Argonauts to Astronauts

Argonauts to Astronauts
Title Argonauts to Astronauts PDF eBook
Author Mauricio Obregón
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Pages 336
Release 1980
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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Retraces in sailboat or small plane the routes taken by the Argonauts, Ulysses, Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan, Elcano, and the Portuguese and Spanish explorers of the Americas.

The Annenbergs

The Annenbergs
Title The Annenbergs PDF eBook
Author John E. Cooney
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Pages 456
Release 1982
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

The Family as Educator

The Family as Educator
Title The Family as Educator PDF eBook
Author Hope Jensen Leichter
Publisher New York : Teachers College Press
Pages 144
Release 1975
Genre Education
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Telling It Like It Wasn’t

Telling It Like It Wasn’t
Title Telling It Like It Wasn’t PDF eBook
Author Catherine Gallagher
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 368
Release 2018-01-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 022651255X

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Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are often written off as politically inspired fantasy or as pop culture fodder, but in Telling It Like It Wasn’t, Catherine Gallagher takes the history of counterfactual history seriously, pinning it down as an object of dispassionate study. She doesn’t take a moral or normative stand on the practice, but focuses her attention on how it works and to what ends—a quest that takes readers on a fascinating tour of literary and historical criticism. Gallagher locates the origins of contemporary counterfactual history in eighteenth-century Europe, where the idea of other possible historical worlds first took hold in philosophical disputes about Providence before being repurposed by military theorists as a tool for improving the art of war. In the next century, counterfactualism became a legal device for deciding liability, and lengthy alternate-history fictions appeared, illustrating struggles for historical justice. These early motivations—for philosophical understanding, military improvement, and historical justice—are still evident today in our fondness for counterfactual tales. Alternate histories of the Civil War and WWII abound, but here, Gallagher shows how the counterfactual habit of replaying the recent past often shapes our understanding of the actual events themselves. The counterfactual mode lets us continue to envision our future by reconsidering the range of previous alternatives. Throughout this engaging and eye-opening book, Gallagher encourages readers to ask important questions about our obsession with counterfactual history and the roots of our tendency to ask “What if...?”

Psyche and Ethos

Psyche and Ethos
Title Psyche and Ethos PDF eBook
Author Amanda Anderson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 123
Release 2018
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0198755821

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A short thought-provoking book on the relation between psychology and morality in contemporary culture and current literary criticism.

Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Title Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Potter
Publisher Springer
Pages 274
Release 2018-09-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3319897373

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This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped the way people conceptualised and articulated visual experience. In doing so, the book reconsiders literary and non-fiction works by well-known authors including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, G.H. Lewes, Max Nordau, Herbert Spencer, and Joseph Conrad, as well as shedding light on less-known works drawn from the periodical press. By revealing the discourses that formed around visual technologies, the book challenges and builds upon existing scholarship to provide a powerful new model by which to understand how the Victorians experienced, conceptualised, and wrote about vision.

Artful Experiments

Artful Experiments
Title Artful Experiments PDF eBook
Author Philipp Erchinger
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 389
Release 2018-09-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1474438989

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Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them