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Although rule breaking in Harry Potter is sometimes dismissed as a
distraction from Harry's fight against Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter
and Resistance makes the case that it is central to the battle
against evil. Far beyond youthful hijinks or adolescent defiance,
Harry's rebellion aims to overcome problems deeper and more
widespread than a single malevolent wizard. Harry and his allies
engage in a resistance movement against the corruption of the
Ministry of Magic as well as against the racist social norms that
gave rise to Voldemort in the first place. Dumbledore's Army and
the Order of the Phoenix employ methods echoing those utilized by
World War Two resistance fighters and by the U.S. Civil Rights
movement. The aim of this book is to explore issues that speak to
our era of heightened political awareness and resistance to
intolerance. Its interdisciplinary approach draws on political
science, psychology, philosophy, history, race studies, and women's
studies, as well as newer interdisciplinary fields such as
resistance studies, disgust studies, and creativity studies.
Although rule breaking in Harry Potter is sometimes dismissed as a
distraction from Harry's fight against Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter
and Resistance makes the case that it is central to the battle
against evil. Far beyond youthful hijinks or adolescent defiance,
Harry's rebellion aims to overcome problems deeper and more
widespread than a single malevolent wizard. Harry and his allies
engage in a resistance movement against the corruption of the
Ministry of Magic as well as against the racist social norms that
gave rise to Voldemort in the first place. Dumbledore's Army and
the Order of the Phoenix employ methods echoing those utilized by
World War Two resistance fighters and by the U.S. Civil Rights
movement. The aim of this book is to explore issues that speak to
our era of heightened political awareness and resistance to
intolerance. Its interdisciplinary approach draws on political
science, psychology, philosophy, history, race studies, and women's
studies, as well as newer interdisciplinary fields such as
resistance studies, disgust studies, and creativity studies.
Raising The Dust identifies a heretofore-overlooked literary
phenomenon that author Beth Sutton-Ramspeck calls "literary
housekeeping." The three writers she examines rejected
turn-of-the-century aestheticism and modernism in favor of a
literature that is practical, even ostensibly mundane, designed to
"set the human household in order." To Mary Augusta Ward, Sarah
Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, housekeeping represented
public responsibilities: making the food supply safe, reforming
politics, and improving the human race itself. Raising the Dust
places their writing in the context of the late-Victorian era, in
particular the eugenics movement, the proliferation of household
conveniences, the home economics movement, and decreased reliance
on servants. These changes affected relationship between the
domestic sphere and the public sphere, and hence shaped the
portrayal of domesticity in the era's fiction and nonfiction.
Moreover, Ward, Grand, and Gilman articulated a domestic aesthetic
that swept away boundaries. Sutton-Ramspeck uncovers a new paradigm
here: literature as engaging the public realm through the devices
and perspectives of the domestic. Her innovative and ambitious book
also connects fixations on cleaning with the discovery of germs
(the first bacterium discovered was anthrax, and knowledge of its
properties increased fears of dust); analyzes advertising cards for
soap; and links the mental illness in Gilman's "The Yellow
Wall-Paper" to fears during the period of arsenic poisoning from
wallpaper.
This is an edition of what are arguably Leibniz's three most
important presentations of his metaphysical system: the Discourse
on Metaphysics, from 1686, and The Principles of Nature and of
Grace and The Monadology, from 1714. Based on the Latta and
Montgomery translations and revised by the editor, these texts set
out the essentials of Leibniz's mature metaphysical views. The
edition includes an introductory essay and a set of appendices of
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century texts, which help illuminate
and contextualize Leibniz's ideas. Among these are extensive
passages from Leibniz's Theodicy, many of which are cited in The
Monadology.
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