[PDF] The Force Of Fantasy eBook

Author : Ernest G. Bormann
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809323692

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In this book, first published in 1985, Ernest G. Bormann explores mass persuasion in America from 1620 to 1860, examining closely four rhetorical communities: the revivals of 1739-1740, the hot gospel of the postrevolutionary period, the evangelical revival and reform of the 1830s, and the Free Soil and Republican parties. Each community varies greatly, but Bormann asserts that each succeeding community shares a rhetorical vision of restoring the "American Dream" that is essentially a modification of the previous visions. Thus, they form a family of rhetorical visions that constitutes a rhetorical tradition of importance in nineteenth-century American popular culture.

Author : Ethel S. Person
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1995-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN :

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Freud placed dreams at center stage of our psychic lives, relegating fantasy to a minor role, and even claiming that happy people do not fantasize. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Person challenges this view, arguing that, far from being only a substitute gratification, fantasy is central to our lives and essential to our well-being.

Author : Ethel Spector Person
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
ISBN : 9780006387565

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An eminent psychiatarist unravels the meaning and purpose of fantasies (which we all have, even if we don't realize it) and shows how they are vital to our emotional and psychological wellbeing

Author : Christine Coffman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2006-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819568199

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In France in 1933, two sisters, presumed to be lovers, murdered the women who employed them as maids. Known as “the Papin affair,” the incident inspired not only Jean Genet's 1947 The Maids but also an essay by Jacques Lacan that presents the sisters' crime as fueled by a narcissistic, homosexual drive that culminated in the assault. In this new investigation of the roots of the twentieth-century myth of the lesbian-as-madwoman, Christine Coffman argues that the female psychotic was the privileged object of Lacan’s effort to derive a revolutionary theory of subjectivity from the study of mental illness. Examining Lacan's early writings, French surrealism, Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood, and H.D.’s homoerotic fiction in light of feminist and queer theory, Insane Passions argues that the psychotic woman that fascinates modernist writers returns with a murderous vengeance in a number of late twentieth-century films—including Basic Instinct, Sister My Sister, Single White Female, and Murderous Maids. Marking the limit of social acceptability, the “psychotic lesbian” repeatedly appears as the screen onto which the violence and madness of twentieth-century life are projected.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1789604354

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Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions-whether those of digital technology or the speculative market. Into this arena, enters Zizek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references-explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter-to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives.

Author : Eric Kent Edstrom
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2018-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947518032

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They believe she's the prophesied one, the destroyer of the world. But she may be all that stands between them and total destruction. In book five of Starside Saga, Kila and Quinn seek solace and rest on Garden Island, where the most powerful merculyns in the world study and scheme. It's chance for Quinn to prepare for her role as a future Radiant. A chance for Kila to hone her skills. But the forces of corruption have reached the island ahead of them, and Kila finds enemies and allies where she least expects them. Hiding her powers, she and her friends race to escape. But first she must face down a mad-man determined to destroy her. Fans of fantasy adore this series of dire prophecy, magic, adventure, and telepathic cats.

Author : James Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 162892148X

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A comprehensive lexicon of all aspects of the study of interpersonal, group, mass communication and the world of internet communication.

Author : Jane Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191557544

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Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much-maligned or at the very least ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers - many of whom are now virtually forgotten - that appealed to a British reading public hungry for amusement, news, and above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief. The writers of 1914-18 had powerful models for interpreting their war, as a consideration of texts from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 shows. They were also bolstered by wartime publishing practices that reinforced the sense that their books, whether fiction or non-fiction, were not simply 'light' entertainment but a powerful agents of propaganda. Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and is an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War.