Friday S Footprint

Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1432580308

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Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : New York : Viking
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023716256

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Friday's Footprints by Nadine Gordimer Pdf

Author : Robert M. Maniquis,Carl Fisher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802099211

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Defoe's Footprints by Robert M. Maniquis,Carl Fisher Pdf

In Defoe's Footprints, essays by prominent scholars of eighteenth-century literature salute Maximillian E. Novak's influence upon the study of Daniel Defoe. Best known today as the author of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was a prolific writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries who wrote novels, essays, pamphlets, and poems. Widely extending Novak's perspectives, this volume explores Defoe's place in the English novel and in literary developments of mimesis, realism, and popular mythology. The contributors locate Defoe in new ways within the complex symbolism and discourse of a turbulent world of burgeoning capitalism, Protestantism, imperialism, and economic speculation. With attention to Defoe's neglected writings as well as to his important works, this volume uncovers his distance from and influence on modern literature, paying tribute to Maximillian E. Novak by presenting new ideas about, and new readings of, Daniel Defoe.

Author : Leslie Brothers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0788197630

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Friday's Footprint by Leslie Brothers Pdf

Offers a major argument about the social dimension of the human brain. Discusses the tale of Robinson Crusoe as a metaphor for neuroscience's classic (& flawed) notion of the brain: a starkly isolated figure. But our brains have evolved a specialized capacity for exchanging signals with other brains -- they are designed to be social. This can be seen in the brain's sensitive attunement to the meanings of facial expressions & physical gestures & the way it assigns mental lives to physical bodies. Brothers shows how our daily interaction creates an organized social world -- a network of brains that generates meaningful behavior & thought.

Author : Patrick Brantlinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136038143

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Crusoe's Footprints by Patrick Brantlinger Pdf

"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities." Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges and universities in the 1960s towards such interdisciplinary and "radical" programs as American Studies, Women's Studies, and Afro-American Studies. Brantlinger also examines the role of feminist criticism which has been particularly crucial in both Britain and the U.S.

Author : Leslie Brothers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9780195147049

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Friday's Footprint by Leslie Brothers Pdf

Revealing the brain as a social organ, adapted to respond to and process specific social stimuli that are unique to human evolution, Dr Leslie Brothers uses findings from neuroscience, anthropology and palaeontology to make a convincing argument.

Author : Astrid Erll,Herbert Grabes,Ansgar Nünning
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110206555

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Ethics in Culture by Astrid Erll,Herbert Grabes,Ansgar Nünning Pdf

Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has been a noticeable return to ethical considerations. With regard to literature as well as other media, this has rekindled awareness of a tension, antagonism, or even disparity between ethics and aesthetics. This volume of articles takes a more systematic and cross-disciplinary approach to the widely mooted ethical turn in literature and other media than has been pursued so far. It brings together a wide range of critical perspectives from literary studies, media and cultural memory studies, and philosophy, tracing the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies as diverse as colonial architecture, nineteenth-century literary histories, and postmodern writing and art.

Author : Luiz Pessoa
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262314763

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The Cognitive-Emotional Brain by Luiz Pessoa Pdf

A study that goes beyond the debate over functional specialization to describe the ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain. The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and its corollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that emotion interacts with cognition in the brain. In this book, Luiz Pessoa moves beyond the debate over functional specialization, describing the many ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain. The amygdala is often viewed as the quintessential emotional region of the brain, but Pessoa reviews findings revealing that many of its functions contribute to attention and decision making, critical components of cognitive functions. He counters the idea of a subcortical pathway to the amygdala for affective visual stimuli with an alternate framework, the multiple waves model. Citing research on reward and motivation, Pessoa also proposes the dual competition model, which explains emotional and motivational processing in terms of their influence on competition processes at both perceptual and executive function levels. He considers the broader issue of structure-function mappings, and examines anatomical features of several regions often associated with emotional processing, highlighting their connectivity properties. As new theoretical frameworks of distributed processing evolve, Pessoa concludes, a truly dynamic network view of the brain will emerge, in which "emotion" and "cognition" may be used as labels in the context of certain behaviors, but will not map cleanly into compartmentalized pieces of the brain.

Author : Peter Loxley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000638165

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Big Ideas in Primary Science: Understanding the Climate Crisis by Peter Loxley Pdf

Big Ideas in Primary Science: Understanding the Climate Crisis takes a fresh approach to learning the science of climate change. It combines new thinking in science teaching using big ideas, with our growing need to look after our planet, and encourages children to learn from what scientists have to say about issues that will impact their lives today and in the future. The book offers primary teachers the subject and pedagogical knowledge, as well as the confidence they need, to integrate the seeds of big ideas into their curriculum. It provides models of good practice which exemplify how primary-aged children can work towards understanding some of science’s big ideas and engage with important issues related to climate change. There are also opportunities for children to develop skills and understanding from other curriculum areas, such as geography, design technology, and art. The easy-to-use book covers topics such as: Weather Climate Climate change Impact of the climate crisis on our lives Impact of the climate crisis on wildlife The world we must create Taking climate action By making the ideas their own, children can develop informed ways of thinking about issues related to climate change and feel empowered to act in ways which can make a difference. Full of ideas about the climate crisis, Big Ideas in Primary Science is a comprehensive, valuable, and essential resource for all teachers of primary science.

