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My Mad Face - The Perfect Book for Those Not-So-Perfect Days (Hardcover): Roni Lee Clark Archer My Mad Face - The Perfect Book for Those Not-So-Perfect Days (Hardcover)
Roni Lee Clark Archer; Illustrated by Nathan Warner
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Christmas Punch - A Matthew Paine Mystery (Hardcover, Edition ed.): Lee Clark Christmas Punch - A Matthew Paine Mystery (Hardcover, Edition ed.)
Lee Clark
R750 R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Save R105 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mere Reading - The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels (Hardcover): Lee Clark Mitchell Mere Reading - The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels (Hardcover)
Lee Clark Mitchell
R3,138 Discovery Miles 31 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist movement in challenging readers to embrace a rationale for literary criticism that has too long been ignored-a neglect that corresponds, perhaps not coincidentally, to a flight from literature courses themselves. In close readings of six American novels spread over the past century-Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and The Road, and Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Mitchell traces a shifting strain of late modernist innovation that celebrates a species of magic and wonder, of aesthetic "bliss" (as Barthes and Nabokov both coincidentally described the experience) that dumbfounds the reader and compels a reassessment of interpretive assumptions. The novels included here aspire to being read slowly, so that sounds, rhythms, repetitions, rhymes, and other verbal features take on a heightened poetic status-in critic Barbara Johnson's words, "the rigorous perversity and seductiveness of literary language"-thwarting pressures of plot that otherwise push us ineluctably forward. In each chapter, the return to "mere reading" becomes paradoxically a gesture that honors the intractability of fictional texts, their sheer irresolution, indeed the way in which their "literary" status rests on the play of irreconcilables that emerges from the verbal tensions we find ourselves first astonished by, then delighting in.

MIA - A Matthew Paine Mystery (Hardcover, Edition ed.): Lee Clark MIA - A Matthew Paine Mystery (Hardcover, Edition ed.)
Lee Clark
R743 R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Save R106 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Blink of an Eye - Forgiveness in Black and White (Hardcover): J. T. Clark, Terri Lee Clark In the Blink of an Eye - Forgiveness in Black and White (Hardcover)
J. T. Clark, Terri Lee Clark
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Prefer Death - A Matthew Paine Mystery (Hardcover, Edition ed.): Lee Clark Prefer Death - A Matthew Paine Mystery (Hardcover, Edition ed.)
Lee Clark
R750 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R106 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Psychology of Ethnic and Cultural Conflict (Hardcover, New): Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark McCauley, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Stephen... The Psychology of Ethnic and Cultural Conflict (Hardcover, New)
Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark McCauley, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Stephen Worchel
R2,727 Discovery Miles 27 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Peace-makers, experts in conflict resolution, researchers and teachers are among the contributors here focused on ethnic and cultural conflict around the world. The volume first addresses elements such as identity and difference, both conceptually and historically. Text that follows describes issues and experiences associated with conflict and war in countries including Africa, China, Iran, Israel, Palestine, and New Zealand. The role of immigration, three major cultures (Islamic, Christian, and Confucian) are examined. Finally, innovative programs and strategies to prevent and manage ethnic conflict and violence are offered by practitioners. This book will interest professors and students of cross-cultural psychology, social psychology, ethnic and cultural relations, international relations, anthropology and political science.

Dead Spots - A Matthew Paine Mystery (Hardcover, Edition ed.): Lee Clark Dead Spots - A Matthew Paine Mystery (Hardcover, Edition ed.)
Lee Clark
R694 R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Save R98 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Touch the Future - A Manifesto in Essays: John Lee Clark Touch the Future - A Manifesto in Essays
John Lee Clark
R599 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R101 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented tactile language and a way of life based on physical connection. In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community. In “Against Access”, he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for “accessibility” that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience. In the National Magazine Award–winning “Tactile Art”, he describes his relationship to visual art and encounters with tactile sculpture. He advocates for “Co-Navigation”, a new way of guiding that respects DeafBlind agency, and offers a brief history of the term “DeafBlind”. As warm and witty as he is radical and inspiring, Clark welcomes readers into the exciting Protactile landscape and celebrates the hidden knowledge that can be gained through touch.

