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by Wildavsky, Aaron B., Thompson, Michael, Ellis, Richard, (Richard J.)
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"The Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory provides researchers and students with an up-to-date guide through the vibrant and changing debates in literary and cultural studies. In a field where meanings are frequently complex and ambiguous, this text is remarkable for its cla…
A clear-sighted intervention into debates about affect theory and critique: • Addresses the important yet overlooked implications for critical methods in influential work on affect, non-representational, and actor-network theories • Situates current debates within enduring ethic…
Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinized to quite the same extent. In this study, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of multicult…
In this work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind - to an interpretation of the basic trends of western civilization, stressi…
Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting 'crisis of consciousness' in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time. The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers…
As before, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of discipline…
As before, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of discipline…
"This book provides a comprehensive overview of cultural turns--ground-breaking theoretical reorientations in the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences. It features chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexice, postcolonial, translational, spatial and…
"This book provides a comprehensive overview of cultural turns--ground-breaking theoretical reorientations in the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences. It features chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexice, postcolonial, translational, spatial and…
