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Threads of Life

Autobiography and the Will

By: Richard Freadman

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Threads of Life

Autobiography and the Will

By: Richard Freadman

Many autobiographers share profound questions about human life with their readers—questions like: To what extent was my life imposed on me? To what extent did I bring it about through particular choices and actions, through the activity of my own will? Indeed, the issue of the will is central to autobiographical writing, and some of the greatest autobiographies give extended consideration to the will—its nature; its powers; its limitations; the forms of freedom, constraint, and expression it finds in various cultures; its role in particular human lives. In this new study, unprecedented in subject and scope, Richard Freadman offers the first sustained account of how changing theological, philosophical, and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing of autobiography, and of how autobiography in its turn has helped shape various understandings of the will. Early chapters trace narrative representations of the will from antiquity (the Greeks and Augustine) to postmodernism (Derrida and Barthes), with particular emphasis on late modernity's culture of the will. Later chapters then present detailed and powerfully original readings of autobiographical texts by Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, B. F. Skinner, Ernest Hemingway, Simone de Beauvoir, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Spender, and Diana Trilling. Freadman's interdisciplinary approach to autobiography and the will includes a theoretical defense of the view that autobiographers are, in varying degrees, agents in their own texts. Threads of Life argues that late modernity has inherited deeply conflicted attitudes to the will. Freadman suggests that these attitudes, now deeply embedded in contemporary cultural discourse, need reexamining. In this, he contends, 'reflective autobiography' has an important part to play.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226261425

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Re-Thinking Theory

A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account

By: Richard Freadman,Seumas Miller

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Re-Thinking Theory

A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account

By: Richard Freadman,Seumas Miller

These deficiencies are ascribed principally to three aspects of modern theoretical schools: the commitment to a non-referential view of language, the rejection of substantive accounts of the individual and a repudiation of moral and aesthetic evaluation. The 'alternative account' offered by Professors Freadman and Miller incorporates the values renounced by contemporary literary theory and places a central emphasis on ethical discourse.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521380359

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Threads of Life

Autobiography and the Will

By: Richard Freadman

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Autobiography and the Will

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Stepladder to Hindsight

An Almost Memoir

By: Richard Freadman

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Stepladder to Hindsight

An Almost Memoir

By: Richard Freadman

Stepladder to Hindsight is about a fascinating man who has reached a turning point in his life and looks back. In this work, renowned academic and life-writer Richard Freadman turns the pen on himself, producing an immensely compelling narrative of his life. Elegant and richly self-aware, Stepladder to Hindsight gives us unbridled access to a complex life and a unique mind. Within these pages you will find humour and tragedy, peppered with astute literary commentary and philosophical musings. This 'almost memoir' is fiercely intelligent and so addictively personal that it is hard to put down. "...an eloquent book, a unique combination of compelling storytelling, searching reflection, with an extraordinary range of mood and style - an original take on the art of life writing." - Arnold Zable

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Hybrid Publishers

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1925280489

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High Noon at Starbucks

And Other Stories

By: Richard Freadman

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High Noon at Starbucks

And Other Stories

By: Richard Freadman

High Noon at Starbucks is an eloquent and compelling exploration of human particularity in diverse cultural settings: the author's hometown of Melbourne, Trumpite Florida, posthandover Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Its themes include midlife experience, identity, mental and physical illness, gender, colonialism and the Holocaust. Whether comic, tragic or tragicomic, these stories are pervasively concerned with the complexities of the moral life. Their historical reach includes imaginative encounters with classics of nineteenth century fiction. Sophisticated but accessible, High Noon at Starbucks reminds us that fictional realism remains very much a going concern. “Tonally complex and acutely observed, Richard Freadman's powerful stories take us into the inner world of conflicted men as they confront personal crises, and into the experience of the people with whom they share romantic, familial or fleeting relationships. Freadman’s exploration of the effect of patriarchy on both women and men extends the reach of Australian fiction. Running through the volume is a comic element, transgressive as well as funny.” – Hermina Burns, author

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119

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Hybrid Publishers

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1922768162

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After Postmodernism

Education, Politics And Identity

By: Richard Smith,Philip Wexler

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After Postmodernism

Education, Politics And Identity

By: Richard Smith,Philip Wexler

This work presents a set of thematic essays aimed at clarifying the educational problems and paradoxes of postmodern educational conditions and theory. The major concerns of the book are the possibility of achieving substantive political objectives and of theorising such possiblities. These concerns arise from a dissatisfaction with the organisational and political conditions of postmodern educational practice.; The seeming inability of academics to intervene in the public sector, especially in matters of equality, provides a driving force to the book. For individuals who care about the future of education and its role in social reconstruction, the pessimistic nature of postmodern theories of society and education is an additional impetus for the book.; All the chapters exemplify the issues that confront lecturers in contemporary university teacher education contexts. A notable feature of the book is a theme that current theorisation about education and society are historically outmoded and that the future lies in "post" postmodern theories.

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Routledge

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1135718083

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Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

An Activity-Based Approach

By: Richard Beach,Chris M. Anson,Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch,Thomas Reynolds

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Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

An Activity-Based Approach

By: Richard Beach,Chris M. Anson,Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch,Thomas Reynolds

Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum discussions, etc.—to engage students in understanding and creating digital texts. It therefore integrates reading and writing instruction through goal-driven activities supported by uses and affordances of digital tools. This book also provides a framework for designing these activities that encourage students to define purpose and audience, make connections between digital texts and people, collaborate with others, employ alternative modes of communication and gain new perspectives, and constructing identities; practices that are linked to addressing the high school English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. The book also describes ways to use digital tools to support these practices—for example, using digital tools to foster students’ collaborative reading and writing. The book also describes use of digital feedback and e-portfolio tools to foster students’ reflection on their uses of these practices.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442228741

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Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards

A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

By: Richard Beach,Amanda Haertling Thein,Allen Webb

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Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards

A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms

By: Richard Beach,Amanda Haertling Thein,Allen Webb

As the new English Language Arts Common Core State Standards take hold across the United States, the need grows for pre-service and in-service teachers to be ready to develop curriculum and instruction that addresses their requirements. This timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive text directly meets this need. It delineates a literacy practices and critical engagement curriculum framework for 6-12 English language arts education that explains and illustrates how the Standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective that is firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research. The first 6-12 English language arts methods text to be aligned with the Standards, this book also addresses their limitations — formalist assumptions about literacy learning, limited attention to media/digital literacies, lack of attention to critical literacies, and questionable assumptions about linking standards and text complexity to specific grade levels. Specific examples of teachers using the literacy practices/critical engagement curriculum framework in their classrooms shows how these limitations can be surpassed. Features • Moves the CCSS framework into a view that literacy is a contextualized, social practice • Challenges simplistic models that homogenize adolescent learners • Adds the important element of critical literacy to English language arts classrooms • Provides specific examples of teachers in action implementing these practices • Interactive Companion Website with student and instructor resources. The Website is designed to foster interactivity through participation in an online teaching planning simulation with a text, video, or case on one side of the screen and a chat box for instructors and students to share their reactions and planning ideas. The Companion Website is linked to a wiki that serves as a repository for links, activities/units, and further reading.

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Routledge

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1136502882

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Rhetoric and Educational Discourse

Persuasive Texts

By: Richard Edwards,Katherine Nicoll,Nicky Solomon,Robin Usher

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Rhetoric and Educational Discourse

Persuasive Texts

By: Richard Edwards,Katherine Nicoll,Nicky Solomon,Robin Usher

Educational policy is often dismissed as simply rhetoric and a collection of half truths. However, this is to underestimate the power of rhetoric and the ways in which rhetorical strategies are integral to persuasive acts. Through a series of illustrative chapters, this book argues that rather than something to be dismissed, rhetorical analysis offers a rich and deep arena in which to explore and examine educational issues and practices. It adopts an original stance in relation to contemporary debates and will make a significant contribution to educational debates in elucidating and illustrating the pervasiveness of persuasive strategies in educational practices. Rhetoric and Educational Discourse is a useful resource for postgraduate and research students in education and applied linguistics. The book will also be of interest to academics and researchers in these fields of study and those interested in discursive approaches to research and scholarship.