Author : Dmitri N. Shalin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351497220

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Pragmatism and Democracy by Dmitri N. Shalin Pdf

This volume examines the roots of pragmatist imagination and traces the influence of American pragmatism in diverse areas of politics, law, sociology, political science, and transitional studies. The work explores the interfaces between the Progressive movement in politics and American pragmatism. Shalin shows how early 20th century progressivism influenced pragmatism's philosophical agenda and how pragmatists helped articulate a theory of progressive reform. The work addresses pragmatism and interactionist sociology and illuminates the cross-fertilization between these two fields of studies. Special emphasis is placed on the interactionists' search for a logic of inquiry sensitive to the objective indeterminacy of the situation. The challenge that contemporary interactionist studies face is to illuminate the issues of power and inequality central to the political commitments of pragmatist philosophers. Shalin explores the vital link between democracy, civility, and affect. His central thesis is that democracy is an embodied process that binds affectively as well as rhetorically and that flourishes in places where civic discourse is an end in itself, a source of vitality and social creativity sustaining a democratic community. The author shows why civic discourse is hobbled by the civic body that has been misshapen by past abuses. Drawing on the studies of the civilizing process, Shalin speculates about the emotion, demeanor, and body language of democracy and explores from this angle the prospects for democratic transformation in countries struggling to shake their totalitarian past. View Table of Contents

Author : Robert D. Hamner
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0894101420

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Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott by Robert D. Hamner Pdf

The articles in this collection are representative of the criticism that has followed Walcott's career from the 1940s into the 1990s. Ten entries by Walcott himself (including one not previously published and two vital interviews) are complemented by some 40 incisive essays and reviews, ranging from professional assessments to the rare, personal observations of Walcott's earliest mentors.

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942130383

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Dissimilar Similitudes by Caroline Walker Bynum Pdf

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used a plethora of objects in worship, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but also pieces of natural materials, such as stones and earth, considered to carry holiness, dolls representing Jesus and Mary, and even bits of consecrated bread and wine thought to be miraculously preserved flesh and blood. Theologians and ordinary worshippers alike explained, utilized, justified, and warned against some of these objects, which could carry with them both anti-Semitic charges and the glorious promise of heaven. Their proliferation and the reaction against them form a crucial background to the European-wide movements we know today as “reformations” (both Protestant and Catholic). In a set of independent but interrelated essays, Caroline Bynum considers some examples of such holy things, among them beds for the baby Jesus, the headdresses of medieval nuns, and the footprints of Christ carried home from the Holy Land by pilgrims in patterns cut to their shape or their measurement in lengths of string. Building on and going beyond her well-received work on the history of materiality, Bynum makes two arguments, one substantive, the other methodological. First, she demonstrates that the objects themselves communicate a paradox of dissimilar similitude—that is, that in their very details they both image the glory of heaven and make clear that that heaven is beyond any representation in earthly things. Second, she uses the theme of likeness and unlikeness to interrogate current practices of comparative history. Suggesting that contemporary students of religion, art, and culture should avoid comparing things that merely “look alike,” she proposes that humanists turn instead to comparing across cultures the disparate and perhaps visually dissimilar objects in which worshippers as well as theorists locate the “other” that gives religion enduring power.

Author : Shifra M. Goldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226301249

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Dimensions of the Americas by Shifra M. Goldman Pdf

This volume presents an overview of the social history of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. This collection of thirty-three essays focuses on Latin American artists throughout Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The author provides a chronology of modern Latin American art; a history of "social art history" in the United States; and synopses of recent theoretical and historical writings by major scholars from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, and the United States. In her essays, she discusses a vast array of topics including: the influence of the Mexican muralists on the American continent; the political and artistic significance of poster art and printmaking in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and among Chicanos; the role of women artists such as Guatemalan painter Isabel Ruiz; and the increasingly important role of politics and multinational businesses in the art world of the 1970s and 1980s. She explores the reception of Latin American and Latino art in the United States, focusing on major historical exhibits as well as on exhibits by artists such as Chilean Alfredo Jaar and Argentinean Leandro Katz. Finally, she examines the significance of nationalist and ethnic themes in Latin American and Latino art.

Author : Fraser Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429872884

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Creation by Fraser Watts Pdf

Published in 1999. How can we reconcile assumptions about the lawfulness of the universe with provision for chance events? Do the ‘laws of nature’ indicate what absolutely must happen, or just what is most likely to happen? These are important questions for both science and theology, and are explored here in the first in-depth coverage of an important but neglected topic. Including perspectives from prestigious contributions, and published with the backing of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), Creation: Law and Probability employs the disciplines of history and philosophy, as well as cosmology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience in a fascinating dialogue of faith traditions.

Author : Anu Shukla
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Globalization in literature
ISBN : 8176257192

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Migrant Voices in Literatures in English by Anu Shukla Pdf

Papers presented at the Second World Conference of World Association for Studies in Literatures in English, held at Nagpur in January 2004.