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At the Poles
David Elliott; Illustrated by Ellen Rooney
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R527
R457
Discovery Miles 4 570
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Kathrine Switzer changed the world of running. This narrative
biography follows Kathrine from running laps as a girl in her
backyard to becoming the first woman to run the Boston Marathon
with official race numbers in 1967. Her inspirational true story is
for anyone willing to challenge the rules. The compelling collage
art adds to the kinetic action of the story. With tension and
heart, this biography has the influential power to get readers into
running. An excellent choice for sports fans, New Englanders, young
dreamers, and competitive girls and boys alike.
Who cares about details? As Naomi Schor explains in her highly
influential book, we do-but it has not always been so. The interest
in detail--in art, in literature, and as an aesthetic category--is
the product of the decline of classicism and the rise of realism.
But the story of the detail is as political as it is aesthetic.
Secularization, the disciplining of society, the rise of
consumerism, the invention of the quotidian, have all brought
detail to the fore. In this classic work of aesthetic and feminist
theory, now available in a new paperback edition, Schor provides
ways of thinking about details and ornament in literature, art, and
architecture, and uncovering the unspoken but powerful ideologies
that attached gender to details. Wide-ranging and richly argued,
Reading in Detailpresents ideas about reading (and viewing) that
will enhance the study of literature and the arts.
Who cares about details? As Naomi Schor explains in her highly
influential book, we do-but it has not always been so. The interest
in detail--in art, in literature, and as an aesthetic category--is
the product of the decline of classicism and the rise of realism.
But the story of the detail is as political as it is aesthetic.
Secularization, the disciplining of society, the rise of
consumerism, the invention of the quotidian, have all brought
detail to the fore. In this classic work of aesthetic and feminist
theory, now available in a new paperback edition, Schor provides
ways of thinking about details and ornament in literature, art, and
architecture, and uncovering the unspoken but powerful ideologies
that attached gender to details.
Wide-ranging and richly argued, Reading in Detail presents ideas
about reading (and viewing) that will enhance the study of
literature and the arts.
Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are
read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has
deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between
literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to
understand how gender has been constructed and represented through
language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a
range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate
feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while
others take a step back to trace the development of a particular
feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary
material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several
countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further
reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible
guide available both for students of literature new to this
developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers
interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and
literature.
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Bad Object (Paperback)
Elizabeth Weed, Ellen Rooney
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R369
R327
Discovery Miles 3 270
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Before her death in 2001, Naomi Schor was a leading scholar in
feminist and critical theory and a founding coeditor of
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. This issue
takes as its starting point Schor's book Bad Objects: Essays
Popular and Unpopular (1995), in which she discussed her attraction
to the "bad objects" the academy had overlooked or ignored:
universalism, essentialism, and feminism. Underpinning these bad
objects was her mourning of the literary, a sense that her work-and
feminist theory more generally-had departed from the textual
readings in which they were grounded. Schor's question at the time
was "Will a new feminist literary criticism arise that will take
literariness seriously while maintaining its vital ideological
edge?" The contributors take literariness-the "bad object" of this
issue-seriously. They do not necessarily engage in debates about
reading, theorize new formalisms, or thematize language; rather,
they invigorate and unsettle the reading experience, investigating
the relationship between language and meaning. Contributors. Lee
Edelman, Frances Ferguson, Peggy Kamuf, Ramsey McGlazer, Thangam
Ravindranathan, Denise Riley, Ellen Rooney, Elizabeth Weed
Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are
read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has
deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between
literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to
understand how gender has been constructed and represented through
language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a
range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate
feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while
others take a step back to trace the development of a particular
feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary
material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several
countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further
reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible
guide available both for students of literature new to this
developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers
interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and
literature.
"With dynamic illustrations and text full of can-do attitude, this
exuberant picture book is a celebration of the hard work and
practice it takes to become a top-tier athlete." -A Mighty Girl
"[Sue Bird] is the W.N.B.A," said Crystal Langhorne, who converted
161 of Bird's passes into buckets. This picture book biography of
Sue Bird follows her journey from an energetic yet shy young girl
to one of the most versatile and inspirational athletes of our time
and a leader whose legacy extends off the court. As a little girl,
Sue Bird couldn't stop moving. As soon as she could walk, she ran,
jumped, or climbed instead. Sue love all kinds of sports as a
child, but the rhythm, energy, and grace of basketball quickly won
her heart. The Heart of the Storm follows Sue Bird's journey from
her childhood, full of energy and determination, to becoming one of
the most versatile, inspirational athletes of all time and a leader
on and off the court. From her championship high school team to two
NCAA titles with the UConn Huskies to four WNBA championships with
the Seattle Storm and five Olympic gold medals, Sue Bird's grit,
authenticity, and heart fuel her growing into greatness and
accomplishing her dreams. "An in-depth look at a modern sports role
model, perfect for sports fans' shelves." -School Library Journal
This collection revisits A Theory of Literary Production (1966) to
show how Pierre Macherey's remarkable-and still provocative-early
work can contribute to contemporary discussions about the act of
reading and the politics of formal analysis. Across a series of
historically and philosophically contextualized readings, the
volume's contributors interrogate Macherey's work on a range of
pressing issues, including the development of a theory of reading
and criticism, the relationship between the spoken and the
unspoken, the labor of poetic determination and of literature's
resistance to ideological context, the literary relevance of a
Spinozist materialism, the process of racial subjectification and
the ontology of Blackness, and a theorization of the textual
surface. Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production also
includes three new texts by Macherey, presented here in English for
the first time: his postface to the revised French edition of A
Theory of Literary Production; "Reading Althusser," in which
Macherey analyzes the concept of symptomatic reading; and a
comprehensive interview in which Macherey reflects on the
historical conditions of his early work, the long arc of his career
at the intersection of philosophy and literature, and the ongoing
importance of Louis Althusser's thought. Recent translations of
Macherey's work into English have introduced new readers to the
critic's enduring power and originality. Timely in its questions
and teeming with fresh insights, Pierre Macherey and the Case of
Literary Production demonstrates the depths to which his work
resonates, now more than ever.
Seductive Reasoning takes a provocative look at contemporary
Anglo-American literary theory, calling into question the critical
consensus on pluralism's nature and its status in literary studies.
Drawing on the insights of Marxist and feminist critical theory and
on the works of Althusser, Derrida, and Foucault, Rooney reads the
pluralist’s invitation to join in a "dialogue" as a seductive
gesture. Critics who respond find that they must seek to persuade
all of their potential readers. Rooney examines pluralism as a form
of logic in the work of E. D. Hirsch, as a form of ethics for Wayne
Booth, as a rhetoric of persuasion in the books of Stanley Fish.
For Paul de Man, Rooney argues, pluralism was a rhetoric of tropes
just as it was, for Fredric Jameson, a form of politics.
Most readers of Louis Althusser first enter his work through his
writings on ideology. In an important new essay Etienne Balibar,
friend and colleague of Althusser, offers an original reading of
Althusser's idea of ideology, drawing on both recently published
posthumous writing and Althusser's work on the Piccolo Teatro di
Milano. Balibar's essay uncovers the intricate workings of
interpellation through Althusser's essays on the theater. If
debates on dialectical materialism belong to a distant history,
Balibar suggests, the question of ideology remains crucial for
thinking the present. The issue includes commentaries on Balibar's
essay from five influential scholars who engage critically with
Althusser's philosophy: Judith Butler, Banu Bargu, Adi Ophir,
Warren Montag, and Bruce Robbins. This issue reanimates Althusser's
concept of ideology as an analytic tool for contemporary cultural
and political critique.
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