Bøger i Cultural Front serien
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- Body, Memory, Capital
359,95 kr. An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting.
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- 359,95 kr.
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- Body, Memory, Capital
1.138,95 kr. An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting.
- Bog
- 1.138,95 kr.
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- Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature
331,95 - 976,95 kr. - Bog
- 331,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 340,95 kr.
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- Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
353,95 - 1.143,95 kr. What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large? This title examines the cultural legitimacy of literary study.
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- 353,95 kr.
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- Interviews 1993-2003
1.138,95 kr. Interviews with leading cultural critics including: K. Anthony Appiah, Lauren Berlant, Cathy Davidson, Morris Dickstein, Stanley Fish, Barbara Foley, Nancy Fraser, Gerald Graff, Alice Kaplan, E. Ann Kaplan, Robin Kelley, Paul Lauter, Louis Menand, Richard Ohmann, Andrew Ross, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, Marianna Torgovnick, and Alan Wald.
- Bog
- 1.138,95 kr.
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- Disability, Gender, Race
336,95 - 972,95 kr. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, this book traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification" - the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science.
- Bog
- 336,95 kr.
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- Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
356,95 - 972,95 kr. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, this book shows how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge.
- Bog
- 356,95 kr.
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- Saving Academic Freedom
335,95 - 975,95 kr. An account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom. This book shows how the primary organization for faculty members nationwide has fought the culture wars, Cary Nelson, the current President of the American Association of University Professors, unveils struggles over governance and unionization and more.
- Bog
- 335,95 kr.
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- Interviews 1993-2003
358,95 kr. Interviews with leading cultural critics including: K. Anthony Appiah, Lauren Berlant, Cathy Davidson, Morris Dickstein, Stanley Fish, Barbara Foley, Nancy Fraser, Gerald Graff, Alice Kaplan, E. Ann Kaplan, Robin Kelley, Paul Lauter, Louis Menand, Richard Ohmann, Andrew Ross, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, Marianna Torgovnick, and Alan Wald.
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- 358,95 kr.
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- Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
338,95 - 978,95 kr. Draws on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization. This book articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities.
- Bog
- 338,95 kr.
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- Internationalism in Distress
333,95 - 1.123,95 kr. Whether global culture is merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization is among the questions addressed in this text on nationalism, culturalism and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.
- Bog
- 333,95 kr.
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- Unmaking an American Majority
334,95 - 972,95 kr. What comes after white becomes a minority in the United States.
- Bog
- 334,95 kr.
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358,95 - 1.143,95 kr. Revisits the major intellectual debates and key players of two decades, covering the terrain of left debates in the United States over foreign policy from the Balkans to 9/11 to Iraq, and over domestic policy from the culture wars of the 1990s to the question of what (if anything) is the matter with Kansas.
- Bog
- 358,95 kr.
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- Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
336,95 - 1.143,95 kr. Exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education - a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages. This title assesses the costs of higher education's corporatization on faculty and students at various levels.
- Bog
- 336,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 309,95 kr.
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- Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture
351,95 - 971,95 kr. Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What do they mean? Drawing on cultural studies and critical theory, Rita Felski examines a range of themes central to debates about postmodern culture, including changing meanings of class.
- Bog
- 351,95 kr.
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- Essays on Disability and the Body
309,95 - 1.138,95 kr. Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics.
- Bog
- 309,95 kr.
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- Between Identities and Places
309,95 - 1.138,95 kr. Goes beyond identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. This book exposes and enriches our understanding of how deafness embodies itself in the world, in the visual, and in language. It explores the power and potential of American Sign Language and argues for a rhetorical approach and digital future for ASL literature.
- Bog
- 309,95 kr.