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Author: Richard Freadman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521380359 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 314
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These deficiencies are ascribed principally to three aspects of modern theoretical schools: the commitment to a non-referential view of language, the rejection of substantive accounts of the individual and a repudiation of moral and aesthetic evaluation. The 'alternative account' offered by Professors Freadman and Miller incorporates the values renounced by contemporary literary theory and places a central emphasis on ethical discourse.
Author: Richard Freadman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521380359 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
These deficiencies are ascribed principally to three aspects of modern theoretical schools: the commitment to a non-referential view of language, the rejection of substantive accounts of the individual and a repudiation of moral and aesthetic evaluation. The 'alternative account' offered by Professors Freadman and Miller incorporates the values renounced by contemporary literary theory and places a central emphasis on ethical discourse.
Author: Michael S A Graziano Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393652629 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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“A first-class intellectual adventure.” —Brian Greene, author of Until the End of Time Illuminating his groundbreaking theory of consciousness, known as the attention schema theory, Michael S. A. Graziano traces the evolution of the mind over millions of years, with examples from the natural world, to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention and then to construct awareness of the external world and of the self. His theory has fascinating implications for the future: it may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially, and even someday taking the natural consciousness of a person and uploading it into a machine for a digital afterlife.
Author: Nicola Cantan Publisher: ISBN: 9781913000035 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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Accelerate your early intermediate students' learning with the Thinking Theory Book Two! This book covers basic time signatures, note values, note names, markings, and scales; with plenty of review to reinforce these essential concepts. This book is designed with the student in mind. All concepts are revisited in different ways throughout the book, and the flashcard games provide a fun way to reinforce learning. Students can start in any book, there is no need to go back to Thinking Theory Book One if your student is already at an intermediate level. Thinking Theory avoids giving students "busywork" and keeps layouts clean. If a student does need extra review after finishing this book they can move to Book Two Plus for lateral work to really cement the concepts. CONCEPTS COVERED Note Values: Semiquaver, Quaver, Dotted Quaver, Crotchet, Dotted Crotchet, Minim, Dotted Minim & Semibreve (USA terms are used in the USA version) Rest Values: Semiquaver, Quaver, Crotchet, Minim & Semibreve (USA terms are used in the USA version) Time Signatures: 2:4, 3:4 & 4:4 Landmark Notes: Low C, Bass C, Bass F, Middle C, Treble G, Treble C & High C Note stem rules Grouping Semiquavers, Quavers & Rests in Simple Time (USA terms are used in the USA version) Dynamics: Pianissimo, Piano, Mezzo Piano, Mezzo Forte, Forte, Fortissimo, Crescendo & Diminuendo Tempo Marks: Ritenuto, Ritardando, Rallentando, Allegro, Allegretto, Moderato, Andante Expression Marks: Dolce, Grazioso & Cantabile Markings/Symbols: Accidentals, Staccato, Slurs, Repeat Marks, Fermata, Accent, Stress, 1st and 2nd Endings, 8va & 8vb Solfa: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La & Ti Scales: C Major, G Major, D Major & F Major Triads: C Major, G Major, D Major & F Major Tones, Semitones & Enharmonics (USA terms are used in the USA version) WHAT IS THINKING THEORY? Thinking Theory is a series of music theory workbooks, designed to accelerate learning while providing plenty of reinforcement of each concept. All concepts are presented in a clear and concise way and page layouts are clean and consistent. No topic is introduced without being revisited several times later in the book. Thinking Theory is designed so you can start anywhere in the series. Concepts are not left out of later books, just covered more quickly. The flashcard games provide a unique way to learn away from the page, and make learning and teaching more secure and more fun. The "Level Up!" tests at the end of each chapter and book allow you to evaluate student learning and plan their next step. The Thinking Theory Plus books provide a lateral move for students who had finished one book but are not quite ready for the next. Singing with solfa (moveable do) is integrated into the theory books. Solfa helps students with ear training, transposing, sight reading and composition.
Author: Neil Leach Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134796285 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 432
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Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of architecture theory from a broader cultural perspective. The book represents a careful selection of the very best theoretical writings on the ideas which have shaped our cities and our experiences of architecture. As such, Rethinking Architecture provides invaluable core source material for students on a range of courses.
Author: Antonio de Velasco Publisher: MSU Press ISBN: 1628952733 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 505
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What distinguishes the study of rhetoric from other pursuits in the liberal arts? From what realms of human existence and expression, of human history, does such study draw its defining character? What, in the end, should be the purposes of rhetorical inquiry? And amid so many competing accounts of discourse, power, and judgment in the contemporary world, how might scholars achieve these purposes through the attitudes and strategies that animate their work? Rethinking Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy: The Living Art of Michael C. Leff offers answers to these questions by introducing the central insights of one of the most innovative and prolific rhetoricians of the twentieth century, Michael C. Leff. This volume charts Leff ’s decades-long development as a scholar, revealing both the variety of topics and the approach that marked his oeuvre, as well as his long-standing critique of the disciplinary assumptions of classical, Hellenistic, renaissance, modern, and postmodern rhetoric. Rethinking Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy includes a synoptic introduction to the evolution of Leff ’s thought from his time as a graduate student in the late 1960s to his death in 2010, as well as specific commentary on twenty-four of his most illuminating essays and lectures.
