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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Studies V10 Issue 2
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd City Worlds Understanding Cities
Book SynopsisAnalysing cities through spatial understanding, this book explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity and outlines new ways to address some of the ambiguities of cities: their promise, potential and problems.Trade Review'An excellent attampt to understand and articulate the urban world using examples from refreshingly different sources.' - Andrew Lovatt, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTable of Contents1. What is a City? by Steve Pile, 2. Worlds Within Cities by John Allen 3. Cities in the World by Doreen Massey 4. On Space and the City by Doreen Massey.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unruly Cities
Book SynopsisThe text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.Trade Review`Readable - accessible to undergraduates and certainly interesting to postgraduates...good range of questions and is up-to-date and relavant to current concerns.' - - Malcolm Miles, Oxford Brookes University, UK`Very good on current social theory, good case studies...excellent photographs and global coverage.' - - Dr David Sibley, Hull University, UK`...this text provides an illuminating and intelligent understanding of where, how and why such cities persisit.It's use of seminal works and critical analysis is simply inspiring.' - - Dr M Gillen, Northumbria University"An excellent insight into the city - economically, socially, politically and culturally. Essential undergraduate reading" Heidi Grainger, Liverpool UniversityTable of Contents1. The heterogenity of Cities Steve Pile , Urban 'Disorders' Gerry Mooney , 3. Walled Cities Eugene McLoughlin and John Muncie 4. Divisive Cities Jenny Robinson 5. City Politics Sophie Watson , 6. The Unsustainable City Andy Blowers and Kathy Pain 7. Administered cities Allan Cochrane 8. On Orderings and the City Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile and Christopher Brook
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Maurice Blanchot Routledge Critical Thinkers
Book SynopsisWithout Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work.This accessible guide:* works 'idea by idea' through Blanchot's writings, anchoring them in historical and intellectual contexts* examines Blanchot's understanding of literature, death, ethics and politics and the relationship between these themes* unravels even Blanchot's most complex ideas for the beginner* sketches the lasting impact of Blanchot's work on the field of critical theory.For those trying to come to grips with contemporary literary theory and modern French thought, the best advice is to start at the beginning: begin with Blanchot, and begin with this guide.Trade Review'A profound and miraculously lucid guide to the French writer's work.' - SPIKETable of ContentsIntroduction Why Blanchot?; Part 1 Key Ideas; Chapter 1 What is literature?; Chapter 2 Language and literature; Chapter 3 Death and philosophy; Chapter 4 Death; Chapter 5 Literature and ethics; Chapter 6 Blanchot as nationalist; Chapter 7 Ethics and politics; Chapter 8 The literary community;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women in Islam
Book SynopsisWomen in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in Islam.Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender relations, female circumcision, and female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather than rigid and inflexible.Trade Review'This insider study makes a detailed and much needed contribution to understanding the standpoints of Islamists in Europe on gender relations.' - Myfanwy Franks, University of York, Journal of Contemporary Religion'Amid all the texts currently available on women and Islam, this particular book fills a vary obvious gap ... The result is a book of significant scholarly worth that is meticulously researched, carefully written, and perhaps one of the best books currently available on women in Islam ... an exemplary study about processes of religious and cultural change.' - Sophie Cilliat-Ray, Cardiff University, Interreligious Insight'This insider study makes a detailed and much needed contribution to understanding the standpoints of Islamists in Europe on gender relations.' - Myfanwy Franks, University of York, Journal of Contemporary Religion'Amid all the texts currently available on women and Islam, this particular book fills a vary obvious gap ... The result is a book of significant scholarly worth that is meticulously researched, carefully written, and perhaps one of the best books currently available on women in Islam ... an exemplary study about processes of religious and cultural change.' - Sophie Cilliat-Ray, Cardiff University, Interreligious Insight'This book is a very interesting study, instroducing us from the angle of an 'insider' to Islamistic interpretations of gener relations and reform efforts.' - Eva Evers Rosander, EthnosTable of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgements, PART I Theoretical and methodological reflections, PART II Reflections on the empirical material, Notes, List of scholars, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Travel Writing 17501850
Book SynopsisVOLUME II Letters from France; Containing a great variety of original information concerning the most important events that have occurred in that country in the years 1792, and 1793. To which annexed, the correspondence of Dumourier with Pache, the War Minister, and with the Commissaries.-Letters of Bournonville, Miranda, Valence.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Travel Writing 17501850
Book SynopsisVOLUME IV includes original Letters from India; containing a narrative of a journey through Egypt, and the authorâs imprisonment at Calicut by Hyder Ali. To which is added an abstract of three subsequent voyages to India by Mrs Elizabeth Fay.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Womens Travel Writing 17501850
Book SynopsisThis is Volume VIII, WOMENâS TRAVEL WRITING: 1750 â 1850 and is volume III of a collection of writings about ITALY, by Lady Morgan.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Subcultures
Book SynopsisSubcultures attract a great deal of interest, both in popular media and in academic work. Comprehensive and fascinating, these four volumes represent work on subcultures across several disciplines: cultural history, cultural studies, criminology and sociology. Beginning by looking at accounts of subcultures in sixteenth-century England, the set then presents case studies that contrast work on gangs and graffiti with CCCS work on subcultures. Volume three then follows CCCS work on punks, by turning to music subcultures, and, lastly, the fourth volume highlights five recent trends in subcultural studies - body subcultures, sexed subcultures, fan and micro-media communities, grassroots and âneo-paganâ subcultures, and âvirtual communitiesâ and cybercultures.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Playing with Videogames
Book SynopsisPlaying with Videogames documents the richly productive, playful and social cultures of videogaming that support, surround and sustain this most important of digital media forms and yet which remain largely invisible within existing studies. James Newman details the rich array of activities that surround game-playing, charting the vibrant and productive practices of the vast number of videogame players and the extensive ''shadow'' economy of walkthroughs, FAQs, art, narratives, online discussion boards and fan games, as well as the cultures of cheating, copying and piracy that have emerged. Playing with Videogames offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the meanings of videogames and videogaming within the contemporary media environment. Trade Review"A solid resource for students of cultural and media studies." -CHOICETable of ContentsChapter 1. Everybody hates videogames PART 1: VIDEOGAMES AS REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEMS Chapter 2. Talking about videogames Chapter 3. Videogames and/as stories Chapter 4. Things to make and do: fanart, music and cosplay PART 2: VIDEOGAMES AS CONFIGURATIVE PERFORMANCES Chapter 5. Game Guides, walkthroughs and FAQs Chapter 6. Superplay, Sequence Breaking And Speedrunning PART 3: VIDEOGAMES AS TECHNOLOGY Chapter 7. Codemining, Modding and Gamemaking Notes References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AS Communication and Culture The Essential
Book SynopsisAS Communication and Culture: The Essential Introduction is fully revised for the current GCE Communication and Culture Advanced Subsidiary specification with full colour throughout, over 120 images, new case studies and examples. The authors introduce students step-by-step to the skills of reading communication texts and understanding the link between communication and culture, as well as taking students through the tasks expected of them to pass the AQA AS Communication and Culture exam. The book is supplemented with a website featuring additional activities and resources, quizzes and tests.Areas covered include: an introduction to communication and culture cultural and communication codes semiotics, communication process and models the individual and contemporary culture cultural contexts and practices how to do the coursework how to do the exam examples from advertising, fashion, music, magazines, body language, film and more. AS Communication and Culture: The Essential Introduction clearly guides students through the course and gives them the tips they need to become proficient in understanding and deconstructing communication texts and everyday culture.Trade Review'The use of direct address, rhetorical questions and a chatty conversational tone, with lots of concrete, everyday examples will involve students in a way that more conventional Communication studies textbooks do not ... Your students will enjoy this more up-to-date approach.' – www.communicationandculture.co.uk'The use of direct address, rhetorical questions and a chatty conversational tone, with lots of concrete, everyday examples will involve students in a way that more conventional Communication studies textbooks do not... Your students will enjoy this more up-to-date approach.' - www.communicationandculture.co.ukTable of ContentsSection A: Introducing Communication and Culure. Section B: Codes. Section C: Identity and the Self. Section D: Toolkits; The Process and Semiotic Approaches. Section E: Practical Analysis and Case Studies. Section F: The Individual and Contemoporary Culture. Section G: Cultural Context and Practices. Section H: Doing the Coursework. Section I: Passing Exams. Glossary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Celebrity Critical Concepts in Sociology
