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- In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Kuzmic, Tatiana
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/27/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3399-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3398-3, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3397-6
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- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Tennessee. Learn more at the TOME website,... and Drawing on and responding to the writings of theorists such as Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Lisa Lowe, this book proposes the notion of “precarious intimacies” to navigate a dilemma: how to recognize, affirm, and value love, touch, and care while challenging the racialized and gendered politics in which...
- Keyword:
- Julia Oelkers, Michael Winterbottom, immigration, precarity, intimacy, European film, Arash T. Riahi, Phillippe Lioret, and refugee
- Subject:
- Performing arts
- Creator:
- Stehle, Maria and Weber, Beverly
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4213-8, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4212-1, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4211-4
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- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Tennessee. Learn more at the TOME website,... and A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism—in India, South Africa, and Black America—used print media to connect with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their undertakings was the English language. Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone tells the story of this...
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- anti-racism, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sister Nivedita, internationalism, literary criticism, comparative literature, interpretive communities, translation studies, anti-colonialism, postcolonial theory, Rabindranath Tagore, Sonja Schlesin, and Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Subject:
- Comparative literature
- Creator:
- Lahiri, Madhumita
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4266-4, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4268-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4267-1
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- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Michigan State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available... and This book begins by tracing the history of naturalist fiction from the 1860s into the twentieth century and the reasons it spread around the world. Hill explores the development of three naturalist figures—the degenerate body, the self-liberated woman, and the social milieu—through close readings of fiction from France, Japan, and...
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- Argentina, translation, transnational, world literature, France, naturalism, comparison, Alexander Beecroft, United States, Latin America, Mariano Siskind, Erich Auerbach, realism, Emile Zola, Brazil, Japan, Aamir Mufti, Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, novel, Damrosch, and global
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Laing Hill, Christopher
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4215-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4216-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4214-5
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- Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities, moments of unseemly haste or strategic delay, sparked new kinds of attachments,... and This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Minnesota. Learn more at the TOME website,...
- Keyword:
- theatre and early modern history
- Subject:
- Medieval and early modern world and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Row, Jennifer Eun-Jung
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4470-5 , eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4472-9 , and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4471-2
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- Description:
- Attitude control in quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems is traditionally managed by optimal control loops tuned to minimize errors in performance. While robust, these loops perform sub-optimally in dynamic and unpredictable environments which inspire new interest in sophisticated solution and approaches such as reinforcement learning (RL) approaches which should...
- Keyword:
- Intelligent Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Quadcopters, Learning and Adaptive Systemsons, Aerial Systems: Mechanics and Control, Proximal Policy Optimization, Drones, and Attitude Control
- Subject:
- Space vehicles--Attitude control systems, Proximal Policy Optimization, Reinforcement learning, Policy Gradient, Drone aircraft, and Machine learning
- Creator:
- Stephen Kleppinger,
- Contributor:
- Bharadwaj, Shreenidhi (advisor)
- Owner:
- Stephen Michael Kleppinger
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/05/2022
- Date Modified:
- 04/05/2022
- Date Created:
- 12-2021
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
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- Description:
- "Commodification", "propertization", and "objectification" are all concepts which serve both as descriptive tools for certain tendencies in the historical development of modern, capitalistic social relations and as critical diagnoses of their particular distortions or pathologies. In the seminar, we will first try to highlight the analytic specificity of each phenomenon...
- Keyword:
- Politische Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie, Frankfurter Schule, Grundlagen und Vorläufer*innen der kritischen Theorie, and Feministische Theorie und Philosophie
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- von Redecker, Eva
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/09/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
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- Keyword:
- Critical Race Studies and Kritische Sozialtheorien
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Celikates, Robin
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- This book examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of national importance from local perspectives, drawing on the rich relationship between personal experiences and historical accounts. Incorporating original research from the private archives of leading narrators—artists who write and perform their work—Juliet... and This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Michigan State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available...
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- registers of dialogue, archives, classical oration, social issues, microhistory, students, dramaturgy of the world, international populism, laboratorio teatro settimo, theatrical traditions, david enia, laura curino, animazione teatrale, The long 1970s, radio clandestine, nationalist politics, workers, site-specific performance, dialect, italian television, festival, marco baliani, beppe grillo, heterotopia, fake news, public space, giovanni levi, carlo gizburg, and five star movement
- Subject:
- Italian drama
- Creator:
- Guzzetta, Juliet
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4386-9 , Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4387-6 , and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4388-3
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- Description:
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual reality (VR) have attracted growing attention within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in recent years. Integration of BIM and VR technology can develop workflow efficiency through enhanced common understanding and prepare students in architecture and engineering programs to become leaders of the...
- Keyword:
- building information modeling, performance assessment, AEC education, and virtual reality
- Creator:
- Joseph C. Huang, Sepehr Alizadehsalehi, and Ahmad Hadavi
- Owner:
- Ahmad Hadavi
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/12/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/12/2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI: 10.3390/app11073225