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Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

Cesar Lombardi Barber; Stephen Greenblatt

Princeton University Press
2011
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In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. "I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture."--C. L. Barber, in the Introduction This new edition includes a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt, who discusses Barber's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that Barber has inspired, showing that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published.
The Great Pretender

The Great Pretender

Cesar A. Perez

Aragon Books
2017
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Nathan Berkley had the best childhood money could buy, but it didn't make him happy. His father, a world-renowned atheist and philosopher, traveled the world vehemently arguing against Christianity. Nathan grew up understanding his father's point of view but still feeling emotionally hollow and confused. The one bright point of his life comes with Kate Johnson. As soon as the two meet in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina, Nathan is smitten. Kate is brilliant, assertive, and exceptional. She is also a devout Christian. Now, Nathan will have to reexamine everything he was taught by his father. As Nathan slowly begins to question his belief system, Kate finds comfort in hers. It hurts her that Nathan does not share the same beliefs as her family and that his father made his living challenging Christian thought, but she also treats her boyfriend with patience and love. Nathan slowly gets to know Kate's gentle and devout family, who keep their faith during heartbreaking circumstances. Nathan's doubts, however, keep stopping the two from being truly honest with each other. In this inspirational love story, follow Nathan as he begins to reconcile his beliefs and discover what life and love truly have to offer him.
Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility

Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility

César Augusto Rossatto; Ana Maria Araújo Freire

Rowman Littlefield Publishers
2004
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Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. César Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence people's construction of notions of possibilities. Positionality, or perceptions about life and projections of the future, has great impact on students' success in school. These perceptions-how they interpret the past, live in the present, and foresee the future-are, in turn, greatly influenced by their intellectual locality. By the same token, how educators see their position in the world and their classroom "roles" determines their operandum beliefs. The findings of this study suggest that a curriculum based on Freirean critical pedagogy and time theories can be used to enhance time-consciousness values in contemporary social life.
Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility

Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility

César Augusto Rossatto; Ana Maria Araújo Freire

Rowman Littlefield Publishers
2004
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Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. César Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence people's construction of notions of possibilities. Positionality, or perceptions about life and projections of the future, has great impact on students' success in school. These perceptions-how they interpret the past, live in the present, and foresee the future-are, in turn, greatly influenced by their intellectual locality. By the same token, how educators see their position in the world and their classroom 'roles' determines their operandum beliefs. The findings of this study suggest that a curriculum based on Freirean critical pedagogy and time theories can be used to enhance time-consciousness values in contemporary social life.
Reinventing Critical Pedagogy

Reinventing Critical Pedagogy

Cesar Augusto Rossatto; Ricky Lee Allen; Marc Pruyn

Rowman Littlefield Publishers
2006
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Reinventing Critical Pedagogy offers a fresh perspective from which to read, discuss, and debate recent critical interpretations of schooling and our world at present. The authors build upon past accomplishments of critical pedagogy and critique those elements that contradict the radically democratic orientation of the field. Ultimately, they argue that critical pedagogy needs to welcome a wider representational and ideological base for the oppressed, and that it should do so in a way that makes the field more vital in the preparation for the revolutionary struggles ahead. Reinventing Critical Pedagogy takes a step in that direction because it not only takes to task OexternalO forces such as capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, but also engages the manifestations of these external forces within critical pedagogy itself.
Ports in Proximity

Ports in Proximity

César Ducruet

Ashgate Publishing Limited
2009
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Ports in Proximity provides an overview of key contemporary research in the field through a broad range of international case studies. The concepts of strategic management, supply chain management, port and transport economics and economic and transport geography are applied throughout the book to offer an in-depth understanding of the processes underlying spatial and functional dynamics in port systems. The opportunities for cooperation between competing adjacent ports is examined while the avenues for further joint research are identified, setting an agenda for further study.
Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headache: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headache: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

