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Comics and power representing and questioning culture, subjects and communities


Free Download Comics and power : representing and questioning culture, subjects and communities By Anne Magnussen, Anne Magnussen, Erin La Cour, Rikke Platz Cortsen
2015 | 327 Pages | ISBN: 1443870862 | PDF | 7 MB
Many introductions to comics scholarship books begin with an anecdote recounting the author’s childhood experiences reading comics, thereby testifying to the power of comics to engage and impact youth, but comics and power are intertwined in a numbers of ways that go beyond concern for children’s reading habits. Comics and Power presents very different methods of studying the complex and diverse relationship between comics and power. Divided into three Sections, its 14 chapters discuss how comics interact with, reproduce, and/or challenge existing power structures – from the comics medium and its institutions to discourses about art, subjectivity, identity, and communities. The contributors and their work, as such, represent a new generation of comics research that combines the study of comics as a unique art form with a focus on the ways in which comics – like any other medium – participate in shaping the societies of which they are part

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Questioning Minds The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner


Free Download Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner By Guy Davenport, Hugh Kenner, Edward M. Burns (editor)
2018 | 2016 Pages | ISBN: 1619021811 | PDF | 73 MB
"The most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018 . . . A lasting treasure." ―Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) and Guy Davenport (1927-2005) first met in September 1953 when each gave a paper on Ezra Pound at Columbia University. They met again in the fall of 1957, and their correspondence begins with Kenner’s letter of March 7, 1958. In the next forty-four years, they exchanged over one thousand letters. An extraordinary document of a literary friendship that lasted half a century, the letters represent one of the great and―with the dawn of the age of text and Twitter―one of the last major epistolary exchanges of its kind. Students and lovers of modernism will find, in the letters, matchless engagements with Eliot, Joyce, Beckett, Basil Bunting, Charles Tomlinson, R. Buckminster Fuller, Stan Brakhage, Jonathan Williams, and the American modernists William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Louis Zukofsky. The correspondence ends with Kenner’s letter of August 9, 2002, lamenting how they had drifted apart. The extensive notes and cross-referencing of archival sources in Questioning Minds are a major contribution to the study of literary modernism. The letters contained within explore how new works were conceived and developed by both writers. They record faithfully, and with candor, the urgency that each brought to his intellectual and creative pursuits. Here is a singular opportunity to follow the development of their unique fictions and essays.

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The Phenomenology of Questioning Husserl, Heidegger and Patocka


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English | December 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1350358150 | True EPUB/PDF | 272 pages | 1/7.9 MB
Bringing together Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patocka, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the central role that questioning plays in phenomenology. Joel Hubick not only offers a phenomenological analysis of the activity of asking questions, but further traces the development of this form of questioning in the early stages of the phenomenology movement.

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Questioning Slavery


Free Download James Walvin, "Questioning Slavery"
English | 1996 | pages: 216 | ISBN: 0415153573, 0415153565 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
For the best part of three centuries the material well-being of the western world was dependent on slavery. Yet these systems were mainly brought to a very rapid end. This text surveys the key questions of slavery, and traces the arguments which have swirled around its history in recent years. The latest findings on slavery are presented, and a comparative analysis of slavery in the English-speaking Americas is offered.

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