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Book Subversion and Sympathy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-31
  • ISBN : 0199812047
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Subversion and Sympathy written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Subversion and Sympathy : Gender, Law, and the British Novel brings new energy and perspective to the law-and-literature movement. Focusing on the position of women in British novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - a period during which literature played a creative role in legal reform - the book illustrates the many ways in which the investigation of legal matters sheds new light on major literary works. At the same time, it shows that attention to literary representations of legal issues illuminates developments in the law by bringing to life matters at stake in legal reforms. In fourteen essays, the volume spans a range of gender-related issues, including inheritance, money lending, illegitimacy, marriage, and rape. At the same time, it makes a methodological contribution, displaying (and discussing) a range of perspectives that exemplifies the breadth and range of this interdisciplinary area of scholarship, which links history, gender studies, philosophy, literary studies, and law. The volume seeks to reinvigorate the methodology of the law-and-literature movement by provoking a cross-disciplinary conversation among legal scholars, judges, literary scholars, and feminist philosophers. Participants include those already known for their work on law and literature but also, crucially, legal leading lights who have not previously written about literature. Subversion and Sympathy shows that the conversation between law and literature can enrich our understanding not just of the fields in question but also of the deeper human issues at the heart of a given period - and beyond"--Unedited summary from book jacket.

Book Harvard Law Review

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  • Author : Harvard Law Review
  • Publisher : Quid Pro Books
  • Release : 2013-03-07
  • ISBN : 1610278941
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Harvard Law Review written by Harvard Law Review and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 5 include: Article, "Multistage Adjudication," by Louis Kaplow Book Review, "Humanizing the Criminal Justice Machine: Re-Animated Justice or Frankenstein's Monster?" by Nicola Lacey Note, "Importing a Trade or Business Limitation into sec. 2036: Toward a Regulatory Solution to FLP-Driven Transfer Tax Avoidance" Note, "The Benefits of Unequal Protection" Note, "Diagnostic Method Patents and Harms to Follow-On Innovation" Note, "Three Formulations of the Nexus Requirement in Reasonable Accommodations Law" In addition, student research explores Recent Cases on the intersection of age discrimination claims and sec. 1983 claims, the First Amendment implications of restricting airline ads and of compelled speech in suicide advisories, whether transactions in unlisted securities are "domestic," whether employee misuse of computers violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and prudential standing in environmental cases. Finally, the issue includes a Recent Book essay and several book notes of Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2000 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions. This issue of the Review is March 2013, the fifth issue of academic year 2012-2013 (Volume 126).

Book Urban Play and the Playable City  A Critical Perspective

Download or read book Urban Play and the Playable City A Critical Perspective written by Yoram Chisik and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The London Journal  1845 83

Download or read book The London Journal 1845 83 written by Andrew King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period when mass-market reading in a modern sense was born. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass-market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area. Andrew King argues the necessity for an interdisciplinary vision that recognises that periodicals are commodities that occupy specific but constantly unstable places in a dynamic cultural field. He elaborates the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu to suggest a model of cultural 'zones' where complex issues of power are negotiated through both conscious and unconscious strategies of legitimation and assumption by consumers and producers. He also critically engages with cultural theory as well as traditional scholarship in history, art history, and literature, combining a political economic approach to the commodity with an aesthetic appreciation of the commodity as fetish. Previous commentators have coded the mass market as somehow always 'feminine', and King offers a genealogy of how such a gender identity came about. Fundamentally, however, the author relies on new and extensive primary research to ground the changing ways in which the reading public became consumers of literary commodities on a scale never before seen. Finally, King recontextualizes within the Victorian mass market three key novels of the time - Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (serialised in the London Journal 1859-60), Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1863), and a previously unknown version of Émile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise (1883) - and in so doing he lends them radically new and unexpected meanings.

Book Victorian Interpretation

Download or read book Victorian Interpretation written by Suzy Anger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today. Her primary focus is literary interpretation, but she also considers fields such as legal theory, psychology, history, and the natural sciences in order to establish the pervasiveness of hermeneutic thought in Victorian culture. Anger's book demonstrates that much current thought on interpretation has its antecedents in the Victorians, who were already deeply engaged with the problems of interpretation that concern literary theorists today. Anger traces the development and transformation of interpretive theory from a religious to a secular (and particularly literary) context. She argues that even as hermeneutic theory was secularized in literary interpretation it carried in its practice some of the religious implications with which the tradition began. She further maintains that, for the Victorians, theories of interpretation are often connected to ethical principles and suggests that all theories of interpretation may ultimately be grounded in ethical theories. Beginning with an examination of Victorian biblical exegesis, in the work of figures such as Benjamin Jowett, John Henry Newman, and Matthew Arnold, the book moves to studies of Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde. Emphasizing the extent to which these important writers are preoccupied with hermeneutics, Anger also shows that consideration of their thought brings to light questions and qualifications of some of the assumptions of contemporary criticism.

