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  • In Stereotype

    South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

    Serie serien Literature Now
    In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining ... Les mer

    331,31 kr

  • Ways of Seeing

    av John Berger ...
    Serie serien Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we ... Les mer

    116,19 kr

  • Manufacturing Consent

    The classic analysis of how power shapes the news

    A foundational text on media, propaganda and democracy.First published in 1988 and still startlingly relevant, Manufacturing Consent lays bare the economic and political forces that influence mass media. In this seminal work, linguist Noam Chomsky and economist Edward Herman argue that the press serves powerful interests, not public truth - subtly filtering stories through ownership, advertising ... Les mer

    167,89 kr

  • Selected Essays of John Berger

    av John Berger ...
    Serie serien Vintage International
    The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.Berger’s insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even ... Les mer

    80,29 kr

  • Meander, Spiral, Explode

    Design and Pattern in Narrative

    av Jane Alison ...
    "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." ―VultureAs Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s ... Les mer

    132,56 kr

  • Narratology

    Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition

    av Mieke Bal ...
    Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology is a guide for students and scholars seeking to analyze narratives of any language, period, and ... Les mer

    222,90 kr

  • Violence and the Sacred

    Serie serien Bloomsbury Revelations
    Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at ... Les mer

    252,91 kr

  • Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice

    This book addresses the theory and practice of transitional justice through the lens of masculinities and queer perspectives.What and where are the intersections between masculinities and queer theories and frameworks for better understanding lived experiences of violence, justice, and transitions? How can masculinities and queer perspectives enhance and "complexify" our understandings of the ... Les mer

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  • High Heel

    Serie serien Object Lessons
    Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste MagazineObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that ... Les mer

    65,65 kr

  • On the Inconvenience of Other People

    Serie serien Writing Matters!
    In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, ... Les mer

    216,29 kr

  • The Wounded Storyteller

    Body, Illness & Ethics

    Updated second edition: "A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions." — Sociology of Heath and IllnessSince it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. A collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from illness or disability, as well as a ... Les mer

    101,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Essential Bukowski: Poetry

    ‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard CohenThe definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring markHere is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.Here is Bukowski ... Les mer

    188,56 kr

  • Semicolon

    The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark

    "Delightful, enlightening . . . The twisty history of the hybrid divider perfectly embodies the transience of language." — VultureThe semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this ... Les mer

    92,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Bergson

    Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

    A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers. Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that make up our intellectual ... Les mer

    323,35 kr

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Les mer

    241,09 kr

  • Why Read the Classics?

    Serie serien Penguin Modern Classics
    Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an absorbing collection of Italo Calvino's witty and passionate criticism.Italo Calvino, one of ... Les mer

    129,11 kr

  • How to Read Donald Duck

    Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

    “ A literary grandmaster.” —TimeFirst published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third edition was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the imperialist, capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons.Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney—curiously parentless, marginalized, always short ... Les mer

    94,59 kr

  • Cruel Optimism

    A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of ... Les mer

    216,99 kr

  • Anatomy of Criticism

    Four Essays

    av Northrop Frye ...
    Serie serien Princeton Classics
    A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye seeks to describe a common basis for understanding the full range of literary forms by examining archetypes, genres, poetic language, and the ... Les mer

    191,29 kr

  • Tact

    Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    av David Russell ...
    The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of feeling one’s way with others in complex modern conditions. In this book, David ... Les mer

    386,39 kr

  • In Search of Africa(s)

    Universalism and Decolonial Thought

    This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first phase of a new universalism, one which would be truly universal because it would be fully inclusive, or is it on the contrary the ... Les mer

    207,89 kr

  • An Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    Serie serien The Macat Library
    Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors’ central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social outcomes for individuals – and that it is a better predictor of achievement than income, background or socioeconomic status. One of the major issues ... Les mer

    84,74 kr

  • Ecocriticism

    av Greg Garrard ...
    Serie serien The New Critical Idiom
    Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler.Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume ... Les mer

    310,05 kr

  • Cultural Techniques

    Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real

    Oversatt av Geoffrey Winthrop-Young ...
    Serie serien Meaning Systems
    In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a ... Les mer

    321,84 kr