AND SANCTUARIES OF PIEDMONT AND THE CANTON TICINO SELECTIONS FROM PREVIOUS WORKS LUCK OR CUNNING AS THE MAIN MEANS OF ORGANIC MODIFICATION? EX VOTO A LECTURE ON THE HUMOUR OF HOMER AND OTHER ESSAYS THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF DR. SAMUEL BUTLER SHAKESPEARES SONNETS RECONSIDERED THE AUTHORESS OF THE ODYSSEY ESSAYS ON LIFE, ART AND SCIENCE CAMBRIDGE PIECES CANTERBURY PIECES GOD THE KNOWN AND GOD THE UNKNOWN The Epic Poem Translations THE ILIAD OF HOMER, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE THE ODYSSEY, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH PROSE The Note-Books THE NOTE-BOOKS OF SAMUEL BUTLER The Biography SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL BUTLER, AUTHOR OF EREWHON by Henry Festing Jones
Author: Franz Kafka
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The aphorism eludes definition it can appear to be a random jotting or a more polished observation. Whether arbitrary fragment or crystalline shard, an aphorism captures the inception of a thought. Franz Kafka composed aphorisms during two periods in his life. A series of 109 was written between September 1917 and April 1918, in Zurau, West Bohemia, while Kafka was on a visit to his sister Ottla, hoping for a brief respite following the diagnosis of the tuberculosis virus that would eventually claim his life. They were originally published in 1931, seven years after his death by his friend and literary executor Max Brod, under the title Betrachtungen uber Sunde, Hoffnung, Leid, und den wahren Wag (Reflections on Sin, Hope, Suffering, and the True Way). The second sequence of aphorisms, numbering 41, originally appeared as entries in Kafkas diary from January 6 to February 29, 1920. They, too, were published posthumously, under the title Er Aufzeichnungen aus dem Jahr 1920 (He Reflections from the Year 1920). Kafkas aphorisms are fascinating glimpses into the lure and the enigma of the form itself.From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
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The treatment and role of women are among the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. The rights of Muslim women have become part of the Western political agenda, often perpetuating a stereotype of universal oppression. Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 911 terrorist attacks. Yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims. In their public and private lives, Muslim women are actively negotiating what it means to be a woman and a Muslim in an American context. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and Kathleen M. Moore offer a much-needed survey of the situation of Muslim American women, focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in the Western diaspora. Centering on Muslims in America, the book investigates Muslim attempts to form a new American Islam. Such specific issues as dress, marriage, childrearing, conversion, and workplace discrimination are addressed. The authors also look at the ways in which American Muslim women have tried to create new paradigms of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting the traditions apart from the males who control the mosque institutions. A final chapter asks whether 911 will prove to have been a watershed moment for Muslim women in America. This groundbreaking work presents the diversity of Muslim American women and demonstrates the complexity of the issues. Impeccably researched and accessible, it broadens our understanding of Islam in the West and encourages further exploration into how Muslim women are shaping the future of American Islam.
Author: Axel Lohrer
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Wasser ist ein besonderes Gestaltungselement in der Freiraumplanung mit einem ausgepragt reprasentativen Charakter. Doch geht es nicht allein darum, im Entwurf an geeigneter Stelle Wasserbecken oder Brunnen einzuzeichnen. Bereits beim Entwerfen muss der Planer sich Gedanken daruber machen, wo das Wasser herkommt, wo es abgefuhrt wird oder wie es gereinigt wird.Themen Typologie (flieendes Wasser, stehendes Wasser, naturliches Wasser Teich, See, Meer geplantes Wasser Becken, Brunnen, Rinne etc.) Entwurfsparameter (Ort, Funktion, Wirkung) Grundsatzliches zur gestalterischen Konzeption, zu Groe, sinnliche Erfahrbarkeit und Zuganglichkeit Ubersicht zu den technisch-konstruktiven Rahmenbedingungen (Herkunft, Einfassung, Bepflanzung, Wasserqualitat etc.) Hinweise zur Planung Wirtschaftliche Aspekte
Author: Hermann Gunkel
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Gunkels classic work of 1917 is a systematic investigation of the Old Testament in the light of the then emerging principles of folktale scholarship he makes use, for example, not only of the contributions of the Grimm brothers but is aware of the research into classifications of tale types represented by the ground-breaking work of A. Aarne in 1910 and subsequently. **
Author: Richard K. Thomas
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Music as a Chariot offers a multidisciplinary perspective whose primary proposition is that theatre is a type of music. Understanding how music enables the theatre experience helps to shape our entire approach to the performing arts. Beginning with a discussion on the origin and nature of time, the author takes us on an evolutionary journey to discover how music, language and mimesis co-evolved, eventually coming together to produce the complex way we experience theatre. The book integrates the evolutionary neuroscience of the human brain into this journey, offering practical implications and applications for the auditory expression of this concept--namely the fundamental techniques artists use to create sound scores for theatre. With contributions from directors, playwrights, actors and designers, Music as a Chariot explores the use of music to carry ideas into the human soul--a concept that extends beyond the theatrical to include film, video gaming, dance, or anywhere art is manipulated in time.
Author: Barbara Jenkins
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Eros and Economy Jung, Deleuze, Sexual Difference explores the possibility that social relations between things, partially inscribed in their aesthetics, offer important insights into collective political-economic relations of domination and desire. Drawing on the analytical psychology of Carl Jung and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, this book focuses on the idea that desire or libido, overlaid by sexual difference, is a driving force behind the material manifestations of cultural production in practices as diverse as art or economy. Re-reading the history of capitalism and aesthetics with an awareness of the forces of sexual difference reveals not just their integral role in the development of capitalist markets, but a new understanding of our political-economic relations as humans. The appearance of the energies of sexual difference is highlighted in a number of different historical periods and political economies, from the Rococo period of pre-revolutionary France, to the aesthetics and economics of Keynesian Bloomsbury, to our contemporary Postmodern sensibility. With these examples, Jenkins demonstrates that the very constitution of capitalist markets is affected by the interaction of these forces and she argues that a conscious appreciation and negotiation of them is integral to an immanent, democratic understanding of power. With its unique application of Jungian theory, this book provides important new insights into debates surrounding art, aesthetics, and identity politics, as well as into the quest for autonomous, democratic institutions of politics and economics. As such, this book will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of Jung, psychoanalysis, political economy, cultural studies and gender studies, as well as those interested in the field of cultural economy. **