Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Do you feel your consciousness, your attention, and your intelligence (not to mention your eyesight) being sucked away, byte by byte,...Loe edasi...
CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction. Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501394782)
Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, apart from the focused operations of media, government, and aviation-industry crash investigations. This is despite the voluminous, diverse, and fascinating cultural materi...Loe edasi...
Virginia Woolf famously began one of her greatest novels: &;Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.&; Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the best part of the day to someone else? Flowers grace our lives at moments of...Loe edasi...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Do you feel your consciousness, your attention, and your intelligence (not to mention your eyesight) being sucked away, byte by byte,...Loe edasi...
Why do we travel? What are we doing&;and what do we imagine we are doing&;when we leave the house, get on a plane, and thereby step into globalism? The Importance of Elsewhere is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud&...Loe edasi...
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. Human culture is now more dangerous to nonhuman animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy -- sometimes to the...Loe edasi...
Human culture is now more dangerous to nonhuman animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy -- sometimes to the point of extinction -- is the stuff of newspa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-1998, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814756027)
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Malamud (English, Georgia State U.) describes zoos as cultural attractions that, along with their captive animals, are subsumed within various human-centered social structures and systems of culture and thus misrepresent the realities of animals exi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-1998, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814756034)
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Invoking an array of literary depictions of animals and zoos, from Albees Zoo Story and Virginia Woolfs diaries to the films of Harold Pinter and the poetry of Marianne Moore, Malamud (English, Georgia State U.) links culture, literature, and nat...Loe edasi...
Through an examination of modern depictions of zoos, this text presents a paradigm of how these institutions, and a range of reactions to them, illuminate the workings of our cultural sensibilities....Loe edasi...
Through an examination of modern depictions of zoos, this text presents a paradigm of how these institutions, and a range of reactions to them, illuminate the workings of our cultural sensibilities....Loe edasi...
To understand Eliots weighty contribution to the pantheon of modernism, one must take account of his dramatic career. Where the Words Are Valid brings to modernist scholars serious attention a large body of work that has often been glibly patronize...Loe edasi...
Surveys the entire dramaturgical and critical discourse surrounding Eliots plays. A separate chapter for each play provides characters, synopsis, detailed production history, critical overview of both performance reviews and scholarly response, text...Loe edasi...