Mark My Words - Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature (Hardcover): Lee Clark Mitchell Mark My Words - Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature (Hardcover)
Lee Clark Mitchell
R2,325 Discovery Miles 23 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such nonverbal marks (or their absence) have on an author's encompassing vision? The first book on modern literature to compare writers' punctuation, and to show how fully typographical marks alter our sense of authorial style, Mark My Words offers new ways of reading some of our most important and beloved writers as well as suggesting a fresh perspective on literary style itself.

Worst Cases - Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination (Paperback): Lee Clarke Worst Cases - Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination (Paperback)
Lee Clarke
R623 Discovery Miles 6 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct. We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But Worst Cases shows that such individuals-like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy-are more reasonable and prescient than you might think. In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, have actually become too rare: only when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings will it take worst cases as seriously as it should. A timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, Worst Cases will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.

Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures (Paperback): Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark R McCauley, Juris G. Draguns Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures (Paperback)
Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark R McCauley, Juris G. Draguns
R1,608 Discovery Miles 16 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Neither human nature nor personality can be independent of culture. Human beings share certain social norms or rules within their cultural groups. Over 2000 years ago, Aristotle held that man is by nature a social animal. Similarly, Xun Kuang (298-238 B.C.), a Chinese philosopher, pointed out that humans in social groups can not function without shared guidance or rules. This book is designed to provide readers with a perspective on how people are different from, and similar to, each other --both within and across cultures. One of its goals is to offer a practical guide for people preparing to interact with those whose cultural background is different from their own.

Terrorism and Disaster - New Threats, New Ideas (Hardcover): Lee Clarke, William R. Freudenburg Terrorism and Disaster - New Threats, New Ideas (Hardcover)
Lee Clarke, William R. Freudenburg
R3,763 Discovery Miles 37 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The terror attacks of 9.11 signalled that people are increasingly put at risk of not only terrorism but natural and technological disasters as well. Since 9.11 scholars have been asking new questions about catastrophe and made important and interesting innovations in methods, concepts, and theories regarding disaster and terror. This volume brings together a creative set of papers, most of which are about the 9.11 attacks. They draw from several disciplines to address key questions: what lessons does the response to the collapse of the World Trade Center have for disaster planning? what has 9.11 meant for civil liberties in the US? how will survivors react over the long run? and how do we conceptualize panic and mass response?

Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures (Hardcover): Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark R McCauley, Juris G. Draguns Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures (Hardcover)
Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark R McCauley, Juris G. Draguns
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Neither human nature nor personality can be independent of culture. Human beings share certain social norms or rules within their cultural groups. Over 2000 years ago, Aristotle held that man is by nature a social animal. Similarly, Xun Kuang (298-238 B.C.), a Chinese philosopher, pointed out that humans in social groups can not function without shared guidance or rules.
This book is designed to provide readers with a perspective on how people are different from, and similar to, each other --both within and across cultures. One of its goals is to offer a practical guide for people preparing to interact with those whose cultural background is different from their own.

How to Communicate - Poems: John Lee Clark How to Communicate - Poems
John Lee Clark
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Formally restless and relentlessly instructive, How to Communicate is a dynamic journey through language, community, and the unfolding of an identity. Poet John Lee Clark pivots from inventive forms inspired by the Braille slate to sensuous prose poems to incisive erasures that find new narratives in nineteenth-century poetry. Calling out the limitations of the literary canon, Clark includes pathbreaking translations from American Sign Language and Protactile, a language built on touch. How to Communicate embraces new linguistic possibilities that emanate from Clark’s unique perspective and his connection to an expanding, inclusive activist community. Amid the astonishing task of constructing a new canon, the poet reveals a radically commonplace life. He explores grief and the vagaries of family, celebrates the small delights of knitting and visiting a museum, and, once, encounters a ghost in a gas station. Counteracting the assumptions of the sighted and hearing world with humor and grace, Clark finds beauty in the revelations of communicating through touch: “All things living and dead cry out to me / when I touch them.” A rare work of transformation and necessary discovery, How to Communicate is a brilliant debut that insists on the power of poetry.

