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Where Is American Literature?

de Caroline F. Levander

87,38€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Where is American Literature explores how American literature emerged over space as well as over time, asking us in the process to reconsider familiar stories of national literary development and culture.
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Future Of Jewish Theology

de Steven Kepnes

94,41€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This engaging argument for the future of Jewish theology, written by a renowned Jewish scholar, provides a rounded introduction to the faith, its history, and its place in the modern world. Explores foundational Jewish structures and concepts through the discussion and interpretation of Jewish texts Argues that we must acknowledge holiness as a ritual and ethical reality in order to heal the rift between different forms of Jewish practice and theology Covers historical context as well as the relations between Judaism, Israel and the wider world today Speaks to both Jews and non-Jews and demonstrates through textual readings how Jews, Christians, and Muslims can understand and share their theological riches
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Future Of Christian Theology

de David F. Ford

96,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Future of Christian Theology represents a personal manifesto from one of the world's leading theologians, exploring the ways Christian theology in the twenty-first century has been, and can now continue to be, both creative and wise.
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After Globalization

de Eric Cazdyn e Imre Szeman

96,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 After Globalization offers a new way of thinking about globalization -- both what it was and how it still operates as a social narrative. In lively and unflinching prose, the authors argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization.
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After The Fall - American Literature Since 9/11

de Richard Gray

41,01€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 * Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis * Develops a timely and provocative arguement about literature and trauma * Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere * Places U.S.
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Global Future Of English Studies

de James F. English

43,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This illuminating manifesto presents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and likely future of English studies around the world. By treating the global trends and trajectories of English studies with respect to actual student enrollments, faculty employment, curricular emphases, and emergent subfields, James F.
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Art Is Not What You Think It Is

de Claire Farago e Donald Preziosi

90,03€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Art Is Not What You Think It Is presents a thought-provoking manifesto by two leading art historians which reconsiders current discussions on the idea of art, and offers new and challenging insights into its uses, meanings, and its very nature.
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Uses Of Literature

de Rita Felski

113,88€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by Rita Felski. Challenging many time-worn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary criticism, Uses of Literature offers refreshing new insights into the purpose and value of reading literature.
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State Of The Novel - Britain And Beyond

de Dominic Head

103,28€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The State of the Novel offers a lively yet rigorous investigation into the present state of the contemporary novel--in Britain and beyond--and some speculation about its future. Against the backdrop of globalization, Dominic Head establishes the interests shared by contemporary theorists, cultural commentators, and consumers of novels.
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In Defense Of Reading - Teaching Literature In The Twenty-First Century

de Daniel R. Schwarz

117,86€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 What happens when we read imaginative literature? What do we learn from reading such texts? Reading complements our experience, sharpens our perceptions, gives us insight into how other humans live, enables us to understand other cultures and periods, and gives us aesthetic pleasure.
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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters

de Philip J. Davis

103,28€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of the enduring impact of Victorian realism today. With a nod to the popularity of phrenology within that era, noted literary scholar Philip Davis points to a corner of the human mind where all Victorian literature resides.
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Phenomenal Shakespeare

de Bruce R. Smith

104,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In Phenomenal Shakespeare , leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeare's poems and plays continue to resonate with audiences, readers and scholars because of their engagement with the whole body, not just the reading mind.
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Myth Of Popular Culture - From Dante To Dylan

de Perry Meisel

117,86€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this fascinating examination of popular culture, esteemed cultural critic Perry Meisel shatters conventionally held notions about the division between 'high' and 'low' culture with the provocative theory that popular culture has a sustained dialectical rhythm.
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Threat Of Race - Reflections On Racial Neoliberalism

de David Theo Goldberg

105,93€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in the world. This study surveys race dynamics in the various regions of the world - from Western and Northern Europe, South Africa and Latin America, and from Israel and Palestine to the United States.
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Savage Text - The Use And Abuse Of The Bible

de Adrian Thatcher

105,93€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Misuse of the Bible has made hatred holy. In this provocative book, Adrian Thatcher argues that debates on sexuality currently raging through the churches are the latest outbreak in a long line of savage interpretations of the Bible. Fascinating reading for anyone concerned about the future of Christianity.
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What Cinema Is! - Bazin''S Quest And Its Charge

de Dudley Andrew

113,88€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 What Cinema Is! offers an engaging answer to Andre Bazin'sfamous question, exploring his 'idea of cinema' with a sweepinglook back at the near century of Cinema's phenomenal ascendancy.
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Why Politics Can'T Be Freed From Religion

de Ivan Strenski

104,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion is an original, erudite, and timely new book from Ivan Strenski. Itinterrogates the central ideas and contexts behind religion, politics, and power, proposing an alternative way in which we should think about these issues in the twenty-first century.
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Religion And The Human Future - An Essay On Theological Humanism

de David E. Klemm e William Schweiker

111,23€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Ours is a time when cultures and religions creatively interact but also often collide, and human power increasingly endangers forms of life even while great technological advances enable us to better relieve suffering and want.
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Future Of Society

de William Outhwaite

119,18€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This important Manifesto argues that we still need a concept of society in order to make sense of the forces which structure our lives.
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Idea Of Latin America

de Walter D. Mignolo

117,86€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A geo-political manifesto which questions the idea of Latinity as a sole name for the South American subcontinent. Charts the history of the concept of Latinity from its emergence in Europe under France's leadership through to the present day.
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Myths For The Masses - An Essay On Mass Communication

de Hanno Hardt

123,16€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Presents a statement about communication in contemporary life. This title offers a comprehensive appraisal of mass communication. It provides a critical perspective on media and communication in society. It contains critical insights into the state of mass communication, democracy, and the construction of the self in society.
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Future Of Environmental Criticism - Environmental Crisis And Literary Imagination

de Lawrence Buell

131,11€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 * A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". * Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism. * Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today.
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Rescuing The Bible

de Roland Boer

111,23€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 What is the future for the Bible, one of the most important books in the world? In this manifesto, Roland Boer explores the idea that the Bible is an unruly and uncontrollable text that has been colonized by church, synagogue, and state.
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Future Of Theory

de Jean-Michel Rabat

132,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Addresses anxieties about theory and claims that it still has a crucial role to play. This book sketches its genealogy, particularly its relation to surrealism, philosophy, and the hard sciences. It proposes that theory, like hysteria, consistently points out the inadequacies of official, serious and 'masterful' knowledge.
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