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the study of celebrity has developed and cohered into a flourishing field of social and cultural analysis. There is huge interest in topics such as the politics and logic of glamour; the role of the public-relations industry in manipulating television audiences; the relationship between fame and social control; and the economics of the so-called celebrity industry. And as interest in celebrity continues to explode, a variety of forerunners to its studydrawing on materials from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies, history, psychology, organization studies, politics, film, and literary studieshave been rediscovered and reformulated. Among the lines of enquiry and critical tools that have been recuperated as pertinent to the study of celebrity are leadership, charisma, role models, heroes, role sets, ideology, manipulation, commodification, interpellation, narcissism, signification and individuality.The sheer scale of the ava
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisA term of antique provenance, âcosmopolitanismâ has developed and cohered into a critical concept in contemporary social and cultural analysis. However, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of the available research exploring the many, often controversial, issues attendant upon cosmopolitanismâand the breadth and complexity of the canon on which it drawsâmakes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new title in the highly regarded Routledge series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is so timely. It answers the urgent need for a wide-ranging collection to provide easy access to the key items of scholarly literature, material that is often inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books.In four volumes, this new collection addresses how key issues, such as globalization, migration, citizenship, social belonging, and cultural complexity and blending, are illuminated by reflections upon what cosmopolitanism is, or could be; and how cosmopolitan thinking and practice could, or does, impact upon such matters. The gathered materials also make sense of the revolutionary effects that debates on cosmopolitanism are having on research agendas and ways of thinking in sociology, and across the social sciences and humanities more generally.Cosmopolitanism is supplemented with a full index, and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Adaptation
Book SynopsisCultural borrowing is exploding across the world. Creative ideas are transferred and modified in ever increasing number and complexity making new products ranging from TV shows to architectural style in new cities. But what do we really know about the spread of creative ideas? This intriguing, engrossing, and comprehensive collection looks at the cultural and commercial dimensions of creative borrowing world wide with an international cast of contributors and case studies from India to Ireland, Canada to China. Cultural Adaptation explores how creative ideas are packaged and nationalised to meet local taste, maps the cultural economy of adaptation in entertainment media ranging from motion pictures to mobile phones, and even probes the role of cultural recipes and formats in mutating participatory experiences of theme parks and sporting spectacles. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the book also provides insight into remaking in lifestyle and consumption cultures including fashion, food, drink, and gambling. Essential for communication, cultural, media, leisure and consumption studies scholars and students alike, this book opens up important new perspectives on how we understand global creativity.This book was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The global flow of creative ideas Albert Moran and Michael Keane Part I: Media Cultures 2. Global franchising, local customizing: The cultural economy of TV program formats Albert Moran 3. ‘Dancing with my darlin’’: Patti Page and adaptation in pop music Anthony May 4. Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia Kelly McWilliam 5. Strategic regionalization in marketing campaigns: Beyond the standardization/glocalization debate John Sinclair and Rowan Wilken Part II: Leisure and Entertainment Cultures 6. Recombinant Broadway Jonathan Burston 7. Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard David Rowe and Callum Gilmour 8. Commercialization and culture in Australian gambling Richard Woolley 9. Localizing a global amusement park: Hong Kong Disneyland Anthony Fung and Micky Lee Part III: Public Cultures 10. Architecture on the move: Urban and architectural design in Inner Mongolia Bert de Muynck 11. Great adaptations: China’s creative clusters and the new social contract Michael Keane Part IV: Consuming Cultures 12. Adapting the mobile phone: The iPhone and its consumption Gerard Goggin 13. ‘Pigeon-eyed readers’: The adaptation and formation of a global Asian fashion magazine Jinna Tay 14. Craic in a box: Commodifying and exporting the Irish pub Bill Grantham Part V: Framework 15. Afterword: Albert and Michael’s recombinant DNA Toby Miller
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures and Identities in Transition Jungian
Book SynopsisCultures and Identities in Transition returns to the roots of analytical psychology, offering a thematic approach which looks at personal and cultural identities in relation to Jung’s own identity and the identities of contemporary Jungians. Trade Review"I found most chapters in this book intriguing and enlightening... There are several clinical examples presented by the authors that help to bring Jungian theories to life... As the introduction highights this book is for Jungian analysts however as a non-Jungian I have found most chapters to be of value in my own clinical practice." -Ranveer Dhillon, Journal of Critical Psychology, 16, 2015"What is Jungian Studies? One way to answer this question is to turn to this fine new collection of crafted essays, edited by Murray Stein and Raya A. Jones...this collection proves the fertility of the field...one can only have gratitude for a book such as this. It gives a taste and introduction to many fine writers and vital debates." – Susan Rowland, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 56, 2011"What is Jungian Studies? One way to answer this question is to turn to this fine new collection of crafted essays, edited by Murray Stein and Raya A. Jones...this collection proves the fertility of the field...one can only have gratitude for a book such as this. It gives a taste and introduction to many fine writers and vital debates." – Susan Rowland, Journal of Analytical Psychology, 56, 2011Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction. Colman, ‘Something Wrong with the World’: Towards an Analysis of Collective Paranoia. Herrmann, The Emergence of Moby Dick in the Dreams of a Five-Year-Old Boy. Langwieler, "Wotan": A Political Myth of the German Collective Unconscious. Three Debates of Shadow Aspects of the Collective Identities of Germans and Jews in the Germany of National-Socialism. Wieland-Burston, "Bubbe Mayseh" (The Archetype of Grandparents), or: Me and My Grandparents: Stories and History. Roesler, Archetypal Patterns in Postmodern Identity Construction – A Cultural Approach. Ramos, Creativity and Art as Part of the elaboration of trauma brought on by slavery. Miller, Traditional Coastal Sami Healers in Transition. Connolly, Daughters of the Devil: Feminine Subjectivity and the Female Vampire. Gaillard, Jung’s Art. Tacey, Jung: Rebuilding the Temple. Dourley, In the End it All Comes to Nothing: The Basis of Identity in Non-Identity. Bishop, Social (Collective) Unconsciousness and Mythic Scapegoating: C.G. Jung and René Girard. Hill, The Changing Images of God: An Anticipatory Appraisal of the Jung/White Encounter. Segal, Jung and White on Gnosticism. Weldon, Types Of Thomists: Victor White’s Use of Aquinas As Exemplar of a Dialectical Synthesis. Lammers, Bridge, Amalgam, Paper Clip: A Brief Typology. Kirsch, Reflections on the Word "Jungian". Kawai, Jungian Psychology in Japan between Mythological World and Contemporary Consciousness. Fredericksen, Arguments in Favour of a Jungian Hermeneutic of Suspicion.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sound Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis The Asian
Book SynopsisCultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis explores the creative dialogue that the major psychoanalysts since Freud have had with the modern Northern European/North American culture of individualism and tries to resolve major problems that occur when psychoanalysis, with its cultural legacy of individualism, is applied to those from various Asian cultures. Roland examines the theoretical issues involved in developing a multicultural psychoanalysis, and then looks at the interface between Asian-Americans and other Americans, discussing the frequent dissonances, miscommunications, and misunderstandings that result from each coming from vastly different cultural and psychological realms.Table of ContentsPart 1 A Comparative Psychoanalysis; Chapter 1 How Universal is the Psychoanalytic Self?; Part 2 The Asian and American Interface; Chapter 2 Walking the Bicultural Tightrope; Chapter 3 The Japanese and American Interface; Chapter 4 Cultural Hurdles and Inscrutable Muddles; Part 3 Clinical Issues; Chapter 5 Value Issues Involving American Psychoanalysts with Asian Patients; Chapter 6 The Cultural Self, the Personal Self, and Psychological Conflict; Chapter 7 The Influence of Culture on the Self and Selfobject Relationships; Chapter 8 Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapy with Indians and Japanese in the United States; Chapter 9 Sexuality, the Indian Extended Family, and Hindu Culture; Chapter 10 The Spiritual and the Magic-Cosmic in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapy; Chapter 11 The Psychological and the Psychosocial in Indian Organizational Relationships;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd German Bodies Race and Representation After
