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Author |
: Isabel González-Díaz |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2023-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000998207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000998207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unhappy Beginnings by : Isabel González-Díaz
This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness, other authors such as Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Jack Halberstam, Lauren Berlant, or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films, memoirs, and novels that deal with precarity, alienation, and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show, unhappiness, precarity, vulnerability, or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness—whatever that means.
Author |
: Lemony Snicket |
Publisher |
: Egmont Books (UK) |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2012-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1405266066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781405266062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Series of Unfortunate Events 01. The Bad Beginning by : Lemony Snicket
There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on . . . In The Bad Beginning the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune and cold porridge for breakfast. Then again, why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? With 5 million copies sold in the UK alone, one might consider Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to make him one of the most successful children’s authors of the past decade. We, however, consider these miserable so-called adventure stories and the Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey that accompanied the books for children as nothing more than a dreadful mistake.
Author |
: Dean Bakopoulos |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2011-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547821795 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547821794 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis My American Unhappiness by : Dean Bakopoulos
“Why are you so unhappy?” That’s the question that Zeke Pappas, a thirty-three-year-old scholar, asks almost everybody he meets as part of an obsessive project, “The Inventory of American Unhappiness.” The answers he receives—a mix of true sadness and absurd complaint—create a collage of woe. Zeke, meanwhile, remains delightfully oblivious to the increasingly harsh realities that threaten his daily routine, opting instead to focus his energy on finding the perfect mate so that he can gain custody of his orphaned nieces. Following steps outlined in a women’s magazine, the ever-optimistic Zeke identifies some “prospects”: a newly divorced neighbor, a coffeehouse barista, his administrative assistant, and Sofia Coppola (“Why not aim high?”). A clairvoyant when it comes to the Starbucks orders of strangers, a quixotic renegade when it comes to the federal bureaucracy, and a devoted believer in the afternoon cocktail and the evening binge, Zeke has an irreverent voice that is a marvel of lacerating wit and heart-on-sleeve emotion, underscored by a creeping paranoia and made more urgent by the hope that if he can only find a wife, he might have a second chance at life.
Author |
: Steven Conn |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2019-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501742095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501742094 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nothing Succeeds Like Failure by : Steven Conn
Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, Conn's Nothing Succeeds Like Failure examines the frictions, conflicts, and contradictions at the heart of these enterprises and details the way business schools have failed to resolve them. Beginning with founding of the Wharton School in 1881, Conn measures these schools' aspirations against their actual accomplishments and tells the full and disappointing history of missed opportunities, unmet aspirations, and educational mistakes. Conn then poses a set of crucial questions about the role and function of American business schools. The results aren't pretty. Posing a set of crucial questions about the function of American business schools, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is pugnacious and controversial. Deeply researched and fun to read, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure argues that the impressive façades of business school buildings resemble nothing so much as collegiate versions of Oz. Conn pulls back the curtain to reveal a story of failure to meet the expectations of the public, their missions, their graduates, and their own lofty aspirations of producing moral and ethical business leaders.
Author |
: Paola Ceccarelli |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2018-08-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192526236 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192526235 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letters and Communities by : Paola Ceccarelli
The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites such iconic notions as the letter representing an 'image of the soul of the author' or constituting 'one half of a dialogue'. However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues that were central to epistolary communication in the ancient world and have yet to receive sustained and systematic investigation. In particular, it overlooks the fact that letters frequently presuppose and were designed to reinforce communities-or, indeed, to constitute them in the first place. This volume explores the interrelation of letters and communities in the ancient world, examining how epistolary communication aided in the construction and cultivation of group-identities and communities, whether social, political, religious, ethnic, or philosophical. A theoretically informed Introduction establishes the interface of epistolary discourse and group formation as a vital but hitherto neglected area of research, and is followed by thirteen case studies offering multi-disciplinary perspectives from four key cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity. The first part opens the volume with two chapters on the theory and practice of epistolary communication that focus on ancient epistolary theory and the unavoidable presence of a letter-carrier who introduces a communal aspect into any correspondence, while the second comprises five chapters that explore configurations of power and epistolary communication in the Greek and Roman worlds, from the archaic period to the end of the Hellenistic age. Five chapters on letters and communities in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity follow in the third, part before the volume concludes with an envoi examining the trans-historical, or indeed timeless, philosophical community Seneca the Younger construes in his Letters to Lucilius.
Author |
: John Clark Ridpath |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 762 |
Release |
: 1885 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:095989825 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cyclopædia of Universal History by : John Clark Ridpath
Author |
: John Clark Ridpath |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 808 |
Release |
: 1890 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89097349369 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cyclopaedia of Universal History by : John Clark Ridpath
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1130 |
Release |
: 1922 |
ISBN-10 |
: PURD:32754070019553 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Current History by :
Author |
: Edward Almack |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 1824 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:20737815 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eikon Basilike by : Edward Almack
Author |
: James Harvey Robinson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 638 |
Release |
: 1906 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B742336 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Readings in European History by : James Harvey Robinson
Provides primary sources on topics ranging from Ancient Rome to the Revolutions of 1848.