1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456061103321

Autore

Ravitz Abe C

Titolo

Imitations of Life [[electronic resource] ] : Fannie Hurst's Gaslight Sonatas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-585-12861-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

813.52

813/.52

Soggetti

City and town life in literature

Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation

Immigrants in literature

Poor in literature

Slums in literature

Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Frontispiece; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Woman in the Big Town: Career and Life; 2. Recognition and Acclaim: Gaslight Sonatas; 3. Cinematic Visualization: The Novel; 4. Fashionable Shapes: Social Rhapsodies of the 1920's; 5. The Triumph of Industry: Women in Love; Notes; Selected Short Stories of Fannie Hurst Published Before 1933; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In the early 1920's, Fannie Hurst's enormous popularity made her the highest-paid writer in America. She conquered the literary scene at the same time the silent movie industry began to emerge as a tremendously profitable and popular form of entertainment. Abe C. Ravitz parallels Hurst's growing acclaim with the evolution of silent films, from which she borrowed ideas and techniques that furthered her career. Ravitz notes that Hurst was amazingly adept at anticipating what the public wanted. Sensing that the national interest was shifting from rural to urban subjects, Hurst set her



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459385903321

Titolo

Discourses and practices of terrorism : interrogating terror / / edited by Bob Brecher, Mark Devenney and Aaron Winter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15650-6

1-282-57132-X

9786612571329

0-203-85734-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Critical terrorism studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BrecherBob

DevenneyMark <1968->

WinterAaron

Disciplina

303.625

363.325

Soggetti

Terrorism

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Philosophy, politics, terror; 2 Rediscovering the individual in the 'war on terror': A virtue and liberal approach; 3 Is there a justifiable shoot-to-kill policy?; 4 Torture and the demise of the justiciable standard of enlightened government: A US perspective; 5 Asylum and the discourse of terror: The European 'security state'; 6 Feeling persecuted?: The definitive role of paranoid anxiety in the constitution of 'war on terror' television

7 Fundamentalist foundations of terrorist practice: The political logic of life-sacrifice8 Specificities, complexities, histories: Algerian politics and George Bush's USA-led 'war on terror'; 9 Ignatieff, Ireland and the 'lesser evil': Some problems with the lessons learnt; 10 American terror: From Oklahoma City to 9/11 and after; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This interdisciplinary book investigates the consequences of the language of terror for our lives in democratic societies.The approach of



this book is in direct contrast with those that either view terrorism simplistically, as a clear reality threatening democratic society and thus requiring certain sorts of response, or argue, equally simplistically, that the invocation of terror is merely the ideological veil for continued capitalist exploitation. While closer in spirit to the second of these, this work does not simply dismiss the discourse on terror, but rather investigates