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  • Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century

    Punctuating Capital

    de Prof Richard Godden ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives--and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely, fictional narrative may expose the historical structures that determine literary language use, and that of language more generally. ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

  • William Faulkner in the Media Ecology

    de Sarah Gleeson-White, Richard Godden, Robert Jackson, Donald Kartiganer, Catherine G. Kodat, John T. Matthews, Sascha Morrell, Mark Steven, Jay Watson, Michael Zeitlin, Dr. Peter Lurie ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history of the U.S. South, but also as a screenwriter, aviator, and celebrity. This fresh, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • William Faulkner

    An Economy of Complex Words

    de Richard Godden ...
    Series series 20/21
    In William Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century. As the New Deal rapidly accelerated the long-term shift from tenant farming to modern agriculture, many African Americans were driven from the land and forced to migrate north. At the same time, white landowners ... Leer más

    $56.89 USD

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    How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

    de Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak ...
    Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
    “McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”—Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel ... Leer más

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  • The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

    de Robert Fulford ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit is one of the questions raised by journalist and 1999 CBC Massey lecturer Robert Fulford. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Unruly Voices

    Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Accessible, entertaining, anecdotal. A good introduction to issues in contemporary civics as well as a measured and thoughtful response to major themes and figures in cultural studies.Civility in politics is a subject throughout, and analyses of both Obama's rhetoric and the use of lowest-common-denominator insults in public debate will be well-timed going into the 2012 election campaignNot just ... Leer más

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  • Ugly Feelings

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Social Choice and Individual Values: Third Edition

    de Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    Originally published in 1951, Social Choice and Individual Values introduced “Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem” and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, reintroduces Arrow’s seminal book to a new generation of students and researchers."Far beyond a classic, this small book unleashed the ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

    de H. Porter Abbott ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary ... Leer más

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  • The Critical Thinking Toolkit

    de Galen A. Foresman, Peter S. Fosl, Jamie C. Watson ...
    The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations.Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edición de Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Leer más

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  • Post-Postmodernism

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    de Jeffrey Nealon ...
    Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of ... Leer más

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