Disturbing Conventions

Author : Rachel V Harrison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783480159

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Disturbing Conventions by Rachel V Harrison Pdf

Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentres Thai literary studies in order to move beyond the traditionalist, conservative concerns of the academy which have, until relatively recently, foreclosed the use of “Western” theory in the study of Thai literature. The book introduces new frames of analysis to the study of Thai literature to bring it into dialogue with debates in wider fields and the world beyond its national borders. As a result, Disturbing Conventions offers an essential contribution to the comparative study of world literature and Asian cultural studies.

Author : David A. Frenkel
Publisher : ATINER
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : International law
ISBN : 9789609549097

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International Law, Conventions and Justice by David A. Frenkel Pdf

The articles are based on selected presentations at International Conferences on Law, organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) held in Athens, Greece -- Introd.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Human Rights Conventions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Human rights
ISBN : MINN:31951D020948110

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Human Rights Conventions by United States. Congress. Senate. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Human Rights Conventions Pdf

Considers Senate ratification of the Convention on the Political Rights of Women, the Convention on Abolition of Forced Labor, and the Supplementary Convention on Slavery.

Author : Lynn Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520260443

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Icons of Life by Lynn Morgan Pdf

Lynn Morgan traces the remarkable story of the human embryo collecting project at John Hopkins Dept. of Anatomy during the early 20th century. She shows how the science of embryology came into existence & how the embryo entered Western culture as an image of 'ourselves unborn'.

Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465012299

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The Jane Addams Reader by Jean Bethke Elshtain Pdf

Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful Junior Class Oration on women as "Breadgivers," features thoughtful examinations of topics as diverse as "Tolstoy and Gandhi" and "The Public School and the Immigrant Child," and even includes popular essays on "The Subtle Problems of Charity," from The Atlantic Monthly, and "Need a Woman Over Fifty Feel Old?" from Ladies' Home Journal. Along with the writings themselves, Elshtain's insightful commentary offers powerful evidence of Addams's remarkable ability to frame social problems in an ethical context, her unwillingness to succumb to ideological dogma, her political courage, and her lifelong devotion to civic and moral life.

Author : Theodore F. Sheckels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498588669

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The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948-2016 by Theodore F. Sheckels Pdf

The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948-2016 establishes the rhetorical goals of the thirty-six political party conventions that have taken place since 1948 against the backdrop of the fundamental changes that television brought to the conventions. Theodore F. Sheckels analyzes these conventions to determine whether the gatherings met or failed to meet those goals, including addressing civil rights, unifying divergent wings of the party, celebrating the triumph of a single wing, overcoming dissent inside and outside the meeting hall, overcoming—or capitalizing on—scandal, reconstituting the party after defeats, arguing for change, and advocating for inclusion. Sheckels observes that although speeches are the primary vehicle through which attendees strive to reach these goals, the crucial addresses are not always by the principal players; often, events other than speeches such as negotiations, demonstrations, and media spin can be just as consequential. Sheckels discusses both the similarities and differences in the ways in which the conventions do business and constitute and reconstitute what the political parties are, aiming to persuade the public with rhetorical images and messages. Scholars of communication, rhetoric, political science, and American studies will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Reuven Tsur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190676353

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Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils by Reuven Tsur Pdf

Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils offers a major theoretical statement of where poetic conventions come from. The work comprises Reuven Tsur's research in cognitive poetics to show how conventional poetic styles originate from cognitive rather than cultural principles. The book contrasts two approaches to cultural conventions in general, and poetic conventions in particular. They include what may be called the "culture-begets-culture" or "influence-hunting" approach, and the "constraints-seeking" or "cognitive-fossils" approach here expounded. The former assumes that one may account for cultural programs by pointing out their roots in earlier cultural phenomena and provide a map of their migrations. The latter assumes that cultural programs originate in cognitive solutions to adaptation problems that have acquired the status of established practice. Both conceptions assume "repeated social transmission," but with very different implications. The former frequently ends in infinite regress; the latter assumes that in the process of repeated social transmission, cultural programs come to take forms which have a good fit to the natural constraints and capacities of the human brain. Tsur extends the principles of this analysis of cognitive origins of poetic form to the writing systems, not only of the Western world, but also to Egyptian hieroglyphs through the evolution of alphabetic writing via old Semitic writing, and Chinese and Japanese writings; to aspects of figuration in medieval and Renaissance love poetry in English and French; to the metaphysical conceit; to theories of poetic translation; to the contemporary theory of metaphor; and to slips of the tongue and the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, showing the workings and disruption of psycholinguistic mechanisms. Analysis extends to such varying sources as the formulae of some Mediaeval Hebrew mystic poems, and the ballad 'Edward,' illustrative of extreme 'fossilization' and the constraints of the human brain.

Author : Andreas Zimmermann,Terje Einarsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2033 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192855114

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The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Its 1967 Protocol 2e by Andreas Zimmermann,Terje Einarsen Pdf

The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are the cornerstones of international refugee law. This Commentary provides a systematic, article-by-article analysis of their provisions in addition to crosscutting thematic chapters. The Commentary is an indispensable tool for lawyers, decision-makers, and academics.

Author : American Society of Municipal Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:097421459

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Official Proceedings of the 31st Annual Convention ... by American Society of Municipal Engineers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112110883920

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Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrei Marmor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691162232

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Social Conventions by Andrei Marmor Pdf

Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason, and in doing so challenges the dominant view of social conventions first laid out by David Lewis. Marmor begins by giving a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive conventions and between deep and surface conventions. He then applies this analysis to explain how conventions work in language, morality, and law. Marmor clearly demonstrates that many important semantic and pragmatic aspects of language assumed by many theorists to be conventional are in fact not, and that the role of conventions in the moral domain is surprisingly complex, playing mostly an auxiliary and supportive role. Importantly, he casts new light on the conventional foundations of law, arguing that the distinction between deep and surface conventions can be used to answer the prevalent objections to legal conventionalism. Social Conventions is a much-needed reappraisal of the nature of the rules that regulate virtually every aspect of human conduct.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : UIUC:30112112119919

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The Bee Keepers' Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Telephone Exchange Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015065596861

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Report of the Proceedings of the National Convention of Telephone Companies by National Telephone Exchange Association Pdf

Author : Maryland. Constitutional Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002382892R

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The Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Maryland, Assembled at the City of Annapolis, Wednesday, April 27, 1964 by Maryland. Constitutional Convention Pdf

Author : Democratic Party. National Convention, Charleston and Baltimore, 1860
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Campaign literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101059762524

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Proceedings of the Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore by Democratic Party. National Convention, Charleston and Baltimore, 1860 Pdf