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Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other. Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. Crip Theory puts forward readings of the Sharon Kowalski story, the performance art of Bob Flanagan, and the journals of Gary Fisher, as well as critiques of the domesticated queerness and disability marketed by the Millennium March, or Bravo TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. McRuer examines how dominant and marginal bodily and sexual identities are composed, and considers the vibrant ways that disability and queerness unsettle and re-write those identities in order to insist that another world is possible.
Sociology of disability. --- Homosexuality --- Heterosexuality --- Marginality, Social. --- Culture. --- Queer theory. --- Social aspects. --- Both. --- Crip. --- Theory. --- abject. --- analyze. --- bodies. --- book. --- centrally. --- concerned. --- disability. --- each. --- fields. --- first. --- identities. --- inform. --- interdisciplinary. --- normal. --- other. --- pleasures. --- queer. --- represented. --- studies. --- these. --- thoroughly. --- ways. --- which. --- with.
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How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literature. We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the world around us, and find respite from the hectic demands of everyday life. In You Are What You Read, DiYanni provides a practical guide that shows how we can increase the benefits and pleasures of reading literature by becoming more skillful and engaged readers.DiYanni suggests that we attend first to what authors say and the way in which they say it, rather than rushing to decide what they mean. He considers the various forms of literature, from the essay to the novel, the short story to the poem, demonstrating rewarding approaches to each in sample readings of classic works. Through a series of illuminating oppositions, he explores the paradoxical pleasures of reading: solitary versus social reading, submitting to or resisting the author, reading inwardly or outwardly, and more. DiYanni closes with nine recommended reading practices, thoughts on the different experiences of print and digital reading, and advice on what to read and why.Written in a clear, inviting, and natural style, You Are What You Read is an essential guide for all who want to enrich their reading—and their life.--
Reading. --- Literature --- Alberto Manguel. --- Francine Prose. --- Gutenberg Elegies. --- Harold Bloom. --- Sven Birkerts. --- aesthetics. --- analysis. --- appreciation. --- beauty. --- book clubs. --- books. --- characters. --- convention. --- critical reading. --- dialogue. --- elements. --- essays. --- fiction. --- genre. --- how to become a better reader. --- how to read. --- imagery. --- images. --- interpretation. --- interpreting. --- irony. --- language. --- meaning. --- metaphor. --- narrative. --- narrator. --- nonfiction. --- pleasure. --- pleasures. --- poems. --- purpose. --- rhetoric. --- stories. --- style. --- texts. --- tone. --- understanding. --- voice. --- what to read. --- Appreciation.
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"Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals-especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies-the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. "If we look carefully," writes Gregor, "we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazonian people." The book is illustrated with Mehinaku drawings of ritual texts and myths, as well as with photographs of the villagers taking part in both everyday and ceremonial activities.
Mehinacu Indians --- Indians of South America --- Sex role --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual behavior. --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Mehinaku Indians --- Mehinkaku Indians --- Minaco Indians --- Ethnology --- Mehinaku (Indiens) --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Sexualité --- Mehinacu Indians - Sexual behavior --- Indians of South America - Sexual behavior - Brazil --- Sex role - Brazil --- social sciences, sexuality, sociology, anthropology, south america, brazil, mehinacu indians, sex lives, elaborate rituals, secret societies, psychosexual neuroses, castration anxiety, oedipal conflict, amazonian people, myths, photographs, ceremonial activities, native peoples, indigenous population, amazon region, primitive cultures, marriage, affection, anxious pleasures, personality theory, masculine culture, femininity, symbols of gender, socialization. --- social sciences, sexuality, sociology, anthropology, south america, brazil, mehinacu indians, sex lives, elaborate rituals, secret societies, psychosexual neuroses, castration anxiety, oedipal conflict, amazonian people, myths, photographs, ceremonial activities, native peoples, indigenous population, amazon region, marriage, affection, anxious pleasures, personality theory, masculine culture, femininity, symbols of gender, socialization.
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Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In Moving Viewers, Carl Plantinga explores this question and the implications of its answer for aesthetics, the psychology of spectatorship, and the place of movies in culture. Through an in-depth discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, Plantinga investigates what he terms "the paradox of negative emotion" and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. He describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. He uses cognitive science and philosophical aesthetics to demonstrate why cinema may deliver a similar emotional charge for diverse audiences.
Motion picture audiences --- Motion pictures --- Psychology. --- Film --- United States --- 82:791.43 --- 82:791.43 Literatuur en film --- Literatuur en film --- Cinéma --- Publics --- Psychologie --- Psychology --- american film. --- audience theory. --- cinema and film. --- cognitive science. --- cultural studies. --- desires. --- emotional experience. --- film criticism. --- film studies. --- film. --- hollywood films. --- mainstream narratives. --- media studies. --- movie criticism. --- movie studies. --- movie watching. --- movies and emotions. --- movies. --- moving viewers. --- negative emotions. --- philosophical aesthetics. --- pleasures. --- psychology of spectatorship. --- ritualistic fantasy. --- sensual films. --- spectators. --- sympathetic narratives. --- synesthesia. --- the paradox of negative emotion. --- watching a movie. --- United States of America
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