Book SynopsisGerman Bodies explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German history and contemporary German society. Uli Linke examines how Germans invested the body with meanings that had significance for the larger body politic and investigates how this fits within the larger consumer culture, social memory and the postwar democratization of the country. The book is divided into three sections discussing different aspects of the German cult of the body: Aryan aesthetics, as in the postwar obsession with white nudity; blood aesthetics, as in the demonization of immigrants as a blood-contagion; and cultural violence, as in the images of genocide and dismemberment evoked in political protests during German reunification.Trade Review"This is a marvelously evocative and worthwhile work of interpretation." -- Choice"Uli Linke's book provides the most comprehensive look in English at the fantasies about the "German" body in German thought and politics after the Shoah. Superbly illustrated, intelligently structured, Linke's study provides the sort of primer that has been missing to understand the basic concepts of Germanness which formed and continue to form the self-image of the "German" in a reunified Germany. A standard book for all interested in contemporary German Studies." -- Sander L. Gilman, Henry Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, University of Chicago"German Bodies offers a detailed and stimulating analysis of how the essentialisms of gender, blood, and race continue to operate in German cultural memory. This "anatomy of German nationhood," as Linke calls it, challenges many conventional assumptions, including my own, about discontinuities in German society following World War II. It is sure to provoke widespread debates." -- John Borneman, author of Settling Accounts: Violence,Justice and Accountability in Postsocialist States"Much of the wisdom that could be extracted from Linke's thought-provoking notions will be lost on readers who are not familiar with postmodern terminology and usage. On the other hand, those who take the book seriously will have new tools with which to view the changing, but historically burdened and burdensome, Germany." -- Journal of Anthropological Research"Exploring the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship across the political divide of 1945, Linke provides us with a fascinating prism through which to investigate continuity and change in modern Germany. This reassessment of Nazi visions of the Aryan body, its impact on the construction of national identity in the Third Reich, and its relationship to the public imagery of citizenship in postwar Germany elucidates one of the most crucial issues of German history from an entirely new angle. This work will doubtlessly be welcomed by historians, sociologists, and political scientists grappling with questions of citizenship, national identity, and political-cultural discourse in modern Western societies." -- Omer Bartov, Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of Hitler's Army:Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1991) and Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing,and Representation (1996)."The monographs by anthropologist Uli Linke and historian Uta G. Poiger break new ground in attending to the postfascist constructions of whiteness in East and West Germany that have been shaped by the legacy of the Holocaust and by German-American relations...pay close attention to the intersections of reace and gender, and...examine a larger and more diverse array of texts than do earlier studies of race." -- Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University, Signs: Journal of Women in Cultureand Society, Winter 2003Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; WHITE SKIN, ARYAN AESTHETICS; BLOOD, RACE, NATION; CULTURE, MEMORY, VIOLENCE; NOTES
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theory Matters
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2003. In this book on what theory means today, the general editor of the Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory explores how theory has altered the way the humanities do business. Theory got personal, went global, became popular, and in the process has changed everything we thought we knew about intellectual life. One of the most adroit and perceptive observers of the critical scene, Vincent Leitch offers these engaging snapshots to show how theory is at work. This is an utterly readable little book by one of our best historians on the theoretical turn that over the past thirty years has so powerfully changed the academy.Trade Review"Theory Matters is an authoritative and informed assessment of the current state of theory, which Vincent Leitch describes as "disaggregated" or "disorganized," a condition not of debility but of responsiveness to the cultural and socioeconomic conditions of contemporary society." -- John Guillory"In this readable book, Vincent Leitch provides a stimulating (and well organized!) overview of postmodern 'disorganization.' The chapters on the making of the Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory are a special bonus." -- Gerald Graff, Professor of English and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago"In this engaging and readable collection of essays, Vincent B. Leitch offers a diagnosis of the current state of literary and cultural studies." -- Josh Cohen, Literary TheoryTable of ContentsPreface, Vincent B. Leitch; Part 1 Theory Personalized, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 1 Theory Retrospective, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 2 Theory Favorites, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 3 Theory Fashion, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 4 Framing Theory, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 5 Inside the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 6 Consolidating Theory, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 7 Theory, Literature, And Literary Studies Today, Vincent B. Leitch; Part 2 Cultural Studies Practiced, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 8 Criticizing Globalization, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 9 The New Economic Criticisms, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 10 Postmodern Fashion, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 11 Blues Southwestern Style, Vincent B. Leitch; Chapter 12 Postmodern Interdisciplinary, Vincent B. LeitchProtocols for Anthology Headnotes, Vincent B. Leitch;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures of Forgery Making Nations Making Selves
Book SynopsisThis collection of 11 essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word forge - to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Figures Preface PART ONE: Forging Nations 1. Forging Truth in Medieval England 2. Forging a Past: The Sybilline Books and the Making of Rome 3. Forging Czechs: The Reinvention of National Identity in Bohemian Lands 4. Eclectic Fabrication: St. Petersburg and the Problem of Imperial Architectural Style 5. Forging Catalonia, or The Blankness of Dali PART TWO: Forging Selves 6. The Art of Forging Music and Musicians 7. Jean-Etienne Liotard's Envelopes of Self 8. Wrestling with Representation: Reforging Images of the Artist in the Russian Avant-garde 9. After the Death of the Author: The Fabrication of Helen Demidenko 10. Facts and Writing: Problems of Memory in Recent Memoirs 11. The Fascination of a Fake: The Hitler Diaries
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The Perseus Books Group The Essential Mcluhan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinese Sociologics An Anthropological Account of
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the links between individuals, families, communities and the state in China through ritual and myth.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Permissions, Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION, Chapter 2: WHY 'CULTURE'? WHY 'PRODUCTION'?, Chapter 3: HISTORY AND THE RHETORIC OF LEGITIMACY: THE MAZU CULT OF TAIWAN, Chapter 4: DIALECTICS OF ALIENATION: INDIVIDUALS AND COLLECTIVITIES IN CHINESE RELIGION, Chapter 5: POWER AND TRANSCENDENCE IN THE MAZU PILGRIMAGES OF TAIWAN, Chapter 6: 'POWER' AGAINST IDEOLOGY: A CRITIQUE OF FOUCAULTIAN USAGE, Chapter 7: WOMEN'S PRODUCTION: GENDER AND EXPLOITATION IN PATRILINEAL MODE, hapter 8: FATHERS AND SONS IN A PATRILINEAL MODE OF PRODUCTION OF DESIRE: PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE STORY OF NEZHA FROM FENGSHEN YANYI, Chapter 9: AFTERWORD: 'EXCESS', CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF ANALYSIS, Bibliography, Index
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Do We Have To Work
Book SynopsisA timely re-examination of our ideas about work and its relationship to our social and personal lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. What is Work and Why Do We Do It? 2. How Work Has Changed 3. The Discontents of Work 4. Good Work For All? Conclusion
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Harvard University Press Only Words
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British Museum Press Sicily culture and conquest
Book SynopsisA compelling book capturing the glory of Sicilyâs most significant periods, revealing the islandâs unique identity, history, achievements and culture.
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Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd The Art of the Siesta
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Phaidon Press Ltd ÃmigrÃs
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Phaidon Press Ltd Exotic
Book SynopsisA fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western cultureTrade Review"[Sund] argues with wit, intelligence and myriad examples, from the erudite to the pop, in this gorgeously illustrated book... Captivating."—1stdibs Introspective Magazine"A new book by Phiadon about our enduring love affair with the exotic and the strange in art and design."—Cover magazine"In our increasingly globalized world, the book serves as a fascinating reminder of how art has served as a tool of cultural assimilation."—Artnet
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Edinburgh University Press The New Italian Novel
Book SynopsisCritical introductions to fifteen contemporary novelists whose work is of international calibre.
