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Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic, " During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people?

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Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultur...

This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should thereforere-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos ofrefusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow.

This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should thereforere-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos ofrefusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow.

Abenteuer des jüngsten Sprosses der Familie Zitterbacke: Wegen seines Namens hat es Alfons Zitterbacke nicht gerade leicht bei seinen Mitschülern. Sein Selbstbewußtsein steigt erst, als er eine Frau aus vermeintlicher Seenot rettet, die sich ihm später als seine zukünftige Klassenlehrerin vorstellt. Auch die Familiengeschichte, die sein Vater erzählt, stärkt Alfons' Vertrauen in sich selbst. Wie schon die DDR-Spielfilmversion von 1966 basiert ...

The Cultural Studies Reader is the ideal introduction for students. A revised introduction explaining the history and key concerns of cultural studies brings together important articles by leading thinkers to provide an essential guide to the development, key issues and future directions of cultural studies. This fully updated third edition includes: 36 essays including 21 new articles An editor 's preface succinctly introducing each arti...

Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.

The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance in the formation of the 'new historicism' and 'culture materialism' which currently dominate international literary studies.

Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultur...