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Pre-Owned Cultural Politics : Class Gender Race and the Postmodern World 9780631162285

Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon look at the role of culture in reproducing and contesting social relations of class gender and race. They focus on relationships between culture subjectivity and power in what is the first comprehensive introduction to... more

Pre-Owned The New English Literatures : Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World 9780312566555 Used

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Sexuality Studies: Sexology and Translation : Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World (Paperback)

Sexology and Translation is the first study of the contemporaneous emergence of sexology in Europe Asia and the Middle East. Heike Bauer and her contributors-historians literary and cultural critics and translation scholars-address the intersections... more

Cultural Studies and the Symbolic The Way of the World Book 04 (Paperback)

The volume is offered as a Festschrift for Roger Stephenson who recently retired from the William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages (German) at the University of Glasgow. more

Black Literary and Cultural Expressions: Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing: Literature Philosophy and the Nigerian World (Hardcover)

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary philosophical and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature... more

Pre-owned Word and the World : The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil Paperback by Bartlett Lesley ISBN 157273891X ISBN-13 9781572738911

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World Literature World Culture (Paperback)

In a global age where people goods and cultural products transcend the boundaries of geography and temporality as never before it is only natural that literary and cultural studies turn their attention to Goethe s nineteenth-century notion of a... more

Pre-Owned World Literature and Thought: The Ancient Worlds Volume I (Paperback) 0155009192 9780155009196

This anthology of literary historical and philosophical selections draws its diversity from all major civilizations. The text editors select readings according to their respective expertise in cultural regions around the world. Chronologically... more

Literatures as World Literature: Samuel Beckett as World Literature (Paperback)

The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett s major works in the context of his international presence and circulation particularly the translation adaptation appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre. A Nobel... more

Explorations in Narrative Psych Narrative and Cultural Humility: Reflections from the Good Witch Teaching Psychotherapy in China (Paperback)

People from Eastern and Western cultures have differences in their perception and understanding of the world that are not well represented by a collectivist/individualist distinction. Differences in worldview are inscribed in personal relationships and... more

Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures (Hardcover)

Demonstrating that an intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must in our post-colonial world the essays in this volume are a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and identities. more

From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology

In the early nineteenth century as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii Egypt Assyria and the first prehistoric sites a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost.... more

Pre-Owned The Politics of Cultural Practice : Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization (Paperback) 9780819564245

Explores the social and political dynamics of emergent cultural practices in the intersections of contemporary theatre and the world.Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages... more

Jazz Internationalism : Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music 9780252082863 Used / Pre-owned

Jazz emerged during the political and social upheaval of world war communist revolution Red Scares and the Black Migration. The tumult bred disagreements about the cultural significance of jazz that concerned both its African American roots and its... more

Literary Studies: Transnational Spaces: Celebrating Fifty Years of Literary and Cultural Intersections at NeMLA (Hardcover)

This volume celebrates fifty years of NeMLA s important presence in the world of academia with a collection of essays that adopt a transnational critical lens. With the present selection we intend to add our voices to the ongoing debate centered on the... more

MLA Texts and Translations: Humanism Empire and Nation: Korean Literary and Cultural Criticism (Paperback)

Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture. Faced with dramatic social and political changes Korean writers of the twentieth century--writing in the context of Japanese imperialism World War II the Korean War and the... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period (Paperback)

This interdisciplinary volume seeks to understand the multiple ways that Early Modern people made sense of the world around them. In doing so it provides valuable information and insights for subject matter experts graduate students undergraduate... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History Travel Writing and the Media: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (Paperback)

The nexus between travel writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old and new media are co-present and converge. Digitisation has had a profound impact on the... more

Pre-Owned Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film 9780748643073

This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be... more

Studies of the Americas (Hardcover) Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies (Hardcover)

As the world becomes increasingly globalized the integration of cultures within nations has become more and more relevant. Read takes a poetic approach to the concept of cultural conflict within nations and adds a new perspective that has rarely been... more

Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies: Remembering Angola (Paperback)

Remembering Angola is a groundbreaking volume that brings together articles by leading scholars from around the world. From a range of disciplines they reflect on the role Angolan culture has played in reformulating the torn fabric of a nation... more

The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader (Hardcover)

Everything is open to question. Nothing is sacred. Critical and cultural theory invites a rethinking of some of our most basic assumptions about who we are how we behave and how we interpret the world around us. The Routledge Critical and Cultural... more

Approaches to Teaching World Literature: Approaches to Teaching Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)

Mrs. Dalloway is considered a central work in Virginia Woolf s oeuvre and in the modernist canon. It not only addresses historical and cultural issues such as war colonialism class politics marriage sexuality and psychology but also reimagines the... more

Anthem Studies in Global English Literatures: Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton s Fiction: The World Is a Welter (Hardcover)

This book sets forth how the greening of Wharton s private and public writings contributes to exciting strands in cultural geography and recent postcolonial theory: for example biological and political constructions of citizenship mobility race and... more

Brill s Companions to Classical Reception: Brill s Companion to Classical Reception and Modern World Poetry (Series #26) (Hardcover)

The volume combines for the first time the fields of Classical Reception and World Literature in a pioneering collection of essays by world-leading scholars on modern poetry from various cultural and linguistics backgrounds (Arabic Chinese creole... more

Apart from Modernism : Edith Wharton Politics and Fiction Before World War I (Hardcover)

Apart from Modernism explores the political and cultural influences that helped shape Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth s naturalism and didactic purpose Peel argues conformed to Wharton s belief in the moral purpose of literature and ultimately... more

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World: Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)

This book is a new history of early modern gender told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries... more

Worlds of Hurt : Reading the Literatures of Trauma 9780521565127 Used / Pre-owned

Worlds of Hurt presents a coherent rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation using as its focus the Holocaust the Vietnam war and the phenomenon of sexual violence against women. CONDITION – USED: Books sold... more

Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance: The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre of the First World War (Hardcover)

This is the first comprehensive guide to British theatre s engagement with the First World War over the last century from 1900 to the Armistice Day centenary in 2018. Considering theatre as both an industry and literary-cultural artform it provides a... more

Pre-Owned A World of Fine Difference: The Social Architecture a Modern Irish Village Paperback Adrian Peace

This study considers the extent to which economic modernization has transformed the rural community. In doing so it discusses whether the distinctive character of rural identity has been eroded by powerful and distant political and cultural forces.... more

Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (Paperback)

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years the fields of world literature and world cinema have developed on parallel but largely separate tracks with little... more

Pre-Owned The Irish Writer and the World (Paperback) 0521602572 9780521602570

A major new work from the award-winning scholar and cultural commentator.Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting /... more

Toronto Italian Studies: Piero Gobetti s New World: Antifascism Liberalism Writing (Hardcover)

Piero Gobetti (1901-1926) was one of twentieth-century Italy s most innovative political thinkers. A noted intellectual radical liberal and antifascist in his short life he founded two cultural reviews that attracted the attention of many Italian... more

Pre-Owned Thomas Mann s War: Literature Politics and the World Republic of Letters (Paperback)

In Thomas Mann s War Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America s most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize... more

Pre-Owned On or about December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World (Hardcover) by Professor Peter Stansky

9780674636057. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 289. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 289 p. Studies in Cultural History. On or about December 1910 human character changed Virginia Woolf remarked and... more

Shakespeare in Theory and Practice (Hardcover)

Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the whole story. In these essays brought together here for the first time world-renowned critic Catherine... more

Pre-Owned The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Hardcover) 0631151117 9780631151111

The Companion is a seminal work of cultural reference incorporating in two types of entry cultural biographies and thematic surveys. It attempts to present a comprehensive account of the Jewish contribution to every cultural field in many of the world... more

Cambridge Introductions to Literature (H The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (Hardcover)

French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature history sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine the history of systems of knowledge... more