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  • Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

    Interdisciplinary Encounters

    by Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg, Albert Banerjee, Simon Dickel, Katrina Dunn, Michaela Schrage-Früh, Silvia Gerlsbeck0, Stephen Hahn1, Julia Henderson2, Christian Lenz3, Tina-Karen Pusse4, Núria Mina-Riera5, Adrian Tait6, Nassim W. Balestrini8, Jade E. French9, Peter J. Whitehouse0 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Embodying Difference

    Critical Phenomenology and Narratives of Disability, Race, and Sexuality

    by Simon Dickel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. Building on these disciplines, it offers readings of memoirs and novels that address the consequences of stigmatization and the bodily dimensions of social differences. The texts include Robert F. Murphy’s The Body Silent ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Black/Gay

    The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and the Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s

    by Simon Dickel ...
    This book explores key texts of the black gay culture of the 1980s and ’90s. Starting with an analysis of the political discourse in anthologies such as In the Life and Brother to Brother, it identifies the references to the Harlem Renaissance and the Protest Era as common elements of black gay discourse. This connection to African American cultural and political traditions legitimizes black gay ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Media Reception Studies

    by Janet Staiger ...
    A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass mediaMedia Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media.Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Telling Stories

    The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

    by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, Barbara Laslett ...
    In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • A Philosophy of Loneliness

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by Kerri Pierce ...
    Loneliness is a difficult subject to address, because it has such negative connotations. But the truth is that wherever there are people, there is loneliness: everyone is lonely at some point in their lives. You can belonely in a crowd or at home, outdoors or in an empty church, and countless songs have been written about the condition. For many people, loneliness can significantly impact their ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Methods & Theories of Art History Third Edition

    by Anne D'Alleva, Michael Cothren ...
    This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect recent scholarship in contemporary art and has been broken down into smaller sections for greater accessibility. The book begins with a revised discussion of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cruising Utopia

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    by Jose Esteban Munoz ...
    The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ugly Feelings

    by Sianne Ngai ...
    Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series Book 50 - Sexual Cultures
    A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholarsCruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Hold It Against Me

    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

    by Jennifer Doyle ...
    In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences

    by Catherine Kohler Riessman ...
    "Cathy Riessman is the leading figure in narrative research and her new book is a delight. Covering basic issues of transcription and research credibility as well as visual data and engagingly written, it is a goldmine for students and researchers alike. If we want to make narrative research serious and revealing, it is to this book that we should turn."—David Silverman, Professor Emeritus, ... Read more

    $70.19 USD