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  • The new treason of the intellectuals

    Can the University survive?

    by Thomas Docherty ...
    The university is under threat. For forty years this indispensable democratic institution has been systematically betrayed by governments and the political class, who have redirected it from its proper social and cultural functions through a relentless programme of financialisation. Taking his cue from Julien Benda’s classic polemical essay of 1927, Thomas Docherty exposes the forces behind modern ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Postmodernism

    A Reader

    by Thomas Docherty ...
    This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate. ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Universities at War

    by Thomas Docherty ...
    Series series SAGE Swifts
    "Docherty is not only is a brilliant critic of those forces that would like to transform higher education into an extension of the market-place... he is also a man of great moral and civic courage, who under intense pressure from the punishing neoliberal state has risked a great deal to remind us that higher education is a civic institution crucial to creating the formative cultures necessary for ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Complicity

    Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment

    by Thomas Docherty ...
    Series series Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society
    Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets out to undermine. Through philosophical, literary and theoretical analysis, Thomas Docherty shows how easy it has been for criticism to become essentially an act of political collaboration with ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Dylan's Park

    by Helen Docherty ...
    Illustrated by Thomas Docherty ...
    This picture book combines extracts from the works of Dylan Thomas that centre on his recollections of Cwmdonkin Park, Swansea. A boyhood adventure like no other, Dylan's words serve to bring to life the period, the environment and the very essence of what it is to be a child with a child's imagination. ... Read more

    $11.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Donne, Undone (Routledge Revivals)

    by Thomas Docherty ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of ethical, cultural and political individualism. In this title, first published in 1986, Thomas Docherty challenges this with a more rigorously theoretical reading of Donne, particularly in relation to the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Literature and Capital

    by Prof. Thomas Docherty ...
    What is the value of literature?In this important new work, Thomas Docherty charts a new economic history of literary culture and its institutions in the modern age. From the literary patronage of the early modern period, through the colonial exploitation of the 18th and 19th centuries to the institutionalisation of “literature” in the neoliberal university of the 21st century, Literature and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Political English

    Language and the Decay of Politics

    by Prof. Thomas Docherty ...
    From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Realism

    by Prof. Thomas Docherty ...
    Exploring the controversial history of an aesthetic – realism – this book examines the role that realism plays in the negotiation of social, political, and material realities from the mid-19th century to the present day.Examining a broad range of literary texts from French, English, Italian, German, and Russian writers, this book provides new insights into how realism engages with themes including ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Mood

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories

    Edited by Birgit Breidenbach, Thomas Docherty ...
    Series series Warwick Series in the Humanities
    Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary. While it has remained resistant to theorisation, it nonetheless has a substantial influence on art, politics and society. Since its practical omnipresence in every-day life renders it one of the most significant aspects of affect studies, it has garnered an increasing amount of critical attention in a number of disciplines across ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Storybook Knight

    by Helen Docherty ...
    Illustrated by Thomas Docherty ...
    Age Level: 4 to 8 | Grade Level: K to 4What's a knight's greatest power? Stories, of course! From the beloved author/illustrator team behind The Snatchabook comes the ultimate storytime book about castles, knights, dragons, and the power of stories!Even dragons love a good story...Leo was a gentle knightin thought and word and deed.While other knights liked fighting,Leo liked to... ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Bear-Shaped Hole

    by John Dougherty ...
    Illustrated by Thomas Docherty ...
    Discover a heartwarming story that will help children understand and prepare for a loss.Gerda and Orlo are bear best friends. When Gerda was there, Orlo always had time. For a game or a story, a joke or a rhyme. He was never too busy to listen, to talk. To help, or to share, or to go for a walk.But slowly—at first—something starts to change and Orlo reveals he is sick and not going to get better. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD