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Poétiques de la Liste et Imaginaire Sériel dans les Lettres (XXe et XXIe siècles)
Nathalie Dupont and Éric Trudel
Sixteen researchers from Quebec, the United States, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Australia are wondering here about the poetics of the list - and by extension on the enumeration, the series, litany, inventory, collection, etc. - in French and French contemporary literature.
On the program (in bulk): the list and the sciences; the list and the doubt; the list and the animal; the list and the name; list and encyclopedism; the list and the writing of oneself; the list and the story; the list and the constraint; the list and the voice; the list and the museum; the list and the ruins; the list and idiocy; the list and the Tour de France; the list and the policy; list and syntax; the list and the time; the list and the daily; the list and the comic strip; the list and the scene; the list and dada; the list and the real. -- publisher
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Staging Habla de Negros : Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Nicholas R. Jones
Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.
Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations and representations of habla de negros language are “racist buffoonery” or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts.
Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones’s groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros animated black Africans’ agency, empowered their resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will captivate audiences across disciplines. -- publisher
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Emerging adulthood and Higher Education : a New Student Development Paradigm
Joseph L. Murray and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
This important book introduces Arnett’s emerging adulthood theory to scholars and practitioners in higher education and student affairs, illuminating how recent social, cultural, and economic changes have altered the pathway to adulthood. Chapters in this edited collection explore how this theory fits alongside current student development theory, the implications for how college students learn and develop, and how emerging adulthood theory is uniquely suited to address challenges facing higher education today. Emerging Adulthood and Higher Education provides important recommendations for administrators, counselors, and student affairs personnel to provide effective programs and services to facilitate their emerging adults’ journeys through this formative stage of life. -- p. [i]
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The Made-Up Man
Joseph Scapellato
Stanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech’s offer to apartment-sit in Prague―he’d known it was one of Lech’s proposals, a thinly veiled setup for some invasive, potentially dangerous performance art project. But whatever Lech had planned for Stanley, it would get him to Prague and maybe offer a chance to make things right with T after his failed attempt to propose.
Stanley can take it. He can ignore their hijinks, resist being drafted into their evolving, darkening script. As the operation unfolds it becomes clear there’s more to this performance than he expected; they know more about Stanley’s state of mind than he knows himself. He may be able to step over chalk outlines in the hallway, may be able to turn away from the women acting as his mother or the men performing as his father, but when a man made up to look like Stanley begins to play out his most devastating memory, he won’t be able to stand outside this imitation of his life any longer.
Immediately and wholly immersive, Joseph Scapellato’s debut novel, The Made-Up Man, is a hilarious examination of art’s role in self-knowledge, a sinister send-up of self-deception, and a big-hearted investigation into the cast of characters necessary to help us finally meet ourselves. -- publisher site
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The Evolution of Economic Ideas and Systems : a Pluralist Introduction
Geoffrey Schneider
In order to fully understand the evolution and future growth of economic systems, we must draw on the lessons of economic history. The 2008 Financial Crisis, for example, mirrored past economic meltdowns with uncanny accuracy - just like the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Loan Crisis of the 1980s, it featured deregulated lenders taking incredible risks with other people's money. Historical analysis is crucial to understanding trends and patterns that can help us predict the future. This text presents a ground-breaking, pluralistic introduction to economic history and the history of economic thought. Tracing the development of economic systems and economic thought, the text introduces students to the story from ancient times to contemporary capitalism, as well as its critics. Focusing in particular on Smith, Marx, Veblen and Keynes, the text encourages students to consider which ideas and systems are still relevant in the modern world. This book can be used as a standalone text for relevant classes or as a supplement in any principles course. The Evolution of Economic Ideas and Systems: A Pluralist Introduction can be used as a standalone text for relevant classes or as a supplement on any principles course. -- publisher site
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The Wild and the Toxic : American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
Jennifer Thomson
Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, or what health even means. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health.-- publisher
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Essentials of Materials Science and Engineering, 4th edition
Wendelin Wright
This text provides students with a solid understanding of the relationship between structure, processing and properties of materials. It covers fundamentals in an integrated approach that emphasizes applications of new technologies enabled by engineered materials. Help your students understand the science of materials in order to select and deploy materials as responsible engineers with Askeland/Wright's Essentials of materials science and engineering, 4th edition. Your students develop a foundational understanding of why materials behave the way they do, and how they are best used in actual engineering practice. Students learn why materials display certain properties as they study how the structure and processing of materials results in these properties. The authors link fundamental concepts to practical applications, emphasizing the necessary basics without overwhelming readers with too much underlying chemistry or physics. This presentation is ideal for an introductory science of materials class taught at the sophomore or junior level and assumes knowledge of first-year courses in college-level chemistry and physics.
