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17 produkter
Artefacts of Writing
Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
E-bok, 2017
675 kr
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Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing , Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and …
Literature Police
Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences
E-bok, 2009
413 kr
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''Censorship may have to do with literature'', Nadine Gordimer once said, ''but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.'' As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can sometimes be is compellingly …
Literature Police
Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences
E-bok, 2010
413 kr
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''Censorship may have to do with literature'', Nadine Gordimer once said, ''but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.'' As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can sometimes be is compellingly …
Artefacts of Writing
Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
E-bok, 2017
600 kr
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Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing , Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and …
Artefacts of Writing
Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
Inbunden, 2017
1029 kr
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Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and …
The Literature Police
Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences
Häftad, 2010
577 kr
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'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.' As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can sometimes be is compellingly …
Run and Jump
The Meaning of the 2D Platformer
Häftad, 2024
444 kr
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How abstract design decisions in 2D platform games create rich worlds of meaning for players. Since the 1980s, 2D platform games have captivated their audiences. Whether the player scrambles up the ladders in Donkey Kong or leaps atop an impossibly tall pipe in Super Mario Bros. , this deceptively …
British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914
Inbunden, 1997
1872 kr
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This book examines the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880-1914 as seen through the early publishing careers of three highly influential writers, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and Arthur Conan Doyle. Peter D. McDonald examines the cultural politics of the …
British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914
Av Peter D. McDonald, Terry Belanger m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
935 kr
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This book examines the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880-1914 as seen through the early publishing careers of three highly influential writers, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and Arthur Conan Doyle. Peter D. McDonald examines the cultural politics of the …
Double Life of Books
Making and Re-Making the Reader
Inbunden, 2024
1273 kr
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The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls 'inner appropriation.' It does so by bringing two voices together for the first time: the so-called …
Double Life of Books
Making and Re-Making the Reader
Häftad, 2026
359 kr
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The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls 'inner appropriation.' It does so by bringing two voices together for the first time: the so-called …
Impossible Reversal
A History of How We Play
Inbunden, 2026
1386 kr
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Tracing the cultural history of play - from Fluxus to SimCityGames and gamified activities have become ubiquitous in many adults' lives, and play is widely valued for fostering creativity, community, growth, and empathy. But how did we come to our current understanding of what it means to play? The …
Impossible Reversal
A History of How We Play
Häftad, 2026
321 kr
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Tracing the cultural history of play - from Fluxus to SimCityGames and gamified activities have become ubiquitous in many adults' lives, and play is widely valued for fostering creativity, community, growth, and empathy. But how did we come to our current understanding of what it means to play? The …
Making Meaning
Printers of the Mind and Other Essays
Av Donald Francis McKenzie, Peter D. McDonald m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
441 kr
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The greatest bibliographer of our time, was how historian Robert Darnton described D.F. McKenzie. Yet until now many of McKenzie's major essays, scattered in specialist journals and inaccessible publications, have circulated mainly in tattered photocopies. This volume, edited by two of McKenzie's …
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Av Jarad Zimbler, Margriet van der Waal m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
573 kr
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This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as …
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Av Jarad Zimbler, Margriet van der Waal m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
573 kr
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This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as …
Literary Activism
A Symposium
Av Derek Attridge, Swapan Chakravorty m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
251 kr
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Literary Activism – activism that revisits and interrogates an idea of literature – emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where market pressures are effecting changes – on language, on the measuring of value, on the concept of influence – we might struggle to …