Author: Elisa S. Abes Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000977676 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 265
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A major new contribution to college student development theory, this book brings "third wave" theories to bear on this vitally important topic. The first section includes a chapter that provides an overview of the evolution of student development theories as well as chapters describing the critical and poststructural theories most relevant to the next iteration of student development theory. These theories include critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theories, intersectionality, decolonizing/indigenous theories, and crip theories. These chapters also include a discussion of how each theory is relevant to the central questions of student development theory. The second section provides critical interpretations of the primary constructs associated with student development theory. These constructs and their related ideas include resilience, dissonance, socially constructed identities, authenticity, agency, context, development (consistency/coherence/stability), and knowledge (sources of truth and belief systems). Each chapter begins with brief personal narratives on a particular construct; the chapter authors then re-envision the narrative’s highlighted construct using one or more critical theories. The third section will focus on implications for practice. Specifically, these chapters will consider possibilities for how student development constructs re-envisioned through critical perspectives can be utilized in practice. The primary audience for the book is faculty members who teach in graduate programs in higher education and student affairs and their students. The book will also be useful to practitioners seeking guidance in working effectively with students across the convergence of multiple aspects of identity and development.
Author: Badredine Arfi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136462155 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 298
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International Relations (IR) theorists have ceaselessly sought to understand, explain, and transform the experienced reality of international politics. Running through all these attempts is a persistent, yet unquestioned, quest by theorists to develop strategies to eliminate or reduce the antinomies, contradictions, paradoxes, dilemmas, and inconsistencies dogging their approaches. A serious critical assessment of the logic behind these strategies is however lacking. This new work addresses this issue by seeking to reformulate IR theory in an original way. Arfi begins by providing a thorough critique of leading contemporary IR theories, including pragmatism, critical/scientific realism, rationalism, neo-liberal institutionalism and social-constructivism, and then moves on to strengthen and go beyond the valuable contributions of each approach by employing the logic of deconstruction pioneered by Derrida to explicate the consequences of taking into account the dilemmas and inconsistencies of these theories. The book demonstrates that the logic of deconstruction is resourceful and rigorous in its questioning of the presuppositions of prevailing IR approaches, and argues that relying on deconstruction leads to richer and more powerfully insightful pluralist IR theories and is an invaluable resource for taking IR theory beyond currently paralyzing ‘wars of paradigms’. Questioning universally accepted presuppositions in existing theories, this book provides an innovative and exciting contribution to the field, and will be of great interest to scholars of international relations theory, critical theory and international relations.
Author: Kathryn McPherson Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1482249219 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 324
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Rethinking Rehabilitation: Theory and Practice presents cutting-edge thinking on rehabilitation from a range of leading rehabilitation researchers. The book emphasizes discussion on the place of theory in advancing rehabilitation knowledge, unearthing important questions for policy and practice, underpinning research design, and prompting readers to question clinical assumptions. Each author proposes ways of thinking that are informed by theory, philosophy, and/or history as well as empirical research. Rigorous and provocative, it presents chapters that model ways readers might advance their own thinking, learning, practice, and research. Each of the 14 chapters tackles a specific issue of interest rethinking theory and practice in rehabilitation. The authors: Rethink core processes in rehabilitation, such as goal setting, teamwork, communication with clients, and outcome measurement Rethink how rehabilitation services and interventions might better ‘fit’ clients and address what matters most to them and their families Rethink research designs, considering how to enhance the understanding of the "why" behind the findings This book will be especially helpful to rehabilitation professionals and students who want to develop and improve their practice, or research, but might not know where to start. With contributions from an international and multidisciplinary team, this book is essential reading for all involved in rehabilitation.
Author: Mark J Smith Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136295933 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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In the last two decades, objects of analysis such as 'the state' have increasingly been seen as uncertain and contested theoretical concepts. Mark J. Smith presents a counter argument that highlights how existing theoretical approaches can provide useful tools for understanding contemporary political developments.
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501725645 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 385
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In Rethinking Obligation, Nancy J. Hirschmann provides an innovative analysis of liberal obligation theory that uses feminism as a theoretical method for rethinking political obligations from the bottom up. In articulating a feminist method for political theory, Hirschmann skillfully brings together theoretical categories and methods previously seen as opposed: feminist standpoint and postmodernism, gender psychology and anti-essentialism, empiricism and interpretivism. Rethinking Obligation mounts a vital challenge to central aspects of liberal theory. Students and scholars of political philosophy, political theory, feminist theory, and women’s studies will want to read it.
Author: Richard Freadman
Author: Richard Freadman
Author: Michael S A Graziano
Author: Nicola Cantan
Author: Neil Leach
Author: Antonio de Velasco
Author: Elisa S. Abes
Author: Badredine Arfi
Author: Kathryn McPherson
Author: Mark J Smith
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann