Search results for “[Subject: essays-narratives]”

• Author(s): Michel de Montaigne | John Florio • Publisher: Prometheus Books • Publisher Imprint: Prometheus Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - RenaissanceLiving at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that ...

• Author(s): Anne Ruth Hansen | Judy Ledgerwood • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Editors, Journalists, PublishersInspired by David Chandler's groundbreaking work on...

• Author(s): Amanda Firestone | Leisa A. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture To many, the world appears to be in a state of dangerous change. News and fictional media al...

• Author(s): Lan Dong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and l...

• Author(s): Jacob Blevins | Dafydd Wood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad is a central work in the recent renaissance in ...

• Author(s): Andrea Sterk | Nina Caputo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryHistorians of religion face complex interpretive issues when examining religious texts, practices, and exp...

• Author(s): Rhonda V. Wilcox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism During the course of its three seasons, Veronica Mars captured the attention of fans and...

• Author(s): Leisa A. Clark | Amanda Firestone | Mary F. Pharr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies Do you find yourself contemplating the imminent end of the world? Do you wonde...

• Author(s): Matthew L. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Comics and sequential art are increasingly in use in college classrooms. Multimodal, multimedia ...

• Author(s): Kristin Noone | Emily Lavin Leveret • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiv...

• Author(s): Jake Jakaitis | James F. Wurtz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is s...

• Author(s): Matthew D. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General Thirteen essays on the psychology and parapsychology of anomalous experience explore a range of p...

• Author(s): Andrew Ireland | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Created in 2006 as a spinoff of Doctor Who, the ...

• Author(s): David Hume • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary that made up Volume I of th...

• Author(s): Burton St John | Kirsten A. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism Modern mainstream journalism faces a very real disturbance of its foundational premise that cre...

• Author(s): Joel Fineman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJoel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called making st...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - TheoryReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlighten...

• Author(s): Rick McPeak | Donna Tussing Orwin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionIn 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades l...

• Author(s): Gary D. Rhodes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture Drive-in movie theaters and the horror films shown at them during the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s may be somewhat...

• Author(s): Frederick M. Dolan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralAllegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be...

• Author(s): C. William Walldorf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWhy does the United States pursue robust military invasions to change some foreign regi...

• Author(s): Joshua D. Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poverty & Homelessness A half-century after the "War on Poverty" of Lyndon Johnson, poverty rates remain unchanged. Sch...

• Author(s): Eileen Myles • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryA poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Björk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in T...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Evan Torner | William J. White • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Role Playing & Fantasy This collection of all-new essays approaches the topic of immersion as a product of ...

• Author(s): Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis | Michele Foster • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Women's StudiesThis groundbreaking book presents conceptual, theoretical and applied research on women's life histories. The author...

• Author(s): John Samson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralThe narrative of facts--probably best exemplified in the literature of exploration--was an immensely popular g...

• Author(s): April Kalogeropoulos Householder | Adrienne Trier-Bieniek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Blac...

• Author(s): Peter Toohey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis survey offers guidance through the major classical writers of epic to readers new to the subject: it begins with Homer and concludes wi...

• Author(s): John Trenchard • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: EssaysAlmost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancien...

• Author(s): Ellen Greenblatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Building upon the legacy of Gay and Lesbian Library Service (1990, "invaluable"--...

• Author(s): Darren R. Reid • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, This is a collection of first-hand accounts that illuminate li...

• Author(s): El Hadji Malick Ndiaye | Moussa Sow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - French Much of Francophone literature is a response to an elaborate discourse that served to bo...

• Author(s): Mark Berninger | Jochen Ecke | Gideon Haberkorn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels These essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic b...

• Author(s): Carol Smallwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Professionals in all areas of librarianship will find inspiration in the essays co...