Lexington Books: 3858 books
Marketing Literature and Posthumous Legacies
The Symbolic Capital of Leonid Andreev and Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Literature is not only about aesthetics, but also almost equally about economics. The successful marketing of an author and his literary works is more dependent on the activities of cultural merchants than on the particular words and phrases found in the author’s prose. Marketing Literature and...
Think Tanks and Foreign Policy
The Foreign Policy Research Institute and Presidential Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Think tanks have become increasingly important in American politics foreign policy. In the last thirty years think tanks have emerged as major actors on the political stage, comparable in influence to large interest groups, political parties, and government agencies. In the same time span these think...
Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda
Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: Dismembering and Remembering Traumatic History is an innovative work in Francophone and African studies that examines a wide range of responses to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. From survivor testimonies, to novels by African authors,...
Constructing Community
Configurations of the Social in Contemporary Philosophy and Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within European philosophy over the last three decades,...
The Spatial Logic of Social Struggle
A Bourdieuian Topology
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice is widely regarded as among the most innovative and illuminating fruits of recent social thought. As evidence mounts that the "spatial turn" in the social sciences and humanities is no mere theoretical fad, but rather an enduring paradigm of social and...
by Paul A. Brazinski, Jim Casey, Anna Hamling
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art throughout the centuries. This book demonstrates the widespread deep veneration of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in various countries and different Christian traditions. Devotion to the Holy...
by Ephraim Meir, Edna Langenthal, Gary D. Mole
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The book offers new insights on the opening up of Levinas's thought and biblical stories to one another; it considers the ways in which Levinas can open up the biblical text to requestioning, and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas. Setting up in dialogue the heteronomic texts...
Postphenomenological Methodologies
New Ways in Mediating Techno-Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This edited volume is the first publication to tackle the issue of researching human-technology relations from a methodological postphenomenological perspective. While the ‘traditional’ phenomenology of the 20th century, with figures like Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, provided valuable...
Postphenomenology and Media
Essays on Human–Media–World Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as...
New Media and Digital Pedagogy
Enhancing the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
New Media and Digital Pedagogy: Enhancing the Twenty-First-Century Classroom addresses the influence of new media on instruction, higher education, and pedagogy. The contributors specifically examine the practical and theoretical implications of new media and the influence of new media on education....
U2 Above, Across, and Beyond
Interdisciplinary Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
U2’s success and significance are due, in large part, to finding inventive, creative solutions for overcoming obstacles and moving past conventional boundaries. As it has embraced change and transformation over and over again, its fans and critics have come to value and expect this element of U2....
Screenplay and Narrative Theory
The Screenplectics Model of Complex Narrative Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Screenplay and Narrative Theory draws attention to the notion that in order to comprehend complex narrative dynamics, which are encountered in a great variety of narrative genres, forms, and formats, a more comprehensive theory of narrative is required. George Varotsis explains how a work of narrative...
Transgender Communication Studies
Histories, Trends, and Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges...
Feminism and Power
The Need for Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Feminism and Power: the Need for Critical Theory is a six-chapter manuscript which offers an important critique of “power feminism.” The latter, having produced such spinoffs as “grrrl power,” “choice,” “babe,” “lipstick,” and “stiletto” feminisms, encourages women to be strong,...