Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel s form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser s reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman s frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventi…
Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel s form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser s reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman s frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventi…
"Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power …
During the era that Jonathan Livingston Seagull was soaring high on self-help platitudes, the Village People were bringing a campy sensibility to the discos, and "Ms." was replacing older forms of female address, the United States, according to Schulman, was undergoing some of t…
"The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disill…
Gustad Noble finds his family life and professional life unravelling during 1971, as Bombay teams with national tensions on the international scene.
Mordden continues his history of the Broadway musical with a look at the decade that brought us some of the greatest hits of our time, such as Chorus Line and Annie, as well as the greatest musicals in the ouevre of Stephen Sondheim.
Providing a vivid historical ethnography of the 1970s Northern Soul scene, drawing on the author's personal involvement, this title examines how cultural patterns and normative standards are established through individual practices and group interaction.
