Author: Jerry Aline Flieger
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: freud, short, circuits, siting, online, oedipus
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0262562073
ISBN-13: 9780262562072

"Can Freud be ’updated’ in the twenty-first century, or is he a venerated but outmoded genius?" asks Jerry Aline Flieger. In Is Oedipus Online? Flieger stages an encounter between psychoanalysis and the new century, testing the viability of Freud’s theories in light of the emergent realities of our time. Responding to prominent critics of psychoanalysis and approaching our current preoccupations from a Freudian angle, she presents a reading of Freudian theory that coincides with and even clarifies new concepts in science and culture. Fractals, emergence, topological modeling,

Authors:Jerry Aline Flieger, Fredric Jameson, Eugene Holland
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: century, deleuzian
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1999-09
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822323923
ISBN-13: 9780822323921

Michel Foucault’s suggestion that this century would become known as “Deleuzian” was considered by Gilles Deleuze himself to be a joke “meant to make people who like us laugh, and make everyone else livid.” Whether serious or not, Foucault’s prediction has had enough of an impact to raise concern about the potential “deification” of this enormously influential French philosopher. Seeking to counter such tendencies toward hagiography—not unknown, particularly since Deleuze’s death—Ian Buchanan has assembled a collection of essays that constitute a critical and focused enga

Author: Verlyn Flieger
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Keywords: faerie, road, tolkien, time, question
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2001-12
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 087338699X
ISBN-13: 9780873386999

Tolkien’s concern with time - past and present, real and "faerie" - captures the wonder of travel into other worlds and other times. This work shows that he was not just a mythmaker and writer of escapist fantasy but a man whose relationship to his own century was troubled and critical.

Author: Verlyn Flieger
Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr
Keywords: tolkien, world, language, logos, light, splintered
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-11
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0873387449
ISBN-13: 9780873387446

J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien’s Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A collection of stories, it provides information alluded to in Tolkien’s better known works and, in doing so, turns The Lord of the Rings into much more than a sequel to The Hobbit, making it instead a continuation of the mythology of Middle-earth.Verlyn Flieger’s expanded and updated edition o

Authors:Nathan Keyfitz, Wilhelm Flieger,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: trends, twentieth, century, demographic, aging, population, growth, world
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 1991-01-07
List price: $107.50
ISBN-10: 0226432378
ISBN-13: 9780226432373

Drawing data from official sources in 60 countries, as well as from the United Nations and the World Bank, this compendium of statistical information on population, fertility, and mortality treats every one of the UN-recognized countries in at least summary form. With data from 1950 onward and projections through 2020, this volume extends the dataset of Nathan Keyfitz and Wilhelm Flieger’s landmark work, World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data (1968), with virtually no overlap. All the life tables, standardized rates, and projections have been generated by uniform methods to ensure e

Authors:Jane Austen, Kristin Flieger Samuelian,
Publisher: Broadview Press
Keywords: editions, broadview, emma
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 155111321X
ISBN-13: 9781551113210

Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) tells the story of the coming of age of Emma Woodhouse, "handsome, clever, and rich," who "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." Typical for the novel’s time, Emma’s transition to womanhood is accomplished through courtship - both of those around her and, ultimately, her own. As in other Austen works, education and courtship go hand in hand, and Emma’s process of learning to relinquish the power of having her own way is also a process of falling in love. However, in Emma this classic plot is bo

Author: Aline Bernstei
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: centuries, costume, women, masterpieces
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2001-07-27
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0486417069
ISBN-13: 9780486417066

Splendid view of elegant dresses, expertly rendered by noted theatrical designer, includes finely detailed illustrations of 32 complete costumes and three blouses, shown in color and black-and-white. Here are exquisitely embroidered, full-skirted dresses circa 1700, a high-waisted Empire dress of sheer muslin (1820), a magnificent silk dress with an extended bustle and pleated overskirt (1880) and many other sumptuous outfits—all accompanied by line drawings of shoes, undergarments, gloves, headgear, and other accessories. Detailed, descriptive text.