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    How Touch Shapes Our Place in the World

    This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of “art” and “aesthetics” to include worldly arts such as medicine, nation building, and translation while re-thinking more traditional arts of literature, music, and painting.Touch is a form of reciprocal interchange – touching always involves being touched in return. It creates a sense of ... Read more

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  • Pain and Suffering

    Series series The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture
    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, ... Read more

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  • Culture and Cognition

    The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry

    This groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries that have traditionally separated scientific inquiry from literary inquiry. It explores scientific knowledge in three subject areas—the natural history of aging, literary narrative, and psychoanalysis. In the authors' view, the different perspectives on cognition afforded by Anglo-American cognitive science, Greimassian semiotics, and ... Read more

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  • Modernism and Popular Music

    Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another. In Modernism and Popular Music, Ronald Schleifer instead shows how the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole ... Read more

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  • A Political Economy of Modernism

    Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class

    In A Political Economy of Modernism, Ronald Schleifer examines the political economy of what he calls 'the culture of modernism' by focusing on literature and the arts; intellectual disciplines of post-classical economics; and institutional structures of corporate capitalism and the lower middle-class. In its wide ranging study focused on modernist writers (Dreiser, Hardy, Joyce, Stevens, Woolf, ... Read more

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  • Literature and Medicine

    A Practical and Pedagogical Guide

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Literature and Medicine: A Practical and Pedagogical Guide is designed to introduce narrative medicine in medical humanities courses aimed at pre-medicine undergraduates and medical and healthcare students. With excerpts from short stories, novels, memoirs, and poems, the book guides students on the basic methods and concepts of the study of narrative. The book helps healthcare professionals to ... Read more

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  • The Chief Concern of Medicine

    The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices

    Unlike any existing studies of the medical humanities, The Chief Concern of Medicinebrings to the examination of medical practices a thorough—and clearly articulated—exposition of the nature of narrative. The book builds on the work of linguistics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory and examines numerous literary works and narrative "vignettes" of medical problems, situations, and ... Read more

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  • A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning

    Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
    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 ... Read more

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  • Modernist Poetics in China

    Consumerist Economics and Chinese Literary Modernism

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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