 | Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader, 3rd edition
Publication Date: March 31, 2011| ISBN-10: 0814109772 | ISBN-13: 978-0814109779| Edition: 3rd For the third edition of _Cross-Talk in Comp Theory_, Victor Villanueva recruited the expertise of colleague Kristin L. Arola in order to flesh out the discussion on composition and technology. The quick movement of the paradigm--from the personal computer to local-area networks to the rise of social networking--suggests the need to recall the talk and the cross-talk concerning computers and their products for composition. The award-winning Villanueva and his coeditor Arola have dropped nine ess...
 |  | Critical Terms for Literary Study
Publication Date: June 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0226472035 | ISBN-13: 978-0226472034| Edition: Second Edition, Second Edition Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "...
|  | Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Race and American Culture)
Publication Date: September 4, 1997| ISBN-10: 0195089847 | ISBN-13: 978-0195089844In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, a...
|  | Trauma: Explorations in Memory
Publication Date: May 24, 1995| ISBN-10: 080185007X | ISBN-13: 978-0801850073| Edition: 1 Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discovering where and why conscious understanding and memory fail. Literature, according to Cathy Caruth and others, opens a window on traumatic experience because it teaches readers to listen to what can be told only in indirect and su...
|  | Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Publication Date: March 5, 2003| ISBN-10: 0312133278 | ISBN-13: 978-0312133276| Edition: First Edition Within decades of the American Revolution, the Northern states had either ended slavery or provided for its gradual abolition. Slavery, however, was entrenched in the South and remained integral to American politics and culture. Nationally, it was protected by the U.S. Constitution, federal laws, and Supreme Court decisions, and slaveowners dominated all three branches of the federal government. From the time of the Revolution until the Civil War (and beyond), Southern thinkers offered ...
|  | The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Latin America Otherwise)
Publication Date: December 16, 2011| Series: Latin America Otherwise During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from the Renaissance, when it was driven by Christian theology, through the late twen...
|  | The Norton Sampler, Sixth Edition
Publication Date: January 2, 2003| ISBN-10: 0393978826 | ISBN-13: 978-0393978827| Edition: Sixth Edition W. W. Norton & Company is proud to present the Sixth Edition of TheNorton Sampler.As a rhetorically arranged collection of short essaysfor composition, our Sampler echoes the cloth samplers once done incolonial America, presenting the basic patterns of writing for studentsto practice just as schoolchildren once practiced their stitches andABCs on needlework samplers. This new edition shows students thatdescription, narration, and the other patterns of exposition are notjust abst...
|  | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Second Edition)(Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: February 10, 2010| ISBN-10: 0393933997 | ISBN-13: 978-0393933994| Edition: Second Edition One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. Upon publication, it was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. It remains a controversial and complex text that, along with David Walker’s Appeal, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden...
|  | Semiotics: The Basics
Publication Date: March 8, 2007| ISBN-10: 0415363756 | ISBN-13: 978-0415363754| Edition: 2 This updated second edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. With a revised introduction and glossary, extended index and suggestions for further reading, this new edition provides an increased number of examples including computer and mobile phone technology, television commercials and the web.Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field, key questions covered include:What is a sign?Which codes do w...
|  | The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Vol. A: Beginnings to A.D. 100, 2nd Edition
Publication Date: July 29, 2003| ISBN-10: 0393924505 | ISBN-13: 978-0393924503| Edition: 2nd Nine years ago, W. W. Norton changed the wayworld literature is taught by introducing TheNorton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition.Leading the field once again, Norton isproud to publish the anthology for the newcentury, The Norton Anthology of WorldLiterature, Second Edition. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractiveslipcases), the new anthology boasts slimmervolumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, anddozens of newly included or newly translatedworks fr...
|  | No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q)
Publication Date: December 6, 2004| ISBN-10: 0822333694 | ISBN-13: 978-0822333692In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. He boldly i...
|  | Being And Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology
Release Date: September 1, 2001| ISBN-10: 0806522763 | ISBN-13: 978-0806522760Being and Nothingness may well be thought of as Sartre's greatest work; it has also come to be regarded as a text-book of existentialism itself, and this is for many reasons a proper way to read it. These pages set out with relative perspicuity almost all of the salient ideas of existentialism; and, in addition, the method according to which the book is composed is itself highly characteristic of existentialist philosophers."From the Introduction by Mary Warnock --This text refers to an out of print or unavaila...
|  | The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing
Publication Date: July 9, 2004| ISBN-10: 0312412428 | ISBN-13: 978-0312412425| Edition: 7th This best-selling anthology continues to combine a generous and vibrant selection of stories, poems, and plays with editorial features proven to help students read, think, and write effectively about literature. Now featuring unique visual portfolios and a CD-ROM packed with activities and contextual material, the new edition brings literature to life for students as never before. ...
|  | The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Publication Date: August 31, 1982"The Political Unconscious is a major work, and it should be read by historians, social scientists, and philosophers, as well as by literary scholars."-Hayden White"A major work of critical theory . . . The Political Unconscious integrates and refines a vast body of theoretical work, demonstrating a superb mastery of the field of contemporary criticism. The result . . . is a compelling, forceful argument in favor of the primacy of Marxism over contending strategies of interpretation."-Nineteenth-Century Fiction"Monumental . . . . Its learning and range of ref...
|  | Voices of Our Time: The Original Live Interviews
Publication Date: May 5, 2005From the 1950s through 1997, Louis “Studs” Terkel, bestselling author of Hard Times, Working, The Great War, Coming of Age, and eight other books, hosted a daily one-hour show on WFMT Radio in Chicago.This nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-winning program was an ideal showcase for his curmudgeonly wit, his maverick opinions, and his genius as an interviewer.The 48 interviews in this collection, span Terkel’s five decades on radio and encompass a wide range of entertainers, scientists, writers and thinkers, including Dorothy Parker, Pete Se...
|  | The Erotic Life of Racism
Publication Date: April 13, 2012A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian practice. If racism has an everyday life, how does it remain so powerful and yet mask its very presence? To answer this question, Sharon Patricia Holland moves into the territory of the erotic, understanding racism's practice as constitutive to the practice of ...
|  | The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended and Enlarged Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 1966The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language. ...
|  | The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: December 23, 1998| Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up...
|  | Bioseparations Science and Engineering (Engineering & Technology)
Publication Date: October 31, 2002| ISBN-10: 0195123409 | ISBN-13: 978-0195123401Designed for undergraduates, graduate students, and industry practitioners, Bioseparations Science and Engineering fills a critical need in the field. Current, comprehensive, and concise, it covers bioseparations unit operations in greater depth than other texts on this topic. In each of the chapters, the authors use a consistent method of explaining unit operations, starting with a qualitative description noting the significance and general application of the unit operation. They then illustrate the scienti...
|  | The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Publication Date: May 31, 2008| ISBN-10: 0674024451 | ISBN-13: 978-0674024458| Edition: First Edition Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general—in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to dem...
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