Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Paperback - James Clifford

This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which ...

This book locates Polwhele's work within key preoccupations of the age and will be of interest to those working in the field of late eighteenth and...

Being Ethnographic is an essential introductory guidebook to the methods and applications of doing fieldwork in real-world settings. It discusses t...

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Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer. This title introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: hi...

Writing the Hamat sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, ...

Demonstrates that ethnography is uniquely suited for illuminating the study of politics. This book addresses the central ontological and epistemolo...

Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Reducere. From the First National People of Color Congress on Environmental Leadership to WTO street protests of the new millennium, environmental justice ac...

DescriptionAristotle's three most famous pieces in one collection

An ambitious intervention, asserting the importance of a Marxist interpretation of literary style and moving towards a new Marxist poetics.

Brand new collection of the essential essays from one of the founders of cultural studies, Raymond Williams.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Raymon...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Setha (CUNY Graduate Center, USA) LowIllustration(s): 40 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 264Pu...

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Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the hi...

James Joyce's Poetics of Gramma(r) and Languages at the Wake - Laurent Milesi

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Sidra DeKoven EzrahiIllustration(s): 11 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication dat...

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

A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and R...

Reducere. DescriptionThe law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James Boyd White urges ...

Mutlilingualism is the most notable feature of Finnegans Wake and, arguably, the most important dimension of James Joyce's ultimate masterpiece. Ma...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Emily (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley) ZazuliaNumber...

Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contribution t...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from Sout...

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers ...

douard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as ...

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Reducere. Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, 'Illegal' Traveller offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, bor...

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In an exploration of Hong Kong's cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, this text considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations t...

DescriptionJohn Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream r...

Improve your understanding of the AQA A-level Politics specification with this brand-new course companion from our experienced team of teachers.

A lively biography of the Victorian mathematician and philosopher William Clifford and his wife Lucy, the influential journalist and novelist.

Using the influential and controversial Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropolog...

The diverse afterlife scenarios that pervade the Oresteia have never been examined together. This innovative study argues that they transform its t...