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Modern Philology, volume 119 number 3 (February 2022)
By Modern Philology. 2022
This is volume 119 issue 3 of Modern Philology. Modern Philology (MP) publishes original work in literary criticism, literary history,…
and archival scholarship. The journal welcomes contributions on literature in all modern world languages and encourages productive comparisons of texts and traditions from any part of the world. It accepts essays that focus on earlier periods as well as the present. MP also aims to publish timely review articles, reviews of recent books, and research on archival documents.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/b7d/small/4402482.jpg)
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (Thinking Literature)
By Mark Christian Thompson. 2022
This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field’s debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten…
tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including the growing interest in German philosophy and critical theory. Mark Christian Thompson analyzes this shift in intellectual focus across the post-war decades, placing Black Power thought in a philosophical context. Prior to the 1960s, sociologically oriented thinkers such as W. E. B. Du Bois had understood Blackness as a singular set of socio-historical characteristics. In contrast, writers such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Angela Y. Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, and Malcolm X were drawn to notions of an African essence, an ontology of Black being. With these perspectives, literary language came to be seen as the primary social expression of Blackness. For this new way of thinking, the works of philosophers such as Adorno, Habermas, and Marcuse were a vital resource, allowing for continued cultural-materialist analysis while accommodating the hermeneutical aspects of Black religious thought. Thompson argues that these efforts to reimagine Black singularity led to a phenomenological understanding of Blackness—a “Black aesthetic dimension” wherein aspirational models for Black liberation might emerge.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/10a/small/4402477.jpg)
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (Thinking Literature)
By Mark Christian Thompson. 2022
This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field’s debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten…
tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including the growing interest in German philosophy and critical theory. Mark Christian Thompson analyzes this shift in intellectual focus across the post-war decades, placing Black Power thought in a philosophical context. Prior to the 1960s, sociologically oriented thinkers such as W. E. B. Du Bois had understood Blackness as a singular set of socio-historical characteristics. In contrast, writers such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Angela Y. Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, and Malcolm X were drawn to notions of an African essence, an ontology of Black being. With these perspectives, literary language came to be seen as the primary social expression of Blackness. For this new way of thinking, the works of philosophers such as Adorno, Habermas, and Marcuse were a vital resource, allowing for continued cultural-materialist analysis while accommodating the hermeneutical aspects of Black religious thought. Thompson argues that these efforts to reimagine Black singularity led to a phenomenological understanding of Blackness—a “Black aesthetic dimension” wherein aspirational models for Black liberation might emerge.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/f0f/small/4402475.jpg)
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (Thinking Literature)
By Mark Christian Thompson. 2022
This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field’s debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten…
tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including the growing interest in German philosophy and critical theory. Mark Christian Thompson analyzes this shift in intellectual focus across the post-war decades, placing Black Power thought in a philosophical context. Prior to the 1960s, sociologically oriented thinkers such as W. E. B. Du Bois had understood Blackness as a singular set of socio-historical characteristics. In contrast, writers such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Angela Y. Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, and Malcolm X were drawn to notions of an African essence, an ontology of Black being. With these perspectives, literary language came to be seen as the primary social expression of Blackness. For this new way of thinking, the works of philosophers such as Adorno, Habermas, and Marcuse were a vital resource, allowing for continued cultural-materialist analysis while accommodating the hermeneutical aspects of Black religious thought. Thompson argues that these efforts to reimagine Black singularity led to a phenomenological understanding of Blackness—a “Black aesthetic dimension” wherein aspirational models for Black liberation might emerge.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/a4b/small/135703.jpg)
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
By Sigmund Freud, James Strachey. 1995
Freud's New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis takes full account of his elaborations in, and changes of mind about, psychoanalytic theory,…
