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- 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. and Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and a technologically enhanced totalitarianism worse than any yet seen? The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 draws its inspiration from a...
- Keyword:
- Twenty-first century, forecasting, and social prediction
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Schapiro, Morton and Morson, Gary Saul
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3197-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3198-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3196-5
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- In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. To the contrary, she agrees, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. While they share the view that human beings are essentially vulnerable... 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:
- phenomenology, philosophy, Plato, and Levinas
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Achtenberg, Deborah
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6782-7, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3563-5, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2994-8
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- Deploying literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and an archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court examines how literature both reflects and constructs the emotional dynamics of life in the Renaissance court. In it, Bradley J. Irish argues that emotionality is a foundational... 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:
- Tudor, fiction, Great Britain, literary criticism, prose, literature, and England
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Irish, Bradley J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3639-7 , eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3641-0 , and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3640-3
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- In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological... 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, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Wetters, Kirk
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2976-4, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3253-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6764-3
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- Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial... 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:
- decolonization, reparations, intimacies, and feminisms
- Subject:
- Literary criticism and Political science
- Creator:
- Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4244-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4242-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4243-5
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- In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and... 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:
- film theory, captive, Lacan, and confinement
- Subject:
- Performing arts and Psychology
- Creator:
- Connelly, Thomas J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3922-0, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3923-7, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3921-3
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- In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Annie Ernaux, Günter Grass, and Damon Galgut. Specifically, Stan shows that these... 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.
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- Zaoui, Plessner, George Orwell, Annie Ernaux, Walter Benjamin, Crowds and Power, modernism, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Elias Canetti, community, Jean-Luc Nancy, modernity, Levinas, literary criticism, ethics, Roland Barthes, Freud, Montaigne, Damon Galgut, Iris Murdoch, alienation, moral philosophy, Günter Grass, The Bell, Paul Morand, adorno, Sloterdijk, and relationships
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stan, Corina
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3685-4, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3687-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3686-1
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- Hasan Sijzi, also known as Amir Hasan Sijzi Dehlavi, is considered the originator of the Indo-Persian ghazal, a poetic form that endures to this day—from the legacy of Hasan’s poetic descendent, Hafez, to contemporary Anglophone poets such as John Hollander, Maxine Kumin, Agha Shahid Ali, and W. S. Merwin. As... 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:
- poetry collections, poems, verse, and poetry
- Subject:
- Poetry
- Creator:
- Gould, Rebecca and Sijzi, Hasan
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/07/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3231-3 and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3230-6
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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