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I wish
Illustrations and short passages portray thirty-three individual men, women, and children whose wishes range from simply wanting never to blush to imagined feats of heroism.
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The Influence of Romantic Poets on Modern Literature
The purpose of this research was to identify the key characteristics of the poetry written in the romantic period and compare them to works of modern literature, particularly fiction and novels. The study analyzes nonliteral meanings, stylistic and metrical forms employed by Romanticists like Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge. These poets used elaborate literary devices and strong feelings to interpret matters such as nature, religion, and individuality. This study used a comparative and evidential analysis of both Romantic and modern writers’ themes, style and writing expressions, pointing to the similarities in the employment of symbols, comparisons, imagery and other figures of speech. Philosophicalas well as emotional features related to romanticism were explored. The continuity of themes and motifs with Romanticism in contemporary literature was also determined by studying how modern writers employ similar strategies. The conclusion showed that poetry form and strategies which Romantic poets used such as exalted language and imagination, significantly contributed to the making of modern literature. All these elements are observable in some of the contemporary works, proving that they expressed various shades of human emotions, and philosophical concerns hitherto associated with Romantic poetry.
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The little pea
A little pea in a garden wants to be different from all the other peas, even though all the other peas laugh at him.
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Perfect Copies
Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the
comics form to engage with the \"problem\" of reproduction, Shiamin
Kwa's Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of
production and the manner in which we perceive comics are often
quite similar to the stories they tell. Perfect Copies
considers the dual notions of reproduction, mechanical as well as
biological, and explores how comics are works of reproduction that
embed questions about the nature of reproduction itself. Through
close readings of the comics My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
by Emil Ferris, The Black Project by Gareth Brookes,
The Generous Bosom series by Conor Stechschulte,
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, and Panther by Brecht
Evens, Perfect Copies shows how these comics makers push
the limits of different ideas of \"reproduction\" in strikingly
different ways. Kwa suggests that reading and thinking about books
like these, that push us to engage with these complicated
questions, teaches us how to become better readers.
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The art lesson
Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lesson there much more regimented.
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On the History of Choice: William Dean Howells and the Roots of the Neoliberal Individual
The neoliberal individual, according to critics like Wendy Brown and Michel Foucault, treats all spheres of life as subject to utility maximization: Whether deciding on a job, a house, or a romantic partner—everything is treated according to a logic of economy. Scholars typically point to economics as the conceptual source of this subject. In this essay, I suggest a different point of origin: the late-nineteenth century novel. Taking a classic of American realist fiction, William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), as representative for a larger trend, I show that the novel both articulates and evinces a shift in the cultural conception of the individual. Silas Lapham reorients the individual away from the liberal subject, primarily defined by property ownership, and toward the incessantly choosing entity of neoliberalism. This essay at once reframes existing discussions of the neoliberal subject and shows that neoliberal thought has long been articulated by entities other than economics—namely, novels.
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Can you sue your parents for malpractice?
Confused about her life at home and at school, 14-year-old Lauren learns the importance of being her own person.
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Lonely Individualism in Moby-Dick
This essay reconsiders the concept of individualism in Herman Melville's
Moby-Dick by focusing on the affective aspect of Captain
Ahab's solitude. By considering the cultural fervor over connectivity in
antebellum America, due to what is known as the communications revolution, I
highlight Ahab's solitude, which stems from his misguided faith in his networked
status with the white whale. Ahab's solitude has been understood as a
manifestation of liberal individualism, which characterizes the ethos of
mid-nineteenth-century America. However, what Ahab represents could be more
accurately grasped by what I term “lonely individualism.” With its oxymoronic
overtones, “lonely individualism” is intended to encapsulate the two valences of
being alone: solitude and loneliness. By taking Moby-Dick as a
case study, this essay seeks to join the recent critical endeavor of challenging
the myth of individualism in Americanist literary studies by shedding light on
the affective realm of an individualist.
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It's okay to be different
Illustrations and brief text describe all kinds of differences that are \"okay,\" such as \"It's okay to be a different color,\" \"It's okay to need some help,\" \"It's okay to be adopted,\" and \"It's okay to have a different nose.\"
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Transgression
Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major theorists, and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression. He looks at the definition of the social and its boundaries by Durkheim, Douglas and Freud, at the German tradition of Hegel and Nietzsche and the increasing preoccupation with transgression itself in Baudelaire, Bataille and Foucault. The second half of the book looks at transgression in action in the East End myth of the Kray twins, in Artaud's theatre of cruelty, the spectacle of the Situationists and Bakhtin's analysis of carnival. Finally Jenks extends his treatment of transgression to its own extremity.
1. Whither Transgression? 2. The Centre Cannot Hold 3. To Have Done the Judgement of God 4. Excess 5. Extreme Seductiveness is at the Boundary of Horror 6. Journey to the End of the Night 7. The World Turned Upside Down 8. Theatres of Cruelty
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