Practical Emergency Resuscitation and Critical Care (2nd Revised edition): Kaushal Shah, Jarone Lee Practical Emergency Resuscitation and Critical Care (2nd Revised edition)
Kaushal Shah, Jarone Lee; Edited by (associates) Clark G. Owyang, Benjamin Christian Renne
R1,758 R1,618 Discovery Miles 16 180 Save R140 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Mission Improbable - Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster (Paperback, 2nd Ed.): Lee Clarke Mission Improbable - Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
Lee Clarke
R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text examines actual attempts to "prepare" for catastrophes and finds that the policies adopted by corporations and government agencies are fundamentally rhetorical: the plans have no chance to succeed, yet they serve both the organizations and the public as symbols of control, order and stability. These "fantasy documents" attempt to inspire confidence in organizations, but Lee Clarke suggests that they are disturbing persuasions, soothing the perception that ultimately one cannot control technological advances. For example, Clarke studies corporations' plans for cleaning up oil spills in Prince William Sound prior to the "Exxon Valdez" debacle, and he finds that the accepted strategies were not just unrealistic but completely untenable. Although different organizations were required to have a cleanup plan for huge spills in the sound, a really massive spill was unprecedented, and the accepted policy was little more than a patchwork of guesses based on (mostly unsuccessful) cleanups after smaller accidents. Clarke points out that reassuring rhetoric (under the guise of expert prediction) may have no basis in fact or truth because no such basis is attainable. In uncovering the dangers of planning when implementation is a fantasy, Clark concludes that society would be safer, smarter, and fairer if organizations could admit their limitations.

Mark My Words - Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature (Paperback): Lee Clark Mitchell Mark My Words - Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature (Paperback)
Lee Clark Mitchell
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such nonverbal marks (or their absence) have on an author's encompassing vision? The first book on modern literature to compare writers' punctuation, and to show how fully typographical marks alter our sense of authorial style, Mark My Words offers new ways of reading some of our most important and beloved writers as well as suggesting a fresh perspective on literary style itself.

More Time - Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style (Hardcover): Lee Clark Mitchell More Time - Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style (Hardcover)
Lee Clark Mitchell
R1,999 Discovery Miles 19 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege (2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014). Each publication has appeared near the conclusion of a career devoted all but exclusively to short stories, with each defining a 'late style' honed over a lifetime. As well, each diverges from others in ways that have profoundly shaped our generic conceptions, and collectively they represent the four most innovative practitioners of the past half-century (with the arguable exception of Raymond Carver). Yet in an era when writing programs, The New Yorker, and distinguished journals all promulgate the short story, it remains relatively under-examined as a major literary form. We continue to argue about what a story inherently is, ignoring how differences among practitioners enliven the field. Dubus, Munro, Williams, and Davis each defy critical efforts to identify the story form's presumed constitution, marked by a supposedly special shape or requisite length or distinct narrative trajectory. And the very contrast among their efforts reveals the expansiveness of the genre, though few have taken such a cross-glancing interpretive approach. This volume opens up discussion, shifting from close analysis into larger speculation about possibilities established by the most innovative writers in their later work.

New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback): Lee Clark Mitchell New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
Lee Clark Mitchell
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1895, The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author immediate fame. In his introduction to this volume, Lee Clark Mitchell discusses how Crane broke with the conventions of both fiction and journalism to create a uniquely ‘disruptive’ prose style. The five essays that follow each explore different aspects of the novel. One studies the problem of establishing the authentic text; another examines it as a war novel; a third considers it as a critique of the rising mood of militant imperialism in the 1890s; a fourth focuses on the double perspective of the novel - its shift between the hero’s perspective and a larger, ‘cosmic’ one; and the final essay examines the novel’s deconstruction of courage/cowardice. Written in a highly accessible style, these essays represent the best of recent scholarship and provide students with a useful introduction to this major novel.

