This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, the contributors address the question of whether recent enquiries into modernity bring a newer and better comprehension of the nature of dislocation and movement, or whether these serve simply to replicate familiar modes of placing people and individuals. The book is organized into perspectives in and on specific continents a Europe, Asia and...
This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Refl...
In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.
In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed ...
This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide:
a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century
insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century
closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated.
Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century...
This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of ke...
'Contemporary Literature' is among the most popular areas of literary study but it can be a difficult one to define. This book equips readers with the necessary tools to take an analytical and systematic approach to contemporary texts. The author provides answers to some of the critical questions in the field:
What makes a literary text contemporary?
Is it possible to have a canon of contemporary literature?
How does a reader's location affect their understanding?
How do print, electronic, and audio-visual media impact upon contemporary literature?...
'Contemporary Literature' is among the most popular areas of literary study but it can be a difficult one to define. This book equips readers with ...
This is a study of conceptualizations and applications of the idea of democracy in international and transnational politics (outside the confines of constituted political states, or outside a broadly understood domestic political sphere), which uses a politically realist methodology. This study provides a critical survey of current conceptual positions assumed in this area, and tests these against specific real world events, using the invasion and occupation of Iraq by a US-UK led coalition as a case study. Several aspects of this context are examined here, with a view to discerning how...
This is a study of conceptualizations and applications of the idea of democracy in international and transnational politics (outside the confines o...
This is the first extended text-based analysis of the social and political implications of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Arguments are primarily based on close readings of the first four Harry Potter books and the first two films - in other words, a 'text-to-world' method is followed. This study does not assume that the phenomenon concerns children alone, or should be lightly dismissed as a matter of pure entertainment. The amount of money, media coverage, and ideological unease involved indicates otherwise. The first part provides a survey of responses (both of general readers and critics) to...
This is the first extended text-based analysis of the social and political implications of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Arguments are primarily based ...
This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, the contributors address the question of whether recent enquiries into modernity bring a newer and better comprehension of the nature of dislocation and movement, or whether these serve simply to replicate familiar modes of placing people and individuals. The book is organized into perspectives in and on specific continents - Europe, Asia and...
This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Refl...
