Surrender: Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness
Author: Jessica Restaino File Type: pdf In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of research collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Mautes life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted genres and established practices of knowledge making. Restaino searches their experiencesrecorded in interviews, informal writings, and correspondenceto discover a rhetoric of love and illness. She encourages a synthesis of methods and the acceptance of a reversal of rolesresearcher and researched, writer and written-aboutand emphasizes the relevancy of methodological diversity, the necessity of the personal, and the analytical richness of unpredictability and risk in being who we are in our scholarship at any given moment. Bringing together critical analysis, qualitative-style research methods, close reading, Surrender Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics inLove and Illness resists traditional ideas about academic writing and invites others to pursue collaborations that subvert accepted approaches to representation, textual production, and subjectivity. Restaino demonstrates a way of writingthe rendering of the academic text itselfthat suggests how we do our work has resonance for what we produce. She offers framing questions for use by others interested in doing similar kinds of scholarship that may frighten, overwhelm, or confound. This book deepens our understanding of subjectivity and the gains made by feminist resistance to conventional concepts of objectivity in research collaborations. **
Author: John Carlos Rowe
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In times of liberal despair it helps to have someone like John Carlos Rowe put things into perspective, in this case, with a collection of essays that asks the question, Must we throw out liberalisms successes with the neoliberal bathwater? Rowe first lays out a genealogy of early twentieth-century modernists, such as Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, with an eye toward stressing their transnationally engaged liberalism and their efforts to introduce into the literary avant-garde the concerns of politically marginalized groups, whether defined by race, class, or gender. The second part of the volume includes essays on the works of Harper Lee, Thomas Berger, Louise Erdrich, and Philip Roth, emphasizing the continuity of efforts to represent domestic political and social concerns. While critical of the increasingly conservative tone of the neoliberalism of the past quarter-century, Rowe rescues the value of liberalisms sympathetic and socially engaged intent, even as he criticizes modern liberalisms inability to work transnationally. **
Author: Maria G. Parani
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This volume examines the occurrence of secular contemporary artefacts (realia) in Middle and Late Byzantine religious painting. It explores the potential of Byzantine art as a source of information on material culture and inquires into the semiotic function of realia in religious pictorial contexts. The first part of the book comprises five case studies dedicated to imperial, official, aristocratic, and military dress, furniture, furnishings, and implements. The creative processes that led to the introduction of realia into religious iconography are discussed in the commentary. The book conveys a wealth of information especially on Byzantine dress and provides valuable new insights into the workings of Byzantine art. It is an original and thorough investigation of a fascinating, yet surprisingly little-studied subject.
Author: Judith Butler
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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern what role doesor shouldreligion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural and political criticism, while Jurgen Habermas, best known for his seminal conception of the public sphere, thinks through the ambiguous legacy of the concept of the political in contemporary theory. Charles Taylor argues for a radical redefinition of secularism, and Cornel West defends civil disobedience and emancipatory theology. Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen detail the immense contribution of these philosophers to contemporary social and political theory, and an afterword by Craig Calhoun places these attempts to reconceive the significance of both religion and the secular in the context of contemporary national and international politics.
Author: Diana Raab
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Segoe UI, serif 12pxThis collection of essays by well-established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshopsplaces to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some entries include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hardy endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writers creative spark. Segoe UI, serif 12pxDesigned for writers of all genres and all levels of experience, Writers and Their Notebooks celebrates the notebook as a vital tool in a writers personal and literary life. Segoe UI, serif 12px Segoe UI, serif 12pxbReview.bspan orphans 2 widows 2I salute the editor of this valuable collection, Diana Raab, who has done such a sensitive job of gathering these diverse, eloquent, and experienced voices and encouraging their thoughtful, heartbreaking, rambunctious, free flights of testimony and speculation into being. Freedom is a frequent theme in these pages. The freedom to try out things, to write clumsy sentences when no one is looking, to be unfair, immature, even to be stupid. No one can expect to write well who would not first take the risk of writing badly. The writers notebook is a safe place for such experiments to be undertaken.-- Phillip Lopate, from the forewordspan
Author: Julia C. Schneider
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p 1embWinner of the Foundation Council Award of the Georg-August-University of Gottingen Public Law Foundation in the category of Outstanding Publications of Young Scientists, 2017.bp 1emInspanspanNation and Ethnicity Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)spanspanJulia C. Schneider give an analysis of nationalist and historiographical discourses among late imperial and early republican Chinese thinkers. In particular, she researches their approaches towards non-Chinese people within the Qing Empire and the question on how to integrate them into a Chinese nation-state.p 1emNon-Chinese people, mainly Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, and Turkic Muslims, (Uyghurs), have not been considered as important factors in the history of early Chinese nationalism so far. But Chinese nationalist and historiographical discourses tell not only a lot about the Chinese image of the Other, but also shed new light on the images of the Chinese Self and its assumed ability to assimilate and integrate other ethnicities.
Author: Pauquet Freres
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500 years of French fashion are reproduced directly from a rare and valuable 19th-century publication. Artfully rendered illustrations progress chronologically from the voluminous robes of 15th-century royalty to the Empire styles of the Napoleonic era. Members of the nobility are well represented, as are dapper pages, knights, chambermaids, milkmaids, and shepherdesses. 76 full-color plates.