Book Sentimentalism in Nineteenth Century America

Download or read book Sentimentalism in Nineteenth Century America written by Mary G. De Jong and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentimentalism emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as a moral philosophy founded on the belief that individuals are able to form relationships and communities because they can, by an effort of the imagination, understand one another’s feelings. American authors of both sexes who accepted these views cultivated readers’ sympathy with others in order to promote self-improvement, motivate action to relieve suffering, reinforce social unity, and build national identity. Entwined with domesticity and imperialism and finding expression in literature and in public and private rituals, sentimentalism became America’s dominant ideology by the early nineteenth century. Sentimental writings and practices had political uses, some reformist and some repressive. They played major roles in the formation of bourgeois consciousness. The first new collection of scholarly essays on American sentimentalism since 1999, this volume brings together ten recent studies, eight published here for the first time. The Introduction assesses the current state of sentimentalism studies; the Afterword reflects on sentimentalism as a liberal discourse central to contemporary political thought as well as literary studies. Other contributors, exploring topics characteristic of the field today, examine nineteenth-century authors’ treatments of education, grief, social inequalities, intimate relationships, and community. This volume has several distinctive features. It illustrates sentimentalism’s appropriation of an array of literary forms (advice literature, personal narrative, and essays on education and urban poverty as well as poetry and the novel) objects (memorial volumes), and cultural practices (communal singing, benevolence). It includes four essays on poetry, less frequently studied than fiction. It identifies internal contradictions that eventually fractured sentimentalism’s viability as a belief system—yet suggests that the protean sentimental mode accommodated itself to revisionary and ironized literary uses, thus persisting long after twentieth-century critics pronounced it a casualty of the Civil War. This collection also offers fresh perspectives on three esteemed authors not usually classified as sentimentalists—Sarah Piatt, Walt Whitman, and Henry James—thus demonstrating that sentimental topics and techniques informed “realism” and “modernism” as they emerged Offering close readings of nineteenth-century American texts and practices, this book demonstrates both the limits of sentimentalism and its wide and lasting influence.

Book Hearings Regarding the Administration of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 and the Federal Civilian Employee Loyalty security Program

Download or read book Hearings Regarding the Administration of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 and the Federal Civilian Employee Loyalty security Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature

Download or read book Narrative Subversion in Medieval Literature written by E.L. Risden and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and interest, directing the reader's attention to the most powerful elements of a story. Exile, for example, upsets a protagonist's hopes for a happy earthly life, emphasizing spiritual perception instead. Waking life interrupts dreams, just as dreams may redirect how one lives. Focusing on medieval literature, this study explores how narrative subversion works in such well known stories as Beowulf, Piers Plowman, Le Morte D'Arthur, The Canterbury Tales, Troylus and Criseyde, "Voluspa" and other Old Norse sagas, Grail quest romances, and many others.

Book The BBC

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Mills
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2020-10-13
  • ISBN : 1784784834
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The BBC written by Tom Mills and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BBC: the mouthpiece of the Establishment? The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bias, the BBC has always sided with the elite. As Tom Mills demonstrates, we are only getting the news that the Establishment wants aired in public. Throughout its existence, the BBC has been in thrall to those in power. This was true in 1926 when it stood against the workers during the General Strike, and since then the Corporation has continued to mute the voices of those who oppose the status quo: miners in 1984; anti-war protesters in 2003; those who offer alternatives to austerity economics since 2008. From the outset much of its activity has been scrutinised by the secret services at the invitation of those in charge. Since the 1990s the BBC has been integrated into the market, while its independence from government and big business has been steadily eroded. The BBC is an important and timely examination of a crucial public institution that is constantly under threat.

Book Without Sympathy Or Enthusiasm

Download or read book Without Sympathy Or Enthusiasm written by Victor A. Thompson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-02-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study brings to bear the findings and principles of political science, sociology, psychology, and economics on various proposals for the solution of ills traditionally associated with governmental administration.

Book Feminist Subversion and Complicity

Download or read book Feminist Subversion and Complicity written by Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Subversion and Complicity interrogates a specific form of feminist practice, that which has involved engaging with state and international institutions to insert gender knowledge in their development interventions. Bringing together contributions from eight feminists located in very different kinds of institutions and spaces from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, this book is the outcome of a deeply reflexive process to produce a critique from within of this present day feminist practice. An array of experiences and encounters are scrutinised - from bringing feminist perspectives to governmental projects on education, health, and legal reform to transformations in the discourses and practices of women's movements and feminisms as they encountered developmentalisms. The writers show that feminist politics is not merely assimilated in governmental projects but that it interrupts these projects even as it is assimilated; a feminist politics in which complicity is often a subversive activity, is destabilizing and contesting of meaning.

