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Being Flawesome (Hardcover)
Nicholas Matthews; Foreword by Bill Brown
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Japanese and Americans, once bitter enemies, are now good friends.
I observed the ongoing growth of mutual respect and trust following
WWII. Could the lessons learned then be applied today?
Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren t really sure what they mean? Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost? Here s the book you need to sort it all out and enjoy doing so!
In Literary Theory For Beginners, Mary Klages takes you into her classroom, cuts through the jargon, and explains the ABCs (and the DEFs as well) in terms you can get your head around. Her breadth of knowledge, her unique skills as a teacher, and the delightful illustrations of Frank Reynoso help us understand why literature matters, how it affects us, and how it reflects history, culture, and diversity. Here are ways of thinking about literature not just reading it methods of study and frameworks of interpretation from classical humanism all the way up to psychoanalysis, gender and queer theory, race, postcolonialism, and, yes, postmodernism
With wit and wisdom, Klages takes on the two most frequently asked questions about literature and makes it all fun:
- What does the work MEAN? (What is the deeper, hidden, or symbolic meaning? Did the author intend all these meanings? Are any and all meanings present in the text? Are all meanings equally valid?)
- What does the work DO? (Why is literature important? What effect does it have on the reader? How can literature be a force for social change?)
So sit back, relax, and take it all in!
Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st
Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in
U.S. history, thanks to Stephen Ambrose's superb book Band of
Brothers, followed by portrayals in film. However, to date little
has been heard of Fox Company of that same regiment-the men who
fought alongside Easy Company through every step of the war in
Europe, and who had their own stories to tell. Notably this book,
over a decade in the making, came about for different reasons than
the fame of the "Band of Brothers." Bill Brown, a WWII vet himself,
had decided to research the fate of a childhood friend who had
served in Fox Company. Along the way he met Terry Poyser, who was
on a similar mission to research the combat death of a Fox Company
man from his hometown. Together, the two authors proceeded to
locate and interview every surviving Fox Company vet they could
find. The result was a wealth of fascinating first-hand accounts of
WWII combat as well as new perspectives on Dick Winters and others
of the "Band," who had since become famous. Told primarily through
the words of participants, Fighting Fox Company takes the reader
through some of the most horrific close-in fighting of the war,
beginning with the chaotic nocturnal paratrooper drop on D-Day.
After fighting through Normandy the drop into Holland saw prolonged
ferocious combat, and even more casualties; and then during the
Battle of the Bulge, Fox Company took its place in line at Bastogne
during one of the most heroic against-all-odds stands in U.S.
history. As always in combat, each man's experience is different,
and the nature of the German enemy is seen here in its equally
various aspects. From ruthless SS fighters to meek Volkssturm to
simply expert modern fighters, the Screaming Eagles encountered the
full gamut of the Wehrmacht. The work is also accompanied by rare
photos and useful appendices, including rosters and lists of
casualties, to give the full look at Fox Company, which has long
been overdue.
This book is an invitation to think about why children chew
pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers;
rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear
hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long
to; what has been described as bourgeois longing. It is an
invitation to think about the fetishism of daily life in different
times and in different cultures. It is an invitation to rethink
several topics of critical inquiry--camp, collage, primitivism,
consumer culture, museum culture, the aesthetic object, still life,
"things as they are," Renaissance wonders, "the thing
itself"--within the rubric of "things," not in an effort to
foreclose the question of what sort of things these seem to be, but
rather to suggest new questions about how objects produce subjects,
about the phenomenology of the material everyday, about the secret
life of things.
Based on an award-winning special issue of the journal "Critical
Inquiry, "Things features eighteen thought-evoking essays by
contributors including Bill Brown, Matthew L. Jones, Bruno Latour,
W. J. T. Mitchell, Jessica Riskin, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Peter
Schwenger, Charity Scribner, and Alan Trachtenberg.
In May 1906, the "Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live
not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and
that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate
things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. For Bill
Brown, the tale of that possession is something stranger than the
history of a culture of consumption. It is the story of Americans
using things to think about themselves.
Brown's captivating new study explores the roots of modern
America's fascination with things and the problem that objects
posed for American literature at the turn of the century. This was
an era when the invention, production, distribution, and
consumption of things suddenly came to define a national culture.
Brown shows how crucial novels of the time made things not a
solution to problems, but problems in their own right. Writers such
as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James ask
why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or remake
ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate
our fears, and to shape our wildest dreams. Offering a remarkably
new way to think about materialism, "A Sense of Things will be
essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and
culture.
Massive anthology of essays and illustrations published in NOT
BORED! between 1983 and 2010.
From the pencil to the puppet to the drone-the humanities continue
to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of
things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave
as it shapes different disciplines? In Other Things, Bill Brown
explores this question by considering an assortment of objects-from
beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers-that have
fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia
Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. Brown ranges across the
literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of
things. Beginning with Achilles's Shield, then tracking the
object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin
Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, he ultimately focuses on the thingness
disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining
history and literature, criticism and theory, Brown provides a new
way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of
the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we
mean by materiality itself.
In this 15th installment of 'Dream Whip', it is 2006 and Bill Brown
decides to take a cycle trip across America.
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Being Flawesome (Paperback)
Nicholas Matthews; Foreword by Bill Brown
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