Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)

Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9781317672227
ISBN-13 : 1317672224
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Synopsis Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals) by : Lennard J. Davis

"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is also a defensive structure positioning us against alienation and loneliness: the dehumanising symptoms of modern life. While discussions surrounding ideology in novels traditionally concentrate on thematics, in this study – first published in 1987 - Davis approaches the subject through such structural features as location, character, dialogue and plot. Drawing on a wide range of novels from the seventeenth century to the present day, and on psychoanalysis as well as philosophy, Resisting Novels explores how fiction works subliminally to resist change and to detach the reader from the world of lived experience. This controversial critique will engage students and academics with a particular interest in literary theory.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780415684804
ISBN-13 : 0415684803
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Afghanistan by : Ed Girardet

First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s by one of the world's leading authorities, Ed Girardet.

Women, Power, and Subversion

Women, Power, and Subversion
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 0416412009
ISBN-13 : 9780416412000
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Women, Power, and Subversion by : Judith Lowder Newton

Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals)

Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9781317578147
ISBN-13 : 1317578147
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Synopsis Textual Liberation (Routledge Revivals) by : Helena Forsas-Scott

Feminist writing has emerged in recent years as a major influence of twentieth-century European literature. Textual Liberation, first published in 1991, provides a timely and wide-ranging survey of twentieth-century feminist writing in Europe, presenting texts from a number of countries and highlighting some of the transnational parallels and contrasts. The contributors emphasize the wider contexts- political, social, economic- in which the texts were produced. They cover feminist literature in Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia, France, Spain, Italy, and Turkey, and consider a range of genres, including the novel, poetry, drama, essays, and journalism. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography with special emphasis on material available in English. A stimulating introduction to the development of European feminist writing, Textual Liberation will be an invaluable resource for students of women’s literature, women’s studies, and feminism.

Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals)

Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781317637981
ISBN-13 : 1317637984
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Synopsis Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals) by : Coral Ann Howells

First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral Ann Howells argues that Canadian women’s fiction throughout the period of study represents how the Canadian cultural identity exceeds its geographical limits, and those traditional structures of patriarchal authority need revision if women’s alternative views are to be taken into account. Including short biographical sketches and a complete list of the books published by the authors under discussion, writers examined include Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence.

Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 149
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ISBN-10 : 9781136193989
ISBN-13 : 1136193987
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals) by : Judith Lowder Newton

First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere". This concept disguised inequities between men and women, first by asserting the reality of female power, and then by restricting it to self-sacrificing influence. In this book, Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss in order to demonstrate how some female writers reacted to the issue by covertly resisting inequities of power and reconciling ideologies in their art. She argues that in this time period, novels became increasingly rebellious as well as ambivalent . Heroines were endowed with power, and emphasis was given to female ability, rather than to feminine influence.

The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel (Routledge Revivals)

The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9781317629139
ISBN-13 : 1317629132
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel (Routledge Revivals) by : Arun Mukherjee

Business and the businessman have had a fundamental place in American society since the inception of the nation. This tenet, the ‘gospel of wealth’, is a central concern in the novels of Theodore Dreiser and his contemporaries. First published in 1987, this study sets this group of writers in their historical context and shows how they elaborated the idea of wealth as an object of quasi-religious quest. What had previously been associated with disease and darkness, avarice and dishonour, now came to emblematise the virtues of thrift, prudence and diligence. The underlying argument is that the dominant group of a society legitimises its power through the appropriation of the vocabulary of religion, and the American business leaders were successful in doing this both in their own practice and through the more insidious medium of art. A detailed analysis, this reissue will be of particular value to students of American literature with an interest in the relationship between linguistic symbols and social order, and historical attitudes towards wealth in literature.

Selling the Welfare State

Selling the Welfare State
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781317829331
ISBN-13 : 1317829336
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Selling the Welfare State by : Ray Forrest

Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain. It outlines the historical background to the growth of public housing and the developing political debatea surrounding its disposal. The main emphasis in the book, however, is on the ways in which privatisation in housing links to other key changes in British society. The long trend for British social housing to become a welfare housing sector is related to evidence of growing social polarisation and segregation. Within this overall context, the book explores the uneven spatial and social consequences of the policy.

Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices (Routledge Revivals)

Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 1273
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ISBN-10 : 9781317510062
ISBN-13 : 1317510062
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Synopsis Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices (Routledge Revivals) by : Noel Entwistle

First published in 1990, the Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices was written for practitioners and students in the field of education and its related services and was designed to appeal to educationists no matter what their nationality. Focusing mainly on compulsory schooling, it provides summaries of the thinking, research findings, and innovatory practices current at the time. However, the book is also careful to present a complete picture of education and therefore includes a separate section for education beyond school which covers pre-school level, post-secondary level, and adult and continuing education. There are also other chapters dealing with aspects of organization, curriculum, and teaching in various forms of tertiary education. Indeed, each topic has been discussed by an acknowledged expert writing in sufficient detail in order to resist trivialization.

The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 515
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ISBN-10 : 9781400076321
ISBN-13 : 1400076323
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre by : Jean-Paul Sartre

This unique selection presents the essential elements of Sartre's lifework -- organized systematically and made available in one volume for the first time in any language.