Author: J. GoodfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Imagined World
Author: J. GoodfieldImagined Worlds
Author: Freeman J. DysonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674539099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Chapters have such headings as: Stories, Science, Technology, Evolution, and Ethics.
The World Imagined
Author: Hendrik SpruytPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108491219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Spruyt takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explain how collective belief systems organized three non-European societies c.1500-1900, and how these polities engaged the European colonial powers.
The Imagined World of Charles Dickens
Author: Mildred NewcombPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814204821
Category : Imagination in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Counternarratives
Author: John KeenePublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122435X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
A World of Babies
Author: Alma GottliebPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107137292
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
A fully revised and updated second edition of this successful guide to childcare advice in different cultures around the globe.
Imagined Communities
Author: Benedict AndersonPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178168359X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.
A New World Imagined
Author: Elliot Bostwick DavisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780878467600
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new world imagined -- Native peoples of the Americas -- Europe and the Americas -- Africa, the New East, Asia, and the Americas.
Building Imaginary Worlds
Author: Mark J.P. WolfPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113622081X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Mark J.P. Wolf’s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worlds—which are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in nature—are compelling objects of inquiry for Media Studies. Chapters touch on: a theoretical analysis of how world-building extends beyond storytelling, the engagement of the audience, and the way worlds are conceptualized and experienced a history of imaginary worlds that follows their development over three millennia from the fictional islands of Homer’s Odyssey to the present internarrative theory examining how narratives set in the same world can interact and relate to one another an examination of transmedial growth and adaptation, and what happens when worlds make the jump between media an analysis of the transauthorial nature of imaginary worlds, the resulting concentric circles of authorship, and related topics of canonicity, participatory worlds, and subcreation’s relationship with divine Creation Building Imaginary Worlds also provides the scholar of imaginary worlds with a glossary of terms and a detailed timeline that spans three millennia and more than 1,400 imaginary worlds, listing their names, creators, and the works in which they first appeared.
Imagine There's No Heaven
Author: Mitchell StephensPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137002603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Looks at the role of atheism in the history and cultural development of the West, examining the accomplishments of often courageous atheists that have promoted science, expanded human liberties, and otherwise advanced culture.