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Edinburgh University Press John Stuart Blackie
Book SynopsisJohn Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe''s Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central.But Blackie was also a great ''public man'', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status.Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.Trade ReviewThis is an extremely well researched and written biography of one of the most important and, till now, most neglected figures in nineteenth-century Scottish life. -- Pol O Dochartaigh Modern Language Review Wallace's detailed biographical account is illuminating... In an age of bloated biographies, this book is a model of lucid concision. -- Mick Morris, Open University Creative Studies Annual The interest of Blackie's lisfe does not lie in his works, to which few will nw turn, but in the milieux in which he moved, and these are evoked by Wallace in this entertaining book with great skill and sensitivity and with indefatigable scholarship. -- R. D. Anderson History: The Journal of the Historical Association Wallace has undertaken a commendable task in revealing Blackie, the man, and placing him in the academic, social, political, national and international context through which he lived. -- Iain Hutchison History Scotland Stuart Wallace's new biogrpahy has much to commend it: lucidly written, it marshals data and offers shrewd comment on social contexts, Scotland's universities, British and European identities and the role Blackie played in reforming priorities in Scottish educational and political self-determination... Blackie was legendary in his time. This book is a valuable reminder of why, and of the unfinished victories he spent his life struggling for. Every library should have a copy. -- Alan Riach, University of Glasgow Scottish Studies Newsletter This is an extremely well researched and written biography of one of the most important and, till now, most neglected figures in nineteenth-century Scottish life. Wallace's detailed biographical account is illuminating... In an age of bloated biographies, this book is a model of lucid concision. The interest of Blackie's lisfe does not lie in his works, to which few will nw turn, but in the milieux in which he moved, and these are evoked by Wallace in this entertaining book with great skill and sensitivity and with indefatigable scholarship. Wallace has undertaken a commendable task in revealing Blackie, the man, and placing him in the academic, social, political, national and international context through which he lived. Stuart Wallace's new biogrpahy has much to commend it: lucidly written, it marshals data and offers shrewd comment on social contexts, Scotland's universities, British and European identities and the role Blackie played in reforming priorities in Scottish educational and political self-determination... Blackie was legendary in his time. This book is a valuable reminder of why, and of the unfinished victories he spent his life struggling for. Every library should have a copy.
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Edinburgh University Press An Environmental History of Great Britain
Book SynopsisThis is a history of the environment of England, Wales and Scotland, and of the interactions of people, place and nature since the last ice sheet withdrew some ten thousand years ago.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book, magisterial in compass, insightful, readable and the footnoted asides are a delight. Students, academics and those unconnected with the world of formal education will find much to enjoy and to inform. -- Kevin Edwards, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Aberdeen This is a worthy book full of rich detail, engaging with political philosophy very much on its own terms. Notably reader-friendly ! Fifty photos plus sixty tailor-made graphics make concepts lucid for non-specialists, and serve as concise summaries for professionals. Explanations of techniques and terminology offer keys which open doors for further reading ! Professor Simmon's book is one many kinds of readers will appreciate ! a book of such scale, so lively in style, inevitably stimulates arguments ! Readers will certainly find both information and enjoyment as I did This is easily one of the more successful and authoritative books on the environmental history of the UK and arguably the most successful to date in bringing the human and environmental together with equal understanding. It is well written, imparts a real breadth to the problem and moves freely between the large-scale perspective and the case study or local illustration. For those who are teaching the environmental history of the UK, this will be a benchmark text. Accessible, entertaining, tremendously well exemplified throughout, and a very thorough overview of British environmental history ! an idiosyncratic and magisterial overview of a complex and fascinating topic Both residents and vistors should find much of value in this informative text. -- K. B. Sterling, formerly Pace University Choice This is an excellent book, magisterial in compass, insightful, readable and the footnoted asides are a delight. Students, academics and those unconnected with the world of formal education will find much to enjoy and to inform. This is a worthy book full of rich detail, engaging with political philosophy very much on its own terms. Notably reader-friendly ! Fifty photos plus sixty tailor-made graphics make concepts lucid for non-specialists, and serve as concise summaries for professionals. Explanations of techniques and terminology offer keys which open doors for further reading ! Professor Simmon's book is one many kinds of readers will appreciate ! a book of such scale, so lively in style, inevitably stimulates arguments ! Readers will certainly find both information and enjoyment as I did This is easily one of the more successful and authoritative books on the environmental history of the UK and arguably the most successful to date in bringing the human and environmental together with equal understanding. It is well written, imparts a real breadth to the problem and moves freely between the large-scale perspective and the case study or local illustration. For those who are teaching the environmental history of the UK, this will be a benchmark text. Accessible, entertaining, tremendously well exemplified throughout, and a very thorough overview of British environmental history ! an idiosyncratic and magisterial overview of a complex and fascinating topic Both residents and vistors should find much of value in this informative text.
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Edinburgh University Press Religion Culture and Politics in the
Book SynopsisAn introduction to religions in America since the Civil War, with the main focus on the twentieth century.Trade ReviewWonderful. What I find most impressive is the clear-cut way Hulsether integrates religion, politics, and culture - no small task and a rarity in overviews of American religious history. It is comprehensive but also offers compelling case studies that illustrate the peculiar dynamics of twentieth century America, integrating economics, race relations, popular culture and other critical social forces into the story. This book is quite an achievement and will immediately stand out as a culturally informed, politically astute alternative guide to religion in contemporary America. -- Gary Laderman, Professor of American Religious History and Culture, Department of Religion, Emory University Wonderful. What I find most impressive is the clear-cut way Hulsether integrates religion, politics, and culture - no small task and a rarity in overviews of American religious history. It is comprehensive but also offers compelling case studies that illustrate the peculiar dynamics of twentieth century America, integrating economics, race relations, popular culture and other critical social forces into the story. This book is quite an achievement and will immediately stand out as a culturally informed, politically astute alternative guide to religion in contemporary America.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Mapping US Religion; Religion in American Studies and Cultural Studies; Strategies for Dealing with Religious Diversity; 1 Religion in North America Before the Twentieth Century; Native Americans Meet Europeans; From Red and White to Red, White, and Black; Key Players in European-American Religion During the Colonial Era; Expanding the Cast of Key Players; 2 Changes in the Religious Landscape in the Early Twentieth Century; New Key Players on the Landscape: Jews and Roman Catholics; Emergent Developments in the Protestant Mainstream; Three Final Groups, Plus Multiple Maps for Multiple Interactions of Our Key Players; 3 Religion and Social Conflict in the Early Twentieth Century; Religion, Wealth, and the Working Class; Religion and the Politics of Gender; Debates about War, Peace, and Foreign Relations; 4 Cultural Aspects of Religion in the Early Twentieth Century; Cultural Dimensions of Immigrant Religious Enclaves; Religion and Popular Culture; Battles for the Soul of Protestantism; 5 Shifts in the Religious Landscape From World War II to the Present; A Changing Map of Dazzling Religious Diversity; Collapse and Restructuring in the Old Protestant Establishment; Trends Among Other Key Players; 6 Religion and Evolving Social Conflicts from World War to the Present; Faces of African-American Religion and Politics; More on the Culture War; Thinking about the End of the World with Conservative Protestants; 7 Cultural Aspects of Religion from World War II to the Present; Creationism and the Emergence of a Postmodern Evangelicalism; Debates about Accepting Gay and Lesbian People; Religion in an Age of Consumerism; Faces of the Buddhist Sangha in America; Race and Religious Tradition in an Era of Cultural Hybridity; Mainstream Culture Warriors Respond to Rising Pluralism; Conclusion: Consensus, Pluralism, and Hegemony in US Religion; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press An Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction
Book SynopsisContemporary American Fiction introduces the work of a range of American authors, all of whom can be said to engage with postmodernism.Table of ContentsPreface; A Short Glossary of Critical Terms; A Short Glossary of Literary Terms; Introduction; Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction: An Introductory Bibliography; 1. Don DeLillo; Don DeLillo Biography; DeLillo on DeLillo; Links to other authors; Reading early DeLillo; Don DeLillo Bibliography; 2. Paul Auster; Paul Auster Biography; Auster on Auster; Links to other authors; Paul Auster Bibliography; 3. Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy Biography; Approaches to Cormac McCarthy; Links to other authors; Cormac McCarthy Bibliography; 4. Rolando Hinojosa; Rolando Hinojosa Biography; Links to other authors; Reading The Klail City Death Trip series; Rolando Hinojosa Bibliography; 5. E. Annie Proulx; E. Annie Proulx Biography; Proulx on Proulx; Links to other authors; E. Annie Proulx Bibliography; 6. Bret Easton Ellis; Bret Easton Ellis Biography; Ellis on Ellis; Links to other authors; Bret Easton Ellis Bibliography; 7. Douglas Coupland; Douglas Coupland Biography; Couplandisms; Links to other authors; Douglas Coupland Bibliography; Conclusion: Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon; Thematic Index; Author Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Scottish History
Book SynopsisThis book examines the power of the past upon the present. It shows how generations of Scots have exploited and reshaped history to meet the needs of a series of presents, from the conquest of the Picts to the refounding of Parliament.Trade ReviewEngaging, cogently argued, and challenging. [The editors] must be congratulated on assembling an impressive range of contributors ! shrewd and original ! compelling ! Collectively the volume constitutes a generally interesting and frequently stimulating and authoritative contribution to the analysis of Scottish history. The chapters are consistently engaging, adding up to an unusually coherent edited volume. It is a valuable addition to the literature. These essays are of a uniformly high standard! Scottish History, the Power of the Past is a fine achievement! it demonstrates the high quality of historical thought and writing in Scotland at the beginning of the twenty-first century! anyone with more than a passing interest in our history should make a point of reading it. Engaging, cogently argued, and challenging. [The editors] must be congratulated on assembling an impressive range of contributors ! shrewd and original ! compelling ! Collectively the volume constitutes a generally interesting and frequently stimulating and authoritative contribution to the analysis of Scottish history. The chapters are consistently engaging, adding up to an unusually coherent edited volume. It is a valuable addition to the literature. These essays are of a uniformly high standard! Scottish History, the Power of the Past is a fine achievement! it demonstrates the high quality of historical thought and writing in Scotland at the beginning of the twenty-first century! anyone with more than a passing interest in our history should make a point of reading it.
