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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories whose collaboration has never been addressed...
by Lubomir Dolezel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
In this study of the study of the linguistic approach to narrative structures, the author examines the question of point of view in fiction, drawing examples from Czech literature. He applies the methods of structural linguistics and literary studies as developed by the Prague Linguistic School, and...
Troubling the Changing Paradigms
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Early Childhood Reader, Volume IV
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Troubling the Changing Paradigms is the fourth volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice series and represents a collection of texts that were selected as representations of the philosophy and pedagogy of early years, childhood and early childhood education. The philosophy...
by David Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Educational Philosophy for a Post-secular Age reinterprets post-secular insights for educational theory by recognising that the persistence of religion in contemporary life raises new questions about the place of religion in education. Two common assumptions are critically examined: first, that the...
Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics
Toward a New Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This book explores the origins of the academic culture wars of the late 20th century and examines their lasting influence on the humanities and progressive politics. It puts us in a position to ask this question: what to make now of those furious debates over postmodernism, multiculturalism, relativism,...
by Pierre Macherey
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey‘s first and most famous work, A Theory of Literary Production dared to challenge perceived wisdom, and quickly established him as a pivotal figure in literary theory. The reissue of this work as a Routledge Classic brings some radical ideas to
Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts
Politics, Ecologies, and Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volume* *demonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and culture. Engaging various historical...
Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama
Commerce, Poesy, and the Profitable Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Desires of Credit in Early Modern Theory and Drama traces the near-simultaneous rise of economic theory, literary criticism, and public theater in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, and posits that connecting all three is a fascination with creating something out of nothing simply by acting...
Addressing Postmodernity
Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.
In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of...
Dystopia & Education
Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an Age of UtopiaGoneWrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an asofyet unexplored critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory, praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy...
The Theory and Practice of Multicultural Education
A Focus on the K-12 Educational Setting
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Theory and Practice of Multicultural Education: A Focus on the K-12 Educational Setting provides an in-depth discussion of the principles and practice of multicultural education in the K-12 classrooms. Building on a theory of multicultural education as a learner-centered pedagogy, the book begins...
Anti-Book
On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting...
Radical Future Pasts
Untimely Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Written by both well-established and rising scholars, Radical Future Pasts seeks to open up new possibilities for theoretical inquiries and engagements with practical political struggles. Unlike conventional "state of the discipline" collections, this volume does not summarize the history...
Mocking Bird Technologies
The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.
Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended...