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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Miriam Felton-Dansky’s Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century.
- Keyword:
- political theater, digital media, media, viral transmission, Artaudian, and performing arts
- Subject:
- Performing arts
- Creator:
- Felton-Dansky, Miriam
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3717-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3715-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3716-5
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that...
- Keyword:
- social science, journalism, women's studies, and morality
- Subject:
- Social sciences and Women's studies
- Creator:
- Kroeger, Brooke and Hamill, Pete
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2619-0 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6351-5
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Theaters of Citizenship investigates independent Egyptian performance practices from 2004 to 2014 to demonstrate how young dramatists staged new narratives of citizenship outside of state institutions, exploring rights claims and enacting generational identity. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book traces this avant-garde from the theater networks of the...
- Keyword:
- Egypt, Egyptian revolution, avant-garde, theater, ethnography, and performance
- Subject:
- History, Art, Middle Eastern, Performing arts, and Theater
- Creator:
- Pahwa, Sonali
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4177-3, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4176-6, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4175-9
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth...
- Keyword:
- historiography, science, history, narrative, metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, and theory change
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roth, Paul A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4088-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4087-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4089-9
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- What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic...
- Keyword:
- The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Russian literature, Dostoevsky, realism, and Anna Karenina
- Subject:
- Literary criticism and Russia
- Creator:
- Kitzinger, Chloë
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4398-2, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4397-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4396-8
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and a technologically enhanced totalitarianism worse than any yet seen? The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 draws its inspiration from a...
- Keyword:
- Twenty-first century, forecasting, and social prediction
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Schapiro, Morton and Morson, Gary Saul
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3197-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3198-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3196-5
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- Description:
- Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- decolonization, reparations, intimacies, and feminisms
- Subject:
- Literary criticism and Political science
- Creator:
- Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4244-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4242-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4243-5
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- In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- film theory, captive, Lacan, and confinement
- Subject:
- Performing arts and Psychology
- Creator:
- Connelly, Thomas J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3922-0, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3923-7, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3921-3
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- In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Annie Ernaux, Günter Grass, and Damon Galgut. Specifically, Stan shows that these... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- Zaoui, Plessner, George Orwell, Annie Ernaux, Walter Benjamin, Crowds and Power, modernism, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Elias Canetti, community, Jean-Luc Nancy, modernity, Levinas, literary criticism, ethics, Roland Barthes, Freud, Montaigne, Damon Galgut, Iris Murdoch, alienation, moral philosophy, Günter Grass, The Bell, Paul Morand, adorno, Sloterdijk, and relationships
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stan, Corina
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3685-4, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3687-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3686-1
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- Description:
- This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Tennessee. Learn more at the TOME website,... and A century ago, activists confronting racism and colonialism—in India, South Africa, and Black America—used print media to connect with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their undertakings was the English language. Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone tells the story of this...
- Keyword:
- anti-racism, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sister Nivedita, internationalism, literary criticism, comparative literature, interpretive communities, translation studies, anti-colonialism, postcolonial theory, Rabindranath Tagore, Sonja Schlesin, and Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Subject:
- Comparative literature
- Creator:
- Lahiri, Madhumita
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4266-4, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4268-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4267-1