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Reading Cultures

The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century

By: Molly Abel Travis

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Reading Cultures

The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century

By: Molly Abel Travis

Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception of twentieth-century literature in the United States. Travis moves beyond such provisional conclusions as "the text produces the reader" or "the reader produces the text" and considers the ways twentieth-century readers and texts attempt to constitute and appropriate each other at particular cultural moments and according to specific psychosocial exigencies. She uses the overarching concept of the reader in and out of the text both to differentiate the reader implied by the text from the actual reader and to discuss such in-and-out movements that occur in the process of reading as the alternation between immersion and interactivity and between role playing and unmasking. Unlike most reader theorists, Travis is concerned with the agency of the reader. Her conception of agency in reading is informed by performance, psychoanalytic, and feminist theories. This agency involves compulsive, reiterative performance in which readers attempt to find themselves by going outside the self--engaging in literary role playing in the hope of finally and fully identifying the self through self-differentiation. Furthermore, readers never escape a social context; they are both constructed and actively constructing in that they read as part of interpretive communities and are involved in collaborative creativity or what Kendall Walton calls "collective imagining.

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192

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SIU Press

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0809321467

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9780809321469

Living with Earth

An Introduction to Environmental Geology

By: Travis Hudson

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Living with Earth

An Introduction to Environmental Geology

By: Travis Hudson

For many students with no science background, environmental geology may be one of the only science courses they ever take. Living With Earth: An Introduction to Environmental Geology is ideal for those students, fostering a better understanding of how they interact with Earth and how their actions can affect Earth's environmental health. The informal, reader-friendly presentation is organized around a few unifying perspectives: how the various Earth systems interact with one another; how Earth affects people (creating hazards but also providing essential resources); and how people affect Earth. Greater emphasis is placed on environment and sustainability than on geology, unlike other texts on the subject. Essential scientific foundations are presented - but the ultimate goal is to connect students proactively to their role as stakeholders in Earth's future.

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1089

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Routledge

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1315506599

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9781315506593

Finding America in Leviticus

Reflections on Nation Building in the Twenty-First Century

By: Michael J. Broyde,Reuven Travis

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Finding America in Leviticus

Reflections on Nation Building in the Twenty-First Century

By: Michael J. Broyde,Reuven Travis

It would seem that we have taken on an impossible task in this book: trying to demonstrate to modern Americans, be they secular or religious, Jews or Christians, that the sacrificial rites found in Leviticus have any germaneness to their lives. After all, to the extent that any modern reader turns to the pages of Leviticus at all, the notion that they would be inspired by the text and pine for the restoration of animal sacrifices is ludicrous! However, Leviticus is more than laws of sacrifices. As we demonstrate, Leviticus sets forth a template for nation-building via large, regularly-scheduled communal gatherings intended to foster national unity and identity among the Jewish people.

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141

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666767875

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9781666767872

Positive Feedback in Natural Systems

By: Donald L. DeAngelis,Wilfried M. Post,Curtis C. Travis

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Positive Feedback in Natural Systems

By: Donald L. DeAngelis,Wilfried M. Post,Curtis C. Travis

Cybernetics, a science concerned with understanding how systems are regulated, has reflected the preoccupations of the century in which it was born. Regulation is important in twentieth century society, where both machines and social organizations are complex. Cybernetics focused on and became primarily associated with the homeostasis or stability of system behavior and with the negative feedbacks that stabilize systems. It paid less attention to the processes opposite to negative feedback, the positive feedback processes that act to change systems. We attempt to redress the balance here by illustrating the enormous importance of positive feedbacks in natural systems. In an article in the American Scientist in 1963, Maruyama called for increased attention to this topic, noting that processes of change could occur when a "deviation in anyone component of the system caused deviations in other components that acted back on the first component to reinforce of amplify the initial deviation." The deviation amplification is the result of positive feedback among system components. Maruyama demonstrated by numerous examples that the neglect of such processes was unjustified and suggested that a new branch of cybernetics, "the second cybernetics," be devoted to their study.

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292

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642826253

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9783642826252

Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions

By: Jason Travis Ott

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Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions

By: Jason Travis Ott

This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrizes the boggles of our palaver.* Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, antiquated argot from myriad epochs, and lexemes for venturesome bibliophiles. Featuring a short, insightful introduction, Grandiloquent Words offers more than 250 preternatural terminologies for you to ingurgitate and brandish with aplomb for countless occasions. Bask in cataracts of mundane morphemes, bookish locutions, beef-witted blatteroons, corporeal catastrophes, playful patois, and jolly jubilations. These always-extra expressions encompass timeless topics and modern phenomena, painting a group portrait of our foibles and joys. Replete with pronunciations, etymologies, examples, and whimsical illustrations, it will edify and entertain. *This rare collection of definitions celebrates the marvels of our language.

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249

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The Countryman Press

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1682688003

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9781682688007

Book's by Travis Douce

Reading Cultures

Reading Cultures

Living with Earth

Living with Earth

Finding America in Leviticus

Finding America in Leviticus

Positive Feedback in Natural Systems

Positive Feedback in Natural Systems

Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions

Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions

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