and discusses a variety of controversial themes, including anxiety, the drives, and female sexuality.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/4eb/small/4404274.jpg)
Alternatives to Domestic Violence: A Homework Manual for Battering Intervention Groups
By Kevin A. Fall, Shareen Howard. 2022
Alternatives to Domestic Violence, fifth edition, is an interactive treatment workbook designed for use with a wide variety of accepted…
curricula for intimate partner violence intervention programs. The new edition adds and revises the exercises and stories in every chapter, covering important areas including respect and accountability, maintaining positive relationships, parenting, substance abuse, and sexuality. Innovative chapters explore parenting, religion, communication, and substance abuse, and deepen readers’ understanding of controlling behavior. Chapters incorporate discussion of digital and internet-based abuse, and a new "Voice of My Partner" exercise has been added to core chapters to encourage group members to explore the impact of their behavior and learn and practice empathy-focused skills. Continuing the tradition of past editions, this edition not only focuses on the content of a good BIPP curriculum, but it also stresses the group process elements that form the backbone of any quality approach. Intimate partner violence group leaders and members will find this workbook to be a vital resource for adopting new strategies to lead a life of cooperation and shared power.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/5a4/small/4404116.jpg)
Literature and Science (Routledge Revivals)
By B. Ifor Evans. 1954
First published in 1954, Literature and Science discusses historically the relationship between science and literature and between scientists and men…
of letters from the Renaissance onwards. It shows periods when writers were enthusiastic about science as in the early days of the Royal Society and notably through the influence of Newton. Further it explores the later alienation between science and literature in the technological and industrial age. There is a full account of Wordsworth’s crucial relationships to these problems which leads to a number of new conclusions. Apart from his historical survey, Dr. Ifor Evans emphasises the contemporary importance of the relationship of the artist and the scientist and outlines an approach to a new humanism, in which the writer may reach some closer understanding of science than he has at present attained. Students interested in literature, history of literature and critical theory will find this book enlightening.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/5a8/small/4404072.jpg)
Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)
By Shane Neilson, Alan Bleakley. 2021
This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appreciation of poetry…
can help us to engage with medicine in more intense ways based on ‘de-familiarising’ old habits and bringing poetic forms of ‘close reading’ to the clinic. Bleakley and Neilson carry out an extensive critical examination of the well-established practices of narrative medicine to show that non-narrative, lyrical poetry does different kind of work, previously unexamined, such as place eclipsing time. They articulate a groundbreaking ‘lyrical medicine’ that promotes aesthetic, ethical and political practices as well as noting the often-concealed metaphor cache of biomedicine. Demonstrating that ambiguity is a key resource in both poetry and medicine, the authors anatomise poetic and medical practices as forms of extended and situated cognition, grounded in close readings of singular contexts. They illustrate structural correspondences between poetic diction and clinical thinking, such as use of sound and metaphor. This provocative examination of the meaningful overlap between poetic and clinical work is an essential read for researchers and practitioners interested in extending the reach of medical and health humanities, narrative medicine, medical education and English literature.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/6d1/small/4404066.jpg)
The conventional literary history of the eighteenth century holds that upstart novelists and other intensely serious writers worked against the…
conservative and ironic sensibility of an earlier generation of satirists. However, many of these ostensibly earnest writers were exceptional satirists in their own right, employing the same ruses, tricks, and deceptions throughout their work. The novels of such canonical figures as Behn and Defoe, for example, passed themselves off as real documents, just as an earlier generation of hack writers combined the serious and the absurd. Re-examining this nexus between the ludicrous and the solemn, Shane Herron argues that intense earnestness was itself a central component of the ironic sensibility of the great age of literary satire and of Swift's work in particular. The sensationalism and confessionalism of earnestness were frequently employed tendentiously, while ironic and satirical literature often incorporated genuine moments of earnestness to advance writerly aims.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/93f/small/4404062.jpg)
Hope: A Literary History
By Adam Potkay. 2021
Hope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present…
