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  • Politics of Practice

    A Rhetoric of Performativity

    by Lynette Hunter ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers – Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noé, Caro Novella, and duskin drum – to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse. The first part of the book makes a case for the political work done alongside ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet

    Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre

    by Lynette Hunter, Peter Lichtenfels ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Through exciting and unconventional approaches, including critical/historical, printing/publishing and performance studies, this study mines Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to produce new insights into the early modern family, the individual, and society in the context of early modern capitalism. Inspired by recent work in cultural materialism and the material book, it also foregrounds the ways in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Re-Constructing the Book

    Literary Texts in Transmission

    by Maureen Bell, Shirley Chew, Simon Eliot ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. Literary critics, textual editors and bibliographers, and historians of publishing have hitherto tended to publish their research as if in separate fields of enquiry. The purpose of this volume is to bring together contributions from these fields in a dialogue rooted in the transmission of texts. Arranged chronologically, so as to allow the use of individual ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sentient Performativities of Embodiment

    Thinking alongside the Human

    by Hilary Bryan, Maureen Burdock, Maxine Leeds Craig, Jess Curtis, Joseph Dumit, Sean Feit, Álvaro Iván Hernández Rodríguez, Verena Hutter, Nita Little, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Timothy Morton, Ilya Noé, Kevin O'Connor, Halifu Osumare, Bryan Reynolds, Guy Zimmerman ...
    This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Critiques of Knowing

    Situated Textualities in Science, Computing and The Arts

    by Lynette Hunter ...
    Critiques of Knowing explores what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. Lynette Hunter elegantly weaves together vast areas of thought: rhetoric, politics, AI, computing, feminism, science studies, aesthetics and epistemology.Critiques of Knowing shows us that what we need is a radical shake-up of approaches to the arts if the critiques of science and computing are to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • On What Matters

    Volume Two

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Swearing

    A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English

    by Geoffrey Hughes ...
    Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition contains a Postscript updating various contemporary ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Critical Discourse Analysis

    The Critical Study of Language

    by Norman Fairclough ...
    Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field.The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes:language in relation to ideology and powerdiscourse in processes of social and cultural changedialectics of discourse, dialectical ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • English Literature in Context

    Edited by Paul Poplawski ...
    This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Shakespeare's Comedies

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bart van Es ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross ... Read more

    $7.99 USD