The Poetics of Spice

The Poetics of Spice
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 0521026660
ISBN-13 : 9780521026666
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetics of Spice by : Timothy Morton

This 2000 book explores the literary and cultural significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature.

Postcolonial Literary Geographies

Postcolonial Literary Geographies
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781137456878
ISBN-13 : 1137456876
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Postcolonial Literary Geographies by : John Thieme

This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.

Buxton Spice

Buxton Spice
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0807083712
ISBN-13 : 9780807083710
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Buxton Spice by : Oonya Kempadoo

Back in print: an extraordinary first novel by'a writer to watch and to enjoy.'* Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures a child's keen observations, sense of wonder, and the growing complexity of consciousness that marks the passage from innocence to experience.

The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism

The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9781108352277
ISBN-13 : 1108352278
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism by : Jonathan Sachs

Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market cultures through the lens of decline, Jonathan Sachs offers a fresh way of understanding British Romanticism. The book focuses on three aspects of literary experience - questions of value, the fascination with ruins, and the representation of slow time - to explore how shifting conceptions of progress and change inform a post-enlightenment sense of cultural decline. Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with an examination of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history the book reveals for the first time how anxieties about decline impacted literary form and shaped Romantic debates about poetry and the meaning of literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9781108427364
ISBN-13 : 1108427367
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food by : J. Michelle Coghlan

This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.

Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9780191636479
ISBN-13 : 0191636479
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature by : Rachel Trubowitz

Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675. Maternal nurture gains new prominence in the early modern cultural imagination at the precise moment when England undergoes a major paradigm shift — from the traditional, dynastic body politic, organized by organic bonds, to the post-dynastic, modern nation, comprised of symbolic and affective relations. The book also demonstrates that shifting early modern perspectives on Judeo-Christian relations deeply inform the period's interlocking reassessments of maternal nurture and the nation, especially in the case of Milton. The book's five chapters analyze a wide range of reformed and traditional texts, including A pitiless Mother, William Gouge's Of Domesticall Duties, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Charles I's Eikon Basilike, and Milton's Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes. Equal attention is paid to such early modern visual images as The power of women (a late sixteenth-century Dutch engraving), William Marshall's engraved frontispiece to Richard Braithwaite's The English Gentleman and Gentlewoman (1641), and Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Pero and Cimon or Roman Charity (1630). The book argues that competing early modern figurations of the nurturing mother mediate in politically implicated ways between customary biblical models of English kingship and innovative Hebraic/Puritan paradigms of Englishness.

Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice

Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9780312569891
ISBN-13 : 0312569890
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice by : Marjorie Shaffer

A chronicle of the history of pepper. Describes its role in bringing Westerners to Asia, tracing the extraordinary voyages, exotic adventures and brutal violence that marked its early trade.

Alimentary Orientalism

Alimentary Orientalism
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9781684484683
ISBN-13 : 1684484685
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Alimentary Orientalism by : Yin Yuan

What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.

KONSULT

KONSULT
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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781643170695
ISBN-13 : 1643170694
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis KONSULT by : Gregory L. Ulmer

A motto guiding Gregory L. Ulmer's career is from the poet Basho: not to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but to seek what they sought. The responsibility of humanities disciplines today is to do for the digital apparatus (social machine) what the classical Greeks did for alphabetic writing. Ulmer frames online learning as a mode of invention (heuretics), beginning with the invention of konsult itself. Konsult: Theopraxesis describes the invention of a genre of learning that is to digital media what Plato's dialogue was to alphabetic writing. The Greeks invented the practices of writing (rhetoric and logic) native to the new institution of school (the Academy), fostering a new behavior of selfhood (Socrates). Ulmer adopts this historical precedent as a relay, an inventory for what must be invented again today: a genre of learning, an educational institution, identity behavior. The insight of electracy is that each apparatus augments and institutionalizes one of the primary faculties of human intelligence: theoria in literacy; praxis in orality; poiesis in electracy. Needed today are not practices of writing, but "theopraxesis" of media. The analytical information economy of literacy required separation and isolation (siloing) of institutionalized intelligence. The multimodality of electracy enables syncretism of faculties into holistic performance: thinking-doing-making; knowledge-purpose-affect. The interface metaphor of Plato's dialogue was an oral conversation during which the illiterate interlocutor is introduced to dialectical reason as Idea. The interface metaphor of konsult is scientific consulting during which anelectrate students encounter plasmatic desire as simulacrum. This new learning is organized around an updating of Justice native to electracy.

Ecology Without Nature

Ecology Without Nature
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780674034853
ISBN-13 : 0674034856
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Ecology Without Nature by : Timothy Morton

In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all. Ecology without Nature investigates our ecological assumptions in a way that is provocative and deeply engaging. Ranging widely in eighteenth-century through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, he explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects for the future. Morton develops a fresh vocabulary for reading "environmentality" in artistic form as well as content, and traces the contexts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism. From John Clare to John Cage, from Kierkegaard to Kristeva, from The Lord of the Rings to electronic life forms, Ecology without Nature widens our view of ecological criticism, and deepens our understanding of ecology itself. Instead of trying to use an idea of nature to heal what society has damaged, Morton sets out a radical new form of ecological criticism: "dark ecology."