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Edinburgh University Press Aesthetics of the Natural Environment
Book SynopsisIn this systematic account of aesthetics in relation to the natural environment, Emily Brady provides critical understanding of what aesthetic appreciation of nature involves and develops her own distinctive aesthetic theory.Trade ReviewEmily Brady's timely Aesthetics of the Natural Environment provides a clear and systematic introduction to central topics in environmental aesthetics ! An excellent resource for anyone new to the area. Admirably comprehensive coverage of the subject. -- Professor Arnold Berleant, Emeritus Professor, Long Island University, USA Emily Brady's timely Aesthetics of the Natural Environment provides a clear and systematic introduction to central topics in environmental aesthetics ! An excellent resource for anyone new to the area. Admirably comprehensive coverage of the subject.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Aesthetic Appreciation; Aesthetic Experience; Aesthetic Qualities; Aesthetic Value; 2. Early Theories of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature; Aesthetic Appreciation before the 18th century; The Beautiful, the Sublime and the Picturesque; Romanticism and After; Towards the Contemporary Debate; 3. Culture, Art and Environment; Nature and Culture; Appreciating Art and Natural Environments; Meaning, Interpretation and Cultural Landscapes; 4. Contemporary Theories of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature; The Contemporary Debate; Cognitive Theories; Non-Cognitive Theories; 5. The Integrated Aesthetic I: Multi-Sensuous Engagement and Disinterestedness; The Integrated Aesthetic; Multi-Sensuous Engagement; Disinterestedness; Disinterestedness and Valuing Nature; 6. The Integrated Aesthetic II: Imagination, Emotion and Knowledge Imagination; Imagination and Natural Environments; The Communicability of Imagination; Emotion, Expressive Qualities and Nature; Knowledge in the Integrated Aesthetic; 7. Aesthetic Judgements of the Natural Environment and Aesthetic Communication; Aesthetic Judgements and Objectivity; Aesthetic Judgements of Nature; Agreement, Disagreement and the Problem of Taste; Aesthetic Communication; Aesthetic Criticism and Environmental Aesthetic Education; 8. Aesthetics, Ethics and Environmental Conservation; Aesthetic Value in Environmental Conservation; Landscape Character and the Integrated Aesthetic; Aesthetic Character and Aesthetic Integrity: The Case of the Harris Superquarry; Aesthetics, Ethics and Conservation; Aesthetics and Respect for Nature; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Orientalism
Book SynopsisThis Reader provides the student with a selection of key readings from this debate, covering a range of areas including myth, imperialism, the cultural perspective, Marxist interpretation and feminist attitudes.Trade Reviewthis collection is indispensible for any reading list dealing even marginally with Orientalism. For students this new reader will be most helpful because it supplies a good selection of readings which will enable students to examine the elements of the modern theory of anti-Orientalism and some of the main criticisms of that theory. The division between Orientalists and anti-Orientalists is as complete as that which formerly obtained between Marxists and Anti-Marxists. It is a compliment to Dr Macfie that he has produced a reader of such balance that it could well be found tolerable by both groups. The arrival of a 'reader', a collection of 'texts' on the subject, seems to draw a line under the fierce debates of the sixties to eighties. The topic becomes a subject for textual study; Alexander Macfie's book provides a painless visit of the battlefields...orientalism is a good topic for a reader since the literature is diverse and dispersed, and Macfie has done a good job. There can be little doubt that a reader covering this debate [on Orientalism] would be of enormous value to a whole variety of courses in several disciplines in many Universities across the English-speaking world, as well as in Europe. -- Professor John Mackenzie, Lancaster University this collection is indispensible for any reading list dealing even marginally with Orientalism. For students this new reader will be most helpful because it supplies a good selection of readings which will enable students to examine the elements of the modern theory of anti-Orientalism and some of the main criticisms of that theory. The division between Orientalists and anti-Orientalists is as complete as that which formerly obtained between Marxists and Anti-Marxists. It is a compliment to Dr Macfie that he has produced a reader of such balance that it could well be found tolerable by both groups. The arrival of a 'reader', a collection of 'texts' on the subject, seems to draw a line under the fierce debates of the sixties to eighties. The topic becomes a subject for textual study; Alexander Macfie's book provides a painless visit of the battlefields...orientalism is a good topic for a reader since the literature is diverse and dispersed, and Macfie has done a good job. There can be little doubt that a reader covering this debate [on Orientalism] would be of enormous value to a whole variety of courses in several disciplines in many Universities across the English-speaking world, as well as in Europe.Table of ContentsPart 1: Foundations of a Myth 1. The Indian Form of Government, James Mill; 2. Gorgeous Edifices, G. W. F. Hegel; 3. The British Rule in India, Karl Marx; Part 2: The Rise of Oriental Studies 4. Les Commencements de l'Orientalisme, Pierre Martino; 5. The Asiatic Society of Calcutta, Raymond Schwab; Part 3: The Foundations of a Critique 6. Phenomenon and Thing-in-itself, F. Nietzsche; 7. On Hegemony and Direct Rule, A. Gramsci; 8. Truth and Power, M. Foucault; Part 4: Orientalism in Crisis 9. Orientalism in Crisis, Anouar Abdel-Malek; 10. English-speaking Orientalism, A. L. Tibawi; Part 5: An Apology for Orientalism 11. Apology for Orientalism, F. Gabrieli; Part 6: An Elaborate Account 12. Shattered Myths, E. Said; 13. Arabs, Islam and the Dogmas of the West, E. Said; 14. My Thesis, E. Said; 15. On Flaubert, E. Said; 16. Latent and Manifest Orientalism, E. Said; Part 7: A Marxist Interpretation 17. Marx and the End of Orientalism, B. S. Turner; Part 8: An American Response 18. Three Arab Critiques of Orientalism, D. P. Little; Part 9: Further Critiques 19. Second Critique of English-speaking Orientalists, A. L. Tibawi; 20. On the Orientalists Again, A. L. Tibawi; Part 10: Said's Orientalism: Reviews and Review Articles 21. Orientalism at the Service of Imperialism, S. Schaar; 22. Hermeneutics versus History, D. Kopf; 23. Enough Said, M. Richardson; 24. Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse, Sadik Jalal Al-Azm; 25. Orientalism: A Black Perspective, Ernest J. Wilson III; 26. The Question of Orientalism, Bernard Lewis; Part 11: Qualifications and Elaboration 27. "Gorgeous East" versus "Land of Regrets", E. J. Moore-Gilbert; 28. Orientalist Constructions of India, R. Inden; 29. Between Orientalism and Historicism, Aijaz Ahmad; 30. Humanising the Arabs, B. Melman; 31. Indology and the Case of Germany, S. Pollock; 32. Turkish Embassy Letter, L. Lowe; 33. History, Theory and the Arts, J. MacKenzie; Part 12: Orientalism and Feminism 34. Orientalism, Hinduism and Feminism, R. King; Part 13: Orientalism Reconsidered 35. Orientalism Reconsidered, E. Said; Part 14: Beyond Orientalism 36. Exit from Orientalism, F. Dallmayr; 37. From Orientalism to Global Sociology, B. S. Turner.
