The Difficulty Of Difference

Author : D. N. Rodowick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317928546

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This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud’s writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators. The book turns to Freud’s work on fantasy to develop an alternative model for interpreting sexuality in the visual and narrative arts, one that emphasizes a ‘politics of critical reading’ over accepted theories of ideological identification. Originally published in 1991, its strategic focus on psychoanalysis itself as an object of historical and critical inquiry, and not simply as a reading method is the unique quality of this book.

Author : D. N. Rodowick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317928553

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The Difficulty of Difference by D. N. Rodowick Pdf

This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud’s writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators. The book turns to Freud’s work on fantasy to develop an alternative model for interpreting sexuality in the visual and narrative arts, one that emphasizes a ‘politics of critical reading’ over accepted theories of ideological identification. Originally published in 1991, its strategic focus on psychoanalysis itself as an object of historical and critical inquiry, and not simply as a reading method is the unique quality of this book.

Author : David Norman Rodowick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : 0415838657

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The Difficulty of Difference by David Norman Rodowick Pdf

Author : Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226677156

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A Different Order of Difficulty by Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé Pdf

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé makes a critical contribution to the “resolute” program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as a complex, mock-theoretical puzzle designed to engage readers in the therapeutic self-clarification Wittgenstein saw as the true work of philosophy. Seen in this light, Wittgenstein resembles his modernist contemporaries more than might first appear. Like the literary innovators of his time, Wittgenstein believed in the productive power of difficulty, in varieties of spiritual experience, in the importance of age-old questions about life’s meaning, and in the possibility of transfigurative shifts toward the right way of seeing the world. In a series of absorbing chapters, Zumhagen-Yekplé shows how Kafka, Woolf, Joyce, and Coetzee set their readers on a path toward a new way of being. Offering a new perspective on Wittgenstein as philosophical modernist, and on the lives and afterlives of his indirect teaching, A Different Order of Difficulty is a compelling addition to studies in both literature and philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Cipher and telegraph codes
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU55719287

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The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy and to Furnish a Complete Cypher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Volker Kaul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030523756

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Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation by Volker Kaul Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation. It addresses the burning questions of our times, viz. nationalism, populism, Islamic fundamentalism, multiculturalism, postsecularism and postcolonialism. The volume repudiates an easy reconciliation between identity and emancipation, such as it occurs in contemporary liberal and multicultural political theories. It shows that we cannot achieve emancipation without Kant’s help, whereas identity relentlessly draws us back to collective values and the community. The book urges for a new understanding of identity and a politics that instead of accommodating identities seeks to govern them. Identity is the buzzword in the humanities and social sciences, but also the most contentious and least conceptualized term. This book intends to bring theoretical clarity into the debate on how identity plays out in politics.

Author : Donalda MacLean Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Commercial correspondence
ISBN : MSU:31293102417445

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A Comparison of the Difficulty of Materials Used in the Teaching and Testing of Shorthand with the Difficulty of Business Letters in Use in Business Offices by Donalda MacLean Warner Pdf

Author : William Carl Howell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000090361894

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An Evaluation of Two Variables Contributing to the Difficulty of a Sequential Decision Task by William Carl Howell Pdf

Author : Thomas Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521533988

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The Difficulty of Tolerance by Thomas Scanlon Pdf

These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be respected even when it seems that better results could be achieved by violating them. Other topics which are explored include voluntariness and consent, freedom of expression, tolerance, punishment, and human rights. The collection includes the classic essays 'Preference and Urgency', 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', and 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', as well as a number of other essays that have hitherto not been easily accessible. It will be essential reading for all those studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.

Author : Manuel Cruz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231541398

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On the Difficulty of Living Together by Manuel Cruz Pdf

In On the Difficulty of Living Together, Manuel Cruz launches a nuanced study of memory and forgetting, defining their forms and uses, political meanings, and social and historical implications. Memory is not an intrinsically positive phenomenon, he argues, but an impressionable and malleable one, used to advance a variety of agendas. Cruz focuses on five memory models: that which is inherently valuable, that which legitimizes the present, that which supports retributive justice, that which is essential to mourning, and that which elicits renunciation or revelation. His methodical approach makes sense of memory's positive and negative effects, its contradictions, and its tensions. Cruz shows us that remembering is not necessarily an end in itself, nor is it a supreme value, immune to external influence. The exercise of memory guarantees nothing, though many insist it is a progressive act preventing the repetition of past mistakes. Tying the making of memory to the movements of history, Cruz prioritizes memory's political dimensions over its philosophical aspects and helps us remember its myriad uses.

Author : Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547340447

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A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Complete Guide to Heraldry" by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Jingyang Jiang,Haitao Liu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110573565

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Quantitative Analysis of Dependency Structures by Jingyang Jiang,Haitao Liu Pdf

Dependency analysis is increasingly used in computational linguistics and cognitive science. Surprisingly, compared with studies based on phrase structures, quantitative methods and dependency structure are rarely integrated in research.This is the first book that collects original contributions which quantitatively analyze dependency structures across different languages and text genres.

Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Law
ISBN : LLMC:NYA9ONY8950N

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New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. by New York (State). Court of Appeals. Pdf

Volume contains: 96 NY 567 (Baird v. Mayor & Commonalty of N.Y.)

Author : Nicholas Nace,Charles Altieri
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810136076

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The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time by Nicholas Nace,Charles Altieri Pdf

The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time offers original readings of poems composed in this century—poems that are challenging to follow, challenging to understand, challenging to discuss, and challenging to enjoy. Difficult poetry of the past relied on allusion, syntactic complexity, free association, and strange juxtapositions. The new poetry breaks with the old in its stunning variety; its questioning of inherited values, labels, and narratives; its multilingualism; its origin in and production of unnamed affects; and its coherence around critical and social theorists as much as other poets. The essays in this volume include poets writing on the works of a younger generation (Lyn Hejinian on Paolo Javier, Bob Perelman on Rachel Zolf, Roberto Tejada on Rosa Alcalá), influential writers addressing the work of peers (Ben Lerner on Maggie Nelson, Michael W. Clune on Aaron Kunin), critics making imaginative leaps to encompass challenging work (Brian M. Reed on Sherwin Bitsui, Siobhan Philips on Juliana Spahr), and younger scholars coming to terms with poets who continue to govern new poetic experimentation (Joseph Jeon on Myung Mi Kim, Lytle Shaw on Lisa Robertson). In pairings that are both intuitive (Marjorie Perloff on Craig Dworkin) and unexpected (Langdon Hammer on Srikanth Reddy), The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time illuminates the myriad pathways and strategies for exploring difficult poetry of the present.

Author : Davide Castiglione
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319970011

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Difficulty in Poetry by Davide Castiglione Pdf

This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is ‘difficult’ - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a stylistic and cognitive model that sheds new light on the mechanisms of difficulty, as well as on its range of potential effects. Its eight chapters are organised into two thematic parts. The first traces the history of difficulty, surveys its main scholarly traditions, addresses related themes – from elitism to obscurity, from abstraction to intentionality – and introduces a wide array of analytical tools from literary theory and cognitive psychology. These tools are then consistently applied in the second part, which includes several extended analyses of poems by canonical modernists such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, alongside those of postmodernist innovators such as Geoffrey Hill, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. This innovative work will provide fresh insights and approaches for scholars of stylistics, literary studies, cognitive poetics and psychology.