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This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the artificial ¿person¿ of the corporation, the vertical integration of production, and consumption based upon desire as well as necessity. This book assumes that poetics can be understood as a theory in p...

This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the artificial ¿person¿ of the corporation, the vertical integration of production, and consumption based upon desire as well as necessity. This book assumes that poetics can be understood as a theory in p...

The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself. During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the "health humanities" has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical work-the "...

The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself. During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the "health humanities" has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical work-the "...

Ronald Schleifer is the George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Robert Con Davis-Undiano is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and Executive Director of World Literature Today. Nancy Mergler is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma. Nancy Mergler is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma.

This book examines the complex unity of modernist culture by focusing on literature and the arts, intellectual disciplines of post-classical economics, and institutional structures of corporate capitalism and the lower middle-class. This book is for graduates, scholars, and researchers working in Modernism.

In this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas¿ work in its intellectual context and sets forth the development of his distinctive style of interpretation. Moreover, the author goes on to consider Greimas¿ work against the latest examinations of discourse in philosophy, depth psychology, and literary criticism. He tests Greimas¿ semiotic square against Derridean deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the literary...

In this book, first published in 1987, Professor Schleifer sets Greimas¿ work in its intellectual context and sets forth the development of his distinctive style of interpretation. Moreover, the author goes on to consider Greimas¿ work against the latest examinations of discourse in philosophy, depth psychology, and literary criticism. He tests Greimas¿ semiotic square against Derridean deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the literary...

A study of the performance and composition of early twentieth-century popular music in the context of 'high' modernism.

This book offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism.

An interdisciplinary project that aims at demonstrating the importance of humanistic understanding in the intellectual and everyday practices of medicine

Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the humanities Ronald Schleifer offers a deep and complex understanding along with possible strategies of dealing with pain in its most overwhelming forms. A perfect addition to many courses in medicine, healthcare, counseling psychology, and social work.

A study of the performance and composition of early twentieth-century popular music in the context of 'high' modernism.

Examines the legacy of the Enlightenment on contemporary thinking and modes of understanding

Ronald Schliefer shows how discoveries in modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of 'the material' as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new more inclusive idea of materialism.

This book offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism.

Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiner's statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive...