A Henry Fielding companion

Gale virtual reference library

Gale virtual reference library.

Residences -- Family and Household -- Others in the Life -- Works by Fielding. Journalism. Legal and Social Works. Miscellanies (1743). Miscellaneous Prose. Plays. Poetry. Prose Fiction. Puppet Theater. Translations. Universal Register Office -- Works Probably by Fielding. Journalism. Poetry. Prose -- Letters -- Manuscripts -- Themes and Topics -- Characters in the Plays and Fiction.

Tolstoy and spirituality

But to continue the life -- for what purpose? / Tolstoy's fiction: its spiritual legacy / What is the good according to Tolstoy, and how good can I be? / Tolstoy's unorthodox catechesis: English novels / Tolstoy and Diderot on women as "dangerous objects" / Tolstoy's divine madness: an analysis of the Kreutzer Sonata / The Kreutzer Sonata, sexual morality, and music / A prophet of the family: Vasily Rozanov reads Tolstoy / Death and authentic life: Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich / Tolstoy's spiritual nonviolence / Tolstoy's theory of nonviolent destruction / Tolstoy's philosophical legacy -- an interview with Abdusalam A. Guseynov.

Nepantla familias : an anthology of Mexican American literature on families in between worlds

Wittliff Collections literary series

Wittliff Collections literary series.

Nonfiction: Here, there / Life as Crossing Borders / Losing my Mother Tongue / Día de Muertos / Calle Martín de Zavala / The Wonder Woman T-Shirt / In(toxic)ated Masculinity / Piacularis / All the Pretty Ponies / Nobody's Favorite / Elote Man / Paco / The Hole in the House / Letter to the Student Who Asks Me How I Managed to Do It / Poetry: The Last Time I Went to Church / Duty / Self-Portrait in the Year of the Dog / Why You Never Get in a Fight in Elementary School / Jarcería Shop / Garden of Gethsemane / You're tired of your life / The Soul / Fiction : Dutiful Daughter / Melancholy Baby / Mundo Means World / Border as Womb Emptied of Night and Swallows / Family Unit / The Surprise Trancazo / Mujeres Matadas / The Astronaut

Broca's brain : reflections on the romance of science

Introduction -- Science and human concern. Broca's brain ; Can we know the universe? Reflections on a grain of salt ; The world which beckons like a liberation ; In praise of science and technology -- The paradoxers. Night walkers and mystery mongers: sense and nonsense at the edge of science ; White dwarfs and little green men ; Venus and Dr. Velikovsky ; Norman Bloom, messenger of God -- Science fiction -- a personal view -- Our neighborhood in space. The sun's family ; A planet named George ; Life in the solar system ; Titan, the enigmatic moon of Saturn ; The climates of planets ; Kallipe and the Kaaba ; The golden age of planetary exploration -- The future. "Will you walk a little faster?" ; Via cherry tree, to Mars ; Experiments in space ; In defense of robots ; The past and future of American astronomy ; The quest for extraterrestrial intelligence -- Ultimate questions. A Sunday sermon ; Gott and the turtles ; The amniotic universe -- References -- Index.

The Simpsons and philosophy : the d'oh! of Homer

Popular culture and philosophy ;

Simpsons (Television program)

Simpsons.

Homer and Aristotle / Lisa and American anti-intellectualism / Why Maggie matters: sounds of silence, East and West / Marge's moral motivation / Thus spake Bart: on Nietzsche and the virtues of being bad / The Simpsons and allusion: "worst essay ever" / Popular parody: The Simpsons meets the crime film / The Simpsons, hyper-irony, and the meaning of life / Simpsonian sexual politics / I didn't do it: ethics and The Simpsons. The moral world of the Simpson family: a Kantian perspective / The Simpsons: atomistic politics and the nuclear family / Springfield hypocrisy / Enjoying the so-called "iced cream": Mr. Burns, satan, and happiness / Hey-diddily-ho, neighboreenos: Ned Flanders and neighborly love / The function of fiction: the heuristic value of Homer / The Simpsons and the philosophers. A (Karl, not Groucho) Marxist in Springfield / "And the rest writes itself": Roland Barthes watches The Simpsons / What Bart calls thinking

Based on a true story : Latin American history at the movies

Latin American silhouettes

Latin American silhouettes.

Never read history again? The possibilities and perils of cinema as historical depiction / Columbus takes on the forces of darkness, or film and historical myth in 1492 : The Conquest of Paradise / Whose conquest is this, anyway? Aguirre, the Wrath of God / I, the Worst of All : the literary life of Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz / The Mission and historical missions : film and the writing of history / Passion and patriarchy in nineteenth-century Argentina : María Luisa Bemberg's Camila / Recasting Cuban slavery : The Other Francisco and The Last Supper / Lucía : inventing women's history on film / Gabriela : an evocation of elite culture in early twentieth-century Latin America / Why Tita didn't marry the doctor, or Mexican history in Like Water for Chocolate / Depicting the past in Argentine films : family drama and historical debate in Miss Mary and The Official Story / Pixote : fiction and reality in Brazilian life

Cinematic sociology : social life in film

Introduction. American society and film ; Sociology and film ; Sociological "toolkit" ; In this book -- Social class and inequality. Sitting in the dark with Max: classical sociological theory through film / Understanding social mobility through the movies / Class in the classroom: Hollywood's distorted view of inequality / Race and ethnicity. Spectacle of black violence as cinema / Don't worry, we are all racists!: Crash and the politics of privitization / Latinos/as through the lens / Gender and sexuality. Constructing empowered women: cinematic images of power and powerful women / Masculinity of the governator: muscle and compassion in American politics / Working the boundaries: bisexuality and transgender on film / Work and family. Service, smiles, and selves: film representations of labor and the sociology of work / Reel families: family life in popular films / Global connections. Scripting an enemy: portrayals of Arab terrorists in American film / Dirty pretty things: migration, the state, and contexts of survival in the global city / Social change and the environment. Only possible solution? The challenge of nonviolence to the hegemony of violence in film / From earth to cosmos: environmental sociology and images of the future in science fiction film

Migration : Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches

Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) ;

Concepts for the study of culture ;

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Migration -- Frames, Regimes, Concepts / I: The Power of Images and the Imaginary -- Migration and the Regime of the Gaze: A Critical Perspective on Concepts and Practices of Visibility and Visualization / Framing Mobility / Migration and the Structure of the Imaginary / II: (Border) Regimes -- Border as Conflict Zone: Critical Approaches on the Border and Migration Nexus / Displaced Papers: Keeping Records of Persons on the Move / Orders of Belonging and Education: Migration Pedagogy as Criticism / III: Stories, Histories, and Politics -- Unsettling Crime: Memory, Migration, and Prime Time Fiction / Post/Memories of Forced Migration at the End of the Second World War: Novels by Walter Kempowski and Ulrike Draesner / Conceptualizing the Coloniality of Migration: On European Settler Colonialism-Migration, Racism, and Migration Policies / What Does Exile Have to Do with Us? Academic Freedom in Turkey / IV: New Contexts -- Changing Concepts -- Exclusion as a Liberal Imperative: Culture, Gender, and the Orientalization of Migration / Family Life in the Digital Age of Globalization: Critical Reflections on 'Integration' / Migration as Translation / Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Womanhood in Anglophone literary culture : nineteenth and twentieth century perspectives

Cabinets of the curious: readers in the nineteenth century American archive and the search for a story-like life / Women's history, women's empowerment: Lydia Maria Child's Ladies Family Library Series / Cinderella revisited: women writers and the stepfamily / The hidden harlot: alternative ideals of womanhood in nineteenth century women's fiction / Victorian women poets and the art of collaboration / "That idyl of the June, that girls' gospel" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Browning's Aurora Leigh / Cuban femininity and national unity in Louisa May Alcott's moods and Elizabeth Stoddard's "Eros and Anteros" / Bad girls of the VAD: World War I fallen women in the forbidden zone / Modernism, maternity, and the radical women poet / Riders of the new wave: the feminist science fiction of Le Guin, Russ, and Tiptree / Embodying the muse, opening pandora's box: Post-Modern counter narratives of female creativity and community / Sacred frontiers: looking for fissures to construct an alternate feminist subjectivity in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood / Who I be I grow up / here? : literary recuperations of Harlem's streets / Womb fiction: late twentieth century challenges to the woman as womb paradigm

The Age of Johnson [electronic resource] : A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24).

