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  • Amputation in Literature and Film

    Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss"

    Edited by Erik Grayson, Maren Scheurer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of “Loss” explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation. The scholars featured in this volumedraw upon a wide variety of texts, both lesser-known and canonical, across historical periods and language traditions to interrogate the intersections of disability ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works

    Series Book 130 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability, the silent or silenced other, sympathy, and forgiveness in an allusive and detached prose ... Read more

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    In Search of Character and Calling

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  • Living, Thinking, Looking

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    by Siri Hustvedt ...
    "One of our finest novelists has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind" as seen in this collection of essays (Oliver Sacks, New York Times– bestselling author of Awakenings ) .The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting ( Mysteries of t... ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Loneliness

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by Kerri Pierce ...
    Loneliness is a difficult subject to address, because it has such negative connotations. But the truth is that wherever there are people, there is loneliness: everyone is lonely at some point in their lives. You can belonely in a crowd or at home, outdoors or in an empty church, and countless songs have been written about the condition. For many people, loneliness can significantly impact their ... Read more

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  • The Cry for Myth

    by Rollo May ...
    Here are case studies in which myths have helped Dr. May's patients make sense out of an often senseless world.It happens almost daily in a therapist's office. A patient, recalling a person, an event, an emotion, quite unexpectedly supplies a link from a life in the present to one of the durable myths of our culture. In this moment, the myth becomes a mirror, revealing to the patient the source of ... Read more

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  • Such Stuff as Dreams

    The Psychology of Fiction

    by Keith Oatley ...
    Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers.Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselvesInformed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can ... Read more

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  • Ugliness

    A Cultural History

    ‘Ugly as sin’, ‘ugly duckling’, ‘rear its ugly head’. The word ‘ugly’ is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around ‘feared and dreaded’, ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination.In this ... Read more

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  • Humor

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  • Comic Relief

    A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor

    by John Morreall ...
    Series Book 27 - New Directions in Aesthetics
    Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humorOffers an enlightening and accessible foray into the serious business of humorReveals how standard theories of humor fail to explain its true nature and actually support traditional prejudices against humor as being antisocial, irrational, and ... Read more

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  • The Christopher Bollas Reader

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  • Narrative Prosthesis

    Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

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    Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the ... Read more

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