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  • Literature and Learning

    A History of English Studies in Britain

    by Stefan Collini ...
    The study and teaching of English literature is generally regarded as one of the central disciplines in the modern university, yet for much of its history it struggled to gain academic legitimacy and was frequently derided as 'a soft option'. Its early professors responded by emphasizing its scholarly character, foregrounding philology and literary history in ways that marked the syllabus far into ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Nostalgic Imagination

    History in English Criticism

    by Stefan Collini ...
    This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    On Liberty has become celebrated as the most powerful defence of the freedom of the individual, and is now widely regarded as the most important theoretical foundation for Liberalism as a political creed. The Subjection of Women is a powerful indictment of the political, social, and economic position of women. This edition, first published in 1989, brings together these two classic texts, plus ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Speaking of Universities

    by Stefan Collini ...
    WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ACADEMIA? A leading commentator offers a devastating analysis of the future of higher education amid globalization, new technology, and widespread marketization.In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalization forces institutions to consider a new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What are Universities For?

    by Stefan Collini ...
    Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities, and why we need them.Stefan Collini challenges the common claim that universities need to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Common Writing

    Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate

    by Stefan Collini ...
    In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and journalists who occupied wider public roles as cultural commentators or intellectuals, as well as on the periodicals and other genres ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Two Cultures

    by C. P. Snow ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures – the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other – has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This fiftieth anniversary printing of The ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • What Is Cultural Criticism?

    by Francis Mulhern, Stefan Collini ...
    Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practiceIn What Is Cultural Criticism?, two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice. The debate opens with Francis Mulhern’s account of what he terms ‘metacultural discourse’. This embraces two opposing critical traditions, the elite pessimism of Kulturkritik and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Humanities in the World

    by Rens Bod, Stefan Collini, Onora O'Neill ...
    Three essays highlight the worldliness of the humanities in this short book edited by Anders Engberg-Pedersen, a Danish Professor of Comparative Literature. "We need a better account of what the humanities are, what humanist scholars do and how they do it, what is done with the knowledge they produce, and how this knowledge seeps into society and other institutions and sciences through multiple ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Two Cultures?

    The Significance of C. P. Snow

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. The edition will enable new generations of readers to understand what was at stake in the dispute and to appreciate the enduring relevance of Leavis's attack on the goal of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist

    Ancient Wisdom, #1

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ancient Wisdom
    Not just ancient stories—but a code for how we think, desire, fear, and believe.Readers' Favorite Book Award WinnerA profound psychological approach… Fascinating stuff. —James Sale, author of Gods, Heroes, and UsMyths have never been merely entertainment. For thousands of years, they have shaped religion, philosophy, psychology, politics, and art. But what are they really—primitive... ... Read more

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