wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics
ISBN: 9780226461700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book--or even steady journal articles--may seem like an impossible dream. But, as Joli Jensen proves, it really is possible to write happily and productively in academe. Jensen begins by busting the myth that universities are supportive writing environments. She points out that academia, an arena dedicated to scholarship, offers pressures that actually prevent scholarly writing. She shows how to acknowledge these less-than-ideal conditions, and how...
With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals. A finished book--or e...
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75,71 zł |
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Rock Criticism from the Beginning: Amusers, Bruisers, and Cool-Headed Cruisers
ISBN: 9780820474908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rock Criticism from the Beginning is a wide-ranging exploration of the rise and development of rock criticism in Britain and the United States from the 1960s to the present. It chronicles the evolution of a new form of journalism, and the course by which writing on rock was transformed into a respected field of cultural production. The authors explore the establishment of magazines from Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone to The Source, and from Melody Maker and New Musical Express to The Wire, while investigating the careers of well-known music...
Rock Criticism from the Beginning is a wide-ranging exploration of the rise and development of rock criticism in Britain and the United States ...
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259,38 zł |
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Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life
ISBN: 9780742517417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an instrumental American heritage of beliefs about the arts. Jensen argues that faith in high culture's unproven ability to transform people and society allows social critics to keep faith with the idea of a democratic society while deploring popular culture. Employing perspectives from Tocqueville and Dewey, she argues that the arts are good, but they don't do good. Instead of expecting the arts to improve things (and blaming the media for ruining...
Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an ins...
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216,30 zł |