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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david karlander”
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  • Constructed Languages and the Sociolinguistics of Language Making

    Edited by David Karlander, Monica Heller ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Constructed Languages and the Sociolinguistics of Language Making examines so-called "constructed" languages from the French Revolution to the present, challenging the assumption that they are linguistic curiosities or exceptions. Instead, the contributors approach them as no more artificial, and no less natural, than any other language. Read in their social and political contexts, constructed ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

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  • Speaking in Tongues

    by J. M. Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos ...
    **Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025In this provocative dialogue, a Nobel laureate novelist and a leading translator investigate the nature of language and the challenges of translation.“An intelligent, moving, and supremely humane act of criticism that reveals just how difficult and wondrous it can be to inhabit a language that is not your own.” — Merve Emre**Language, historically speaking ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Dictionary of Critical Theory

    by Ian Buchanan ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, and socio-political critical theory. Entries ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Language, Capitalism, Colonialism

    Toward a Critical History

    by Monica Heller, Bonnie McElhinny ...
    Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism. In the process, they map out a critical history of how language serves, and has served, as a terrain for producing and reproducing social inequalities. The authors ask how, and by ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Enjoyment Right & Left

    by Todd McGowan ...
    While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to grasping our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of enjoyment is critically important to this effort. In a world that appears completely divided between right and left, McGowan calls for a universal form of enjoyment that unites people in an egalitarian ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Freedom

    A Disease Without Cure

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exploration, Slavoj Žižek argues that the experience of true, radical freedom is transient and ... Read more

    $13.69 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author

    by Laura Seymour ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing "the birth of the reader," Barthes posits a new abstract notion of the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text’s possible ... Read more

    $12.30 CAD

  • On Literary Worlds

    by Eric Hayot ...
    Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this quintessentially modern mindset--putting progress at the center of historicity--makes it difficult for anyone eager to mount a case for why someone interested ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Requiem for French Theory

    Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key

    by Aymeric Monville, Gabriel Rockhill, Jennifer Ponce de Leon ...
    French Theory is due for an insider critique, and in Requiem for French Theory, Aymeric Monville and Gabriel Rockhill do just that. Drawing upon decades of studying French philosophy in Paris, they build upon the best Marxist criticisms of postmodernism, while further developing them by situating postmodern theory within the global political economy of knowledge and U.S. driven intellectual ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • (New) Fascism

    Contagion, Community, Myth

    by Nidesh Lawtoo ...
    Series series Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory
    Fascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene? In this book, Nidesh Lawtoo furthers his previous diagnostic of crowd behavior, identification, and mimetic contagion to account for the growing shadow cast by authoritarian leaders who rely on new media to take possession of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Years of Theory

    Lectures on Modern French Thought

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD