Mixing Races

Paul Lawrence Farber

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This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college c

The Technology of Orgasm

Rachel P. Maines

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From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considere

Cybertext

Aarseth, Espen J.

评分 9.2分

Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse-novels, films, television series-is l

Trauma: Explorations in Memory

Cathy Caruth

评分 8.7分

"An unusually informative, as well as sensitive, series of essays with important ramifications for interdisciplinary theory and both social and literary thought. Caruth and her contributors work at th

Unclaimed Experience

Cathy Caruth

评分 7.5分

"If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this

The Scapegoat

René Girard

评分 8.9分

"[Girard's] methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal."--John Yoder, 'Religion