Illegitimate Freedom

Author : Gaurav Majumdar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000463540
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illegitimate Freedom written by Gaurav Majumdar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900 - 1940 is the first study of informality in modernist literature. Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, the book discusses the informal in relation with sensory experience, aesthetic presentation, ethical deliberation or action, and social attitudes within modernist works. It examines these works for particular nuances of the word "informality" in each of its chapters in the following thematic sequence: informality that offers humour, interpretive freedom, and promiscuity as counters to self-absorption in works by Virginia Woolf; rebuttals to male priorities in liberalism through "feminine informality" in several short stories by Katherine Mansfield; contempt for colloquialism and intimacy, tinged with class-anxieties and crises of attitude, in T. S. Eliot’s poetry; resistance to disgust in James Joyce’s novels; and the fusion of irreverence, protest, and praise in W. H. Auden’s writings before 1940. The book’s conclusion considers the risks of informality through a discussion of what it calls "inverted dignity." The theoretical aspects of the book offer insights into Lockean liberalism, the ethical dimensions of what Hélène Cixous termed "feminine writing," relations of sublimity and domesticity, Sigmund Freud’s arguments on humour and melancholia, and recent affect theory’s—as well as Immanuel Kant’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s—views on disgust, linking these with modernism. This wide range of engagement makes this study relevant for those interested in literary studies, critical theory, and philosophy.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156212502
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf written by Virginia Woolf and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains forty-five selections of her short stories and sketches presented chronologically.

Author : Bruce E. Levine
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849353255
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resisting Illegitimate Authority written by Bruce E. Levine and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity’s fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarians—people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, asResisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated. Profiling a diverse group of U.S. anti-authoritarians—including Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, Malcolm X, and Lenny Bruce—in order to glean useful lessons from their lives, No Badges is the first self-help manual for anti-authoritarians. Discussing anti-authoritarian approaches to depression, relationships, and parenting, it provides political, spiritual, philosophical, and psychological tools to help those suffering violence and marginalization in a society whose most ardent cheerleaders for “freedom” are often its most obedient and docile citizens. Resisting Illegitimate Authority is about bigotry, but not bigotry directed at race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. It is about bigotry directed at rebellious personalities and temperaments.

Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526185725
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illegitimate Power written by Alison Findlay and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renaissance Drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. We have only to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realise the challenge presented by the illegitimate child. Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England, reading them in relation to witch craft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. The characters discussed range from demi-devils, unnatural villains and clowns to outstanding heroic or virtuous types who challenge officially sanctioned ideas of illegitimacy. The final chapter of the book considers bastards in performance; their relationship with theatre spaces and audiences. Illegitimate voices, Findlay argues, can bring about the death of the author/father and open the text as a piece of theatre, challenging accepted notions of authority.

Author : Robert G. Beard, Jr., C.P.A., C.G.M.A., J.D., LL.M.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483469573
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Government Is Illegitimate written by Robert G. Beard, Jr., C.P.A., C.G.M.A., J.D., LL.M. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a draft of chapter one of Mr. Beard's dissertation, The Impact of Constitutional Interpretation on Individual Freedom. He was kicked out of the J.S.D. program by a Dean, who graduated from Harvard Law, because this project was, to put it politely, "politically incorrect;" justification was that it would not contribute anything new or important to the existing scholarship. Once the Dean was no longer at the law school, Mr. Beard's supervisor and co-faculty director of the program invited him back to finish this project. The purpose of this dissertation is to explain how power-elites and branches of government have reinterpreted the U.S. Constitution to increase government power and authority at the expense of individual freedom. There are only two ways to interpret the U.S. Constitution: (1) Under the freedom doctrine; or, (2) as a master-slave relationship, which is what has been going on for the past 100 years. If Americans are not slaves, then the U.S. Government is Illegitimate.

Author : Laura Anne Doyle
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822341598
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Empire written by Laura Anne Doyle and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.

Author : Lynda La Plante
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471130827
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Talisman written by Lynda La Plante and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Following the 30th Anniversary edition of The Legacy comes the thrilling sequel, The Talisman, from bestselling screenwriter and author of The Dirty Dozen, Lynda La Plante. The Talisman is the key to a fortune, or so the tradition says. Each new generation can benefit if they remain selfless enough. Evelyne and Juliana, the fourth generation, are still haunted by the family's past. Edward inherited his father's looks - and his curse - while Alex's quest for revenge will fuel an empire. But a fortune can make people ruthless - and a family can hit you where it hurts. This is the passionate story of a family's live and fortunes and the curse that forged their names . . . ***Lynda La Plante's Widows is now a major motion picture*** Praise for Lynda La Plante 'Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller' Karin Slaughter 'Classic Lynda - a fabulous read' Martina Cole 'Satisfyingly full of twists and turns' The Independent 'A rare ring of authenticity' Sunday Telegraph 'An absorbingly twisty plot' Guardian

Author : Ida Meftahi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317620623
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Dance in Modern Iran written by Ida Meftahi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century. Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, its space of performance, and spectatorial cultural ideology, this book traces the dancing body in multiple milieus of performance, including the Pahlavi era’s national artistic scene and the popular café and cabaret stages, as well as the commercial cinematic screen and the post-revolutionary Islamized theatrical stage. It links the socio-political discourses on performance with the staged public dancer, in order to interrogate the formation of dominant categories of "modern," "high," and "artistic," and the subsequent "othering" of cultural realms that were discursively peripheralized from the "national" stage. Through the study of archival and ethnographic research as well as a diverse literature pertaining to music, theater, cinema, and popular culture, it combines a close reading of primary sources such as official documents, press materials, and program notes with visual analysis of filmic materials and imageries, as well as interviews with practitioners. It offers an original and informed exploration into the ways performing bodies and their public have been associated with binary notions of vice and virtue, morality and immorality, commitment and degeneration, chastity and eroticism, and veiled-ness and nakedness. Engaging with a range of methodological and historiographical methods, including postcolonial, performance, and feminist studies, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East history and Iranian studies, as well as gender studies and dance and performance studies.

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349273570
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice to the Lighthouse written by Juliet Dusinberre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Dusinberre connects books for children in the late nineteenth century with developments in education and psychology, all of which feed into the modernism of the early twentieth century.

Author : Russell McDonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316512657
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Women and Men written by Russell McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary collaborations between women and men, revealing how deeply imbued and valuable gender conflict was in modernism.