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Edinburgh University Press Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to collect the most important contributions to the theory of the postmodern novel over the last forty years and to guide readers through the complex questions and wide-ranging debates. The selections in this book will enable readers to place the theory of postmodern fiction in a broader intellectual and cultural context.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Postmodernism; 1: The Postmodern Condition; MAPPING POSTMODERNISM; 1. Fredric Jameson, 'The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' (1991); 2. David Harvey, 'Time-space Compression and the Postmodern Condition' (1989); 3. Andreas Huyssen, 'Mapping the Postmodern' (1986); NARRATIVE, KNOWLEDGE, REPRESENTATION; 4. Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979); 5. Jean Baudrillard, 'The Precession of Simulacra' (1981); IRONY AND 'DOUBLE-CODING'; 6. Umberto Eco, 'Postmodernism, Irony, The Enjoyable' (1985); 7. Charles Jencks, Post-Modernism Defined' (1986); DIAGNOSING POSTMODERNISM; 8. Slavoj Zizek 'You May!' (1998); 2: The Postmodern Turn; 9. John Barth, 'The Literature of Exhaustion' (1967); 10. Irving Howe, 'Mass Society and post-modern fiction' (1959); 11. Susan Sontag, 'One Culture and the New Sensibility' (1965); 12. Leslie Fiedler, 'Cross the Border - Close the Gap' (1969); 13. William Spanos, 'The Detective and the Boundary: Some Notes on the Postmodern Literary Imagination' (1972); 14. Ihab Hassan, 'POSTmodernISM: A Paracritical Bibliography' (1971); 15. Gerald Graff, 'The Myth of the Postmodernist Breakthrough' (1973); 3: Postmodern Poetics; THE NOVEL FORM; 16. Roland Barthes, from S/Z (1970); 17. Mikhail Bakhtin, from 'Dialogue and the Novel' (1981); 18. Patricia Waugh, from Metafiction (1984); TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTMODERN FICTION; 19. David Lodge, 'Postmodernist Fiction' (1977); 20. Brian McHale, 'Change of Dominant' (1986); 21. Linda Hutcheon, from A Poetics of Postmodernism (1988); POSTMODERN GENRE; 22. Stephano Tani, from The Doomed Detective (1984); 4: Postmodern Politics; POLITICS AND FICTIONALITY; 23. Linda Hutcheon, from The Politics of Postmodernism (1989); 24. Thomas Docherty, 'The Ethics of Alterity' (1988); 25. Paul Maltby, from Dissident Postmodernists (1991); FEMINISM AND POSTMODERNISM; 26. Meaghan Morris, 'Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism' (1993); 27. Donna Haraway, 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s' (1985); IS THE 'POST' IN POSTCOLONIAL THE SAME AS THE 'POST' IN POSTMODERN?; 28. bell hooks, 'Postmodern Blackness' (1993); 29. Kwame Anthony Appiah, 'The Postcolonial and the Postmodern' (1992); TECHNOLOGY AND PARANOIA; 30. Veronica Hollinger, 'Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism' (1990); 31. Patrick O'Donnell, 'Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative', (1992); Works Cited.
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Edinburgh University Press Visions of the City
Book SynopsisVisions of the City is a dramatic account of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes.Trade ReviewA superb critical exploration of the underside of utopian thought over the last hundred years and its continuing relevance in the here and now for thinking about possible urban worlds. The treatment of the Situationists and their milieu is a revelation. -- David Harvey [Pinder] is both a wise and imaginative guide through the tradition and counter-tradition of utopian plans and visions. Visions of the City makes several new claims on the reader's attention: a critical consideration of the situationists in the context of twentieth-century urbanism, expecially Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier; a depth of research and a careful historicization of the different situationists at different moments in the movement's history; and an analysis of the situationaists' urbanism specifically in the context of utopia. A superb critical exploration of the underside of utopian thought over the last hundred years and its continuing relevance in the here and now for thinking about possible urban worlds. The treatment of the Situationists and their milieu is a revelation. [Pinder] is both a wise and imaginative guide through the tradition and counter-tradition of utopian plans and visions. Visions of the City makes several new claims on the reader's attention: a critical consideration of the situationists in the context of twentieth-century urbanism, expecially Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier; a depth of research and a careful historicization of the different situationists at different moments in the movement's history; and an analysis of the situationaists' urbanism specifically in the context of utopia.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. INTRODUCTION; An urban adventure; Underground visions; Utopian spaces past and present; In the wake of utopia?; Utopia, desire and the city; Outline of the chapters; 2. RESTORATIVE UTOPIAS; Utopian awakenings; The vision of Ebenezer Howard; Smokeless, slumless cities; The 'master key' to socio-spatial reform; Biologically sound cities and bodies; Securing space; 3. MODERNIST CALLS TO ORDER; Time and space died yesterday; Le Corbusier and the spirit of construction; Spatial purification; Water-tight formulae; Urban surgery; Political authority and the plan; 4. DREAMS OF CITIES AND MONSTERS; Between two journeys; White cathedrals: confronting New York; Of monsters and organic life; Utopian regulation and authoritarianism; Counter-spaces of the surrealists; Destabilising dreams of order; 5. SITUATIONIST ADVENTURES; To build the hacienda; The critique of human geography; Environments of abstraction; Bringing fuel to the fire; Never work; Unchaining the city; In quest of new spaces; 6.THE GREAT GAME TO COME; A science fiction of architecture; Unitary urbanism and the construction of situations; Passionate environments; Living art of the Imaginist Bauhaus; Games with machines; A camp for nomads; 7. LIFE WILL RESIDE IN POETRY; Welcome to New Babylon; Play structures; Paradise on earth; Not yet: utopianism and games to come; For another city and another life; A lived utopianism; Reappropriating cities: urban critique; 8. PARTISANS OF POSSIBILITIES; Dark skies; For utopianism; Re-dreaming modernist urbanism; Spaces and times of the avant-garde; Challenges of utopia; Future paths; Notes; Selected bibliography; Illustration credits; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Working Feminism
Book SynopsisWorking Feminism looks at key concepts and debates within feminist theory and puts them to work concretely in relation to the real problems faced by Filipina domestic workers and Asian youth in Canada.Trade ReviewA wonderful illustration of how to do good critical social science research in which significant theoretical and political debates are brought together and into productive tension through the lens of a concrete case study ! I wholeheartedly recommend this book ! It is an excellent contribution to a critical human geography committed to combating inequality and injustice. Provides rich detail and soul to the bald story told by labour market statistics! this book powerfully reinforces evidence of a global chain of exploitation! the book's energy and passion owe much to [Geraldine Pratt's] collaboration with an activist group, the Philippine Women's Center. A wonderful illustration of how to do good critical social science research in which significant theoretical and political debates are brought together and into productive tension through the lens of a concrete case study ! I wholeheartedly recommend this book ! It is an excellent contribution to a critical human geography committed to combating inequality and injustice. Provides rich detail and soul to the bald story told by labour market statistics! this book powerfully reinforces evidence of a global chain of exploitation! the book's energy and passion owe much to [Geraldine Pratt's] collaboration with an activist group, the Philippine Women's Center.Table of ContentsContents; List of figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Putting Feminist Theory to Work; 2 Spatialising the Subject of Feminism; 3 From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny; 4 Liberalism, Universalisms and Democratic Feminist Politics; 5 Working at the Borders of Liberalism; 6 Gleaning the Home; 7 Trafficking Across Borders; 8 Song Flies Home; References; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Fantasies of Fetishism
Book SynopsisThis book is about cultural fantasies of fetishism, the different forms they take and the various ways in which the transformative processes they depict can reaffirm accepted definitions of identity or reconfigure them in an entirely new fashion.Trade ReviewA compelling, demanding and often entertaining discussion of the extensive cultural implications of 'fetishism'! littered with fascinating photographic imagery ! an important contribution to contemporary cultural theory and, more specifically, to the ever growing field of post-human thought ... this work provides fascinating insights into an oft-ignored aspect of human behaviour and culture. The combination of succinct close reading of accessible texts with information gained in interviews and via observation at venues not usually frequented by academics, such as fetish clubs and dungeons is one of the strengths of Fernbach's analysis. Fantasies of Fetishism is an interesting and challenging work that is even more admirable for its explication of sophisticated and original arguments. There is no doubt that this book is a major achievement in opening up new directions for psychoanalytic cultural criticism and studies of contemporary technoculture. -- Zoe Sofoulis, School of Humanities, University of Western Sydney The author has brought together a great deal of thinking that challenges or expands traditional Freudian theory of fetishism and, in effect, thereby creates a new master theory to use in her history. I respect and approve of such bold work. -- Professor John Maynard, School of English, New York University This book provides a genuinely original contribution to cultural criticism. The way Fernbach educates as she entertains is a rare and welcome achievement. -- Dr Rosalyn