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This is a refreshingly clear, even-handed overview of the broad subject of ideology. Hawkes considers all the various meanings and definitions making this lu......

This exciting new account traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysi......

Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism, this volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his ......

It is good to see a reprint and complete updating of this well-known historical tour de force, with its evidence of vast reading and literally thousands of u......

"Thomas Couser's Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are ......

Recent figures suggest that there will be 1.6 billion arrivals at world airports by the year 2020. Extreme Pursuits looks at the new conditions of global tra......

"Bravo! I'll say nothing funny about it, for it is a superior piece of work." -P. J. O'Rourke "F. H. Buckley's The Morality of Laughter...

With refreshing eloquence, James O. Freedman sets down the American ideals that have informed his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and......

"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunsh......

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest gen......

A multifaceted look at one of science fiction and feminism's most original voices Publisher: Wesleyan Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: On Joanna Russ Pa......

A penetrating literary and philosophical examination of major figures in the development of American intellectual culture, from Emerson to Santayana Author:......

Kenneth Burke has been widely praised as one of the sharpest readers of Shakespeare, Freud, and Marx, among others. He was also well known for turning his ma......

In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, mis......

Expert guidance on the SAT Subject Test in Literature Many colleges and universities require you to take one or more SAT II Subject Tests to demonstrate your...

What defines "culture wars"? Can art and literature restore and reconnect us to the world? Or does culture, in the guise of politics, divide and separate us?......

Author George Haggerty examines the "unnatural" affections that flout cultural taboos and challenge what are seen as natural boundaries to desire. Such affec......

" In the years between the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto Uprising of...

""Highly readable. . . . Offers rare insights into gay life in the first quarter of the twentieth century.""ââ¬âÂÂDiana Collecott, University of Durham, au......