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Author: Stuart Sim
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9781874166658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text presents a comprehensive survey of the intellectual developments that have brought about a shift in cultural perspectives of postmodernism. It is divided into three sections: essays; biographical entries; and a glossary of terms.
Author: Stuart Sim
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 113454569X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Companion to Postmodernism combines a series of fourteen in-depth background chapters with a body of A-Z entries to create an authoritative yet readable guide to the complex world of postmodernism.
Author: Fran Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-12-12
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 1442276207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.
Author: Stuart Sim
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1840469099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last few decades have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories, with deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vying for our attention. The world around us can look very different on the critical theory applied to it. This vast range of interpretations can leave one feeling confused and frustrated. This book provides a route through the tangled jungle of competing theories.
Author: Thomas Hueglin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1442606851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassical Debates for the 21st Century distinctively reconsiders the canon of political thought, in the context of current world events, by presenting debates between the ideas of classical theorists. It is through these debates that Thomas O. Hueglin argues that exclusive state sovereignty, individual citizenship, and majority rule have become questionable categories of political theory and practice in a globalizing world. To a large extent, the classical canon of political thought has been constructed in order to give legitimacy to these categories, but it is time to rethink the validity of that canon, and to search for alternative voices and traditions that emphasize plurality, shared sovereignty, and complex patterns of representation and decision-making. This does not mean that the familiar names in the classical canon have to disappear. But they should be examined more critically for their continued importance, and additional theorists thus far neglected should complement them. Each chapteris organized as a debate between two theorists with contrasting views and approaches. At the end of each chapter, there is a critical evaluation of these political theorists’ continued or renewed relevance.
Author: Stuart Sim
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1134601689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the crystallisation of post-Marxism as a specific theoretical position in its own right and considers the role played in its development by post-structuralism, postmodernism and second-wave feminism. It examines the history of dissenting tendencies within the Marxist tradition and considers what the future prospects of post-Marxism are likely to be.
Author: Del Loewenthal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781583911006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a primer which takes the reader through the ideas of the most important post-modern thinkers, giving a clear summary of the essential points of their ideas and how they relate to current and future psychotherapy theory and practice.
Author: Philip Allmendinger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-29
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1134490607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an up-to-date reader on planning theory. By drawing upon examples from planning practice and case study scenarios, the authors ensure that the work discussess planning theory within the context of present planning practice.
Author: Dr. S. Veeramani
Publisher: Authors Tree Publishing
Published: 2021-08-26
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9391078923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is very useful for the NET/SET/JRF aspirants because it has a short description of all the literary theories with Objective Questions with answer keys at the end of each chapter. Moreover, It provides an additional Practice Test – I and Practice Test – II with solutions. Literary Theories are made simple for readers to understand. This book is acclaimed as one of the first of this kind in the book industry. Therefore, students of UG, PG, M.Phil, and Ph.D. research scholars, assistant professors, literary theory -aspirants can make use of this book. This book covers chapters such as structuralism, poststrualism, deconstruction, phenomenology, hermeneutics, postmodernism, postcolonialism, new historicism and post-humanism, feminism and ecocriticism.
Author: Martyn Hammersley
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2008-07-10
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0857026771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs qualitative research in crisis? In Questioning Qualitative Inquiry Martyn Hammersley raises fundamental questions about the current state of qualitative social research. He examines some of the changes that have taken place within it over the past fifty years, suggesting that the move away from natural science as a model, and towards an appeal to literature and art, involves rejection of key principles that are essential to research of any kind. Hammersley argues that, in important respects, qualitative inquiry has not lived up to the claims originally made on its behalf, and that more recent developments have worsened the situation. Insufficient attention has been given to the problems surrounding leading ideas like thick description, analytic induction, and constructionism. The argument is pursued through discussion of the work of influential writers - such as Clifford, Geertz, Denzin and Lincoln - and by detailed examination of concrete issues, like the value of interview data, the rationales for discourse and conversation analysis, the role of rhetoric in research reports, and the nature of assessment criteria. At a time when qualitative inquiry is coming under renewed challenge in some quarters, the task of addressing the methodological problems it faces has become urgent. These essays on current developments and debates are essential reading for anyone interested in the future of qualitative research.
