Download or read book Atavistic Tendencies written by Dana Seitler and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-Darwinian theory of atavism forecasted obstacles to human progress in the reappearance of throwback physical or cultural traits after several generations of absence. In this original and stimulating work, Dana Seitler explores the ways in which modernity itself is an atavism, shaping a historical and theoretical account of its dramatic rise and impact on Western culture and imagination.
Download or read book Body Transformations written by Alphonso Lingis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Images of the Modern Vampire written by Barbara Brodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection also looked at the non-Western vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican traditions, Asian and Russian vampires in popular culture, and the vampire in contemporary novels, film and television. The essays in this collection continue that multi-cultural and multigeneric discussion by tracing the development of the post-modern vampire, in films ranging from Shadow of a Doubt to Blade, The Wisdom of Crocodiles and Interview with the Vampire; the male and female vampires in the Twilight films, Sookie Stackhouse novels and TrueBlood television series; the vampire in African American women’s fiction, Anne Rice’s novels and in the post-apocalyptic I Am Legend; vampires in Japanese anime; and finally, to bring the volumes full circle, the presentation of a new Irish Dracula play, adapted from the novel and set in 1888.
Download or read book Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso written by Gina Lombroso and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nets to Catch the Wind written by Elinor Wylie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nets to Catch the Wind" by Elinor Wylie is a collection of poetry that displays her ability to write in an ethereal and beautiful way. The volume contains: Beauty, The Eagle and the Mole, Madman's Song, The Prinkin' Leddie, August, The Crooked Stick, Atavism, Wild Peaches, Sanctuary, The Lion and the Lamb, The Church-bell, A Crowded Trolley Car, Bells in the Rain, Winter Sleep, Village Mystery, Sunset on the Spire, Escape, The Fairy Goldsmith, "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight", Blood Feud, Sea Lullaby, Nancy, A Proud Lady, The Tortoise in Eternity, Incantation, Silver Filigree, The Falcon, Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin Into English, Spring Pastoral, Velvet Shoes, and Valentine.
Download or read book Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Si cle written by Stephen Arata and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been widely recognised that British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative, into archetypal stories which sought to account for the culture's troubles and perhaps assuage its anxieties. Stephen Arata pays close attention to fin de siècle representation of three forms of decline - national, biological and aesthetic - and reveals how late Victorian degeneration theory was used to 'explain' such decline. By examining a wide range of writers - from Kipling to Wilde, from Symonds to Conan Doyle and Stoker - Arata shows how the nation's twin obsessions with decadence and imperialism became intertwined in the thought of the period. His account offers new insights for students and scholars of the fin de siècle.
Download or read book Reproducing Race written by Khiara Bridges and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race—commonly seen as biological in the medical world—is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.
Download or read book The Silent Word written by Robert Young and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book comprises a selection of the papers presented at an international conference on "Meaning as Production: The Role of the 'Unwritten'", held in Singapore in 1995. It takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies, into a more culturally dynamic field of social semiotics, rhetorical studies, hermeneutics and theories of interpretation. There are also essays that explore the issues with reference to canonical literary texts or authors.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria written by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume (except v. 6, new ser., v. 27).
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Download or read book The Mutation Theory The origin of varieties by mutation written by Hugo de Vries and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria written by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The mutation theory experiments and observations on the origin of species in the vegetable kingdom written by Hugo de Vries and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Anatomy and Physiology written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclop dia of Religion and Ethics Arthur Bunyan written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scope: theology, philosophy, ethics of various religions and ethical systems and relevant portions of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology.
Download or read book Evolution and Disease written by Sir John Bland-Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
