Inviting Interruptions
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Inviting Interruptions
Author: Cristina Bacchilega
language: en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date: 2021-02-23
As we make our way deeper into the twenty-first century, wonder tales—and their critical analyses—will continue to interest and enchant general audiences, students, and scholars.
From Small Talk to Microaggression
Author: Michael Lempert
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2024-12-06
A provocative and eye-opening history of how we have studied and theorized social interaction. In this ambitious, wide-ranging book, anthropologist Michael Lempert offers a conceptual history that explores how, why, and with what effects we have come to think of interactions as “scaled.” Focusing on the sciences of interaction in midcentury America, Lempert traces how they harnessed diverse tools and media technologies, from dictation machines to 16mm film, to study communication “microscopically.” In looking closely, many hoped to transform interaction: to improve efficiency, grow democracy, curb racism, and much else. Yet their descent into a microworld created troubles, with some critics charging that these scientists couldn’t see the proverbial forest for the trees. Exploring talk therapy and group dynamics studies, social psychology and management science, conversation analysis, “micropolitics,” and more, Lempert shows how scale became a defining problem across the behavioral sciences. Ultimately, he argues, if we learn how our objects of study have been scaled in advance, we can better understand how we think and interact with them—and with each other—across disciplinary and ideological divides. Even as once-fierce debates over micro and macro have largely subsided, Lempert shows how scale lives on and continues to affect the ethics and politics of language and communication today.
Fairy Tales as Social Critique in Adaptations by Women Writers
Author: Laura Alexander
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2025-03-10
This collection considers how women writers subvert normative structures in their adaptations of fairy tales. Though fairy tales as a genre have long been associated with conservative values, writers like Anne Sexton, Angela Carter, and Emma Donoghue, among others, reimagine fairy tales as an instrument of social critique of traditional structures. The essays in this collection consider the way women writers rewrite mythologies inherited from the past, charting the decline of aristocratic systems and entrenched class structures.