Death of a Discipline
Title | Death of a Discipline PDF eBook |
Author | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 2023-07-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 023155687X |
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is among the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences of the past half-century. In this book, originally published in 2003, she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a “new comparative literature,” in which the discipline is reborn—one that is not appropriated and determined by the market. Spivak examines how comparative literature and world literature in translation have fared in the era of globalization and considers how to protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university. She demonstrates why critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers insightful interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. Through readings of texts not only in English, French, and German but also in Arabic and Bengali, Spivak practices what she preaches. This anniversary edition features a new preface in which Spivak reflects on the fortunes of comparative literature in the intervening years and its tasks today.
Death of a Discipline
Title | Death of a Discipline PDF eBook |
Author | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0231129440 |
For three decades, Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature, " in which the discipline is given new life.
Death of a Discipline
Title | Death of a Discipline PDF eBook |
Author | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0231129459 |
In declaring the death of comparative literature as we know it Gayatri Spivak draws attention to the need for a 'new' comparative literature untainted, and not appropriated by, the infernal machinations of globalization and the so-called market.
Discipline and Punish
Title | Discipline and Punish PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Foucault |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2012-04-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307819299 |
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Sweet Days of Discipline
Title | Sweet Days of Discipline PDF eBook |
Author | Fleur Jaeggy |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2019-10-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811229041 |
On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.
The Lords of Discipline
Title | The Lords of Discipline PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Conroy |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 2022-12-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0063323656 |
“The Lords of Discipline is, simply, an American classic.” -- Larry King The Lords of Discipline is a novel about coming of age, brotherhood, betrayal, and a man’s forging of his own personal code of honor. Will McLean, a senior on the cadets’ honor court, is an outsider by nature: a basketball star at a school that prizes military prowess above athletics, a military man in training who dares to question the escalating Vietnam war. And yet his greatest struggle will be with the corrupt institution of which he is a part. Rich in humor and suspense, abounding in a rare honesty and generosity of feeling, this novel established Pat Conroy as one of the strongest fictional voices in a generation. “A work of enormous power, passion, humor, and wisdom.” – Washington Star “God preserve Pat Conroy.” – Boston Globe
Death of a Discipline? Reflections on the History, State, and Future of Social Anthropology in Zimbabwe
Title | Death of a Discipline? Reflections on the History, State, and Future of Social Anthropology in Zimbabwe PDF eBook |
Author | Munyaradzi Mawere |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2017-08-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9956763810 |
This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe. The authors are frustrated and disheartened by a problematic visibility and sluggish growth of the discipline in the country. The book makes an important claim that the future and vibrancy of anthropology in Zimbabwe, lies in how well anthropologists in the country and in the diaspora are able to join efforts in articulating, debating and enhancing its relevance and vitality. The book provides critical overview and nuanced analyses of the role and continued relevance of the discipline in reading and interpreting the social unfolding of everyday life and dynamism. It is a vital text for understanding and contextualising histories and trends in the development of social anthropology in Zimbabwe and how anthropologists in the country navigate the tumultuous waters and struggles that have engrossed the discipline since colonial times. The book has the capacity to generate added insights and influence national, continental, and global debates and trends in the field.