Fiction and the Shape of Belief
Author | : Sheldon Sacks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sheldon Sacks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sheldon Sacks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022-05-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520319788 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Author | : Sheldon Sacks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2024-03-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520319796 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Author | : Sheldon Sacks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022-05-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520363310 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Author | : Sheldon Sacks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1967 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Carl Smith |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226764257 |
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman—these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of interconnected beliefs and actions that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of Americans. Examining a remarkable range of writings and illustrations, as well as protests, public gatherings, trials, hearings, and urban reform and construction efforts, Smith argues that these three events—and the public awareness of them—not only informed one another, but collectively shaped how Americans understood, and continue to understand, Chicago and modern urban life. This classic of urban cultural history is updated with a foreword by the author that expands our understanding of urban disorder to encompass such recent examples as Hurricane Katrina, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and 9/11. “Cultural history at its finest. By utilizing questions and methodologies of urban studies, social history, and literary history, Smith creates a sophisticated account of changing visions of urban America.”—Robin F. Bachin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Author | : Sheldon Sacks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Gregory Currie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192636782 |
Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view which has come under attack in recent years. Responding to a number of challenges to this standpoint, he argues that within the domain of the imagination there lies a number of distinct and not well-recognized capacities which make the connection between fiction and imagination work. Currie then considers the question of whether in guiding the imagination fictions may also guide our beliefs, our outlook, and our habits in directions of learning. It is widely held that fictions very often provide opportunities for the acquisition of knowledge and of skills. Without denying that this sometimes happens, this book explores the difficulties and dangers of too optimistic a picture of learning from fiction. It is easy to exaggerate the connection between fiction and learning, to ignore countervailing tendencies in fiction to create error and ignorance, and to suppose that claims about learning from fiction require no serious empirical support. Currie makes a case for modesty about learning from fiction — reasoning that a lot of what we take to be learning in this area is itself a kind of pretence, that we are too optimistic about the psychological and moral insights of authors, that the case for fiction as a Darwinian adaptation is weak, and that empathy is both hard to acquire and not always morally advantageous.
Author | : Laura Purcell |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525507205 |
Edgar Award Finalist A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from the queen of Gothic fiction, Laura Purcell As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Why is the killer seemingly targeting her business? Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back.
Author | : Bennett Sims |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-03-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781953387493 |
Mazoch discovers an unreturned movie envelope, smashed windows, and a pool of blood in his father's house: the man has gone missing. So he creates a list of his father's haunts and asks Vermaelen to help track him down. However, hurricane season looms over Baton Rouge, threatening to wipe out any undead not already contained and eliminate all hope of ever finding Mazoch's father. Bennett Sims turns typical zombie fare on its head to deliver a wise and philosophical rumination on the nature of memory and loss.