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The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

By: Mary K. Holland

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The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

By: Mary K. Holland

Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure. Yet over the last 30 years, critics have coined more than 20 new “realisms” in their attempts to describe it. What makes this decidedly unorthodox literature “realistic”? And if it is, then what does “realism” mean anymore? Examining literature by dozens of writers, and over a century of theory and criticism about realism, The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism sorts through the current critical confusion to illustrate how our ideas about what is real and how best to depict it have changed dramatically, especially in recent years. Along the way, Mary K. Holland guides the reader on a lively tour through the landscape of contemporary literary studies--taking in metafiction, ideology, posthumanism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism--with forays into quantum mechanics, new materialism, and Buddhism as well, to give us entirely new ways of viewing how humans use language to make sense of--and to make--the world.

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Succeeding Postmodernism

Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature

By: Mary K. Holland

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Succeeding Postmodernism

Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature

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While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.

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The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

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A Beginner's Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing in Health and Social Care

By: Helen Aveyard,Pam Sharp,Mary Woolliams

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A Beginner's Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing in Health and Social Care

By: Helen Aveyard,Pam Sharp,Mary Woolliams

This book offers an alternative, realistic and practical approach to help those in health and social care critically appraise what they read and what they see in the workplace.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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Comparative Cognition

By: Mary C. Olmstead,Valerie A. Kuhlmeier

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Comparative Cognition

By: Mary C. Olmstead,Valerie A. Kuhlmeier

Integrating developments from psychology, ethology and neuroscience, this is an undergraduate introduction to cognitive processes across species. The authors merge classic studies and contemporary research to give students a full picture of the evolving field of comparative cognition. Engaging students in the discipline from its roots in animal learning and evolutionary biology through to current research, the chapters cover both controlled laboratory and comparative cross-species studies in the natural environment. This approach provides students with complementary ethological and neurobiological perspectives on cognition. Feature boxes encourage active and engaged learning, giving a deeper understanding of topics discussed in the main text. These are supported by end-of-chapter questions to check understanding and encourage wider thinking around topics. Online resources include solutions to questions in the book, advanced material, PowerPoint lecture slides and additional questions, all available at www.cambridge.org/cognition.

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Cambridge University Press

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Succeeding Postmodernism

Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature

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The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

Succeeding Postmodernism

Succeeding Postmodernism

The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

A Beginner's Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing in Health and Social Care

A Beginner's Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing in Health and Social Care

Comparative Cognition

Comparative Cognition

Succeeding Postmodernism

Succeeding Postmodernism

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