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When I Was a Wolf, Terayama, Shūji (author)
Elizabeth Armstrong
First published in 1982, this delightful collection of essays and rewrites reinterprets, from a nonconformist perspective, such well-known and canonical Western stories as Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mother Goose stories, and Aesop's fables.
In the tradition of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, the author "breaks open classic fairy tales to find new things in them." Both Carter and Terayama give the tales a radical twist laced with dark taboo-violating undertones. Terayama gives us a subversive analysis of such stories as The Emperor's New Clothes, The Bremen Town Musicians, Pinocchio, and Puss in Boots, then offers his own rewrites of Thumbelina, Little Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella. He turns our stories on their heads, throwing us off balance and forging paths into a new territory of unorthodox interpretation: the conventional interpretations of stories we have treasured since childhood are ill-conceived and thoughtless! -- book back cover
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A Slant of Light : Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
Peter Balakian, Bruce Smith, Cynthia Hogue, Shara McCallum, Dennis O'Brien, Deirdre O'Connor, and Gary Sojka
Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting Writers Residency, and the magnificent Stadler Center for Poetry. He over saw the restoration of Bucknell Hall for the Stadler Center and today it is one of the most beautiful and distinguished buildings and centers on campus. He was largely responsible for the creation of Bucknell University Press. Jack Wheatcroft’s life and the evolution of Bucknell University in the twentieth century are inextricable. He was formative in helping to create and nurture a community of artists and intellectuals that helped to propel Bucknell into national prominence. Over fifty years, Jack Wheatcroft published twenty-six books of poetry, fiction, and plays. The essays in this festschrift, by former students (who have gone on to be writers and teachers themselves), colleagues, and friends are a testimony to an extraordinary teacher, writer, innovator, and trailblazer in creating a community and infrastructure of literary culture at a distinguished liberal arts college.-- publisher site
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Políticas del Amor : Derechos Sexuales y Escrituras Disidentes en el Cono Sur
Fernando A. Blanco
Memories, romance, politics and art are found in these essays of dissidence and love. In the Southern Cone, sexuality is politics, and politics is memory and is a mark, and there is always something to say and write about. This book deals with it. However, as many of the texts included go back to specific policies of repression from within the framework of the nation, local artistic practices and approaches acclimated to particular contexts of activism, the nation is inescapable. It is so that the book is parceled in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, in an order that is not alphabetical nor by lot, but pendular: left, right,, center; areas, localities, communities. In this uncertain period, a time of growth of nationalisms, of an anti-globalization retreat, in this time of budgetary cuts of the return of conservatism by the political right in Latin America, the authors see themselves in the urgent need to rethink, precisely , which means dissent within democratic designs proposed according to economic models. It is in this convergence of discourses and practices on nation, body, sexuality, race, class, activism and academia that this work is presented. -- translated from publisher's site
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A la Vuelta de la Próxima Esquina
Mills Fox Edgerton
Around the next corner resembles the unforgettable Aleph described by Borges, showing us from all points of view unimaginable and at the same time, almost simultaneously, all the angles and aspects of life, as magical faceted crystals, they dazzle us throughout each of the pages of this unique work. Thus, the most sensual and carnal aspects of life (the memory of the first amorous escapades, sex, lust, eroticism, desire, prostitution, etc.) parade through this book, but also those more nostalgic, like those inevitably related to the passage of time: the time that we are leaving, the time that we have left. The time that dissolves us and the one that entangles us in the present. The life that was, the one that passes and does not return, but also the one that should be lived as Carpe diem. -- translated from publisher's site
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Chismes
Mills Fox Edgerton
In his latest work, Mills Fox Edgerton invents a new literary genre, since these Gossip can not be cataloged in any other way. Mills, armed with his encyclopedic culture and personal literary style, makes us rethink the way we conceive the novel. The nuances of the plot or the description of the characters appear in the dialogues that are exchanged between them and the author has to go assembling this immense puzzle with mastery and subtlety. The conversations are agile and credible, the rhythm of the dialogue keeps the reader immersed in the action and little by little, almost imperceptibly, the succession of gossip gives us a general image until we reach the unexpected outcome. All revolve around the protagonist of the action, David Muñoz, passionate painter and employee of banking, and a doubt about which seems to articulate the whole plot: Is David Muñoz homosexual? The reader can analyze how "gossip" surrounds us in our daily life and sometimes conditions it beyond its real value. In the era of freedom, access to information or the possibility of serene debate, the monster of gossip threatens to make life impossible for us. -- translated from publisher's site