Diprose, School of Philosophy, University of New South Wales A compelling, demanding and often entertaining discussion of the extensive cultural implications of 'fetishism'! littered with fascinating photographic imagery ! an important contribution to contemporary cultural theory and, more specifically, to the ever growing field of post-human thought ... this work provides fascinating insights into an oft-ignored aspect of human behaviour and culture. The combination of succinct close reading of accessible texts with information gained in interviews and via observation at venues not usually frequented by academics, such as fetish clubs and dungeons is one of the strengths of Fernbach's analysis. Fantasies of Fetishism is an interesting and challenging work that is even more admirable for its explication of sophisticated and original arguments. There is no doubt that this book is a major achievement in opening up new directions for psychoanalytic cultural criticism and studies of contemporary technoculture. The author has brought together a great deal of thinking that challenges or expands traditional Freudian theory of fetishism and, in effect, thereby creates a new master theory to use in her history. I respect and approve of such bold work. This book provides a genuinely original contribution to cultural criticism. The way Fernbach educates as she entertains is a rare and welcome achievement.Table of ContentsPart One: Cultural Fetishisms; Introduction; 1. Millennial Decadence and Decadent Fetishism; 2. Magical Fetishism: Worshipping at the Technological Altar; Part Two: Fetishised Subjectivities; 3. Forms of Technofetishism and Future Selves: Negotiating the Post-Human Terrain; 4. Fetishism at the Professional Dungeon: the Dominatrix and her Male Slave; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Postcolonial Cultures
Book SynopsisThis is a clearly-written introduction to the study of postcolonial cultures which broadens the reach of postcolonial theory and criticism.Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; 1. The Nervous Conditions of Postcolonial Studies; 2. Music; 3. Body Cultures; 4. Film; 5. The Irrational and the Postcolonial; 6. Memory; 7. Land; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press PostMarxism Versus Cultural Studies
Book SynopsisAn innovative exploration of the ethical and political relationship between Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist theory.Trade Review! this book will be indispensable in the ongoing and endless work of deciding what cultural studies and its intervention can be. -- Dave Huddart, Chinese Unievrsity of Hong Kong Borderlands e-journal In the first sustained scholarly assessment of the scandal of post-Marxism Bowman traces the struggle -- both intellectual and political -- of academic Marxism to keep its footing on the long march through the institution. As the "versus" that hinges his title suggests, neither post-Marxism nor Cultural Studies remain unscathed by Bowman's staging of this face off. Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies rewards the serious reader concerned to come to terms with the discursive politics of the contemporary university. -- John Mowitt, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota This is an exciting field which is beginning to open up a sustained "thinking about" politics from a post-structuralist perspective ! This is an ambitious book which will make a significant impact in its field. -- Martin McQuillan, Professor of Cultural Theory and Analysis, University of Leeds This book offers a much-needed contribution to a delayed debate on the orientation of both disciplines. Its discussion of the relation between academic work and the institutional political terrain will attract specialised readers in particular. -- Hakki Tas, Yale University Political Studies Review ! this book will be indispensable in the ongoing and endless work of deciding what cultural studies and its intervention can be. In the first sustained scholarly assessment of the scandal of post-Marxism Bowman traces the struggle -- both intellectual and political -- of academic Marxism to keep its footing on the long march through the institution. As the "versus" that hinges his title suggests, neither post-Marxism nor Cultural Studies remain unscathed by Bowman's staging of this face off. Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies rewards the serious reader concerned to come to terms with the discursive politics of the contemporary university. This is an exciting field which is beginning to open up a sustained "thinking about" politics from a post-structuralist perspective ! This is an ambitious book which will make a significant impact in its field. This book offers a much-needed contribution to a delayed debate on the orientation of both disciplines. Its discussion of the relation between academic work and the institutional political terrain will attract specialised readers in particular.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; One - Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism; Introduction: Of Deconstruction into Politics; The Text of Cultural Studies; The Problem with the Text; The Institutional Articulation and Dissemination of Texts and Discourses; Two - Cultural Studies versus Post-Marxism; Two Texts of Cultural Studies; Stuart Hall's Closure versus Post-Marxist Discourse; The Political Disciplinary Object; Textual versus Discourse Analysis; Cultural Studies versus Political Analysis; The Object of the Subject; Deconstruction versus Post-Marxism; Three - Theory versus Practice; Practice versus Theory; Theory versus Practice; Post-Marxist Theory and Practice; Banal Pragmatism versus High Theory; The (Dis)Articulation of Theory and Practice; Knaves versus Fools; Investments and Institutions; Four - Post-Marxist Cultural Studies' Theory, Politics and Intervention; Relations and Effects; The Necessity of Articulation; The Necessity of Institution; The (Dis)Articulation of Post-Marxism and Politics; For a New Intervention; The Necessity of Deconstruction; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory
Book SynopsisAll memories invoke imagined pasts, but do the ways we remember share a common imaginary? In seeking to interpret Scottish culture in the recent past as a series of encounters with modernity, this study draws on a wide range of sources to explore relationships between perceptions of place, belonging and identity in one nation.Trade ReviewA tour de force by Andrew Blaikie, who tells us that the Scots didn't invent the modern world; we only imagined it. And in so doing, we have become creatures of those images. -- David McCrone, Edinburgh University A tour de force by Andrew Blaikie, who tells us that the Scots didn't invent the modern world; we only imagined it. And in so doing, we have become creatures of those images.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of illustrations; Chapter 1 Scotland and the places of memory; SECTION 1 ENCOUNTERING MODERNITY: Chapter 2 Before and after modernity: the legacy of Adam Ferguson; Chapter 3 The eyes of modernity: John Grierson's sociology; SECTION II PLACING IDENTITIES: Chapter 4 Among the wee Nazareths: myths of moral community; Chapter 5 Retrieving 'that invisible leeway': landscapes, cultures, belonging; SECTION III LOCAL VISIONS: Chapter 6 A pattern of islands: photographs in the cultural account; Chapter 7 Remembering 'The Forgotten Gorbals'; Chapter 8 Finding ways home; Index
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Edinburgh University Press The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory
Book SynopsisBlaikie explores how our different ways of seeing influence the relationship between place and belonging. He argues that our memories, however brief or complex, invoke imagined pasts. But do our recollections share a common frame of reference? Blaikie's cross-disciplinary exploration sets out to answer this question. Includes numerous case studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of illustrations; Chapter 1 Scotland and the places of memory; SECTION 1 ENCOUNTERING MODERNITY: Chapter 2 Before and after modernity: the legacy of Adam Ferguson; Chapter 3 The eyes of modernity: John Grierson's sociology; SECTION II PLACING IDENTITIES: Chapter 4 Among the wee Nazareths: myths of moral community; Chapter 5 Retrieving 'that invisible leeway': landscapes, cultures, belonging; SECTION III LOCAL VISIONS: Chapter 6 A pattern of islands: photographs in the cultural account; Chapter 7 Remembering 'The Forgotten Gorbals'; Chapter 8 Finding ways home; Index
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Edinburgh University Press American Culture in the 1980s
Book SynopsisThis book looks beyond the common label of ''Ronald Reagan''s America'' to chart the complex intersection of cultures in the 1980s. In doing so it provides an insightful account of the major cultural forms of 1980s America - literature and drama; film and television; music and performance; art and photography - and influential texts and trends of the decade: from White Noise to Wall Street, from Silicon Valley to MTV, and from Madonna to Cindy Sherman. A focused chapter considers the changing dynamics of American culture in an increasingly globalised marketplace.Key Features: focused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trends; chronology of 1980s American culture; bibliographies for each chapter; and ten black-and-white illustrations.Trade ReviewA fresh angle on cultural works recent enough to exist in the collective memory, but also now distant enough to warrant analytical consideration within a discrete historical framework. -- Paul Giles, Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford A fresh angle on cultural works recent enough to exist in the collective memory, but also now distant enough to warrant analytical consideration within a discrete historical framework.Table of ContentsChronology of the 1980s; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1: Literature and Drama; Chapter 2: Film and Television; Chapter 3: Music and Performance; Chapter 4: Art and Photography; Chapter 5: American Culture and Globalisation; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1980s; General bibliography on 1980s American culture; Separate representative bibliographies for each chapter; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press American Cold War Culture
