Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Do you feel your consciousness, your attention, and your intelligence (not to mention your eyesight) being sucked away, byte by byte,...Lasīt vairāk
CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction. Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501394782)
Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the voluminous, diverse, and fascinating cultural materi...Lasīt vairāk
Virginia Woolf famously began one of her greatest novels: &;Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.&; Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the best part of the day to someone else? Flowers grace our lives at moments of...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Do you feel your consciousness, your attention, and your intelligence (not to mention your eyesight) being sucked away, byte by byte,...Lasīt vairāk
Why do we travel? What are we doing&;and what do we imagine we are doing&;when we leave the house, get on a plane, and thereby step into globalism? The Importance of Elsewhere is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud&...Lasīt vairāk
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. Human culture is now more dangerous to nonhuman animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy -- sometimes to the...Lasīt vairāk
Human culture is now more dangerous to nonhuman animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy -- sometimes to the point of extinction -- is the stuff of newspa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-1998, Hardback, Izdevniecība: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814756027)
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Malamud (English, Georgia State U.) describes zoos as cultural attractions that, along with their captive animals, are subsumed within various human-centered social structures and systems of culture and thus misrepresent the realities of animals exi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-1998, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814756034)
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Invoking an array of literary depictions of animals and zoos, from Albees Zoo Story and Virginia Woolfs diaries to the films of Harold Pinter and the poetry of Marianne Moore, Malamud (English, Georgia State U.) links culture, literature, and nat...Lasīt vairāk
Through an examination of modern depictions of zoos, this text presents a paradigm of how these institutions, and a range of reactions to them, illuminate the workings of our cultural sensibilities....Lasīt vairāk
Through an examination of modern depictions of zoos, this text presents a paradigm of how these institutions, and a range of reactions to them, illuminate the workings of our cultural sensibilities....Lasīt vairāk
To understand Eliots weighty contribution to the pantheon of modernism, one must take account of his dramatic career. Where the Words Are Valid brings to modernist scholars serious attention a large body of work that has often been glibly patronize...Lasīt vairāk
Surveys the entire dramaturgical and critical discourse surrounding Eliots plays. A separate chapter for each play provides characters, synopsis, detailed production history, critical overview of both performance reviews and scholarly response, text...Lasīt vairāk
