Theory category: 79975 books
by Julian Wolfreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today. Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory- gives students a brief introduction to each concept...
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique
Critical Engagements with Benita Parry
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left critique....
The Scandal of Reason
A Critical Theory of Political Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution...
Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations
An Elementary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This textbook treats Lie groups, Lie algebras and their representations in an elementary but fully rigorous fashion requiring minimal prerequisites. In particular, the theory of matrix Lie groups and their Lie algebras is developed using only linear algebra, and more motivation and intuition for proofs...
Becoming Heinrich Schenker
Music Theory and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Much controversy surrounds Schenker's mature theory and its attempt to explain musical pitch motion. Becoming Heinrich Schenker brings a new perspective to Schenker's theoretical work, showing that ideas characteristic of his mature theory, although in many respects fundamentally different, developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Since the 1950s control theory has established itself as a major mathematical discipline, particularly suitable for application in a number of research fields, including advanced engineering design, economics and the medical sciences. However, since its emergence, there has been a need to rethink...
After Sex?
On Writing since Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflections on the field’s history, accomplishments,...
Pocket Music Theory For Everybody
"Things you should know" (Questions and Answers)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Are you curious about music theory? Are you an inspiring artist? Do you play an instrument? Are you a music student or do you just love music? Do you like quizzes? If you want to self-study the basis of music theory then "Pocket Music Theory For Everybody" is a good place to start.
by Heather Fielding
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism's vision of the...
Critical Theory and Critical Genres
Contemporary Perspectives from Poland
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of constant intellectual contestation...
Low End Theory
Bass, Bodies and the Materiality of Sonic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories, organ workshops, burial mounds, sound art, studios,...
Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory (Music Instruction)
A Comprehensive and Convenient Source for All Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
(Book). Following in the footsteps of the popular Hal Leonard Pocket Music Dictionary , this handy pocket-sized book is the most contemporary music theory book on the market! A step-by-step guide to harmony and theory for every musician, it includes thorough, yet to easy-to-understand analysis of: intervals,...
by Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. ANT studies bring to the fore the material – objects of all kinds – and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the ‘political’ and the ‘social’, the ‘public’...