Описание: Comedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools for reinforcing social patterns of domination as well as weapons for emancipation. In Irony in the Age of Empire, Cynthia Willett asks: What could embody liberation better than laughter? Why do the oppressed laugh? What vision does the comic world prescribe? For Willett, the comic trumps standard liberal accounts of freedom by drawing attention to bodies, affects, and intimate relationships, topics which are usually neglected by political philosophy. Willett's philosophical reflection on comedy issues a powerful challenge to standard conceptions of freedom by proposing a new kind of freedom that is unapologetically feminist, queer, and multiracial. This book provides a wide-ranging, original, thoughtful, and expansive discussion of citizenship, social manners, and political freedom in our world today.
Описание: A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents
Humor is often dismissed as cruel ridicule or harmless fun. But what if laughter is a vital force to channel rage against patriarchy, Islamophobia, or mass incarceration? To create moments of empathy and dialogue between Black Lives Matter and the police? These and other such questions are at the heart of this powerful reassessment of humor. Placing theorists in conversation with comedians, Uproarious offers a full-frontal approach to the very foundation of comedy and its profound political impact.
Here Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett address the four major theories of humor—superiority, relief, incongruity, and social play—through the lens of feminist and game-changing comics such as Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho, Hannah Gadsby, Hari Kondabolu, and Tig Notaro. They take a radical and holistic approach to the understanding of humor, particularly of humor deployed by those from groups long relegated to the margins, and propose a powerful new understanding of humor as a force that can engender politically progressive social movements. Drawing on a range of cross-disciplinary sources, from philosophies and histories of humor to the psychology and physiology of laughter to animal studies, Uproarious offers a richer understanding of the political and cathartic potential of humor.
A major new contribution to a wider dialogue on comedy, Uproarious grounds for us explorations of outsider humor and our golden age of feminist comics—showing that when women, prisoners, even animals, laugh back, comedy along with belly laughs forge new identities and alter the political climate.
Автор: Willett Edward Название: The Cityborn ISBN: 0756411785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780756411787 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 735.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Two young individuals must uncover the dark secrets of their stratified city in this suspenseful sci-fi standalone
The metal City towers at the center of the mountain-ringed Heartland, standing astride the deep chasm of the Canyon like a malevolent giant, ruled with an iron fist by the First Officer and his Provosts in the name of the semi-mythical Captain. Within its corroding walls lies a stratified society, where the Officers dwell in luxury on the Twelfth Tier while the poor struggle to survive on the First and Second, and outcasts scrabble and fight for whatever they can find in the Middens, the City's rubbish heap, filling the Canyon beneath its dripping underbelly.
Alania, ward of an Officer, lives on Twelfth. Raised among the privileged class, Alania feels as though she is some sort of pampered prisoner, never permitted to explore the many levels of the City.
And certainly not allowed to leave the confines of the City for any reason. She has everything a young woman could want except a loving family and personal freedom.
Danyl, raised by a scavenger, knows no home but the Middens.
His day-to-day responsibility is to stay alive. His sole ambition is to escape from this subsistence existence and gain entrance to the Cityso near and yet so far out of reachin hopes of a better life.
Their two very different worlds collide when Alania, fleeing from an unexpected ambush, plunges from the heights of the City down to the Middens, and into Danyl's life.
Almost immediately, both of them find themselves pursued by the First Officer's Provosts, for reasons they cannot fathombut which they must uncover if they are to survive. The secrets they unlock, as they flee the Canyon and crisscross the Heartland from the City's farmlands to the mountains of the north and back again, will determine not only their fate, but the fate of the Cityand everyone who lives there.
Автор: Willett Sabin Название: Abide with Me ISBN: 1451667027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451667028 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 2758.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this novel inspired by Wuthering Heights, a small town bad boy forged by the fires of Afghanistan returns home, still burning with a romantic obsession nothing can quench.A small-town bad boy, forged into a man in the fires of Afg
Автор: Willett James R. Название: What Is Truth? ISBN: 1633020312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781633020313 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1317.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
You don't have to defend the Truth, it defends itself. Love it, speak it and watch it work. It is Powerful, it is Freedom and it is Life. You can trust the Truth, because it is Spiritual and backed by Heaven. Our culture is filled with compromise and deception. We are terminally sick and diseased because of buying into years of lies and compromise. This book exposes and gives Hope for walking out of deception. This book will help you flush out the unfruitful and unprofitable work of darkness. Don't put the key to your freedom in someone else's pocket . Learn the power of Truth, Own it, Embrace it, Engage it and watch it work The Truth will bless you as well as generations to come.
What is Truth? - "The truth will help, bless and reward you as well as generations to come"
Автор: Marcia Willett Название: The Summer House ISBN: 0552158488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552158480 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the small inlaid wooden box, Matt`s mother had kept all his childhood memories. But her marriage is threatened when her husband refuses to live so far from his practice. Meanwhile, Matt begins to discovers the strange and tragic secret which has affected his whole life .
