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  • Imperial Masochism

    British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class

    par John Kucich ...
    British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. "There was," writes John Kucich, "seemingly a different crucifixion scene marking the historical gateway to each colonial theater." In Imperial Masochism, Kucich reveals the central role ... En savoir plus

    $86.89 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    par John Edwards ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • Power of Reading

    From Socrates to Twitter

    par Professor Frank Furedi ...
    Here is a natural companion to Christopher Booker's bestselling The Seven Basic Plots (Continuum) and John Gross's seminal study The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).The most eminent cultural and social historian Frank Furedi presents an eclectic and entirely original history of reading. The very act of reading and the choice of reading material endow individuals with ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Culture

    par Terry Eagleton ...
    One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s valueCulture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Language and Identity

    An introduction

    par John Edwards ...
    Collections series Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
    The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender - and the language varieties important to each group. What is a language? What is a dialect? Are there such things as language 'rights'? Must every national group have its own unique language ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Visions of Politics: Volume 1, Regarding Method

    par Quentin Skinner ...
    The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Genders

    par David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Collections series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Nation and Narration

    Modifié par Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, ... En savoir plus

    $72.99 CAD

  • Can't We Make Moral Judgements?

    par Mary Midgley ...
    Collections series Bloomsbury Revelations
    How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the ever popular stance in society that we should not make moral judgements on others. Guiding the reader through the diverse ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Literature

    par Peter Widdowson ...
    Collections series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • History and memory

    par Geoffrey Cubitt ...
    Collections series Historical Approaches
    In recent years, ‘memory’ has become a central, though also a controversial, concept in historical studies - a term that denotes both a new and distinctive field of study and a fresh way of conceptualizing history as a field of inquiry more generally.This book, which is aimed both at specialists and at students, provides historians with an accessible and stimulating introduction to debates and ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Imperial Leather

    Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

    par Anne Mcclintock ...
    Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD