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J. Hillis Miller and the Play of Literature

J. Hillis Miller and the Play of Literature

This is the first book to discuss the full sweep of the work of J. Hillis Miller from his earliest writing in the 1950s to those near the time of his death in February 2021 across the genres of his criticism and theory—poetry fiction drama fiction non-fiction. The book examines Miller’s preference for close and careful reading of individual literary and critical works over abstract theory. The study will discuss the last member of the so-called Yale School of deconstruction to die but will see him as a reader and lover of literature someone interested in Georges Poulet and phenomenology and in Jacques Derrida and deconstruction. Miller was concerned about many aspects of literature and life including the pleasure of reading and writing and in climate change which he saw as the crisis of our time. Miller was well known in humanities and literature worldwide as one of the greatest of modern critics and theorists. | J. Hillis Miller and the Play of Literature

GBP 145.00
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Reasons for Realism Selected Essays of James J. Gibson

Reasons for Realism Selected Essays of James J. Gibson

James J. Gibson’s numerous theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of how people perceive were innovative controversial often radical and always profound. Many of his ideas revolutionized the science of perception and his influence continued to grow throughout the world. This book originally published in 1982 is a collection of the most important of Gibson’s essays on the psychology of perception. Drawing from the entire corpus of Gibson’s papers the editors have selected over thirty works dealing with such diverse topics as ecological optics event perception pictorial representation and the conceptual foundations of psychology. The editors’ goals in preparing the volume were twofold: first to provide easy access to Gibson’s most outstanding papers and talks including some that were previously unpublished; and second to provide an intellectual biography of Gibson by including essays from the different periods of his career. | Reasons for Realism Selected Essays of James J. Gibson

GBP 32.99
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Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

This book captures Donald J. Trump’s presidency by addressing the remarkable tropes that defined that period. It offers research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency with a focus on race immigration xenophobia and social conflicts as they interact with communication. The book utilizes research data to capture critical moments of the presidency. Chapters examine metadiscourse during President Trump’s press events where he accused the media of “Nasty Question” and “Fake News” offer computational framing analysis to expose the communication of racism and xenophobia in US-Mexico cross-border wall discourses and provide critical textual analysis of select episodes of CW’s critically acclaimed TV show Jane the Virgin exposing how citizenship or lack thereof shapes one’s relationship to the state and surrounding communities. They also offer textual analysis to demonstrate how a predominantly White newsroom differs from a newsroom that is racially diverse against the backdrop of the coverage of two politically charged issues of Black Lives Matter and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and explore interdisciplinary concepts related to understanding immigrants’ and sojourners’ believability evaluation of disinformation. Donald J. Trump's Presidency will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of communication studies political communication media and cultural studies race and ethnic studies and political science while also appealing to anyone interested in the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency and American politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Howard Journal of Communications. | Donald J. Trump's Presidency Communicating Race and Migration

GBP 130.00
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The Twitter Presidency Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage

The Twitter Presidency Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage

The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J. Trump attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his preferred modality. Trump’s manner the authors argue reflects an aesthetics of white rage and it is rooted in authoritarianism narcissism and demagoguery. His preferred modality of speaking namely through Twitter effectively channels and transmits the affective dimensions of white rage by taking advantage of the platform’s defining characteristics which include simplicity impulsivity and incivility. There is then a structural homology between Trump’s general communication practices and the specific platform (Twitter) he uses to communicate with his base. This commonality between communication practices and communication platform (manner and modality) struck a powerful emotive chord with his followers who feel aggrieved at the decentering of white masculinity. In addition to charting the defining characteristics of Trump’s discourse The Twitter Presidency exposes how Trump’s rhetorical style threatens democratic norms principles and institutions. | The Twitter Presidency Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage

GBP 19.99
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Kohler A Political Biography of Walter J

Kohler A Political Biography of Walter J

McCarthy and Eisenhower Nelson Lucey and Proxmire-they were all giants of state and national politics in the 1950s. Yet the period also produced Walter J. Kohler Jr. a three-term governor who in the words of the Milwaukee Journal was the most dominant force in Wisconsin politics of his era. In this highly readable biography personalities and events of the 1950s are discussed as are some of the issues that still divide contemporary Democrats and Republicans in the twenty-first century. Walter Kohler was one of two men to gather 1 million votes for governor in Wisconsin through the end of the twentieth century. He is credited with helping create the Eisenhower presidency both by his support in Wisconsin's critical presidential primary and by organizing the nation's Republican governors to endorse Ike in the run-up to the 1952 GOP Convention. He signed the largest income tax cut in percentage-rate terms at any level of government between Coolidge and Kennedy. He fought for a vast expansion of Wisconsin's highway system and in 1952 launched what became a national crusade for traffic safety. He paved the way for coordination of Wisconsin's now-unified university system; took the battle for civil rights to Wisconsin's shipping hotel manufacturing and other industries and became the first governor in two decades to fulfill his constitutional duty to enact a reapportionment of the state legislature. Fossedal also captures Kohler as political anti-hero. In an age when Americans long for self-governance by our political and corporate officials Kohler's integrity as a man may be as arresting as his acts as governor. | Kohler A Political Biography of Walter J

GBP 28.99
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J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) is widely regarded as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His popularity began with the publication in 1937 of The Hobbit and was cemented by the appearance of The Lord of the Rings in the early 1950s. However engagement with his work was until relatively recently sidelined by literary and other scholars. Consequently many foundational analyses of his fiction and his work as a medievalist are dispersed in hard-to-find monographs and obscure journals (often produced by dedicated amateurs). In contrast over the last decade or so academic interest in Tolkien has risen dramatically. Indeed interpretative and critical commentary is now being generated on a bewildering scale in part aided by the continuing posthumous publication of his work (most recently his Beowulf translation which appeared in 2014). The dizzying quantity—and variable quality—of this later criticism makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious superficial and otiose. Now in four volumes a new collection from Routledge’s Critical Assessments of Major Writers series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to collect early evaluations and to make sense of the more recent explosion in research output. Users are now able easily and rapidly to locate the best and most influential critical assessments. With material gathered into one easy-to-use set Tolkien researchers and students can now spend more of their time with the key journal articles book chapters and other pieces rather than on time-consuming (and sometimes fruitless) archival searches.

GBP 1150.00
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A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning Linguistics Semiotics and Discourse Theory

A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning Linguistics Semiotics and Discourse Theory

In this book first published in 1987 Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual context and sets forth the development of his distinctive style of interpretation. Moreover the author goes on to consider Greimas’ work against the latest examinations of discourse in philosophy depth psychology and literary criticism. He tests Greimas’ semiotic square against Derridean deconstruction Lacanian psychoanalysis and the literary analyses of Paul de Man. This book will constitute an important and lucid survey of an often inaccessible critic and will be of interest to students of literature. | A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning Linguistics Semiotics and Discourse Theory

GBP 35.99
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Writing Performance Identity and Everyday Life The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

Writing Performance Identity and Everyday Life The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

Writing Performance Identity and Everyday Life invites the reader into Ronald J. Pelias’ world of artistic and everyday performance. Calling upon a broad range of qualitative methods these selected writings from Pelias submerge themselves in the evocative and embodied in the material and consequential often creating moving accounts of their topics. The book is divided into four sections: Foundational Logics Performance Identity and Everyday Life. Part I addresses the methodological underpinnings of the book focusing on the ‘touchstones’ that inform Pelias’ work: performative autoethnographic poetic and narrative methods. These directions push the researcher toward empathic engagement a leaning toward others; using the literary to evoke the cognitive and affective aspects of experience; and an ethical sensibility located in social justice. Parts II–IV focus on artistic and everyday life performances including discussions of the disciplinary shift from the oral interpretation of literature to the field of performance studies; empathy and the actor’s process; conceptions of performance; the performance of race gender and sexuality; and performances in interpersonal relations and academic circles. By the end readers will see Pelias demonstrate the power of qualitative methods to engage and to present alternative ways of being. Pelias’ work shows us how to understand and feel the evocative strength of thinking performatively. | Writing Performance Identity and Everyday Life The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

GBP 38.99
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The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already- existing history both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books. History is unfolded in various ways both in explicitly archival annals and in stories told by characters on the road or on the fly and in which different visions of history emerge. In addition the history within the work can resemble or be patterned on histories in our world. These histories range from the deep past of prehistoric and ancient worlds to the early medieval era of the barbarian invasions and Byzantium to the modern worlds of urbane civility and a paradoxical longing for nature and finally to great power rivalries and global prospects. The book argues that Tolkien did not employ these histories indiscriminately or reductively. Rather he regarded them as aspects of aesthetic and representative figuration that are above all literary. While most criticism has concentrated on Tolkien’s use of historical traditions of Northern Europe this book argues that Tolkien also valued Southern and Mediterranean pasts and registered the Germanic and the Scandinavian pasts as they related to other histories as much as his vision of them included a primeval mythic aura. | The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

GBP 130.00
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Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen

Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen

This collection of essays from a diverse group of internationally recognized scholars builds on the work of Steven J. Friesen to analyze the material and ideological dimensions of John’s Apocalypse and the religious landscape of the Roman East. Readers will gain new perspectives on the interpretation of John’s Apocalypse the religion of Hellenistic cities in the Roman Empire and the political and economic forces that shaped life in the Eastern Mediterranean. The chapters in this volume examine texts and material culture through carefully localized analysis that attends to ideological and socioeconomic contexts expanding upon aspects of Friesen’s research and methodology while also forging new directions. The book brings together a diverse and international set of experts including emerging voices in the fields of biblical studies Roman social history and classical archeology and each essay presents fresh critically informed analysis of key sites and texts from the periods of Christian origins and Roman imperial rule. Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East is of interest to students and scholars working on Christian origins ancient Judaism Roman religion classical archeology and the social history of the Roman Empire as well as material religion in the ancient Mediterranean more broadly. It is also suitable for religious practitioners within Christian contexts. | Revelation and Material Religion in the Roman East Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen

GBP 130.00
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An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations

An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations

Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills. The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes and supports its conclusions – often around a central concept or scheme of argumentation. Morgenthau’s subject was international relations – the way in which the world’s nations interact and come into conflict or peace – a topic which was of vital importance during the unstable wake of the Second World War. To the complex problem of understanding the ways in which the post-war nations were jostling for power Morgenthau brought a comprehensive schema: the concept of “realism” – or in other words the idea that every nation will act so as to maximise its own interests. From this basis Morgenthau builds a systematic argument for a pragmatic approach to international relations in which nations seeking consensus should aim for a balance of power grounding relations between states in understandings of how the interests of individual nations can be maximized. Though seismic shifts in international politics after the Cold War undeniably altered the landscape of international relations Morgenthau’s dispassionate reasoning about the nature of our world remains influential to this day. | An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations

GBP 6.50
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E.J. Lowe and Ontology

E.J. Lowe and Ontology

This volume collects fifteen original essays on E. J. Lowe’s work on metaphysics and ontology. The essays connect Lowe’s insights with contemporary issues in metaphysics. E. J. Lowe (1950–2014) was one of the most influential analytical philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Drawing inspiration from Aristotle's thought E. J. Lowe treated metaphysics as an autonomous discipline concerned with the fundamental structure of reality. The chapters in this volume reflect on his path-breaking work. They deal with a wide range of metaphysical issues including four-category ontology the causal and non-causal aspects of agency categorial fundamentality and non-fundamentality the existence of relations property dualism powers and abilities personal identity predication and topological ontology. Taken together the chapters reflect the liveliness of contemporary debates in metaphysics and the enduring impact of Lowe’s thought on them. E. J. Lowe and Ontology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. | E. J. Lowe and Ontology

GBP 130.00
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Modest_Witness Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse Feminism and Technoscience

Modest_Witness Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse Feminism and Technoscience

One of the founders of the posthumanities Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays including the now-classic essay The Cyborg Manifesto she received the J. D. Bernal Prize in 2000 a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Social Studies in Science. Thyrza Nicholas Goodeve is a professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts. | Modest_Witness Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse Feminism and Technoscience

GBP 36.99
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J.L. Moreno and the Psychodramatic Method On the Practice of Psychodrama

J.L. Moreno and the Psychodramatic Method On the Practice of Psychodrama

Beginning with a discussion of the intrinsic nature of psychodrama and providing the reader with a thorough description of the psychodramatic method this book navigates the nature applications theories and practices of the techniques originated by J. L. Moreno. The book covers the work of the psychodrama pioneer in the field of mental health and discourse on his techniques. Methods of handling situations and scenarios that frequently arise in psychodrama sessions are described and amply illustrated with examples from actual psychodramas. The existential philosophy upon which psychodrama is founded Moreno’s Doctrine of Spontaneity-Creativity and the theories important to understanding psychodrama are all discussed. The final chapter is devoted to the life and work of J. L. Moreno. This book will be of great interest to psychodramatists drama therapists psychotherapists and other mental health professionals who use the psychodramatic method in counseling and training programs. | J. L. Moreno and the Psychodramatic Method On the Practice of Psychodrama

GBP 36.99
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Student Protest The Sixties and After

Student Protest The Sixties and After

This topical new study takes a new look at the causes course and consequences of student activism across the world since its heyday in the 1960s. It starts with analyses of some of the most familiar - and romanticised - Sixties protests themselves in the US France Germany Mexico and Great Britain. It then goes on to examine more recent and hazardous examples of student activism particularly in China Korea and Iran. Throughout the tone is hard-headed and analytical rather than celebratory exploring the similarities and differences across these protests and asking what they achieved. The contributors to the volume are: Ingo Cornils; Gerard J. DeGroot; Sylvia Ellis; Sandra Hollin Flowers; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi; Bertram M. Gordon; J. Angus Johnston; Alan R. Kluver; Donald J. Mabry; Gunter Minnerup; A. D. Moses; Frank Pieke; Julie Reuben; Barbara Tischler; Nella Van Dyke; Clare White; James L. Wood; Eric Zolov. | Student Protest The Sixties and After

