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Sequel to History

Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time

By: Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth

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Sequel to History

Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time

By: Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth

Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth uses a diversified theoretical approachdrawing on post-structuralism, feminism, new historicism, and twentieth-century scienceto demonstrate the crisis of our dominant idea of history and its dissolution in the rhythmic time of postmodernism. She enlarges this definition in discussions of several crises of cultural identity: the crisis of the object, the crisis of the subject, and the crisis of the sign. Finally, she explores the relation between language and time in post-modernism, proposing an arresting theory of her own about the rhythmic nature of postmodern temporality. Because the postmodern construction of time appears so clearly in narrative writing, each part of this work is punctuated by a "rhythm section" on a postmodern narrative (Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy, Cortezar's Hopscotch, and Nabokov's Ada); these extended readings provide concrete illustrations of Ermarth's theoretical positions. As in her critically acclaimed Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, Ermarth ranges across disciplines from anthropology and the visual arts to philosophy and history. For its interdisciplinary character and its lucid definition of postmodernism, Sequel to History will appeal to all those interested in the humanities.

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Princeton University Press

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0691219605

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The English Novel in History, 1840-1895

By: Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth

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The English Novel in History, 1840-1895

By: Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth

With The English Novel in History, 1840-1890, the author takes an in-depth look at the Victorian novel, not only tracing the form but also placing it in a historical context.

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Psychology Press

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0415014999

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9780415014991

Sequel to History

Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time

By: Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth

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Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time

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Victorian Reformations

Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1904

By: Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

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Victorian Reformations

Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1904

By: Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

In Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein analyzes the ways in which Christian novelists across the denominational spectrum laid claim to popular genres—most importantly, the religious historical novel—to narrate the aftershocks of 1829, the year of Catholic Emancipation. Both Protestant and Catholic popular novelists fought over the ramifications of nineteenth-century Catholic toleration for the legacy of the Reformation. But despite the vast textual range of this genre, it remains virtually unknown in literary studies. Victorian Reformations is the first book to analyze how “high” theological and historical debates over the Reformation’s significance were popularized through the increasingly profitable venue of Victorian religious fiction. By putting religious apologists and controversialists at center stage, Burstein insists that such fiction—frequently dismissed as overly simplistic or didactic—is essential for our understanding of Victorian popular theology, history, and historical novels. Burstein reads “lost” but once exceptionally popular religious novels—for example, by Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Lady Georgiana Fullerton, and Emily Sarah Holt—against the works of such now-canonical figures as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, while also drawing on material from contemporary sermons, histories, and periodicals. Burstein demonstrates how these novels, which popularized Christian visions of change for a mass readership, call into question our assumptions about the nineteenth-century historical novel. In addition, her research and her conceptual frameworks have the potential to influence broader paradigms in Victorian studies and novel criticism.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268076383

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9780268076382

The English Novel In History 1840-1895

By: Elizabeth Ermarth

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The English Novel In History 1840-1895

By: Elizabeth Ermarth

The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social practice as it conflicts with economic and feudal visions of social order. Through revisionary readings of familiar nineteenth-century texts The English Novel in History 1840-1895 takes a multidisciplinary approach to literary history. It highlights how narrative shifts from one construction of time to another and reformulates fundamental ideas of identity, nature and society. Elizabeth Ermarth discusses the range of novels alongside other cultural material, including painting, science, religious, political and economic theory. She explores the problems of how a society, as defined in democratic terms, can accommodate political, gender and class differences without resorting to hierarchy; and how narrowly conceived economic agendas compete with social cohesion. Students, advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists will find this text invaluable.

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Routledge

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1134980248

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The War on Learning

Gaining Ground in the Digital University

By: Elizabeth Losh

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The War on Learning

Gaining Ground in the Digital University

By: Elizabeth Losh

An examination of technology-based education initiatives—from MOOCs to virtual worlds—that argues against treating education as a product rather than a process. Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, tablets, music players, and social networking. Although these two forces seem poised to do battle with each other, they are really both taking part in a war on learning itself. In this book, Elizabeth Losh examines current efforts to “reform” higher education by applying technological solutions to problems in teaching and learning. She finds that many of these initiatives fail because they treat education as a product rather than a process. Highly touted schemes—video games for the classroom, for example, or the distribution of iPads—let students down because they promote consumption rather than intellectual development. Losh analyzes recent trends in postsecondary education and the rhetoric around them, often drawing on first-person accounts. In an effort to identify educational technologies that might actually work, she looks at strategies including MOOCs (massive open online courses), the gamification of subject matter, remix pedagogy, video lectures (from Randy Pausch to “the Baked Professor”), and educational virtual worlds. Finally, Losh outlines six basic principles of digital learning and describes several successful university-based initiatives. Her book will be essential reading for campus decision makers—and for anyone who cares about education and technology.

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MIT Press

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0262551241

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9780262551243

Angeles Mastretta

By: Jane Elizabeth Lavery

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Angeles Mastretta

By: Jane Elizabeth Lavery

The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. The Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta [b. 1949], has only recently received serious critical attention largely because her work has been seen as 'popular' and therefore inappropriate for academic study. This first major work tobe published on Mastretta seeks to demonstrate the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. In the tradition of Post-Boom Latin American women's writing, Mastretta's texts are motivated by a desire to speak primarily of the silenced experiences and voices of women. Two of her novels, referential and testimonial in style, can be placed within the Mexican Revolutionary Novel tradition and explore the Revolutionary period and its consequences in the light of female experiences and perspectives. The hitherto unexplored themes of female sexuality and bodily erotics in Mastretta's texts are also considered in this volume. Her feminist works avoid facile simplifications: heterogeneous and dialogical, they interweave the historical and the fictional, the everyday and the fantastic. The originality of Mastretta's writing lies in its elusive postmodern ambiguities: shimmering surfacesare often interrupted by unexpected depths and proliferating meanings cannot be fully circumscribed by critical analysis. Jane Elizabeth Lavery lectures in Latin American Studies at the University of Kent.

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Tamesis Books

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1855661179

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History in the Discursive Condition

Reconsidering the Tools of Thought

By: Elizabeth Ermarth

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History in the Discursive Condition

Reconsidering the Tools of Thought

By: Elizabeth Ermarth

Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Trent University, Canada, teaches and writes about interdisciplinary cultural history and theory. --Book Jacket.

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Taylor & Francis

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113682930X

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9781136829307

Kurt Schwitters Merzbau

The Cathedral of Erotic Misery

By: Elizabeth Burns Gamard

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The Cathedral of Erotic Misery

By: Elizabeth Burns Gamard

The Building Studies series examines important buildings through original documents, detailed text, photography, and drawings in an affordable format.

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252

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568981368

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9781568981369

Book's by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth

Sequel to History

Sequel to History

The English Novel in History, 1840-1895

The English Novel in History, 1840-1895

Sequel to History

Sequel to History

Victorian Reformations

Victorian Reformations

The English Novel In History 1840-1895

The English Novel In History 1840-1895

The War on Learning

The War on Learning

Angeles Mastretta

Angeles Mastretta

History in the Discursive Condition

History in the Discursive Condition

Kurt Schwitters Merzbau

Kurt Schwitters Merzbau

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