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  • From Tailors with Love: An Evolution of Menswear Through the Bond Films (color ebook)

    by Peter Brooker, Matt Spaiser ...
    A SARTORIAL HISTORY OF CINEMA'S BEST-DRESSED SPYFrom Tailors with Love tells the story of the celluloid Bond's clothing and the talents behind the wardrobes through the people who worked on the films, the fashions of the eras and the meaning the clothes have within the films. The book provides fresh insights through exclusive interviews with Bond-series costume designers Lindy Hemming, Jany Temime ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

    by Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson, Peter Brooker ...
    A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. This book is known for its clear, accessible style and its thorough, logical approach, guiding the reader through the essentials of literary theory. It includes two new chapters: ‘New Materialisms’ which incorporates ecocriticism, animal studies, posthumanism and thing ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory

    by Peter Brooker, Peter Widdowson ...
    This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory

    by Peter Brooker ...
    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 clarity and usefulness. This third edition includes 17 entirely new entries and updates to more than a dozen others which ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1988)

    by Peter Brooker ...
    First published in 1988, this books argues with received accounts to reclaim Brecht’s emphasis on his self-described ‘dialectical theatre’, re-examining firstly the concepts of Gestus and Verfremdung and their realisation in Brecht’s poetry in terms of his attempt to consciously apply the methods of dialectical materialism to art and cultural practice. The author also takes issue with the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Dialogue and Difference

    by Peter Brooker, Peter Humm ...
    Series series New Accents
    First Published in 2002. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define ... Read more

    $375.99 USD

  • New York Fictions

    Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern

    by Peter Brooker ...
    Series series Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature
    In this original study, Peter Brooker takes issue with the simplified opposition of postmodernism to modernism in accounts of the modern period. Instead, he follows the course of modernity in the spectacular example of New York, to reveal the complexities of both modernist and postmodern responses to the city. Brooker's study refers us to the fiction of Doctorow, Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Modernism/Postmodernism

    Edited by Peter Brooker ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these additionally alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Geographies of Modernism

    Edited by Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker ...
    One of the most pivotal developments in contemporary literary and cultural studies is the investigation of space and geography, a trend which is proving particularly important for modernist studies. This volume explores the interface between modernism and geography in a range of writers, texts and artists across the twentieth century.Cross-disciplinary essays test and extend a variety of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction

    by Sara Upstone ...
    Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create new interpretations of the text that would not otherwise be possible. In your own reading and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

    Edited by Steven Connor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life and Cultural Theory

    An Introduction

    by Ben Highmore ...
    Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists such as Michel de Certeau. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD