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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year A First Things Books
for Christmas Selection Winner of the Expanded Reason Award "This
important work of moral philosophy argues that we are, first and
foremost, embodied beings, and that public policy must recognize
the limits and gifts that this entails." -Wall Street Journal The
natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and dependent
on others. Yet law and policy concerning biomedical research and
the practice of medicine frequently disregard these stubborn facts.
What It Means to Be Human makes the case for a new paradigm, one
that better reflects the gifts and challenges of being human. O.
Carter Snead proposes a framework for public bioethics rooted in a
vision of human identity and flourishing that supports those who
are profoundly vulnerable and dependent-children, the disabled, and
the elderly. He addresses three complex public matters: abortion,
assisted reproductive technology, and end-of-life decisions.
Avoiding typical dichotomies of conservative-liberal and
secular-religious, Snead recasts debates within his framework of
embodiment and dependence. He concludes that if the law is built on
premises that reflect our lived experience, it will provide support
for the vulnerable. "This remarkable and insightful account of
contemporary public bioethics and its individualist assumptions is
indispensable reading for anyone with bioethical concerns."
-Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue "A brilliantly
insightful book about how American law has enshrined individual
autonomy as the highest moral good...Highly thought-provoking."
-Francis Fukuyama, author of Identity
Originally published in 1986. William Faulkner's major novels
represent one of the earliest American explorations into the
paradoxes inherent in both literary discourse and racial
segregation in the American South. Figures of Division demonstrates
that these works reject conventional divisions and a social and
linguistic deception, and discover a reality where people merge
across social boundaries. This analysis of Faulkner's narrative
discourse shows for the first time that the mechanisms of social
division profoundly affect both the content and the form of his
major novels.
Originally published in 1986. William Faulkner's major novels
represent one of the earliest American explorations into the
paradoxes inherent in both literary discourse and racial
segregation in the American South. Figures of Division demonstrates
that these works reject conventional divisions and a social and
linguistic deception, and discover a reality where people merge
across social boundaries. This analysis of Faulkner's narrative
discourse shows for the first time that the mechanisms of social
division profoundly affect both the content and the form of his
major novels.
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
U.S. Navy Supply Corps Ensign Ross Hofmann had no idea what was in
store for him when he arrived at Cavite Naval Base in October 1941.
Two months later, Japanese forces struck the Philippines,
destroying the base and forcing U.S. personnel to retreat to
Bataan. There, Hofmann participated in salvage missions around
Manila and joined a makeshift unit of airmen and sailors to fight a
Japanese force that landed nearby. In March 1942, he travelled to
Cebu to run supplies through the blockade of Bataan and Corregidor.
Soon after his arrival, the Japanese landed on Cebu, forcing the
Americans to retreat again. Hiking through jungles and crossing
dangerous waters in barely seaworthy craft, Hofmann avoided capture
and reached an American base in Mindanao. He received orders to
establish a seaplane base on Lake Lanao. As Japanese troops landed
nearby, two seaplanes returning from Corregidor stopped to refuel,
one of them hitting a rock on take-off. In a harrowing race against
the enemy advance, Hofmann and others worked feverishly to fix the
plane and escape before the Japanese converged on Lake Lanao.
Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact. But how, James Snead asks, did black skin on screen develop into a complex code for various types of white supremacist discourse? In these essays, completed shortly before his death in 1989, James Snead offers a thoughtful inquiry into the intricate modes of racial coding in Hollywood cinema from 1915 to 1985. Snead presents three major methods through which the racist ideology within film functions: mythification, in which black images are correlated in a larger sceme of semiotic valuation where the dominant ``I'' needs the marginal ``other'' in order to function effectively; marking, in which the color black is repeatedly over-determined and redundantly marked, as if to force the viewer to register the image's difference from white; and omission--the repetition of black absence from positions of autonomy and importance. White Screens/Black Images offers an array of film texts, drawn from both classical Hollywood cinema and black independent film culture. Individual chapters analyze Birth of a Nation, King Kong, Shirley Temple in The Littlest Rebel and The Little Colonel, Mae West in I'm No Angel, Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus, Bette Davis in Jezebel, the racism of Disney's Song of the South, and Taxi Driver. Making skillful use of developments in both structuralist and post-structuralist film theory, Snead's work speaks not only to the centrality of race in Hollywood films, but to its centrality in the formation of modern American culture.
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This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and popular culture, James A. Snead. The volume contains innovative essays and notes about African American popular culture, literary criticism and five pieces of short fiction. Published posthumously, the volume attests to Snead's unique intellectual commitment to a critical engagement with the interconnections between European and African American cultural formations.
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The Tears of Achilles (Paperback)
Helene Monsacre; Translated by Nicholas J Snead; Introduction by Richard P. Martin
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Achilles-warrior and hero-by the protocols of Western culture,
should never cry. And yet Homeric epic is full of his tears and
those of his companions at Troy. This path-blazing study by Helene
Monsacre shows how later ideals of stoically inexpressive manhood
run contrary to the poetic vision presented in the Iliad and
Odyssey. The epic protagonists, as larger-than-life figures who
transcend gender categories, are precisely the men most likely to
weep. Monsacre pursues the paradox of the tearful fighter through a
series of lucid and detailed close readings, and examines all
aspects of the interactions between men and women in the Homeric
poems. Her illuminating analysis, first published in French in
1984, remains bold, fresh, and compelling for anyone touched-like
Achilles-by a world of grief.
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