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A Stroke of the Foot

By: Judith McCudden

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We only get one chance on this planet. Stepping out of our comfort zones, taking risks, and making a new life where one is a stranger, are sometimes the best choices we can make. A Stroke of the Foot is a poetry collection of great beauty, containing vastly different and unfamiliar landscapes. It examines relationships and the decision to leave one’s homeland to make a fresh start. White, middle-aged, English-speaking women are generally not recognized as going through archetypal immigrant issues: isolation, loneliness, financial hardship, and dealing with government red tape. Charting the wildernesses of Australia and Canada via four themes—Water, Navigation, Journey, Landscape—these poems reveal insights about the physical and psychological journey. As the author navigates a new place, she also has to examine her beliefs and values. This book evokes the feeling that love really does conquer all, that we need to trust our hearts, that silence and reflection are survival keys, and that we never stop learning.

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FriesenPress

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1525575848

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9781525575846

The Vanishing Subject

Early Psychology and Literary Modernism

By: Judith Ryan

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The Vanishing Subject

Early Psychology and Literary Modernism

By: Judith Ryan

Is thinking personal? Or should we not rather say, "it thinks," just as we say, "it rains"? In the late nineteenth century a number of psychologies emerged that began to divorce consciousness from the notion of a personal self. They asked whether subject and object are truly distinct, whether consciousness is unified or composed of disparate elements, what grounds exist for regarding today's "self" as continuous with yesterday's. If the American pragmatist William James declared himself, on balance, in favor of a "real and verifiable personal identity which we feel," his Austrian counterpart, the empiricist Ernst Mach, propounded the view that "the self is unsalvageable." The Vanishing Subject is the first comprehensive study of the impact of these pre-Freudian debates on modernist literature. In lucid and engaging prose, Ryan traces a complex set of filiations between writers and thinkers over a sixty-year period and restores a lost element in the genesis and development of modernism. From writers who see the "self" as nothing more or less than a bundle of sensory impressions, Ryan moves to others who hesitate between empiricist and Freudian views of subjectivity and consciousness, and to those who wish to salvage the self from its apparent disintegration. Finally, she looks at a group of writers who abandon not only the dualisms of subject and object, but dualistic thinking altogether. Literary impressionism, stream-of-consciousness and point-of-view narration, and the question of epiphany in literature acquire a new aspect when seen in the context of the "psychologies without the self." Rilke's development of a position akin to phenomenology, Henry and Alice James's relation to their psychologist brother, Kafka's place in the modernist movements, Joyce's rewriting of Pater, Proust's engagement with contemporary thought, Woolf's presentation of consciousness, and Musil's projection of a utopian counter-reality are problems familiar to readers and critics: The Vanishing Subject radically revises the way we see them.

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292

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University of Chicago Press

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0226732266

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9780226732268

City of Dreadful Delight

Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

By: Judith R. Walkowitz

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City of Dreadful Delight

Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London

By: Judith R. Walkowitz

From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction. Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain. An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press. A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.

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382

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University of Chicago Press

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022608101X

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9780226081014

Judith Godwin

Paintings 1954-2002

By: Judith Godwin,Lowery Stokes Sims,David Ebony

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Judith Godwin

Paintings 1954-2002

By: Judith Godwin,Lowery Stokes Sims,David Ebony

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition "Judith Godwin: Paintings, 1954-2002." It includes color illustrations of the eighteen works included in the show, an introduction by Ira Spanierman, and essays by Lowery Stokes Sims and David Ebony.

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Spanierman Gallery LLC

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1935617060

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9781935617068

The Whirligig of Time

Margaret Oliphant in Her Later Years

By: Judith van Oosterom-Pooley

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The Whirligig of Time

Margaret Oliphant in Her Later Years

By: Judith van Oosterom-Pooley

Rev. ed. of: Whirligigge of time. Leiden: Leiden University, 2004.

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496

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Peter Lang

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3034303688

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9783034303682

Book's by Judith McCudden

A Stroke of the Foot

A Stroke of the Foot

The Vanishing Subject

The Vanishing Subject

City of Dreadful Delight

City of Dreadful Delight

Judith Godwin

Judith Godwin

The Whirligig of Time

The Whirligig of Time

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