Authors:Paula R. Backscheider, Catherine Ingrassia,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: culture, blackwell, literature, companions, novel, eighteenth, century, english, companion
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2009-11-03
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 1405192453
ISBN-13: 9781405192453

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novelFurnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contextForegrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first centuryExplores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its la

Authors:Lisa Shaw, Stephanie Denniso,
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: culture, popular, contemporary, world, lifestyle, media, latin, america, pop, arts
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 2005-01-14
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1851095047
ISBN-13: 9781851095049

This is a survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics from music and film to popular festivals and fashion. The book aims to show how different music and cultural traditions take different forms with peoples throughout the region.

Author: Barton Levi St Armand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: culture, studies, american, cambridge, literature, society, dickinson, soul, emily
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1986-06-27
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0521339782
ISBN-13: 9780521339780

The great American poet Emily Dickinson has long been seen as a figure isolated from her contemporaries and insulated from her surrounding culture. This book attempts to place her texts in their cultural contexts by exploring her attitude towards death, romance, the afterlife, God, nature and art. Using pertinent parallels, analogues, and glosses, it assesses her response to three levels of general culture: elite, popular, and folk. It attempts to find coherence in the entire canon of her poetry, and to reconstruct the lost sensibility that produced it. The author stresses Dickinson’s vi

Authors:Dr Gavin Kendall, Dr Gary M Wickham,
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: culture, theory, amp, society, abridged, order, cultural, studies, understanding, ordering
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-05-25
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0761965157
ISBN-13: 9780761965152

Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of `doing’ cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people’s lives and as markers of that ordering. Understanding Culture: · Reviews the state of the discipline of cultural studies and suggests a new theoretical and methodological orientation drawing on the work of: Foucault; scepticism, Wittgenstein; Harvey Sacks and John Law.· Uses insights from a variety of sourc

Authors:Amos Ives Root, Ann Harman, Dr. Hachiro Shimanuki, Ki
Publisher: A I Root Co
Keywords: culture, scientific, practical, honey, bees, pertaining, encyclopedia, amp, xyz, bee, abc
Number of Pages: 911
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $45.49
ISBN-10: 093602822X
ISBN-13: 9780936028224

Author: Margaret Homans
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: culture, women, series, society, british, representations, queen, victoria, royal
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1999-01-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226351149
ISBN-13: 9780226351148

Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age. In Royal Representations, Margaret Homans investigates the meanings Victoria held for her times, Victoria’s own contributions to Victorian writing and art, and the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt.Arguing that being, seeming, and appearing were crucial to Victoria’s "rule," Homans explores the variability of Victoria’s agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical, and visual sources. Along the way she shows how Victoria provided a deeply equivoca

Authors:Michael M Cernea, Amir H Kassam,
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: culture, agricultural, development, cabi, international, research, agri, social, researching
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2005-12
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0851990037
ISBN-13: 9780851990033

This book analyzes the functions, content, methods, findings, and impacts of social and cultural research carried out by the worldwide network of 16 International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR(Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). Its two main parts - "insiders" and "outsiders" - bring together the perspectives of over 50 eminent scholars and social researchers from 30 countries, working within the Centers or within outside academic and development institutions. The authors examine critically the priorities, strengths, and weaknesses of research on the socio-