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Author: Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-07-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780791430101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers readable case studies in postmodern economics, philosophy, literary criticism, feminism, pedagogy, poetry, painting, historiography, and cultural studies, showing disorganization as characteristic of postmodern times.
Author: Dawn Hillier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-14
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1134476736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'? Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience? If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it? These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth practices and its implications for midwifery practice and education. Built around the vivid personal stories of women and midwives experiencing childbirth in four very different cultures Childbirth in the Global Village will resonate with the experience of midwives everywhere and makes a strong case for redesigning the midwifery curriculum to reflect the interconnectedness of childbirth, midwifery education and practice around the globe.
Author: Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1135218005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Literary Criticism Since the 1930s fully updates Vincent B. Leitch’s classic book, American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s following the development of the American academy right up to the present day. Updated throughout and with a brand new chapter, this second edition: provides a critical history of American literary theory and practice, discussing the impact of major schools and movements examines the social and cultural background to literary research, considering the role of key theories and practices provides profiles of major figures and influential texts, outlining the connections among theorists presents a new chapter on developments since the 1980s, including discussions of feminist, queer, postcolonial and ethnic criticism. Comprehensive and engaging, this book offers a crucial overview of the development of literary studies in American universities, and a springboard to further research for all those interested in the development and study of Literature.
Author: Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1472531825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a decade literary criticism has been thought to be in a post-theory age. Despite this, the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze and Foucault and new writers such as Agamben and Ranciere continue to be central to literary studies. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century explores the explosion of new theoretical approaches that has seen a renaissance in theory and its importance in the institutional settings of the humanities today. Literary Criticism in the 21st Century covers such issues as: The institutional history of theory in the academy The case against theory, from the 1970s to today Critical reading, theory and the wider world Keystone works in contemporary theory New directions and theory's many futures Written with an engagingly personal and accessible approach that brings theory vividly to life, this is a passionate defence of theory and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.
Author: Vincent Leitch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1135204985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2003. In this book on what theory means today, the general editor of the Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory explores how theory has altered the way the humanities do business. Theory got personal, went global, became popular, and in the process has changed everything we thought we knew about intellectual life. One of the most adroit and perceptive observers of the critical scene, Vincent Leitch offers these engaging snapshots to show how theory is at work. This is an utterly readable little book by one of our best historians on the theoretical turn that over the past thirty years has so powerfully changed the academy.
Author: M. Cornis-Pope
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1403970033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a confrontation between rival ideologies abroad and a clash between champions of uniformity and disruptive others at home. Considering a broad range of narrative projects and approaches (from polysystemic fiction to surfiction, postmodern feminism, and multicultural/postcolonial fiction), this book highlights their solutions to ontological division (real vs. imaginary, wordly and other-worldly), sociocultural oppositions (of race, class, gender) and narratological dualities (imitation vs. invention, realism vs. formalism). A thorough rereading of the best experimental work published in the US since the mid-1960s reveals the fact that innovative fiction has been from the beginning concerned with redefining the relationship between history and fiction, narrative and cultural articulation. Stepping back from traditional polarizations, innovative novelists have tried to envision an alternative history of irreducible particularities, excluded middles, and creative intercrossings.
Author: Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2000-10-27
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780822325871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVUses a discussion of contemporary films and literary works to present an understanding of paranoia as a defining element in postmodern late-capitalist structure./div
Author: Paul Maltby
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0791488462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Visionary Moment, Paul Maltby draws on postmodern theory to examine the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment, or "epiphany," in twentieth-century American fiction. Engaging critically with the works of Don DeLillo, Jack Kerouac, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and William Faulkner, Maltby explains how the literary convention of the visionary moment promotes the myth that there is a superior level of knowledge that can redeem or regenerate the individual. He contends that this common-sense assumption is a paradigm that needs to be confronted and critiqued.
Author: Robin Usher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-05-22
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 140205579X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning as an emerging discourse in education.
Author: David Scott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-12-16
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1441153128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of research and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data.
