基本信息

· 书名:Staring

· 作者:Garland-Thomson

· ISBN13:9780195326802

· 装帧:平装

· 语种:英文

· 出版日期:2009-04-23

· 出版社:Oxford University Press

· 页数:256

· 重量:0.4 kg

· 尺寸:23.2 x 14.9 x 1.7 cm

* 页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准.

------ 书籍简介 ------

Drawing on examples from art media fashion history and memoir cultural critic Rosemarie Garland Thomson tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored the human stare In the first book of its kind Garland Thomson defines staring explores the factors that motivate it and considers the targets and the effects of the stare While borrowing from psychology and biology to help explain why the impulse to stare is so powerful she also enlarges and complicates these formulations with examples from the realm of imaginative culture Featuring over forty illustrations Staring captures the stimulating combination of symbolic material and emotional factors that make staring so irresistible while endeavoring to shift the usual response to staring shame into an engaged self consideration Elegant and provocative this book advances new ways of thinking about visuality and the body that will appeal to readers who are interested in the overlap between the

------ 作者简介 ------

Rosemarie Garland Thomson is Professor of Women s Studies at Emory University in Atlanta Georgia Her fields of study are feminist theory American literature and disability studies Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing the field of disability studies in the humanities and in women s studies