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Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950
Elisabeth Guerrero
Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920–1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces. The book assesses how the “cosmic generation” in Mexico connected the nation-body and the dancer’s body in artistic movements between 1920 and 1950. It first discusses the role of dance in particular, the convergences of composers and visual artists in dance productions, and the allegorical relationship between the dancer's body and the nation-body in state-sponsored performances. The arts were of critical import in times of political and social transition, and the dynamic between the dancer’s body and the national body shifted as the government stance had also shifted. Second, this book examines more deeply the involvement of US artists and patrons in this Mexican arts movement during the period. Given the power imbalance between north and south, these exchanges were vexed. Still, the results for both parties were invaluable. Ultimately, this book argues in favor of the benefits that artists on both sides of the border received from these exchanges.
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Caribbean Masala : Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
Linden F. Lewis
In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of mixing, assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct. In some ways, the lived experience of the Indian community in Guyana and Trinidad represents a cultural contradiction of belonging and non-belonging. In other parts of the Caribbean, people of Indian descent seem so absorbed by the more dominant African culture and through intermarriage that Indo-Caribbean heritage seems less central.
In this collaboration based on focus groups, in-depth interviews, and observation, sociologists Ramsaran and Lewis lay out a context within which to develop a broader view of Indians in Guyana and Trinidad, a numerical majority in both countries. They address issues of race and ethnicity but move beyond these familiar aspects to track such factors as ritual, gender, family, and daily life. Ramsaran and Lewis gauge not only an unrelenting process of assimilative creolization on these descendants of India, but also the resilience of this culture in the face of modernization and globalization. -- publisher site
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Inward Out & Outward In : Artist's Books From the Women's Studio Workshop
Janice Mann and Isabella O'Neill
Featuring Artists' Books from the Women's Studio Workshop in Special Collections/University Archives, The Bertrand Library, Bucknell University.
Exhibition: November 28-December 3, 2018. Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University. -- [p.vi]
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Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations in the 21st Century
Carl Milofsky, Neil Boyd, Ben Marsh, Janet Jones, Jennifer Silva, Jordi Comas, and Amy Golightly
This handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities. It explores the history and conceptualizations of community, theoretical concepts in community organizations, social movements ranging from health to crime, and community practice methods. Further it provides authoritative statements of major theory areas, gives examples of different sub areas of the field, provides guidance to people working as practitioners in the field, and nicely coincides with the increasing interest in clinical sociology. This handbook is of great interest to academics, students and practitioners with an interdisciplinary resource to understand and collaborate in work with contemporary communities.-- publisher's site.
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Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals
Karen M. Morin
Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. The work proposes an analysis of the carceral from a broader vantage point than has yet been done, developing a ‘trans-species carceral geography’ that includes spaces of nonhuman captivity, confinement, and enclosure alongside that of the human. The linkages across prisoner and animal carcerality that are placed into conversation draw from a number of institutional domains, based on their form, operation, and effect. These include: the prison death row/ execution chamber and the animal slaughterhouse; sites of laboratory testing of pharmaceutical and other products on incarcerated humans and captive animals; sites of exploited prisoner and animal labor; and the prison solitary confinement cell and the zoo cage. The relationships to which I draw attention across these sites are at once structural, operational, technological, legal, and experiential / embodied. The forms of violence that span species boundaries at these sites are all a part of ordinary, everyday, industrialized violence in the United States and elsewhere, and thus this ‘carceral comparison’ amongst them is appropriate and timely.
