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Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
by John Mcwhorter  Publisher Comments Critically acclaimed linguist John McWhorter has devoted his career to exploring the evolution to language. He has often argued that language change is inevitable and in general culturally neutral — languages change rapidly even in indigenous...
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The Outsider
by Colin Wilson Publisher Comments The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mindset. First published 30 years ago, it illuminated the struggle of those who seek not only the transformation of the Self, but of society as a whole....
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Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence
by Thomas Strychacz Publisher Comments In Dangerous Masculinities, Thomas Strychacz has as his goal nothing less than to turn scholarship on gender and modernism on its head. He focuses on the way some early twentieth-century writers portray masculinity as theatrical performance, and...
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The Temple of Culture: Assimilation & Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
by Jonathan Freedman Publisher Comments From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of...
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The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by George Yudice Publisher Comments "George Yudice's book demonstrates more clearly than any other I know how deeply and inextricably culture is today, in the era of globalization, embedded in economic circuits and political regimes. His provocative analyses of the function of culture in...
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The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since World War II
by David A. Hollinger Publisher Comments This volume of essays, commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, explores the interaction between the humanities and demographic changes in the university, including the link between external changes and the rise of new academic...
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Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Mark Sanders Publisher Comments "Ambiguities of Witnessing" explores the complex relationship between law and literature in testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the body that investigated crimes of the apartheid era in South Africa....
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A Glossary of Cultural Theory
by Peter Brooker Publisher Comments A Glossary of Cultural Theory provides the researcher and student with lucid and up-to-date guidance through the vibrant and changing debates in cultural studies and related disciplines. This new edition has been updated throughout. Among the new terms...
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Beneath the Paving Stones (01 Edition)
by Debord Publisher Comments This anthology comprises 3 pamphlets-"The Poverty of Student Life; Totality for Kids"; and "The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity Economy "plus eyewitness accounts of the Paris May '68 events. Much of the Situationist creed was produced in...
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Contemporary Reader 7TH Edition
by Gary Goshgarian Publisher Comments A best-selling book now in it's Seventh Edition, The Contemporary Reader offers highly engaging readings about current cultural issues. This accessible, wide-ranging, and current essay collection is designed to stimulating and thought provoking. "The...
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The Children's Culture Reader
by Henry Jenkins Publisher Comments Far from noncombatants whom we seek to protect from the contamination posed by adult knowledge, children form the very basis on which we fight over the nature and values of our society, and over our hopes and fears for the future. Unfortunately, our...
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Insister of Jacques Derrida
by H<'e>l<`e>ne. Trans. By Peggy Kamuf Cixous Publisher Comments Hélène Cixous is arguably the most insightful and unbridled reader of Jacques Derrida today. In Insister, she brings a unique mixture of scholarly erudition, theoretical speculation, and breathtaking textual explication to an extremely close...
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Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors
by Elleke Boehmer Publisher Comments Wole Soyinka, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee--postcolonial writers from around the world now enjoy wide popularity. This book is a challenging look at the history of such writing, how it developed and how it departs from writing...
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The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin
by Caryl Emerson Publisher Comments Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to structuralist to postmodernist. In this candid assessment...
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Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters
by Hans Mayer Publisher Comments The women in Outsiders are Joan of Arc (as presented by Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, and Vishnevskii), Judith and Delilah (as heroine and vamp), George Eliot and George Sand, Lulu, and contemporary feminists. The homosexuals include protagonists of Marlowe's...
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The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror
by Simon Joyce Publisher Comments When Margaret Thatcher called in 1979 for a return to Victorian values such as hard work, self-reliance, thrift, and national pride, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock responded that " Victorian values" also included " cruelty, misery, drudgery, squalor...
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On Seeing: Things Seen, Unseen, and Obscene
by F Gonzalez Crussi Publisher Comments A probing and profoundly insightful literary meditation on vision exploring the breadth of fascinating phenomena associated with seeing afrom the award winning author....
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Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts
by Andrew Edgar Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 436-485) and indexes....
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A History of the Heart
by Ole Hoystad Publisher Comments “My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.” “The heart has reason that reason cannot know.” “The more I get to know President Putin, the more I get to see his heart and soul.” The heart not only drives...
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Roland Barthes: The Figures of Writing
by Andrew Brown Publisher Comments The first serious analysis of Barthes as a writer with specific aesthetic techniques, this fresh and original study focuses on some of the ways he discusses the nature of his own writing. The first two chapters examine the key but ambiguous term of...
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