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13 produkter
Wampum and the Origins of American Money
Av Marc Shell
Häftad, 2018
338 kr
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Wampum has become a synonym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money among the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists' money. But to equate wampum with money only matches one slippery term with another, as money itself was …
Money, Language, and Thought
Literary and Philosophic Economies From the Medieval to the Modern Era
Av Marc Shell
E-bok, 1982
357 kr
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In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe''s Faust, and Poe''s "The Gold …
Polio and Its Aftermath
The Paralysis of Culture
Av Marc Shell
Inbunden, 2005
429 kr
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It was not long ago that scientists proclaimed victory over polio, the dread disease of the 1950s. More recently polio resurfaced, not conquered at all, spreading across the countries of Africa. As we once again face the specter of this disease, along with other killers like AIDS and SARS, this …
Money, Language, and Thought
Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era
Av Marc Shell
Häftad, 1993
437 kr
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In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe's Faust, and Poe's "The Gold …
Economy of Literature
Av Marc Shell
Häftad, 1993
467 kr
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Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place? Marc Shell explores how both money and language give "worth" by providing a medium of exchange, how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and language, and how words transform mere …
Islandology
Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
Av Marc Shell
Inbunden, 2014
436 kr
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Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits …
Islandology
Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
Av Marc Shell
E-bok, 2014
598 kr
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Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits …
Multilingual Anthology of American Literature
A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations
Inbunden, 2000
1161 kr
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An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigrant novel published in Welsh. The Native American epic, Walum Olum, in the Lenape language. Theodor Adorno's dream transcripts, in German. A short story about the politics of abortion in …
Multilingual Anthology of American Literature
A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations
Häftad, 2000
490 kr
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An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American immigrant novel published in Welsh. The Native American epic, Walum Olum, in the Lenape language. Theodor Adorno's dream transcripts, in German. A short story about the politics of abortion in …
Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk
A Rhetoric of Rhythm
Av Marc Shell
Inbunden, 2015
1226 kr
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This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking …
Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk
A Rhetoric of Rhythm
Av Marc Shell
Häftad, 2015
398 kr
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This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking …
La economía de la literatura
Av Marc Shell, Jorge Aguilar Mora
E-bok, 2014
55 kr
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El autor sostiene que la economía y la literatura tienen puntos de contacto y para demostrarlo aborda los siguientes temas: el origen histórico de la filosofía y del dinero acuñado, así como la postulación bivalente que afirma que las palabras señalan cosas concretas y que el dinero implica la …
Dinero, lenguaje y pensamiento
La economía literaria y la filosófica, desde la Edad Media hasta la época moderna
Av Marc Shell, Juan Jose Utrilla
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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Reflexiones en torno a los distintos significados y niveles estimativos que se le han dado al dinero a lo largo de la historia en la literatura. Se analizan sus implicaciones técnicas, simbólicas, filosóficas, materiales y políticas, todas ellas en interacción permanente.