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Routledge

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1134434529

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Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself

Interviews with Richard Rorty

By: Richard Rorty,Eduardo Mendieta

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Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself

Interviews with Richard Rorty

By: Richard Rorty,Eduardo Mendieta

This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and nonrelevance of philosophy to American political and public life. The collection also provides a candid set of insights into Rorty's political beliefs and his commitment to the labor and union traditions in this country. Finally, the interviews reveal Rorty to be a deeply engaged social thinker and observer.

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Stanford University Press

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0804746184

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Language, Truth, and Literature

A Defence of Literary Humanism

By: Richard Gaskin

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Language, Truth, and Literature

A Defence of Literary Humanism

By: Richard Gaskin

According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such works refer to the real world and make statements about that world which are of cognitive as well as aesthetic value; the two kinds of value are indeed intimately connected. Richard Gaskin offers a defence of literary humanism, so understood, against assault from two directions. On the one hand, some analytic aestheticians have argued that works of literature do not bear referentially on the world and do not make true statements about it; others hold that such works do not make a contribution to knowledge; others again allow that works of literature may have cognitive value, but deny that this depends on their having truth or reference. On the other hand, reception-theorists and deconstructionists have rejected the humanist's objectivist conception of literary meaning, and typically take a pragmatist and anti-realist approach to truth and meaning. This latter, poststructuralist treatment of literature has often been accompanied by a radical politicization of its study. In defending literary humanism against these various forms of attack, Gaskin shows that the reading and appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation, and that we can and should engage in it disinterestedly for the sake of what can be learnt about the world and our place in it.

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OUP Oxford

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0191633038

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9780191633034

Houses in Motion

The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia

By: Richard Baxstrom

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Houses in Motion

The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia

By: Richard Baxstrom

Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. Baxstrom offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences of place, justice, relatedness, and possibilities for belief in an aggressively changing world. The book combines classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre, and moves beyond previous studies of Southeast Asian cities by linking larger conceptual issues of ethics, belief, and experience to the concrete trajectories of everyday urban life in the region.

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Stanford University Press

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0804775869

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Stepladder to Hindsight

An Almost Memoir

By: Richard Freadman

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An Almost Memoir

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Re-Thinking Theory

A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account

By: Richard Freadman,Seumas Miller

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A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account

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Cambridge University Press

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0521380359

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This Crazy Thing a Life

Australian Jewish Autobiography

By: Richard Freadman

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This Crazy Thing a Life

Australian Jewish Autobiography

By: Richard Freadman

An engaging look at what it means to be both Jewish and Australian. Interweaves past and present events and attitudes to address important and often profoundly moving topics.

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UWA Publishing

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0980296420

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9780980296426

On Literary Theory and Philosophy

By: Richard Freadman,Lloyd Reinhardt

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On Literary Theory and Philosophy

By: Richard Freadman,Lloyd Reinhardt

The principle aim of this book is to explore the relationship between contemporary literary theory and analytic philosophy. The volume addresses this issue in two ways: first, through four exchanges between, on the one hand, proponents of avant-garde literary theory and, on the other, proponents of analytic philosophy (or of related literary critical positions); and second, through three cross-disciplinary essays on the relationship in question. Central topics in the volume include Self, Ethics, Interpretation, Language and characterisations of 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophy.

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1349216143

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Book's by Richard Freadman

Threads of Life

Threads of Life

Re-Thinking Theory

Re-Thinking Theory

Threads of Life

Threads of Life

Stepladder to Hindsight

Stepladder to Hindsight

High Noon at Starbucks

High Noon at Starbucks

After Postmodernism

After Postmodernism

Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards

Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards

Rhetoric and Educational Discourse

Rhetoric and Educational Discourse

Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself

Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself

Language, Truth, and Literature

Language, Truth, and Literature

Houses in Motion

Houses in Motion

Stepladder to Hindsight

Stepladder to Hindsight

Re-Thinking Theory

Re-Thinking Theory

This Crazy Thing a Life

This Crazy Thing a Life

On Literary Theory and Philosophy

On Literary Theory and Philosophy

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