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Barth, John, 1930 . Lost in the Funhouse --- Doubles dans la littérature --- Doubles in literature --- Dubbelgangers in de literatuur --- Federman, Raymond, 1928 . Double or Nothing --- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Despair --- American fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Roman américain --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- 820-3 "19" --- 82.04 --- Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Literaire thema's --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- 820-3 "19" Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Roman américain --- Doubles dans la littérature --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Doppelgänger in literature --- Doppelgängers in literature --- Split self in literature --- 20th century --- United States --- Hawkes, John --- Criticism and interpretation --- Brautigan, Richard
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Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also—and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction—through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory.Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors.
American fiction --- Chaotic behavior in systems in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999
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The book discusses the internationalizing of education and what educators need to think about in moving abroad to teach and to do in creating an imaginative and successful cross-cultural classroom.
Teachers, Foreign. --- Multicultural education. --- College teaching. --- University teaching --- Teaching --- Foreign teachers --- Teachers in foreign countries --- Intercultural education --- Education --- Culturally relevant pedagogy --- Culturally sustaining pedagogy --- International education.
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Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Paul Simon-these familiar figures have written road music for half a century and continue to remain highly-regarded artists. But there is so much more to say about road music. This book fills a glaring hole in scholarship about the road and music. In a collection of 13 essays, Music and the Road explores the origins of road music in the blues, country-western, and rock 'n' roll; the themes of adventure, freedom, mobility, camaraderie, and love, and much more; the contribution of music to popular road films such as Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Thelma and Louise, and On the Road; and the mystique and reality of touring as an important part of getting away from home, creating community among performers, and building audiences across the country from the '30s to the present. Book jacket.
Popular music --- Travel in music. --- History and criticism.
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Barth, John --- Criticism and interpretation --- Barth (john)
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Film adaptations --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Intertextuality --- History and criticism
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Travel --- Migration, Internal --- Road films --- Travelers' writings, American --- Social aspects --- History --- Social aspects --- History --- History and criticism --- History and criticism
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This collection of essays aim at fostering discussion about the growth of international education and the Chinese learner between educators from schools and universities in Hong Kong and abroad. These essays are both theoretical and practical, coming outof the direct experiences of those who have been teaching Chinese learners in international contexts.
International education --- Education and globalization --- Multicultural education --- Students
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All travelers know the seductive power of the open road and its suggestions of possibility, escape, renewal, and reinvention. Hit the Road, Jack is an interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of the road as reality and metaphor. Engaging with varied cultural mediums such as literature, reality television, philosophy, and political rhetoric, this collection delves deeply into the symbolic implications of the road. Insightful and accessible essays draw upon both classic "road" texts and films, while investigating themes of individual and national freedom, independence and mobility, and destiny. Referencing postmodern theory, gender and queer studies, as well as personal reminiscence and narrative research, Hit the Road, Jack considers the impact that identity - particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation - has on the way various journeys are taken. While literary depictions of the road have a long history, scholarship about the phenomenon is sparse. This anthology makes a significant contribution to the study of the road, bringing to light aspects of its iconic status in American culture. Contributors include Paul Attinello (Newcastle University), Stacilee Ford (University of Hong Kong), Eleanor Heginbotham (University of Maryland), Susan Kuyper (Des Moines Area Community College), Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong), Cotton Seiler (Dickinson University), Max J. Skidmore (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Gordon Slethaug (University of Southern Denmark), Michael Truscello (Mount Royal University), and Wendy Zierler (Hebrew Union College -Jewish Institute of Religion, New York).
Travel --- Migration, Internal --- Road films --- Travelers' writings, American --- Voyage --- Migration intérieure --- Road movies --- Écrits de voyageurs américains --- Social aspects --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Aspect social --- Histoire. --- Histoire et critique. --- American literature --- Thematology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Iconography --- United States --- Motion pictures --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- United States of America --- Migration intérieure --- Écrits de voyageurs américains
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Chinese students --- Education and globalization --- International schools --- Multicultural education --- Students
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