The Age of Johnson Ser. ;

The Age of Johnson Ser.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Essays -- Milton at Bolt Court -- Mimesis and Understanding in Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare (1765) -- Samuel Johnson and the Allen Family -- "Con Amore" hester piozzi's annotations upon johnson's early poetry -- Johnson (and Boswell) in the Lists a view of their reputations, 1933-2018 -- The Curious Case of Charlotte Lennox conducting a professional literary life in eighteenth-century britain outside the bluestocking circle -- Punitive Injustice in Caleb Williams godwin's vexed call for penal reform -- Sensibility Reclaimed thomas blackwell, robert wood, and the "conjectural history" of homer -- Review Essays -- Organizing a Life and the "Lives" samuel johnson and the yale edition of johnson's lives of the poets -- Is Historical Fiction Still Revolutionary? Two Novels Set in Johnson's World -- Reviews -- Michael Schmidt. The Novel: A Biography. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. XI + 1,172 -- David Alff.The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 239 -- Aileen Douglas. Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. XIV + 229 -- Julie Flavell. When London Was Capital of America. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2010. Pp. XII + 305 -- John Phibbs. Place-Making: The Art of Capability Brown. Swindon: Historic England, 2017. Pp. VII + 374 -- Notes on Contributors

Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings

Works. Selections. 2015

Paranoia.

Still life with teapot and students.

Arabian nights.

Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons.

It isn't the money I mind.

Company for dinner.

I cannot sing the old songs.

New maid.

French is the mark of a lady.

Gaudeamus Igitur.

Foreword : "I think I know her " / Sudden and unusual things have happened: unpublished and uncollected short fiction. Paranoia ; Still life with teapot and students ; The Arabian nights ; Mrs. Spencer and the Oberons ; It isn't the money I mind ; Company for dinner ; I cannot sing the old songs ; The new maid ; French is the mark of a lady ; Gaudeamus igitur ; The lie ; She says the damnedest things ; Remembrance of things past ; Let me tell you ; Bulletin ; Family treasures ; Showdown ; The trouble with my husband ; Six A.M. is the hour ; Root of evil ; The bridge game ; The man in the woods -- I would rather write than do anything else: essays and reviews. Autobiographical musings ; A garland of garlands ; Hex me, daddy, eight to the bar ; Clowns ; A vroom for Dr. Seuss ; Notes on an unfashionable novelist ; Private showing ; Good old house ; The play's the thing ; The ghosts of Loiret ; "Well?" -- When this war is over: early short stories. The sorcerer's apprentice ; Period piece ; 4-F party ; The paradise ; Homecoming ; Daughter, come home ; As high as the sky ; Murder on Miss Lederer's birthday -- Somehow things haven't turned out quite the way we expected: humor and family. Here I am, washing dishes again ; In praise of dinner table silence ; Questions I wish I'd never asked ; Mother, honestly! ; How to enjoy a family quarrel ; The pleasures and perils of dining out with children ; Out of the mouths of babes ; The real me ; On girls of thirteen ; What I want to know is, what do other people cook with? -- I'd like to see you get out of that sentence: lectures about the craft of writing. About the end of the world ; Memory and delusion ; On fans and fan mail ; How I write fiction ; Garlic in fiction --

Reel food : essays on food and film

Watching food: the production of food, film, and values / Cooking up cultural values -- Feel good reel food: a taste of the cultural kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha's What's Cooking? / Food, play, business, and the image of Japan in Itami Juzo's Tampopo / Il Timpano--"to eat good food is to be close to God": the Italian-American reconciliation of Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's Big Night / Cooking Mexicanness: shaping national identity in Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate / Chickens, cakes, and kitchens: food and modernity in Malay films of the 1950s and 1960s / "I'll have whatever she's having": Jews, food, and film / Food as representative of ethnicity and culture in George Tillman's Jr.'s Soul Food, María Ripoll's Tortilla soup, and Tim Reid's Once upon a time when we were colored / Focus on gender--the body, the spirit -- Gendering the feast: women, spirituality, and grace in three food films / Food, sex, and power at the dining room table in Zhang Yimou's Raise the red lantern / Anorexia envisioned: Mike Leigh's Life is sweet, Chul-Soo park's 301/302, and Todd Haynes's Superstar / Production, reproduction, food, and women in Herbert Biberman's Salt of the earth and Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano's After the earthquake / Images of consumption in Jutta Brückner's Years of hunger / Making movies, making meals -- Appetite for destruction: ganster food and genre convention to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction / "Leave the gun; take the cannoli": food and family in the modern American mafia film / All-consuming passions: Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover / Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen: an ambiguous memory, an ambivalent meal / Futuristic foodways: the metaphotical meaning of food in science fiction film / Supper, slapstick, and social class: dinner as machine in the silent films of Buster Keaton / Banquet and the beast: the civilizing role of dood in 1930s horror films / Engorged with desire: the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the gendered politics of eating / What about the popcorn? food and the film-watching experience