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  • Humanities Theory

    by Amanda Anderson, Simon During ...
    Series series Literature And Politics
    Humanities Theory pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a suite of forceful new challenges and are in a period of significant change. For these reasons, it has become important to analyse and understand what the humanities are as a whole, beyond disciplinary divisions and yet without resorting to simplistic notions of their ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Modern Enchantments

    The Cultural Power of Secular Magic

    by Simon During ...
    "A history of "secular," or non-supernatural, or entertainment magic as an important but neglected constituent of modern culture" (Nicholas Daly).Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism

    by Seán Hewitt, Luke Gibbons, Gregory Castle, Simon During, Damien Keane, Susanne S. Cammack, Jeremy Lakoff, Enda Duffy, Chris Ackerley, Alan Graham, Katherine Ebury, Andrew Kalaidjian ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula," the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction

    by Simon During ...
    Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee

    by Tim Mehigan, Maria Boletsi, Markus Winkler, Martin Woessner, Patrick Hayes, Robert B. Pippin, Robert Stockhammer, Simon During, Professor Christian Moser0, Alexander Honold1, Anton Leist2, Carrol Clarkson3, David Attwell4, Derek Attrige5, Elisa Aaltola6 ...
    Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still far from grasping Coetzee's intellectual allegiances as a whole. This book sets out to examine these ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Foucault and Literature

    Towards a Genealogy of Writing

    by Simon During ...
    The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. He, more than anyone, stands behind the new historicism' and cultural materialism' that currently dominate international literary studies. Simon During provides a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Exit Capitalism

    Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity

    by Simon During ...
    Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Literature

    by Peter Widdowson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... 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

  • Postmodernism for Historians

    by Callum G. Brown ...
    Postmodernism is an essential approach to History. This is the first dedicated primer on postmodernism for the historian. It offers a step-by-step guide to postmodern theory, includes a guide to how historians have applied the theory, and provides a review of why its critics are wrong. In simple and clear language, it takes the reader through the chain of theory that developed in the 20th century ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Walker

    On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City

    by Matthew Beaumont ...
    From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history.“A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian) ... Read more

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