Book SynopsisAlthough it is fifty years since the height of the Cold War, recent events have seen a resurgence of surveillance, paranoia and nuclear threats. Cultural critics and politicians are drawing parallels between the threat of Communism in the 1950s and 1960s and the present ''axis of evil''. This book taps into this interest, drawing on work from prominent academics as well as new theorists working in the field of Cold War Studies.American Cold War Culture guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as introducing a number of previously neglected themes, films and texts. Divided into two parts (Cultural Themes and Cultural Forms) it features chapters on the themes of Gender and Sexuality; Race; Politics; the Family; Mobility; and the cultural forms of Film; Literature; Poetry; Television. The authors take a case study approach, and each chapter is prefaced by a contextualising introduction to the general theme or form being covered, ensuring accessibility to the broadest possibleTrade ReviewThis book will work particularly well for teachers and students of American Studies at undergraduate level. The volume offers both a useful interdisciplinary overview of the major cultural issues for any student trying to get to grips with both the highbrow and everyday culture of the 1950s, as well as a well-measured introduction to newer ways of thinking about the relationship between politics and culture in the period. -- Dr Peter Knight, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester The volume addresses a topic that has become central to undergraduate courses in American Studies. Douglas Field's inclusion of essays on the construction of race and sexuality during the cold war renders the volume a vital resource as well for interdisciplinary courses that cross academic programs in gender studies, women's studies and African-American Studies as well. -- Professor Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire This book will work particularly well for teachers and students of American Studies at undergraduate level. The volume offers both a useful interdisciplinary overview of the major cultural issues for any student trying to get to grips with both the highbrow and everyday culture of the 1950s, as well as a well-measured introduction to newer ways of thinking about the relationship between politics and culture in the period. The volume addresses a topic that has become central to undergraduate courses in American Studies. Douglas Field's inclusion of essays on the construction of race and sexuality during the cold war renders the volume a vital resource as well for interdisciplinary courses that cross academic programs in gender studies, women's studies and African-American Studies as well.Table of ContentsTable of Contents; Introduction; Douglas Field; SECTION ONE: CULTURAL THEMES; 1. THE FAMILY: Postwar Family Roles and the Polio Crisis; Jacqueline Foertsch; 2. GENDER AND SEXUALITY: Cold War Homophobia in All About Eve; Robert Corber; 3. POLITICS: Containment and the Cultural Construction of the Cold War; David Ryan; 4. MOBILITY: Trailers in Cold War America; Dina Smith; 5. RACE AND THE COLD WAR: Anxiety and Assimilation; Douglas Field;; SECTION TWO: CULTURAL FORMS; 6. FILM: Disney's Song of the South and the Birth of the White Negro; Catherine Gunther Kodat; 7. LITERATURE: George Orwell and the Cold War; Scott Lucas; 8. TELEVISION: TV, Korea, and Cold War Brainwashing; Alan Nadel; 9. POETRY: American Poetry of the 1950s and 1960s; Hugh Stevens.
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Edinburgh University Press Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Islam, today the faith of more than a billion people, set in the context of world history and of religious studies.Trade ReviewA useful and thought-provoking addition by a specialist in the study of Islam. It is full of significant insights ! The book presents an interesting perspective for rethinking how contemporary Islam is taught in undergraduate level courses in the West and it is sufficiently rich in detail to provide a starting point for further reading. In seeking to restore a sense of proportion and balance to the image of Islam for his Western readers, Ernst gives proper weight to the layers of mystical humanism, philosophical speculation and hermeneutical flexibility that are no less a part of the Islamic tradition than the legacies of conquest and militancy. A major contribution to explaining the faith of Muslims to people in the West. -- Professor Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London It works splendidly as an introduction that can be used both in the classroom and for the general public. -- Professor Michael Sells, Haverford College, PA A useful and thought-provoking addition by a specialist in the study of Islam. It is full of significant insights ! The book presents an interesting perspective for rethinking how contemporary Islam is taught in undergraduate level courses in the West and it is sufficiently rich in detail to provide a starting point for further reading. In seeking to restore a sense of proportion and balance to the image of Islam for his Western readers, Ernst gives proper weight to the layers of mystical humanism, philosophical speculation and hermeneutical flexibility that are no less a part of the Islamic tradition than the legacies of conquest and militancy. A major contribution to explaining the faith of Muslims to people in the West. It works splendidly as an introduction that can be used both in the classroom and for the general public.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Islam in the Eyes of the West; 2. Approaching Islam in Terms of Religion; 3. The Sacred Sources of Islam; 4. Ethics and Life in the World; 5. Spirituality in Practice; 6. Postscript: Reimagining Islam in the 21st Century; Notes; Suggested Further Reading; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The American Counterculture
Book SynopsisThis introduction explores the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture.Trade ReviewAn adroit and hugely enjoyable study of American counterculture, Christopher Gair moves fluently and perceptively across fiction, music, painting and film, and demonstrates with great skill the contradictions and tensions internal to countercultural forms and the degree to which they become assimilated to the imperatives of pre-existing ideologies. Gair negotiates the canonical and non-canonical in each of his fields with an adventurousness that is wonderfully informed, lively and stimulating -- Professor Ian FA Bell, University of Keele This study of the American counterculture in the post war period offers an immensely readable overview of a complex and many-stranded topic. Strongly informed by a detailed knowledge of the history and politics of the era, the book charts two chronological stages (1945-60 and 1960-72) in the emergence and flourishing of the counterculture, focusing on the four fields of fiction, music, painting and film. This is a fine book and one that can be enjoyed by the knowledgeable general reader as well as by an academic audience. Its range, content and comparative approach make it an example of American cultural studies at its best -- Peter Messent, University of Nottingham As Christopher Gair's extremely knowledgable study The American Counterculture shows, an array of literature, music, art and film from 1945 to 1972 constitute a much broader understanding of the complex relationships between mainstream, popular culture and its peripheral or oppositional coutnerparts... Each chapter interveaves its content with analyses and insightful commentary from throughout the book, providing an accessible and entertaining overview... The American Counterculture provides an excellent introduction to a complex subject and a telling investigation of the counterculture, from an original perspective for those already familiar with teh area of study. -- Kevin Hunt, Nottingham Trent University American Studies Today A significant contribution to the field. -- Adriana Neagu, Universitatea Babe?-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca American Studies Today An adroit and hugely enjoyable study of American counterculture, Christopher Gair moves fluently and perceptively across fiction, music, painting and film, and demonstrates with great skill the contradictions and tensions internal to countercultural forms and the degree to which they become assimilated to the imperatives of pre-existing ideologies. Gair negotiates the canonical and non-canonical in each of his fields with an adventurousness that is wonderfully informed, lively and stimulating This study of the American counterculture in the post war period offers an immensely readable overview of a complex and many-stranded topic. Strongly informed by a detailed knowledge of the history and politics of the era, the book charts two chronological stages (1945-60 and 1960-72) in the emergence and flourishing of the counterculture, focusing on the four fields of fiction, music, painting and film. This is a fine book and one that can be enjoyed by the knowledgeable general reader as well as by an academic audience. Its range, content and comparative approach make it an example of American cultural studies at its best As Christopher Gair's extremely knowledgable study The American Counterculture shows, an array of literature, music, art and film from 1945 to 1972 constitute a much broader understanding of the complex relationships between mainstream, popular culture and its peripheral or oppositional coutnerparts... Each chapter interveaves its content with analyses and insightful commentary from throughout the book, providing an accessible and entertaining overview... The American Counterculture provides an excellent introduction to a complex subject and a telling investigation of the counterculture, from an original perspective for those already familiar with teh area of study. A significant contribution to the field.Table of ContentsSection 1: 1945-1960 Introduction 1. The Beat Generation 2. Abstract Expressionism 3. Hollywood Beat 4. Rock and Roll Section II: 1961-1975 Interlude 5. Literature in the 1960s 6. Art in the 1960s 7. Movies and the Counterculture 8. From Civil Rights to Woodstock Conclusion
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