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Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 133.00In this new book, Noga Applebaum surveys science fiction novels published for children and young adults from 1980 to the present, exposing the anti-technological bias existing within a genre often associated with the celebration of technology. Applebaum argues that perceptions of technology as a corrupting force, particularly in relation to its use... more...
Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 32.00Literature, Science, and a New Humanities challenges dominant modes of literary analysis and sketches outlines of a new paradigm, theory, method, and ethos inspired by scientific models. more...
Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad's Novels
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00This book offers a post-structuralist inspired explication of Conrad's literary vision and its defining feature, the aesthetic principle. more...
Handbook of Narratology
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 210.00This handbook in English provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology. Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate 34 central terms. The articles present original research contributions and are all structured in a similar manner. Each contains a concise definition... more...
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 31
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 110.99Part of the "Blue Ribbon Paper Series", this book contains papers that cover theory and research presented at the Couch-Stone Spring Symposium, and the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. It includes theoretical developme more...
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 32
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 110.99Contains five papers which examine the future of symbolic interaction. This work features additional essays that offer theoretical developments in the areas of social work, race, media, identity, and politics. more...
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 15.00After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed not only added an eloquent new dimension to Ayn Rand's ideas and beliefs, but... more...
Recognition, Work, Politics
BRILL 2007; US$ 136.00Includes a range of essays in contemporary French critical theory around politics, recognition, and work, and their philosophical articulations. This work addresses these issues from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm of the gift, recognition theory, and post-marxism. more...
Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, García Márquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism. more...
Edward Said
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95This insightful critical biography shows us an Edward Said we did not know. H. Aram Veeser brings forth not the Said of tabloid culture, or Said the remote philosopher, but the actual man, embedded in the politics of the Middle East but soaked in the values of the West and struggling to advance the best European ideas. Veeser shows the organic ties... more...









