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Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades...
Film Worlds
A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the continental and analytic traditions, as well as classical and contemporary film theory, it weaves...
Between Men
English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not...
by Susan Fraiman
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in common? In Cool Men and the Second Sex, Susan Fraiman identifies them all with "cool masculinity"...
How Novels Think
The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person...
by Deborah Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both...
Journalistic Authority
Legitimating News in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain...
by Victoria Rosner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores...
Writing the Republic
Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's view, our fiction is always informed by the complexities of the American...
In Love and Struggle
Letters in Contemporary Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize
Do you think I can be a feminist mother? Did I make you and your kisses up in my mind? Will you join our military protest at the gate? Will you feed the kids when I'm in prison? Are you able to forgive me for breaking off...
by Alan Sinfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
It is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very much like oneself; gay fiction and cinema are often organized around this assumption. Nonetheless, power differentials are remarkably persistent—as well as sexy. What are the personal and political implications of this insight?
Sinfield...
The Wheel
Inventions and Reinventions
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their...
Inventing English
A Portable History of the Language, revised and expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This...
Home in Hollywood
The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2004
Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, only to discover that home—and the power to get there—had been with her all along. This engaging and provocative book proposes that Hollywood has...