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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Fredric Jameson
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 809.91
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Publication Date: 1991-12
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Reading Level: 472
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Description: Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of “postmodernism.” Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low,” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $13.85
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Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Ball
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Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808.2
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Publication Date: 1983-07-07
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Reading Level: 104
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Description: This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts. Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play’s most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details. Using Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) Backwards and Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright. |
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $5.79
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher Butler
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 700.4113
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Publication Date: 2003-01-16
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Reading Level: 152
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Description: Postmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are unraveled, casting a critical light upon the way we live now, from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct. The key postmodernist ideas are explored and challenged, as they figure in the theory, philosophy, politics, ethics and artwork of the period, and it is shown how they have interacted within a postmodernist culture.
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Price: $17.50
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Sale: $12.99
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Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 001
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Publication Date: 1984-03
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Reading Level: 110
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $7.90
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Manufacturer: Picador
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alan Sokal::Jean Bricmont
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Publisher: Picador
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 501
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Publication Date: 1999-10-29
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: In 1996, an article entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the cultural studies journal Social Text. Packed with recherché quotations from "postmodern" literary theorists and sociologists of science, and bristling with imposing theorems of mathematical physics, the article addressed the cultural and political implications of the theory of quantum gravity. Later, to the embarrassment of the editors, the author revealed that the essay was a hoax, interweaving absurd pronouncements from eminent intellectuals about mathematics and physics with laudatory--but fatuous--prose. In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal, the author of the hoax, and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more insidious form of epistemic relativism. When Sokal and Bricmont expose Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear that these virtuosi are babbling. Their discussion of epistemic relativism--roughly, the idea that scientific and mathematical theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions--is less convincing, however, in part because epistemic relativism is not as intrinsically silly as, say, Regis Debray's maunderings about Gödel, and in part because the authors' own grasp of the philosophy of science frequently verges on the naive. Nevertheless, Sokal and Bricmont are to be commended for their spirited resistance to postmodernity's failure to appreciate science for what it is. --Glenn Branch
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $16.83
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.540801
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Publication Date: 1994-04
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Reading Level: 742
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $18.00
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Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Chela Sandoval
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4
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Publication Date: 2000-10
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Reading Level: 232
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $12.78
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Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Madan Sarup
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 149.96
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Publication Date: 1993-06
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Reading Level: 206
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $6.50
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gordon Finlayson
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 193
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Publication Date: 2005-08-25
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Reading Level: 184
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Description: Jurgen Habermas is the most renowned living German philosopher. This book aims to give a clear and readable overview of his philosophical work. It analyzes both the theoretical underpinnings of Habermas's social theory, and its more concrete applications in the fields of ethics, politics, and law. Finally, it examines how Habermas's social and political theory informs his writing on real, current political and social problems. The author explores Habermas's influence on a wide variety of fields--including philosophy, political and social theory, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. He uses a problem-based approach to explain how Habermas's ideas can be applied to actual social and political situations. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms to further acquaint the reader with Habermas's philosophy. Unlike other writing on Habermas, this Introduction is accessibly written and explains his intellectual framework and technical vocabulary, rather than simply adopting it.
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $58.86
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Edward W. Soja
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.01
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Publication Date: 1989-04
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Reading Level: 266
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Description: Written by one of America's foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an ""unnecessary complication."" Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of ""flexible accumulation."" The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space.
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