Inventing Herself
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Inventing Herself
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Author : Elaine Showalter
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001-03-20
Inventing Herself written by Elaine Showalter and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-20 with Social Science categories.
Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present. With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing Herself is an expansive and timely exploration of women who possess a boundless determination to alter the world by boldly experiencing love, achievement, and fame on a grand scale. These women tried to work, travel, think, love, and even die in ways that were ahead of their time. In doing so, they forged an epic history that each generation of adventurous women has rediscovered. Focusing on paradigmatic figures ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller to Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag, preeminent scholar Elaine Showalter uncovers common themes and patterns of these women's lives across the centuries and discovers the feminist intellectual tradition they embodied. The author brilliantly illuminates the contributions of Eleanor Marx, Zora Neale Hurston, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, and many more. Showalter, a highly regarded critic known for her provocative and strongly held opinions, has here established a compelling new Who's Who of women's thought. Certain to spark controversy, the omission of such feminist perennials as Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Virginia Woolf will surprise and shock the conventional wisdom. This is not a history of perfect women, but rather of real women, whose mistakes and even tragedies are instructive and inspiring for women today who are still trying to invent themselves.
Brains Inventing Themselves
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Author : Conrad P. Pritscher
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Brains Inventing Themselves written by Conrad P. Pritscher and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Education categories.
Neuroscience has found that neuroplasticity of brain cells allows brains to invent themselves. Remodeling of brains can be facilitated by schools and universities. What may be done to accelerate that positive inventing so as to prepare for rapidly accelerating change? As an IBM advertisement reads: “It is time to ask smarter questions.” This book helps the reader do that. What is worse than being blind to something? “Being blind to your blindness” says Eric Haseltine who has worked for both Disney and the National Security Agency. Being blind to what our brains can do is slowly changing. Brain researchers recently found that we can now be our own subjects of brain experimentation. Research shows how one can change one’s brain by changing one’s mind. In her 2010 high school valedictorian speech Erica Goldson courageously said: “The majority of students are put through the same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it.” This book shows professors, teachers, parents, and interested citizens how students can become aware and reach higher levels of consciousness.
Inventing Tom Thomson
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Author : Sherrill Grace
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2004-11-04
Inventing Tom Thomson written by Sherrill Grace and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-04 with Art categories.
Since his drowning in 1917, Tom Thomson has been recreated by poets, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, biographers, and other artists as a legendary figure synonymous with Canada and its northern identity. Touted as a great artist cut off in his prime, his mysterious death in Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, and the controversy about his final resting-place fired the popular imagination and raised him to the status of a national hero. In "Inventing Tom Thomson" Sherrill Grace examines many of the ways in which the figure of Thomson has been imagined by Canadians. Even people who do not know his paintings well will recognize "The Jack Pine" and know his legend through the marketing of Thomson memorabilia on the Web, in museums, and in stores. Grace suggests that the figure we have come to recognize as Tom Thomson is inextricably associated with many of the qualities that we believe characterize Canadian culture - love of the wilderness, northern purity, solitary independence, and a masculine ability to canoe, camp, fish, and rough it in the bush. "Inventing Tom Thomson" is about those artists who have felt compelled to imagine their own Tom Thomsons and about what the man has come to represent to the culture at large - it is about us and how the stories about this exceptional painter have shaped our sense of who we are as a nation.
The Invention Of Angela Carter
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Author : Edmund Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-10-13
The Invention Of Angela Carter written by Edmund Gordon and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD NBCC AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2017 SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and Observer Angela Carter’s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction. Through her fearlessly original and inventive books, including The Bloody Chamber and Nights at the Circus, she became an icon to a generation and one of the most acclaimed English writers of the last hundred years. This is her first full and authorised biography. Edmund Gordon uncovers Carter’s life story – from a young woman trying to write in a tiny bedsit in Tokyo, to one of the most important and daring writers of her day. From a life full of adventure sprang work so fantastic, dazzling and seductive that it permanently changed and reinvigorated British literature. This is the story of how Angela Carter invented herself. 'An exemplary piece of work... Everyone should read it' Spectator
The Invention Of Celebrity
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Author : Antoine Lilti
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-09-05
The Invention Of Celebrity written by Antoine Lilti and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with History categories.
Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Figures from across the arts like Voltaire, Garrick, and Liszt were all veritable celebrities in their time, arousing curiosity and passionate loyalty from their “fans.” The rise of the press, new advertising techniques, and the marketing of leisure brought a profound transformation in the visibility of celebrities: private lives were now very much on public show. Nor was politics spared this cultural upheaval: Marie-Antoinette, George Washington, and Napoleon all experienced a political world transformed by the new demands of celebrity. And when the people suddenly appeared on the revolutionary scene, it was no longer enough to be legitimate; it was crucial to be popular too. Lilti retraces the profound social upheaval precipitated by the rise of celebrity and explores the ambivalence felt toward this new phenomenon. Both sought after and denounced, celebrity evolved as the modern form of personal prestige, assuming the role that glory played in the aristocratic world in a new age of democracy and evolving forms of media. While uncovering the birth of celebrity in the eighteenth century, Lilti's perceptive history at the same time shines light on the continuing importance of this phenomenon in today’s world.
Clever Lazy The Girl Who Invented Herself
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Author : Joan Bodger
language : en
Publisher: New York : Atheneum
Release Date : 1979
Clever Lazy The Girl Who Invented Herself written by Joan Bodger and has been published by New York : Atheneum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.
A fledgling inventor concentrates so hard on developing her genius, she almost forgets the teachings of the Goddess in the Dancing Mountains.
The Invention Of Female Authorship In Nineteenth Century America
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Author : Ann Caroline Gebhard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Invention Of Female Authorship In Nineteenth Century America written by Ann Caroline Gebhard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with American fiction categories.
A Two Part Invention
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Author : Hilde Maria Hoogenboom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
A Two Part Invention written by Hilde Maria Hoogenboom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Russian literature categories.
I Am Inventing An Invention
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Author : Grosset & Dunlap
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-07-08
I Am Inventing An Invention written by Grosset & Dunlap and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Charlie and Marv have to create an invention for school. But it's due tomorrow! Lola thinks she is an amazing inventor, and she keeps pestering Charlie and Marv with her ideas. But just as the boys are about to give up, Lola has a brilliant idea that saves the day!
Contemporary Literary Criticism
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Author : Janet Witalec
language : en
Publisher: Contemporary Literary Criticis
Release Date : 2003-03
Contemporary Literary Criticism written by Janet Witalec and has been published by Contemporary Literary Criticis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.