by Victoria Allison
There is something singularly pathetic about a national dream based on an aging one-time dictator and the memory of a woman who has been dead for 20 years
This is a story about the sixties: it's about me and some friends of mine, it's about Berkeley, and it's about Pynchon. It's about a decade in which we were all young together and thought we would stay young forever. By Andrew Gordon
Although one could argue that the genre dates back millennia, Samuel Smiles coined a new term when he published Self-Help in 1859 consequently opening the floodgates to authors attempting to solve the world’s problems one narcissistic step at a time. If one searches the term “self help” in Google today, almost fifty-eight million matches will be returned. An arguably large segment of the self-help phenomena involves books that assist us in specific areas such as personal finance, knitting, or sex. The “For Dummies” publisher alone has over seventy-eight thousand titles currently available on Amazon.com. This is not a modern day marvel. A vast array of how-to books was available to readers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Starting with the premise that these books purport to be the final word on the matter, examples of early manuals, templates, recipe books, diagrams, and “(...)
The Lewis Carroll picture book; a selection from the unpublished writings and drawings of Lewis Carroll, together with reprints from scarce and unacknowledged work. Edited by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Wörter, Töne, Bilder. Faschismustheorie. Theorie der Gewalt. Gender Studies. Theorie der Medien. Popkultur. Film Kunst und Macht Pocahontas. Geschichte(n) zur (fortdauernden) Erfindung Amerikasund zu den (fortdauernden) Kolonialism
to foster clear writing and clear thinking, to stress social awareness, aesthetic appreciation and intellectual growth; causing students to set their individual lives against the larger backdrops of history and culture through the study of language and li