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  • Sensational Designsby Jane Tompkins

    Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 24.95

    This challenging book works towards a redefinition of literature and literary study. The texts the author examines are viewed not as works of art embodying enduring themes, but as attempts to redefine the social order. more...

  • Popular Newspapers, the Labour Party and British Politicsby James Thomas

    Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 198.00

    This book traces the relationship between the popular press and the Labour Party from the early twentieth Century through World War II and up to the current day. more...

  • Poets and Playwrightsby Elmer Edgar Stoll

    University of Minnesota Press 1930; US$ 67.50

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  • Edward Saidby Pal Ahluwalia; Bill Ashcroft

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 22.95

    Looking at the context and the impact of Edward Said's scholarship and journalism, this book examines Said's key ideas, including the significance of 'worldliness', 'amateurism', 'secular criticism', 'affiliation' and 'contrapuntal reading'; the place of text and critic in 'the world'; and, knowledge, power and the construction of the 'Other'. more...

  • Crossing Boundariesby Julie Scanlon; Amy Waste

    Continuum International Publishing 2001; US$ 130.00

    This eclectic collection interrogates boundaries with reference to nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film from a diverse range of critical and theoretical perspectives. The authors probe the issue of negotiating boundaries in their innovative and imaginative investigations of science in Dickens, Eliot and Pater; narrative in Hawking and Weinberg; Bakhtin and the feminization of translation; lesbian romance by Jeanette Winterson; transitional females in migrant postcolonial fiction; pedagogy in South Africa; materiality and hypertext; the semiotic and money in Jay McInerney; the role of clichT in Beckett; music in Wim Wenders; the 'real' in fiction, theory and performance; creative and academic writing;... more...

  • Scottish Newspapers, Language and Identityby Fiona M. Douglas

    Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 99.99

    The first decade of the new Scottish Parliament has seen the emergence of a new-found national confidence. 'Scottishness' is clearly alive and flourishing. This book offers new and detailed insights into Scottish language and its usage by the Scottish press. To what extent does the use of identifiably Scottish lexical features help them to maintain their distinctive Scottish identity and appeal to their readership? Which Scottish words and phrases do the papers use and where, is it a symbolic gesture, do they all behave in the same way, and has this changed since devolution? more...

  • The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, 1by Peter Brooker; Andrew Thacker

    Oxford University Press, UK 2009; US$ 180.00

    The first full study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism. A major scholarly achievement of immense value to teachers, researchers and students interested in the material culture of the first half of the 20th century and the relation of the arts to social modernity. - ;The first of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of 'little magazines' which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and artistic modernism in the UK and Ireland. In thirty-seven chapters covering over eighty... more...

  • Literatur als Spielby Thomas Anz; Heinrich Kaulen

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 182.00

    In his famous book "Homo Ludens" Johan Huizinga confirmed that "Animals play just like humans do" and defined play as the anthropological basis of culture. At the same time, Wittgenstein conceived of the notion of the "language-game". Developing these research traditions further, the 43 essays in this volume examine linguistic, literary, aesthetic and pedagogical aspects of play - using examples from Antiquity up to present-day computer games. The book provides important foundations and manifold stimuli for a cultural theory of games. more...

  • Differentialsby Marjorie Perloff

    The University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 23.96

    A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetry. Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist poets such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Williams but also in the postwar tradition of American poetic innovation that ranges from the Black Mountain poets, through the New York School and concrete poetry, to the Language Poets of the 1980s and '90s. In Differentials , Perloff explores and defends her belief in the power of close reading, a strategy often maligned as reactionary in today's critical climate but which, when construed differentially,... more...

  • Power Without Responsibilityby James Curran; Jean Seaton

    Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 39.95

    Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. more...