From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization.
The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy is a rich exploration of the evolution, dynamics, and cultural underpinnings of comedy during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world s leading intellectuals of the modern era.
A fascinating account of how the law determines or dismantles identity and personhoodAbused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantanamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state-all are deprived of personhood through legal acts.
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control.
In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life.
Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation.
A fascinating account of how the law determines or dismantles identity and personhoodAbused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantanamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state-all are deprived of personhood through legal acts.
In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the inscription of inequality?
How the King James Bible has influenced the style of the American novel from Melville to Cormac McCarthyThe simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning-and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today.
In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life.
In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory.
En la orden de trabajo del supervisor que inicia la jornada, en la charla breve con los compañeros durante el tiempo libre, en la circulación de la palabra en el call center, en la negociación del comerciante, en la palabra del profesor, en la escritura del poeta y en el grito del ambulante que llama a su futuro cliente constamos que lenguaje y trabajo son realidades íntimamente ligadas, a tal punto que podríamos afirmar que el ser humano es un animal que habla y que trabaja.
Social semiotics reveals language's social meaning its structures, processes, conditions and effects in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse.
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns.
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns.
Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature.
'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Literary SupplementOn 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan.
In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory.
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.
An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of GoogledAdvertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible fuel powering almost all media.
The Growth and Structure of Elizabethan Comedy is a rich exploration of the evolution, dynamics, and cultural underpinnings of comedy during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film.
