Fictions of the City

Matthew Taunton

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Look... Lees meer

Conditions of Music

Alan Durant

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Music is performed, reproduced, and heard differently today as a result of twentieth-century technology. A new consideration of these changes is a pra... Lees meer

Literature and Film, Dispositioned

Alice Gavin

• Hardcover | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film - silent film in particular - as a means to thinking ab... Lees meer

Individualism, Decadence and Globalization

Regenia Gagnier

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultura... Lees meer

Culture and Government

Ian Hunter

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Since the Romantics culture has been identified with the promise of a complete development of human capacities and, typically, the 'rise of English' h... Lees meer

Talking Cure

• Hardcover | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• 'The essays are exemplary in their stylistic clarity. One can only compliment MacCabe along with the contributors, for the readability and conceptual ... Lees meer

Stalin on Linguistics and Other Essays

P Gray

• Hardcover | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Piers Gray was one of the most brilliant literary writers of his generation. These essays ranging from Oscar Wilde to Levin, from Shakespeare to pulp ... Lees meer

Film, Form and Phantasy

M O'Pray

• Hardcover | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• This book explores the ideas of the neglected English aesthetician and art historian, Adrian Stokes. Stokes's Kleinian-based concepts of carving and m... Lees meer

Memory and Imagination in Film

P Lombardo

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory an... Lees meer

Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy

M Kavka

• Hardcover | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy shifts current discussions of media and reality from the informative to the affective, from knowledge to feeli... Lees meer

Italian Family Matters

Lesley Caldwell

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Italian Family Matters examines the debates and political priorities that led to significant changes in the law and its relation to women and the fami... Lees meer

Interpretation as Pragmatics

J Lecercle

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Why is it that all interpretations are possible, and none is true? That some interpretations are just, but some are false? Lecercle draws on the resou... Lees meer

Statutes of Liberty

G Ward

• Hardcover | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ash... Lees meer

The Force of Language

D Riley, J Lecercle

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• The Force of Language illustrates how the philosophy of Language, if differently conceived, can directly incorporate questions of political thought an... Lees meer

Visual and Other Pleasures

Laura Mulvey

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and ... Lees meer

Politics and Culture: Working Hypotheses for a Post-Revolutionary Society

Michael Ryan

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• A political sociology textbook which examines the impact of political thought on a society's culture, and theorizes on the attitudes a post-revolution... Lees meer

Representing the Woman

Elizabeth Cowie

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis examines the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts o... Lees meer

Signifying Nothing

B Rotman

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Preface - List of Illustrations - Opening - Number, Vision, Money - Emergence of a Meta-Subject - Nothing: Zero - Absence of an Origin - Notes and Ref... Lees meer

'Am I That Name?'

Denise Riley

• Hardcover | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Writing about changes in the notion of womanhood, Denise Riley examines, in the manner of Foucault, shifting historical constructions of the category ... Lees meer

James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word

Colin Maccabe

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• This second edition of Colin MacCabe's James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word reprints a classic critical text on Joyce and adds a wealth of new m... Lees meer

Before Modernism Was

G Gilbert

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, an... Lees meer

Salvaging Spenser

W Maley

• Hardcover | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• Salvaging Spenser is a major new work of literary revision which places Edmund Spenser's corpus, from The Shepheardes Calender to A View of the Presen... Lees meer

Death of Life

Stanley Shostak

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• The Death of Life dissects biology's claim to be the Cinderella science that rose above its station. Early attempts to study life through observation,... Lees meer

A Fractured Landscape of Modernity

J Wilkes

• Paperback | Engels | Language, Discourse, Society
• This book uses the contradictions, fractures and coincidences of a twentieth-century rural landscape to explore new methods of writing place beyond 'n... Lees meer