Idle Threats - 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 Idle Threats write by Andrew Lyndon Knighton. This book was released on 2012-10-22. Idle Threats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity.
Idle Threats and Travelogues
Idle Threats and Travelogues - 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 Idle Threats and Travelogues write by Vincent Bass. This book was released on 2013-06-30. Idle Threats and Travelogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A youth's journey through the beauty and horror of the 1970s and the South Bronx
Idle Threats
Idle Threats - 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 Idle Threats write by Alan Parkinson. This book was released on 2015-09-02. Idle Threats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Liam hates his job working for Phonetix Mobile. Fighting for every second and battling with every customer, he is close to the edge. Bumper's business is going under. His debts are rising, his drinking is getting worse and his wife has had enough. Jodie is unemployed and is desperate for work to give her son the life he deserves. Her mobile phone on the other hand, appears to have no intention of working. They are all brought together by an armed siege that could change their lives forever. The long awaited follow up to Leg It, Alan Parkinson's debut novel. Idle Threats is a fast paced tale of guns, bombs, gangsters and sombreros.
Idle Threats
Idle Threats - 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 Idle Threats write by Alan Parkinson. This book was released on 2021. Idle Threats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Social Development as Preference Management
Social Development as Preference Management - 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 Social Development as Preference Management write by Rachel Karniol. This book was released on 2010-04-12. Social Development as Preference Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Karniol engagingly presents social development in children through the language of preference management. Conversational excerpts garnered from around the world trace how parents talk about preferences, how infants' and children's emergent language conveys their preferences, how children themselves are impacted by others' preferences, and how they in turn influence the preferences of adults and peers. The language of preferences is used to crack into altruism, aggression, and morality, which are ways of coming to terms with other people's preferences. Behind the scenes is a cognitive engine that uses transformational thought – conducting temporal, imaginal, and mental transformations – to figure out other people's preferences and to find more sophisticated means of outmanoeuvring others by persuading them and playing with one's own mind and other people's minds when preferences are blocked. This book is a unique and sometimes amusing must-read for anyone interested in child development, language acquisition, socialisation, and communication.