Author: Robert A. Ferguson
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With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 911. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferguson shows that we can learn, from our literature, how to live alone.
Author: Brian Clegg
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PRAISE FOR LIGHT YEARS AND TIME TRAVELThis immensely likeable work of pop science traces mans enduring fascination with light, from Aristotles plans for a death ray (burning enemy ships with a giant array of mirrors) to a recent experiment that seems to have sent Mozarts 40th Symphony faster than light, and thus back through time. Clegg is very good at explaining the bizarre properties of light.-The GuardianA fascinating book on a fascinating subject. It brings together all aspects of light in an unusual and compelling manner.-Sir Patrick MooreLights properties often seem mysterious to the point of being unfathomable. Yet in this extraordinary book, Brian Clegg manages to explain them through the lives of those so fixated with light that they have shaped our perception of it. . . . Cleggs accessible writing style manages to encapsulate the lives of lights disciples with humorous and interesting anecdotes . . . quite awesome! -New ScientistReviewExtraordinary... Clegg?s accessible writing style manages to encapsulate the lives of light?s disciples with humorous and interesting anecdotes... Clegg also provides real scientific insight into how light behaves. He explains complex theories through lucid metaphors, without resorting to the elaborate diagrams so beloved of some popular science writers. (New Scientist)This immensely likeable work of pop science traces mans enduring fascination with light, from Aristotles plans for a death ray (burning enemy ships with a giant array of mirrors) through to a recent experiment that seems to have sent Mozarts 40th Symphony faster than light, and thus back through time. Clegg is very good at explaining the bizarre properties of light... (The Guardian U.K.)It is rare to see a review of a non-reference book in these pages, but Brian Cleggs book is a treat to be savoured. We are familiar with names such as Snell, Faraday, Newton and Galileo, but Clegg tells us something of their lives and the paths by which they came to provide the foundations of the optical knowledge which is essential to our livelihood. He relates it with humour and originality. Amongst the collection of gems is an explanation of Fermats Principle of Least Time. I admit to being less than fascinated when Ivan Wilson went through the proof in a lecture at City College but, at the time, no one had heard of Baywatch, and no one had refered to the concept as the Baywatch Principle, as Clegg does!The book follows the history of the efforts to comprehend the nature of light, from the Ancient Greeks to modern scientists such as Feynman and Nimtz. The future is considered too the instant transportation of matter has now been achieved and the invention of slow glass will allow us to display in our homes scenes captured from afar which emerge, over time, from the surface.The text is well pitched, being not too elementary to bore, yet interesting and thought provoking enough for those who have studied optics to a higher level. I recommend it highly. Paula Stevens -Dispensing Optician (the magazine of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians) From the PublisherExtraordinary... Cleggs accessible writing style manages to encapsulate the lives of lights disciples with humorous and interesting anecdotes... Clegg also provides real scientific insight into how light behaves. He explains complex theories through lucid metaphors, without resorting to the elaborate diagrams so beloved of some popular science writers. (New Scientist) This immensely likeable work of pop science traces mans enduring fascination with light, from Aristotles plans for a death ray (burning enemy ships with a giant array of mirrors) through to a recent experiment that seems to have sent Mozarts 40th Symphony faster than light, and thus back through time. Clegg is very good at explaining the bizarre properties of light... (The Guardian U.K.) It is rare to see a review of a non-reference book in these pages, but Brian Cleggs book is a treat to be savoured. We are familiar with names such as Snell, Faraday, Newton and Galileo, but Clegg tells us something of their lives and the paths by which they came to provide the foundations of the optical knowledge which is essential to our livelihood. He relates it with humour and originality. Amongst the collection of gems is an explanation of Fermats Principle of Least Time. I admit to being less than fascinated when Ivan Wilson went through the proof in a lecture at City College but, at the time, no one had heard of Baywatch, and no one had refered to the concept as the Baywatch Principle, as Clegg does! The book follows the history of the efforts to comprehend the nature of light, from the Ancient Greeks to modern scientists such as Feynman and Nimtz. The future is considered too the instant transportation of matter has now been achieved and the invention of slow glass will allow us to display in our homes scenes captured from afar which emerge, over time, from the surface. The text is well pitched, being not too elementary to bore, yet interesting and thought provoking enough for those who have studied optics to a higher level. I recommend it highly. Paula Stevens -Dispensing Optician (the magazine of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians)
Author: Michael Gillard
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With Scotland Yard in the dock, now more than ever the public needs to know why the police cannot be trusted to investigate their own corruption.Untouchables, a five year investigation which the Yard tried to stop, provides the essential context to the phone hacking and other scandals currently engulfing Britains most powerful police force.Republished after seven years, it was the first book to question the cosy relationship between the Yard and sections of the media, to explain why cops are incapable of investigating themselves and to expose the lack of independence in the new police watchdog.From the 1983 Brinks Matt robbery, through the murders of Daniel Morgan, David Norris, Stephen Lawrence, Jill Dando and Damilola Taylor to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, Untouchables reveals the cover ups, double standards and miscarriages of justice during the Yards phoney war on corruption. Sunday Times journalist Michael Gillard and TV producer Laurie Flynn expose how the discredited use of supergrasses in the war on corruption has re-emerged in the new wars on terror and crime, with the same disastrous effects prosecution misconduct, collapsed trials, huge bills for the taxpayer, victims left without justice and the guilty walking free.