moment, as the occasion for irrational and self-destructive thinking, and as a presumption against the gods. To what extent do arguments against hope today remain useful? If hope sounds to us like a good thing, that reaction stems from a progressive political tradition grounded in the French Revolution, aspects of Romantic literature and the influence of the Abrahamic faiths. Ranging both wide and deep, Adam Potkay examines the cases for and against hope found in literature from antiquity to the present. Drawing imaginatively on several fields and creatively juxtaposing poetry, drama, and novels alongside philosophy, theology and political theory, the author brings continually fresh insights to a subject of perennial interest. This is a bold and illuminating new treatment of a long-running literary debate as complex as it is compelling.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/9c2/small/4404050.jpg)
Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
By Whitney Goodman. 2022
'I really felt like I came away with a new perspective. This book will make you want to bin your…
gratitude journal in the best possible way' Stylist 'This trailblazing book will help you transform your perspective about positivity' Nedra Glover Tawwab, bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace'Finally a book that explains exactly why 'positivity at all costs' backfires, and teaches us how to process our pain instead of pretending it doesn't exist.' Caroline Dooner, author of The F*uck It Diet'The counterbalance to a world that preaches 'look on the bright side' whenever life gets tough' Elizabeth Earnshaw, relationship expert and author of I Want This To WorkEvery day, we're bombarded with pressure to be positive. From 'good vibes only' and 'life is good' memes, to endless advice, to 'look on the bright side,' we're constantly told that the key to happiness is silencing negativity wherever it crops up, in ourselves and in others. Even when faced with illness, loss, breakups, and other challenges, there's little space for talking about our real feelings-and processing them so that we can feel better and move forward.But if all this positivity is the answer, why are so many of us anxious, depressed, and burned out?In this refreshingly honest guide, sought-after therapist Whitney Goodman shares the latest research along with everyday examples and client stories that reveal how damaging toxic positivity is to ourselves and our relationships, and presents simple ways to experience and work through difficult emotions. The result is more authenticity, connection, and growth - and ultimately, a path to showing up as you truly are.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/7e7/small/4402458.jpg)
For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In…
1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book―a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/94e/small/4402545.jpg)
Artificial Cognitive Systems: A Primer
By David Vernon. 2014
A concise introduction to a complex field, bringing together recent work in cognitive science and cognitive robotics to offer a…
solid grounding on key issues. This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the emerging field of artificial cognitive systems. Cognition, both natural and artificial, is about anticipating the need for action and developing the capacity to predict the outcome of those actions. Drawing on artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, the field of artificial cognitive systems has as its ultimate goal the creation of computer-based systems that can interact with humans and serve society in a variety of ways. This primer brings together recent work in cognitive science and cognitive robotics to offer readers a solid grounding on key issues. The book first develops a working definition of cognitive systems―broad enough to encompass multiple views of the subject and deep enough to help in the formulation of theories and models. It surveys the cognitivist, emergent, and hybrid paradigms of cognitive science and discusses cognitive architectures derived from them. It then turns to the key issues, with chapters devoted to autonomy, embodiment, learning and development, memory and prospection, knowledge and representation, and social cognition. Ideas are introduced in an intuitive, natural order, with an emphasis on the relationships among ideas and building to an overview of the field. The main text is straightforward and succinct; sidenotes drill deeper on specific topics and provide contextual links to further reading.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/ce5/small/4403275.jpg)
Just Human: The Quest For Disability Wisdom, Respect, And Inclusion
By Arielle Silverman. 2021
Born without sight, Dr. Arielle Silverman has never missed the visual. Being blind never bothered her much but, as she…
grew, she discovered others saw her blindness very differently. Many people saw her as either helpless or inspirational, but rarely did they see her as just human, with the same capacities and desires as her peers. Arielle has spent a lifetime exploring ways to foster respect and inclusion, not only for blind people like her, but for all of us whose bodies or minds differ from the norm. In Just Human, she reflects on her formative years and presents unique anecdotes from her life that carry teachable moments for all of us. She recalls the feel of her mother’s embrace, the smell of her grandparents’ brisket, the inner sensations of a preteen crush, the music on her wedding day, and scholarly lessons from her dissertation research. Her words paint pictures from her mind’s eye: a vision of a world where we can radically accept ourselves and our fellow humans, while at the same time work to change systems of inequality. As she writes of the past and the present, Arielle looks toward the future, considering how we can build a more inclusive world for those who come after us.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/a00/small/30474.jpg)
Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
By Gordon W. Allport. 1955
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Learning and Behavior: Active Learning Edition (6th edition)
By Paul Chance. 2009
This undergraduate textbook introduces the natural science approach to behavior and describes the efforts of researchers to understand the kinds…
of experiences that produce learning, the circumstances under which learning in one situation carries over to another situation, the effects of different reinforcement schedules, the durability of learned behavior, and the limitations of learning.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/c12/small/2106480.jpg)
This volume applies critical social theories to family therapy practice, using sociopolitical context for a clearer focus on the power…
dynamics of couple and family relationships. Its decolonizing approach to therapy is shown countering the pervasive cultural themes that grant privilege to specific groups over others, feeding unequal and oppressive relationships that bring families and couples to treatment. Therapy is shown here as a layered and nuanced process, with practitioners developing an ethical human rights perspective toward their work as they aid clients in negotiating for greater justice and equity in their relationships. The book bridges theory and practice by giving readers these essential tools: Strategies for asking clients about social class. A framework for understanding gender issues within the larger patriarchy. Guidelines for relating concepts of race and class in therapy. Structure for creating the family cartography. Ways to utilize a queer perspective in therapy. Illustrative case examples throughout. Breaking new ground in family therapy, Applying Critical Social Theories to Family Therapy Practice challenges social workers, social work researchers, therapists, and psychologists to push beyond current ideas of social awareness and cultural competence toward truly liberatory client-centered practice. .![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/f4d/small/1254999.jpg)
Talks to Teachers on Psychology: and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
By William James. 1958
Still-vital lectures on teaching deal with psychology and the teaching art, the stream of consciousness, the child as a behaving…
organism, education and behavior, and more. The three addresses to students are "The Gospel of Relaxation," "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings," and "What Makes a Life Significant?" Preface. 2 black-and-white illustrations.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/476/small/4407213.jpg)
Blind Joe Death's America: John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent
By George Henderson. 2021
For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939–2001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues…
revival of the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. Mythologizing himself as Blind Joe Death, Fahey crudely parodied white middle-class fascination with African American blues, including his own. In this book, George Henderson mines Fahey's parallel careers as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and fabulist for the first time. These vocations, inspired originally by Cold War educators' injunction to creatively express rather than suppress feelings, took utterly idiosyncratic and prescient turns.Fahey voraciously consumed ideas: in the classroom, the counterculture, the civil rights struggle, the new left; through his study of philosophy, folklore, African American blues; and through his experience with psychoanalysis and southern paternalism. From these, he produced a profoundly and unexpectedly refracted vision of America. To read Fahey is to vicariously experience devastating critical energies and self-soothing uncertainty, passions emerging from a singular location—the place where lone, white rebel sentiment must regard the rebellion of others. Henderson shows the nuance, contradictions, and sometimes brilliance of Fahey's words that, though they were never sung to a tune, accompanied his music.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/611/small/4407051.jpg)
The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader
By Zachary McLeod Hutchins, Cassander L. Smith. 2021
With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have…
become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain ephemeral and inaccessible for both the general public and educators. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical texts chronicles the lives of literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to 1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the presence of black Africans in this early period. Brief introductions preceding each text provide historical context and genre-specific interpretive prompts to foreground their significance. Included here are transcriptions from manuscript sources and colonial newspapers as well as forgotten texts. The Earliest African American Literatures will change the way that students and scholars conceive of early American literature and the role of black Africans in the formation of that literature.