César Fernández-de-las-Peñas; Lars Arendt-Nielsen; Robert D. Gerwin

Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
2009
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This is the first book for the new Series Contemporary Issues in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Medicine.This textbook will assess both clinical and research aspects of the diagnosis and management of two highly prevalent headache disorders: tension-type and cervicogenic headaches. This textbook will cover both physical therapy and physical medicine approaches to the management of these headache disorders.
Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

Cesar Aira; Chris Andrews

New Directions Publishing Corporation
2006
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A fictional account based on the life and work of nineteenth-century German painter Johan Moritz Rugendas traces his visit to Argentina for the purpose of achieving in art a "physiognomic totality" of his scientific vision, a quest during which he pays an enormous price for his success. Original.
Ghosts

Ghosts

Cesar Aira; Chris (TRN) Andrews

New Directions Publishing Corporation
2009
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On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply television images to all the floors. On the edge of the dish, a sharp metallic edge on which no bird would have dared to perch, three completely naked men were sitting, with their faces turned up to the midday sun; no one saw them, of course. from GhostsGhosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.
The Linden Tree

The Linden Tree

Cesar Aira

New Directions Publishing Corporation
2018
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A delightful fictional memoir about C sar Aira's small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Aires) as C sar Aira, could be the author himself. Beginning with his parents--an enigmatic handsome black father who gathered linden flowers for his sleep-inducing tea and an irrational, crippled mother of European descent--the narrator catalogs memories of his childhood: his friends, his peculiar first job, his many gossiping neighbors, and the landscape and architecture of the provinces. The Linden Tree beautifully brings back to life that period in Argentina when the poor, under the guiding hand of Eva Per n, aspired to a newly created middle class.As it moves from anecdote to anecdote, this charming short novella--touching, funny, and sometimes surreal--invites the reader to visit the source of Aira's extraordinary imagination.
Ema the Captive

Ema the Captive

César Aira

NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION
2016
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In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (deprivations and rapes prevail along the way), yet the real story commences once Ema arrives at the fort, where she takes on a succession of lovers among the soldiers and Indians, leading to a brave and grand entrepreneurial experiment. As is usual with Aira's work, the wonder of the book is in the details of customs, beauty, and language, and the curious, perplexing reality of human nature.
Shantytown

Shantytown

César Aira; Chris (TRN) Andrews

New Directions Publishing Corporation
2013
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Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone -- including two innocent teenage girls -- to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how serious the subject matter, and despite Aira's "fascination with urban violence and the sinister underside of Latin American politics" (The Millions), Shantytown, like all of Aira's mesmerizing work, is filled with wonder and mad invention.
The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira

The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira

Cesar Aira; Katherine (TRN) Silver

New Directions Publishing Corporation
2012
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C sar Aira 's newest novel in English is not about a conventional doctor. Single, in his forties, and poor, Dr. Aira is a skeptic. His personality his weaknesses, whims, and pet peeves is summed up in a series of digressions and regressions but he has a very special gift for miracles. He no longer cares about miracles, however, and has no faith in them. Perhaps he is even a little ashamed about his supernatural powers. Such is Dr. Aira, who also has to confront his arch-enemy chief of the Pi ero Hospital, Dr. Actyn who is constantly trying to prove that Dr. Aira is a charlatan. Poor Dr. Aira is indeed a worker of miracles, but C sar Aira the magesterial author sends the very human doctor stumbling toward the biggest trap of all, in this magical book.
The Musical Brain And Other Stories

The Musical Brain And Other Stories

Cesar Aira; Chris (TRN) Andrews

New Directions Publishing Corporation
2015
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The Musical Brain & Other Stories consists of twenty stories about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people from the writer The New York Review of Books calls the novelist who can t be stopped. The author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely 96 pages each, with just nine of them so far published into English, Aira s work, and his fuga hacia adelante or flight forward into the unknown has already given us imponderables to ponder, bizarre and seemingly out of context plotlines to consider, thoughtful, and almost religious, certainly passionate takes on everyday reality. The Musical Brain is the best sampling of Aira s creativity so far, and a most exhilarating collection of characters, places, and ideas."