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The Genealogy of Elevators: a Fable
Harold Schweizer
A dark, cracked parable in the tradition of Millhauser by way of Kafka, Sebald, and, perhaps, St. John Climacus. Schweizer’s lyric exploration of capitalism, its artifacts and (especially) its denizens, casts an eerie spell. There is nothing else quite like this in contemporary American poetry. G.C. Waldrep -- back cover of book
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Aging and Mental Health, Third Edition
Daniel L. Segal; Michael A. Smyer; Sara Honn Qualls; and Recorded Books, Inc.
Fully updated and revised, this new edition of a highly successful text provides students, clinicians, and academics with a thorough introduction to aging and mental health. The third edition of Aging and Mental Health is filled with new updates and features, including the impact of the DSM-5 on diagnosis and treatment of older adults. Like its predecessors, it uses case examples to introduce readers to the field of aging and mental health. It also provides both a synopsis of basic gerontology needed for clinical work with older adults and an analysis of several facets of aging well. Introductory chapters are followed by a series of chapters that describe the major theoretical models used to understand mental health and mental disorders among older adults. Following entries are devoted to the major forms of mental disorders in later life, with a focus on diagnosis, assessment, and treatment issues. Finally, the book focuses on the settings and contexts of professional mental health practice and on emerging policy issues that affect research and practice. This combination of theory and practice helps readers conceptualize mental health problems in later life and negotiate the complex decisions involved with the assessment and treatment of those problems. -Features new material on important topics including positive mental health, hoarding disorder, chronic pain, housing, caregiving, and ethical and legal concerns -Substantially revised and updated throughout, including reference to the DSM-5 -Offers chapter-end recommendations of websites for further information -Includes discussion questions and critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter Aging and Mental Health, Third Edition is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, for service providers in psychology, psychiatry, social work, and counseling, and for clinicians who are experienced mental health service providers but who have not had much experience working specifically with older adults and their families.
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Feast Gently
G. C. Waldrep
Lyrics of incarnation, of method and meat-hood, of illness and the vicissitudes of love, earthly as well as heavenly. What is the relationship between touch and language?-- Provided by publisher.
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Diariópata y Cuentos Argentinos
Mills Fox Edgerton
The lack of emotional empathy, the extreme power of manipulation or the absolute lack of remorse define Juan Carlos Abenámar, a character on which "Diariópata" focuses, and which reflects the life of a psychopath. --- translated from publisher site
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Putting Inequality in Context : Class, Public Opinion, and Representation in the United States
Christopher Ellis
Rising income inequality is highlighted as one of the largest challenges facing the United States, affecting civic participation and political representation. Although the wealthy often can and do exert more political influence, this is not always the case. To fix political inequality, it is important to understand exactly how class divisions manifest themselves in political outcomes, and what factors serve to enhance, or depress, inequalities in political voice. Christopher Ellis argues citizens’—and legislators’—views of class politics are driven by lived experience in particular communities. While some experience is formally political, on an informal basis citizens learn a great deal about their position in the broader socioeconomic spectrum and the social norms governing how class intersects with day-to-day life. These factors are important for policymakers, since most legislators do not represent “the public” at large, but specific constituencies. Focusing on U.S. congressional districts as the contextual unit of interest, Ellis argues individuals’ political behavior cannot be separated from their environment, and shows how income’s role in political processes is affected by the contexts in which citizens and legislators interact. Political inequality exists in the aggregate, but it does not exist everywhere. It is, rather, a function of specific arrangements that depress the political influence of the poor. Identifying and understanding these factors is a crucial step in thinking about what reforms might be especially helpful in enhancing equality of political voice. -- publisher site
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