Poetics of Insecurity. American Fiction and the Uses of Threat, Hardback - Johannes Voelz

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

An examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it by former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Amy Z...

This edition comprises Austin's best known works; "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined", a classic work of moral, legal and political philosop...

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our imp...

Reducere. In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are ch...

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The...

Reducere. Johanne Kepler's "Harmonice mundi" was planned in 1599 as a sequel to the "Mysterium cosmographicum." In 1618 Kepler discovered the third law of pl...

The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly...

Presents concepts in interdisciplinary social studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the...

In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those wh...

Reducere. The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections b...

DescriptionPoetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness, focusing on a...

DescriptionHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda R...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the eve of the financial crisis, Jacob S. Hacker wrote "the policy book of the year" (E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post), demonstrati...

DescriptionEyewitnessing evaluates the place and potency of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of ima...

This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in th...

Reducere. The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults--both the young idealists and their...

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be plannedPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 20...

DescriptionIn What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word--...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressIllustration(s): 2 halftones, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 2...

Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez Navas reveals go...

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoAuthor(s): AristotleNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 5Cover type: Paperba...

Investigates the literary afterlives of Rome's first conflict with Carthage. The book combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in t...

Reducere. Despite the availability of "Stuff", our lives are often not very fulfilling. As we pursue one shiny object after another we come to the realizatio...

Reducere. Spanning the last 500 years, this exceptionally detailed and well-researched guide focuses primarily on the ways North American Indians have used p...

Reducere. We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget...

Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences of social e...

Reducere. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard E. Neustadt"A convincing case that careful analysis of the history, issues, individuals, and institutions can lead ...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book explores the recent international decline in democracy and the psychological appeal of authoritarianism in the context of rapi...

Taking place during the first half of the sixteenth century, The Fall of the King tells the story of dreamy, slacking student Mikkel Thogersen and ...