GBP 130.00
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The Curriculum Studies Reader

The Curriculum Studies Reader

In this sixth edition of David J. Flinders and Stephen J. Thornton’s ground-breaking anthology the editors assemble the best in past and present curriculum studies scholarship. From John Dewey’s nineteenth-century creed to Nel Noddings’ provocative call to revive the spirit of the liberal arts this thoughtful combination of well-recognized and pivotal work provides a complete survey of the discipline coupled with concrete examples of innovative curriculum and an examination of current topics. New to this edition is a dynamic set of contemporary and historical contributions tackling issues such as high-stakes testing multicultural literacy white supremacy in the curriculum and climate change. Carefully balanced to engage with the history of curriculum studies while simultaneously looking ahead to its future The Curriculum Studies Reader continues to be the most authoritative collection in the field.

GBP 59.99
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Handbook of Operant Behavior

Handbook of Operant Behavior

This classic edition of the Handbook of Operant Behavior presents seminal work in the field of learning and behavior foreshadowing a new direction for learning research and presenting many questions that remain unanswered. Featuring impressive contributions from leading figures across the field—ranging from N. J. Mackintosh from what was to become the cognitive school through Morse Kelleher Hutchinson and Hineline on the neglected topic of aversive control to Blough and Blough on psychophysics to Philip Teitelbaum on behavioral physiology—the book is a must-read for anyone interested in human and animal learning. In a newly written introduction J. E. R. Staddon highlights several issues that deserve more attention: how language is learned and syntax evolves how animals choose and a new paradigm for the study of learning in general. The book is essential reading for all students and researchers of learning and behavior and aims to encourage researchers to revisit some of the fascinating behavioral questions raised by the original book.

GBP 74.99
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Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

Rethinking J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition printed more than a year after the composer’s death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach who published both the first and the second editions raised several unsolved questions regarding this opus. Anatoly P Milka presents a consistent and coherent solution to the unresolved questions about the history structure and appearance of J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue opening new perspectives for further exploration of this musical masterpiece. Milka challenges the present scholarly consensus that there exist two different versions of The Art of Fugue (the Autograph and the Original Edition) and argues that Bach had considered four versions of which only two are apparent and have been discussed so far. Only Bach’s illness and death prevented him from fulfilling his plan and publishing a fourth conclusive version of his opus. | Rethinking J. S. Bach's The Art of Fugue

GBP 42.99
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Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubáiyát (1959)

Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubáiyát (1959)

First published in 1959 this reprint of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát is accompanied by an introduction and notes by A J Arberry one of Britain’s most distinguished Orientalist scholars. The Rubáiyát is a selection of poems written in Persian attributed to Omar Khayyám. The work will be of interest to those studying Middle Eastern Literature. | Routledge Revivals: The Romance of the Rubáiyát (1959)

GBP 31.99
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Writing Postindustrial Places Technoculture amid the Cornfields

Writing Postindustrial Places Technoculture amid the Cornfields

Exploring the relationship between postindustrial writing and developments in energy production manufacturing and agriculture Michael J. Salvo shows how technological and industrial innovation relies on communicative and organizational suppleness. Through representative case studies Salvo demonstrates the ways in which technical communicators formulate opportunities that link resources with need. His book is a supple articulation of the opportunities and pitfalls that come with great change. | Writing Postindustrial Places Technoculture amid the Cornfields

GBP 38.99
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Direct Sum Decompositions of Torsion-Free Finite Rank Groups

Direct Sum Decompositions of Torsion-Free Finite Rank Groups

With plenty of new material not found in other books Direct Sum Decompositions of Torsion-Free Finite Rank Groups explores advanced topics in direct sum decompositions of abelian groups and their consequences. The book illustrates a new way of studying these groups while still honoring the rich history of unique direct sum decompositions of groups. Offering a unified approach to theoretic concepts this reference covers isomorphism endomorphism refinement the Baer splitting property Gabriel filters and endomorphism modules. It shows how to effectively study a group G by considering finitely generated projective right End(G)-modules the left End(G)-module G and the ring E(G) = End(G)/N(End(G)). For instance one of the naturally occurring properties considered is when E(G) is a commutative ring. Modern algebraic number theory provides results concerning the isomorphism of locally isomorphic rtffr groups finitely faithful S-groups that are J-groups and each rtffr L-group that is a J-group. The book concludes with useful appendices that contain background material and numerous examples.

GBP 59.99
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