Book Supreme Court Appellate Division  First Department

Download or read book Supreme Court Appellate Division First Department written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Court of Appeals  Records and Briefs

Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: need index past index 6 (Fuhrmann v. Hanye) need index past index 6 (Fuhrmann v. Hanye) need index past index 6 (Fuhrmann v. Hanye) need index past index 6 (Matter of Gilburt v. Kroll) need index past index 6 (Matter of Gilburt v. Kroll) need index past index 6 (Gilligan v. Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.) need index past index 6 (Gilligan v. Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.) need index past index 6 (Gilligan v. Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc.) need index past index 6 (Matter of Hamilton v. Monaghan) need index past index 6 (Matter of Hamilton v. Monaghan) need index past index 6 (Matter of Hamilton v. Monaghan) need index past index 6 (Matter of Hamilton v. Monaghan) need index past index 6 (Hewlett v. Town of Hempstead) need index past index 6 (Hewlett v. Town of Hempstead) need index past index 6 (Hoffman v. Lehman) need index past index 6 (Hoffman v. Lehman) need index past index 6 (Matter of Ind. Comm. of N.Y. v. W. E. Hedger Trans. Corp.) need index past index 6 (Matter of Ind. Comm. of N.Y. v. W. E. Hedger Trans. Corp.) need index past index 6 (Matter of Ind. Comm. of N.Y. v. W. E. Hedger Trans. Corp.) need index past index 6 (Matter of Garrison) need index past index 6 (Matter of Garrison) need index past index 6 (Matter of Garrison) need index past index 6 (Matter of Garrison) need index past index 6 (Kimbar v. Estis) need index past index 6 (Kimbar v. Estis) need index past index 6 (Kimbar v. Estis) need index past index 6 (L. K. Land Corp. v. Gordon) need index past index 6 (L. K. Land Corp. v. Gordon) need index past index 6 (L. K. Land Corp. v. Gordon) need index past index 6 (Levine & Co., Inc. v. Wolf Package Depot, Inc.) need index past index 6 (Levine & Co., Inc. v. Wolf Package Depot, Inc.)

Book Daily Report  Foreign Radio Broadcasts

Download or read book Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peace and War

Download or read book Peace and War written by Raymond Aron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace and War by Raymond Aron is one of the greatest books ever written on international relations. Aron's starting point is the state of nature that exists between nations, a condition that differs essentially from the civil state that holds within political communities. Ever keeping this brute fact about the life of nations in mind and ranging widely over political history and many disciplines, Aron develops the essential analytical tools to enable us to think clearly about the stakes and possibilities of international relations. In his first section, "Theory," Aron shows that, while international relations can be mapped, and probabilities discerned, no closed, global "science" of international relations is anything more than a mirage. In the second part, "Sociology," Aron studies the many ways various subpolitical forces influence foreign policy. He emphasizes that no rigorous determinism is at work: politics—and thus the need for prudent statesmanship—are inescapable in international relations. In part three, "History," Aron offers a magisterial survey of the twentieth century. He looks at key developments that have had an impact on foreign policy and the emergence of what he calls "universal history," which brings far-flung peoples into regular contact for the first time. In a final section, "Praxeology," Aron articulates a normative theory of international relations that rejects both the bleak vision of the Machiavellians, who hold that any means are legitimate, and the naivete of the idealists, who think foreign policy can be overcome. This new edition of Peace and War includes an informative introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson, situating Aron's thought in a new post-Cold War context, and evaluating his contribution to the study of politics and international relations.

Book Ethics and Economic Governance

Download or read book Ethics and Economic Governance written by Chris Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to explore the ethical dimensions of economic governance through an engagement with Adam Smith and a critical analysis of economistic understandings of the Global Financial Crisis. It examines ethical and political dilemmas associated with key aspects of the financialisation of Anglo-American economy and society, including systems of asset-based welfare, modern risk management and debt. In the wake of the financial crisis, recognition of the way in which everyday lives and life chances are tied into global finance is widespread. Yet few contributions in IPE explicitly tackle this issue as a question of ethics. By developing Adam Smith’s under-utilised account of how market-oriented behaviour is constituted through a process of ‘sympathy’, this book provides an innovative way of understanding contemporary issues of economic governance and the possibilities and limits for intervention within it. By taking Adam Smith’s moral philosophy seriously, it becomes evident that the ever-deeper enmeshing of finance in our everyday lives is a failed experiment. Turning the common understanding of Smith on its head, we can also turn accepted wisdom about the recent financial crisis on its head and see the urgency of making better known the ethico-political contestation that lies at the heart of financial market relations. It will be of interest to students and scholars of IPE as well as those across the social sciences who wish to question the foundations of contemporary economy and society.

Book Subversion and Scurrility

Download or read book Subversion and Scurrility written by Tim Kirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gossip, rumour, scandal and defamation are just some of the popular discourses examined in this collection of essays by an international group of scholars. Featuring research on a wide range of resource materials (including political literature, police reports, drama, ballads, contemporary fiction, poetry and caricatures) the volume provides an introduction to the history and sociology of dissent. Each chapter explores instances of subversion and scurrility in a particular historical context. Emphasis is placed on the political culture of early modern Britain where new relationships between the state and society were pioneered. From this base further chapters proceed to discuss manifestations of these relationships in other societies and during other periods. Subversion and Scurrility reveals that while the ways in which opposition is expressed are infinitely variable, the impulse to protest is a constant.