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  • Kazuo Ishiguro

    Edited by Kristian Shaw, Peter Sloane ...
    Series series Twenty-First Century Perspectives
    This is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational author’s film, television, short fiction and novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017. Comprising contributions from world-leading Ishiguro scholars as well as new voices, the collection offers chapters devoted to each of the major works, each of which draws out thematic and stylistic ... Read more

    Was $86.99 USD Now $26.99 USD

  • Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics

    by Prof Peter Sloane ...
    Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • David Foster Wallace and the Body

    by Peter Sloane ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author’s works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Modern Labour Economics

    by Peter Sloane, Paul Latreille, Nigel O'Leary ...
    Labour economics as a discipline has changed dramatically in recent years. Gone are the days of a "job for life". These days, firms and employees are part of a less regulated, more fluid, and more international labour market. Knowledge, training, human resource development and human capital are all major factors on the contemporary scene.This new textbook is the first properly international ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison

    An International Comparison

    by Harish C. Jain, Peter Sloane, Frank Horwitz ...
    The authors of this comparative study of affirmative action compare the employment practices of six countries: the U.S., Canada, Great Britain/Northern Ireland, India, Malaysia, and South Africa. They look at mandatory quota policies; legislated versus voluntary policies; goals and timetables; restrictions and other policies; as well as recruitment, selection, compensation, performance appraisal, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Kazuo Ishiguro

    by Wai-chew Sim ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:a biographical survey of Ishiguro’s literary career, and an introduction to his novels, plays and short storiesan accessible overview ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Reading by Starlight

    Postmodern Science Fiction

    by Damien Broderick ...
    Series series Popular Fictions Series
    Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Age of Lovecraft

    Edited by Carl H. Sederholm, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American CultureHoward Phillips Lovecraft, the American author of “weird tales” who died in 1937 impoverished and relatively unknown, has become a twenty-first-century star, cropping up in places both anticipated and unexpected. Authors, filmmakers, and shapers of popular culture like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context

    by Cynthia F. Wong, Hülya Y?ld?z ...
    Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguro’s evolving significance as a contemporary world author. The contributors take on a range of the aesthetic and philosophical themes that characterize Ishiguro’s work, including his exploration of the self, family, and community; his narrative constructions of time and space; and his ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Anime Aesthetics

    Japanese Animation and the 'Post-Cinematic' Imagination

    by Alistair D. Swale ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While this book covers the key thinkers of contemporary aesthetic theory, it aims to reground reflection on anime within the aesthetics of R.G. Collingwood. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Where No Man has Gone Before

    Essays on Women and Science Fiction

    Edited by Lucie Armitt ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry?These are just some of the questions addressed by this ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay ...
    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... Read more

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