Discourses of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourses of Desire write by Linda Kauffman. This book was released on 2019-06-30. Discourses of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Discourses of Desire, Linda S. Kauffman looks at a neglected genre—the love letters written by literary heroines. Tracing the development of the genre from Ovid to the twentieth-century novel, Kauffman explores through provocative and incisive readings the important implications of these amatory discourses for an understanding of fictive representation in general. Among the texts Kauffman treats are Ovid's Heroides, Heloise's letters to Abelard, The Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Clarissa, Jane Eyre, The Turn of the Screw, Absalom, Absalom!, and The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Todorov, Genette, Barthes, Bakhtin, Lacan, and Derrida, Kauffman demonstrates how the codes of love shape intertextual dialogues among these works, in which each innovation in the genre is simultaneously a response to and a departure from the one preceding it. Throughout, she pays particular attention to the unsettling questions that the genre's shared thematic preoccupations and formal characteristics pose for concepts of gender, authorship, genre, and mimesis. Drawing on poststructuralism and psychoanalytic criticism to extend the boundaries of feminist theory, Kauffman makes a significant contribution to contemporary critical discussions of writing and gender, mimesis and narrative discourse, and poetics and politics. Her book, broad in its scope and far-reaching in its implications, will be valuable reading for anyone interested in feminist criticism, literary theory, and literary history.
The Power of Words and the Wonder of God
The Power of Words and the Wonder of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of Words and the Wonder of God write by Justin Taylor. This book was released on 2009. The Power of Words and the Wonder of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Piper, Sinclair Ferguson, Mark Driscoll, and other leaders from Desiring God's 2008 conference examine the life-altering power of our words and their impact in sharing the gospel.
Producing Desire
Producing Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Producing Desire write by Dror Zeʼevi. This book was released on 2006. Producing Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Desiring Arabs
Desiring Arabs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desiring Arabs write by Joseph A. Massad. This book was released on 2008-09-15. Desiring Arabs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad’s chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture. “A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work.”—Khaled El-Rouayheb, Middle East Report “In Desiring Arabs, [Edward] Said’s disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor’s thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present.”—Financial Times
Desiring TESOL and International Education
Desiring TESOL and International Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desiring TESOL and International Education write by Raqib Chowdhury. This book was released on 2014-01-22. Desiring TESOL and International Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive. It examines how the term ‘international’ has been exploited by the market in the form of government educational policies and agencies, host institutions, academia and the mass media. The book explores matters relating to the role of the English language in international education in general and the field of TESOL in particular. It demonstrates how English and TESOL have exercised their symbolic power, coupled with the desire for international education, to create convenient identities for international TESOL students. It also discusses the complexity surrounding and informing these students’ painful yet sophisticated appropriation of and resistance to the convenient labels they are subjected to.
