Author: Helen McDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: art, nude, female, ambiguities, erotic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-12-05
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415170982
ISBN-13: 9780415170987

Examining the work of key artists from Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, and Mary Duffy, to Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffat, Pat Barrington and Sally Smart, McDonald traces the shift in feminist art practices from the early deconstruction of patriarchal representations to the more ambivalent contemporary practices.

Author: Helen McDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: art, nude, female, ambiguities, erotic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-12-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415170990
ISBN-13: 9780415170994

Examining the work of key artists from Barbara Kruger, Judy Chicago, and Mary Duffy, to Zoe Leonard, Tracey Moffat, Pat Barrington and Sally Smart, McDonald traces the shift in feminist art practices from the early deconstruction of patriarchal representations to the more ambivalent contemporary practices.

Author: James G. March
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: lectures, messenger, experience, ambiguities
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0801448778
ISBN-13: 9780801448775

In The Ambiguities of Experience, James G. March asks a deceptively simple question: What is, or should be, the role of experience in creating intelligence, particularly in organizations? Folk wisdom both trumpets the significance of experience and warns of its inadequacies. On one hand, experience is described as the best teacher. On the other hand, experience is described as the teacher of fools, of those unable or unwilling to learn from accumulated knowledge or the teaching of experts. The disagreement between those folk aphorisms reflects profound questions about the human pursuit of inte

Author: Edward Engelberg
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: fiction, modernist, ambiguities, solitude
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-07-13
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0312239475
ISBN-13: 9780312239473

In this study of solitude in modernist fiction, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, and how solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a topos. Selected novels are analyzed to highlight the ambiguities that solitude brings to their meanings. The freedom that solitude bestows also becomes a burden from which the protagonists seek release. Although such ambiguities about solitude have existed from the Bible and the Ancients through the centuries following, they alter their shape within the context of time.

Author: David H. Aaron
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: divine, imagery, semantics, metaphor, ambiguities, biblical
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 0391041223
ISBN-13: 9780391041226

Ancient texts are ambiguous, and this volume seeks to show that the Hebrew Bible is no exception. Applying a linguistic model, David H. Aaron systematically examines and veritably celebrates this inherent ambiguity in order to understand God-related idioms in the Hebrew Bible, more specifically, whether a particular idiom is meant to be understood metaphorically. Aaron examines the original intent of the writers of biblical literature and suggests that one can conceptualise texts as metonyms for their authors and their historical contexts. Through an in-depth exploration of semantic theory, Aa

Authors:Herman Melville,  William Spengema,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, ambiguities, pierre
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140434844
ISBN-13: 9780140434842

’Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville’s style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jacko ’the’ lantern to guide the wanderer’s footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked pork chops." So judged the "New York Herald" when "Pierre" was first published in 1852, with most contemporary reviewers joining in the general condemnation: ’a dead failure,’ ’this crazy rigmarole,R

Authors:Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker,
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: ambiguities, pierre, melville, reading
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0807132268
ISBN-13: 9780807132265

Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, The Ambiguities has a storied place in the history of American publishing. Melville began writing this followup to MobyDick in October 1851, thinking that it might prove even more significant than its predecessor. The 1852 publication of Pierre was catastrophic, however. Melville lost his English publisher, and American reviewers derided the book and called the author mad. In Reading Melville’s "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," noted Melville authorities Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker probe the daunting story behind a deeply flawed but revealing work, one th