Witnesses to a Vanishing America - The Nineteenth-Century Response (Paperback): Lee Clark Mitchell Witnesses to a Vanishing America - The Nineteenth-Century Response (Paperback)
Lee Clark Mitchell
R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America's westward mission. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, Lee Clark Mitchell portrays the growing apprehensions

Originally published in 1987.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Where I Stand - On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience (Paperback): John Lee Clark Where I Stand - On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience (Paperback)
John Lee Clark
R357 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R60 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Deaf American Poetry - an Anthology (Paperback): John Lee Clark Deaf American Poetry - an Anthology (Paperback)
John Lee Clark
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"The Deaf poet is no oxymoron," declares editor John Lee Clark in his introduction to "Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology." The 95 poems by 35 Deaf American poets in this volume more than confirm his point. From James Nack's early metered narrative poem "The Minstrel Boy" to the free association of Kristi Merriweather's contemporary "It Was His Movin' Hands Be Tellin' Me," these Deaf poets display mastery of all forms prevalent during the past two centuries. Beyond that, E. Lynn Jacobowitz's "In Memoriam: Stephen Michael Ryan" exemplifies a form unique to Deaf American poets, the transliteration of verse originally created in American Sign Language.
This anthology showcases for the first time the best works of Deaf poets throughout the nation's history -- John R. Burnet, Laura C. Redden, George M. Teegarden, Agatha Tiegel Hanson, Loy E. Golladay, Robert F. Panara, Mervin D. Garretson, Clayton Valli, Willy Conley, Raymond Luczak, Christopher Jon Heuer, Pamela Wright-Meinhardt, and many others. Each of their poems reflects the sensibilities of their times, and the progression of their work marks the changes that deaf Americans have witnessed through the years. In "The Mute's Lament," John Carlin mourns the wonderful things that he cannot hear, and looks forward to heaven where "replete with purest joys/My ears shall be unsealed, and I shall hear." In sharp contrast, Mary Toles Peet, who benefitted from being taught by Deaf teachers, wrote "Thoughts on Music" with an entirely different attitude. She concludes her account of the purported beauty of music with the realization that "the music of my inward ear/Brings joy far more intense."
Clark tracks these subtle shifts in awareness through telling, brief biographies of each poet. By doing so, he reveals in "Deaf American Poetry" how "the work of Deaf poets serves as a prism through which Deaf people can know themselves better and through which the rest of the world can see life in a new light."

Noir Fiction and Film - Diversions and Misdirections (Hardcover): Lee Clark Mitchell Noir Fiction and Film - Diversions and Misdirections (Hardcover)
Lee Clark Mitchell
R2,231 Discovery Miles 22 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless descriptions of people and places irrelevant to plot, along with detectives consisting of little more than sparkling dialogue and flippant attitudes. What weaves together such features, however, seems to be a paradox: that a genre rooted in solving a mystery, structured around the gathering of clues, must do so by misdirecting our attention, even withholding information we think we need to generate the suspense we also desire. Yet successful noir stories and films enhance that suspense through passing diversions (descriptive details and eccentric perspectives) rather than depending on the center pieces of plot alone (suspected motives or incriminating traces). As the greatest practitioners of the genre have realized, the "how" of detective fiction (its stylistic detours) draws us in more insistently than the "what" or the "who" (its linear advance). And the achievement of recent film noir is to make that "how" become the tantalizing object of our entire attention, shorn of any pretense of reading for the plot, immersing us in the diversionary delight that has animated the genre from the beginning.

Sister Carrie (Paperback): Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie (Paperback)
Theodore Dreiser; Edited by Lee Clark Mitchell
R280 R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Save R52 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.'
The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The premier example of American naturalism, Dreiser's remarkable first novel has deeply influenced such key writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates. This edition uses the 1900 text, which is regarded as the author's final version.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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