Author: Niall Lucy
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: technology, culture, text, semiotics
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0826449328
ISBN-13: 9780826449320

Where is semiotics now? As the promised science of the social life of signs in general, semiotics has not been good to its word. Although well-established institutionally today -- through specialist journals, research centres, international conferences, professional associations and the like -- semiotics now seems quaintly out of place in a world where text, culture and technology defy metadisciplinary, if not metaphysical, explanation. When the semiotician has finished explaining the music of Primal Scream, the textuality of an email message or the culture of the internet, most would believe

Author: Niall Lucy
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: introduction, theory, literary, postmodern
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1997-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0631200010
ISBN-13: 9780631200017

"You couldn’t use terms like ’text’ in an English course without incurring the disapproval of some crusty old moralist...." "In a postmodern world, literature is just another text.... " "Forget depth: think surface! ...... everything is a text." In this brilliantly provocative and comprehensively informative introductory text, Niall Lucy shows the student how postmodern literary theory derives from a late eighteenth-century romantic tradition. In that tradition the literary was conceived as inseparable from the literary theoretical. But for postmodernism, Lucy argu

Author: Niall Lucy
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: anthology, theory, literary, postmodern
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2000-02-16
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0631210288
ISBN-13: 9780631210283

Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to ’postmodernism’. Most radical of all is the possibility that the very notion of literature is rendered untenable by postmodernism. How did this possibility arise? Who are the key figures responsible for its emergence; which are the key texts of its expression? This Anthology provides ways of responding to such questions.

Authors:Thomas Wolfe, Lucy Conniff, Richard S. Kennedy, Lucy
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: literary, studies, southern, angel, outline, homeward, autobiographical
Number of Pages: 99
Published: 2004-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0807129410
ISBN-13: 9780807129418

Readers of Thomas Wolfe’s Autobiographical Outline will better understand how his first and most widely read novel, Look Homeward, Angel, came into being. Superbly edited and annotated by Lucy Conniff and Richard Kennedy, this vibrant document records a young writer’s determination to forge art from the details of his life, providing an unparalleled view of a novelist’s mind at work. "Everything I write is immensely flavored with me," Wolfe stated. "The look about me will be transmuted and recreated in writing." Wolfe’s sprawling talent and his fascination with psychoanalysis are ref

Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: world, history, financial, money, ascent
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-11-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1594201927
ISBN-13: 9781594201929

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backs

Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: counterfactuals, alternatives, history, virtual
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2000-08-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0465023231
ISBN-13: 9780465023233

Speculative history at its best, in which a talented team of historians, led by Niall Ferguson, explore what might have happened if nine momentous events had turned out differently. What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into "imaginary time" and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions. Ferguson’s brilliant 90-page

Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: modern, world, power, money, nexus, cash
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2001-03-06
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0465023258
ISBN-13: 9780465023257

An acclaimed historian offers a radical new history of the links between politics and economics, one that draws unsettling conclusions about the future of both capitalism and democracy Does money make the world go round, as Cabaret’s Master of Ceremonies sang to us? In The Cash Nexus, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical and surprising answer-No. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or the Internet. In our own time Paul Kennedy has claimed that economics provided the key to internat