|
Showing 1 - 9 of
9 matches in All Departments
The book addresses the interactions between wetlands and human
health and well-being. A key feature is the linking of
ecology-health and the targeting of practitioners and researchers.
The environmental health problems of the 21st Century cannot be
addressed by the traditional tools of ecologists or epidemiologists
working in their respective disciplinary silos; this is clear from
the emergence and re-emergence of public health and human
well-being problems such as cholera pandemics, mosquito borne
disease, and episodic events and disasters (e.g. hurricanes). To
tackle these problems requires genuine cross-disciplinary
collaboration; a key finding of the recently concluded Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment when looking at human well-being and ecosystem
health. This book brings the disciplines of ecology and health
sciences closer to such a synthesis for researchers, teachers and
policy makers interested in or needing information to manage
wetlands and human health and well-being issues.
The book addresses the interactions between wetlands and human
health and well-being. A key feature is the linking of
ecology-health and the targeting of practitioners and researchers.
The environmental health problems of the 21st Century cannot be
addressed by the traditional tools of ecologists or epidemiologists
working in their respective disciplinary silos; this is clear from
the emergence and re-emergence of public health and human
well-being problems such as cholera pandemics, mosquito borne
disease, and episodic events and disasters (e.g. hurricanes). To
tackle these problems requires genuine cross-disciplinary
collaboration; a key finding of the recently concluded Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment when looking at human well-being and ecosystem
health. This book brings the disciplines of ecology and health
sciences closer to such a synthesis for researchers, teachers and
policy makers interested in or needing information to manage
wetlands and human health and well-being issues.
Weinstein investigates the stories blacks and whites, men and
women, tell about each other through the work of two quintessential
American novelists: William Faulkner and and Toni Morrison.
Exploring deep-rooted understandings of race and gender and
describing how differently their "Americanness" resonates in both
writers' works, "What Else But Love?" considers the legacy of
slavery in a variety of ways, from the meaning of mammies and
mothers to the question of black manhood.
Weinstein investigates the stories blacks and whites, men and
women, tell about each other through the work of two quintessential
American novelists: William Faulkner and and Toni Morrison.
Exploring deep-rooted understandings of race and gender and
describing how differently their "Americanness" resonates in both
writers' works, "What Else But Love?" considers the legacy of
slavery in a variety of ways, from the meaning of mammies and
mothers to the question of black manhood.
Writing to American poet Malcolm Cowley in 1949, William Faulkner
expressed his wish to be known only through his books. He would go
on to win the Nobel Prize for literature several months later, and
when he died famous in 1962, his biographers immediately began to
unveil and dissect the unhappy life of "the little man from
Mississippi." Despite the many works published about Faulkner, his
life and career, it still remains a mystery how a poet of minor
symbolist poems rooted in the history of the Deep South became one
of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Here, renowned
critic André Bleikasten revisits Faulkner's biography through the
author's literary imagination. Weaving together correspondence and
archival research with the graceful literary analysis for which he
is known, Bleikasten presents a multi-strand account of Faulkner's
life in writing. By carefully keeping both the biographical and
imaginative lives in hand, Bleikasten teases out threads that carry
the reader through the major events in Faulkner's life, emphasizing
those circumstances that mattered most to his writing: the weight
of his multi-generational family history in the South; the
formation of his oppositional temperament provoked by a resistance
to Southern bourgeois propriety; his creative and sexual
restlessness and uncertainty; his lifelong struggle with finances
and alcohol; his paradoxical escape to the bondages of Hollywood;
and his final bent toward self-destruction. This is the story of
the man who wrote timeless works and lived in and through his
novels.
Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical
biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on
unpublished emails and both published and private interviews,
Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he
ponders the purposes and problems of his life and art, from his
earliest fiction to his most recent novel, Purity. Franzen's work
raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary
fiction: how does one appeal to a wide audience of mainstream
readers, on the one hand, while persuading connoisseurs, on the
other, that one's fiction has staying power, is high art? More
acutely, how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first
two novels to the more generous comic stance of the later novels on
which his reputation rests? Wrestling with these questions,
Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage unpacks the becoming of
Franzen as a person and a writer-from his ultra-sensitive
Midwestern childhood, through his heady years at Swarthmore
College, his marriage, and the alienating decade of the 1990s, up
to his spectacular ascent and assimilation into pop culture as one
of the literary figures of his generation. Weinstein joins
biography and criticism in ways that fully respect their
differences, but that also grant that the work comes, however
unpredictably, out of the life.
Philip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing"
by addressing the work of three supreme experimental writers: Franz
Kafka, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner. In their novels, the
narrative props that support the drama of coming to know are
refused. When space turns uncanny rather than lawful, when time
ceases to be linear and progressive, objects and others become
unfamiliar. So does the subject seeking to know them. Weinstein
argues that modernist texts work, by way of surprise and arrest, to
subvert the familiarity and narrative progression intrinsic to
realist fiction. Rather than staging the drama of coming to know,
they stage the drama of coming to unknow. The signature move of
modernism is shock, just as resolution is the trademark of
realism.Kafka, Proust, and Faulkner wrought their most compelling
experimental effects by undermining an earlier Enlightenment
project of knowing. Weinstein draws on major Enlightenment thinkers
to identify constituent components of the narrative of "coming to
know" the progressive narrative underwriting two centuries of
Western realist fiction. The book proceeds by framing modernist
unknowing between prior practices of realist knowing, on the one
hand, and, on the other, certain later practices postmodern and
postcolonial that move beyond knowing altogether. In so doing,
Weinstein proposes a metahistory of the Western novel, from Daniel
Defoe to Toni Morrison."
Philip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing"
by addressing the work of three supreme experimental writers: Franz
Kafka, Marcel Proust, and William Faulkner. In their novels, the
narrative props that support the drama of coming to know are
refused. When space turns uncanny rather than lawful, when time
ceases to be linear and progressive, objects and others become
unfamiliar. So does the subject seeking to know them. Weinstein
argues that modernist texts work, by way of surprise and arrest, to
subvert the familiarity and narrative progression intrinsic to
realist fiction. Rather than staging the drama of coming to know,
they stage the drama of coming to unknow. The signature move of
modernism is shock, just as resolution is the trademark of
realism.Kafka, Proust, and Faulkner wrought their most compelling
experimental effects by undermining an earlier Enlightenment
project of knowing. Weinstein draws on major Enlightenment thinkers
to identify constituent components of the narrative of "coming to
know" the progressive narrative underwriting two centuries of
Western realist fiction. The book proceeds by framing modernist
unknowing between prior practices of realist knowing, on the one
hand, and, on the other, certain later practices postmodern and
postcolonial that move beyond knowing altogether. In so doing,
Weinstein proposes a metahistory of the Western novel, from Daniel
Defoe to Toni Morrison."
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|