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  • Postcolonial Stylistics

    by Esterino Adami ...
    This accessible introduction to postcolonial stylistics looks at the shared aims of stylistics and postcolonial studies and illustrates how to apply the analytical and theoretical tools of stylistics to a selection of literary and non-literary texts from a range of English-speaking postcolonial contexts.Structured around the five keywords of Language, Identity, Belonging, History, and Ecology, the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts

    by Esterino Adami ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian English in new fictional texts to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity, and convey ideology. Specifically, this study proposes the elaboration and application of postcolonial stylistics, i.e. an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Other worlds and the narrative construction of otherness

    by Esterino Adami, Francesca Bellino, Alessandro Mengozzi ...
    The papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction of fantastic, imaginary, appalling or attractive places, stories and figures. Contributions are arranged in four main sections. The first section (Other spaces, new worlds) deals with Hindi and Arabic Science Fiction. The ... Read more

    $10.50 USD

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  • What is Anthropology?

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    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way.Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from current affairs as well as previous anthropological ... Read more

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  • Rorty

    by Gideon Calder ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Popular Great Philosopher's Series.An accessible overview of the work of one of our most influential living philosophers, as part of the popular Great Philosophers series. Richard Rorty is often cited as the most prominent philosophical defender of postmodernism. Best known for his unusually readable books and articles on philosophy - most notably Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and ... Read more

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  • Go the Way Your Blood Beats

    On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire

    by Michael Amherst ...
    Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire.A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire’s unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of ... Read more

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  • Sociolinguistics

    The Study of Speakers' Choices

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    Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are ... Read more

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  • Literacy

    An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language

    by David Barton ...
    This introduction to the expanding field of literacy studies has been fully revised for the second edition. It explores recent developments and new research that has contributed to our understanding of literacy practices, reflecting on the interdisciplinary growth of the study of reading and writing over the past decade.An introductory textbook on the growing field of literacy studies, fully ... Read more

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  • For Space

    by Doreen B Massey ...
    Doreen Massey is one of the most profound thinkers in contemporary human geography, and her work addresses fundamental issues with great insight. This is a work of enormous ambition, breadth, and depth, and not a little complexity.- David M. Smith***, Queen Mary, University of London***"The reason for my enthusiasm for this book is that Doreen Massey manages to describe a certain way of perceiving ... Read more

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  • Understanding Habermas: The Ideal Speech Community

    Understanding Philosophy, #7

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 7 - Understanding Philosophy
    This essay length guide examines Habermas's theory of the Ideal Speech Community, which is a combination of speech act theory and Kantian moral theory. Topics covered include a brief examination of critical theory and its origins, different types of speech acts and the validity claims they make, the world creation criteria that validate speech acts, and the principle of universalisation. ... Read more

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