Modernist Fiction and Vagueness

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness
Author: Megan Quigley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-02-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110708959X
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Modernist Fiction and Vagueness examines the development of the modernist novel in relation to changing approaches to philosophy. It argues that the puzzle of vagueness challenged the great thinkers of the early twentieth century and led to dramatic changes in both fiction and philosophy. Building on recent interest in the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, this book posits that literary vagueness should be read as a defining quality of modernist fiction.

The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author: William James
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1877527467
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Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674003026
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With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays offers evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and culture.

Lila

Lila
Author: Robert Pirsig
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013-11-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0307764214
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In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.

The 33 Strategies Of War

The 33 Strategies Of War
Author: Robert Greene
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2010-09-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1847651429
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The third in Robert Greene's bestselling series is now available in a pocket sized concise edition. Following 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction, here is a brilliant distillation of the strategies of war to help you wage triumphant battles everyday. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts, The Concise 33 Strategies of War is a guide to the subtle social game of everyday life. Based on profound and timeless lessons, it is abundantly illustrated with examples of the genius and folly of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher and Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as diplomats, captains of industry and Samurai swordsmen.

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Author: Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2017-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1911307843
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The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.

In Defense of Lost Causes

In Defense of Lost Causes
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2009-10-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1844674290
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Gentlemen Callers

Gentlemen Callers
Author: Michael Paller
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2005-04-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781403967756
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Cyberpunk & Cyberculture

Cyberpunk & Cyberculture
Author: Dani Cavallaro
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2000-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1847140351
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Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.

Transplant Fictions

Transplant Fictions
Author: Emily Russell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-04-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030121356
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Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions, organ transplant is a celebrated and relatively common procedure. Transplant Fictions brings together a diverse set of cultural representations to understand how we have overcome the profound ideological violations represented by organ exchange in order to reimagine the concept and practice as technological and moral victories. From the plots of horror stories and sci-fi novels to sentimental romances and feel-good media reports of stranger donation, this cultural study offers a nuanced portrait of the conceptual journey of organ exchange from strange and terrible to the “gift of life.”