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  • An Analysis of Roland Barthes's Mythologies

    by John Gomez ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Mythologies is a masterpiece of analysis and interpretation. At its heart, Barthes’s collection of essays about the “mythologies” of modern life treats everyday objects and ideas – from professional wrestling, to the Tour de France, to Greta Garbo’s face – as though they are silently putting forward arguments. Those arguments are for modernity itself, the way the world is, from its class ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Roland Barthes's Mythologies

    by John Gomez ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    Advertisements for soap. The image of a film star. We accept these common objects as a normal part of our life. But each also carries hidden messages that none of us even suspect as Barthes demonstrated in his unique analysis of the signs that generate meanings and assumptions we all take for granted. Using iconic examples, from French wine to the Eiffel Tower, Barthes explains how popular culture ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Charles John Tibbits ...
    Narrated by Sharon Tuitt, Deborah Mcdonald, John Gomez, Lillie Wurzbacher ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors of Folklore—Afanasief, Erben, Wojcicki, Glinski, etc. The chap-book tales, and many of those of Glinski, are, there is little doubt, of foreign origin, but since Russia and Poland are the countries in which these tales have found their home, and since they ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    An Epitaph On A Goldfish (Unabridged)

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    by RICHARD LE GALLIENNE ...
    Narrated by Terry Jones, John Gomez, Claudia Zinner, Joseph Ramirez ...

    Unabridged

    15 min

    Have you ever wondered what goes through the mind of a goldfish, gracefully circling its watery world? In Richard le Gallienne's poignant poem, "An Epitaph on a Goldfish," we encounter a goldfish who has sadly passed on. But this isn't your average eulogy. Le Gallienne's words weave a tale that transcends the life of a single fish, prompting us to contemplate the beauty and impermanence of all ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Literary Theory

    by David Carter ...
    Series series Pocket Essential series
    Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. It sounds daunting: all those -isms, long technical words, weird French thinkers, and incomprehensible Germans. Most books ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

    Edited by Paul Wake, Simon Malpas ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

    by Michael O' Sullivan ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy.The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a fine analytical mind. Taking an argument from Plato and subjecting it to detailed (and very clear) analysis, Wittgenstein shows his understanding of ... Read more

    $8.99 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

  • Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

    by Louis Althusser ...
    No figure among the western Marxist theoreticians has loomed larger in the postwar period than Louis Althusser. A rebel against the Catholic tradition in which he was raised, Althusser studied philosophy and later joined both the faculty of the Ecole normal superieure and the French Communist Party in 1948. Viewed as a "structuralist Marxist," Althusser was as much admired for his independence of ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • A Poetics of Postmodernism

    History, Theory, Fiction

    by Linda Hutcheon ...
    First published in 1988. Postmodernism is a word much used and misused in a variety of disciplines, including literature, visual arts, film, architecture, literary theory, history, and philosophy. A Poetics of Postmodernism is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Hutcheon's Narcissistic Narrative and A Theory of Parody in studying formal self ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Literary Theory Handbook

    by Gregory Castle ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theoriesFar reaching in its inclusion of a ... Read more

    $34.00 USD