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This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare's poetry and
his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare's knowledge of
the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it
puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare's
poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period - in
particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron,
and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare's original
contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how
he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are
central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics,
including 'fancy', the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, 'poesy', and
a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere
expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the
hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes,
and abstract qualities of Clare's lyric poetry situate him firmly
within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time
as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the
most fascinating eras of English literature.
In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new edition of
Sport, Theory and Social Problems, authors Eric Anderson and Adam
White examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes
inequality, injury, and complicity to authority at the non-elite
levels of play in Anglo-American countries. By introducing students
to a research-led perspective on sport, it highlights the operation
of power, patriarchy, and pain that a hyper-competitive sporting
culture promotes. Each chapter includes at least one key social
theory, which is made accessible and pragmatic. The theory is then
infused throughout the chapter to help the student engage with a
deeper understanding of sport. In addition to examining how sport
generates otherness, distracts children from education, and teaches
the acceptance of emotional and physical violence, this new edition
also examines how organized, competitive sport divides us by race,
denies children the right to their own governance, and promotes
brain trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in those who are
too young to consent to play contact sports. Sport, Theory and
Social Problems: A Critical Introduction is an essential textbook
for any sport studies degree with a focus on the sociology of
sport, sport and social theory, children's health and wellbeing, or
sport and gender studies.
The music of 'Motown' needs no introduction. Berry Gordy's record
label became a style unto itself, producing hit after suave, sassy
and sophisticated hit, and shaped the careers of so many of the
greatest musicians of all time. The label produced more US
number-one hits than the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones
and the Beach Boys combined. Now, and with fresh new insights and
an incredible visual narrative, the official, visual history of
this momentous contribution to music and American culture is told
in full. This book delves deep into the success stories of Motown's
powerhouse creative team, including the Holland-Dozier-Holland
triumvirate, and unpicks backstories of the Motown musicians envied
by many, and covered by the rest. The roster includes Stevie
Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson
& The Miracles, the Jackson 5, The Temptations and Martha
Reeves & The Vandellas. Motown: The Sound of Young America is
dense with information and materials gathered from the personal
accounts and archives of many of the key players. It is a
spectacular labour of love befitting an incredible story.
In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new edition of
Sport, Theory and Social Problems, authors Eric Anderson and Adam
White examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes
inequality, injury, and complicity to authority at the non-elite
levels of play in Anglo-American countries. By introducing students
to a research-led perspective on sport, it highlights the operation
of power, patriarchy, and pain that a hyper-competitive sporting
culture promotes. Each chapter includes at least one key social
theory, which is made accessible and pragmatic. The theory is then
infused throughout the chapter to help the student engage with a
deeper understanding of sport. In addition to examining how sport
generates otherness, distracts children from education, and teaches
the acceptance of emotional and physical violence, this new edition
also examines how organized, competitive sport divides us by race,
denies children the right to their own governance, and promotes
brain trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in those who are
too young to consent to play contact sports. Sport, Theory and
Social Problems: A Critical Introduction is an essential textbook
for any sport studies degree with a focus on the sociology of
sport, sport and social theory, children's health and wellbeing, or
sport and gender studies.
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The Electric 66
Emanuele Di Giovine; Adam White
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Discovery Miles 3 880
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Today there are more states controlling more people than at any
other point in history. We live in a world shaped by the authority
of the state. Yet the complexion of state authority is patchy and
uneven. While it is almost always possible to trace the formal
rules governing human interaction to the statute books of one state
or another, in reality the words in these books often have little
bearing upon what is happening on the ground. Their meanings are
intentionally and unintentionally misrepresented by those who are
supposed to enforce them and by those who are supposed to obey
them, generating a range of competing authorities, voices, and
allegiances. "The Everyday Life of the State" explores this
"everyday" transformation of state authority into multiple scripts,
narratives, and political activities. Drawing upon case studies
from across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, the chapters
in this book investigate the many ways in which those subjects
traditionally regarded as being weak, passive, and obedient manage
not only to resist the authority of state actors but to actively
subvert and appropriate it, in the process making, unmaking, and
remaking the boundaries between state and society over and over
again. Collectively, these chapters make an important contribution
to the expanding literature on "everyday politics."
The "state-in-society" approach used in this volume has been
developed by political scientist Joel S. Migdal, the Robert F.
Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of
Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Adam White is the author of "The Politics of Private Security:
Regulation, Reform and Re-Legitimation." The contributors include
Senem Aslan, Lauren L. Basson, Ceren Belge, Mary Alice Haddad, Iza
Hussin, Arda Ibikoglu, Ahmet T. Kuru, Y ksel Sezgin, Benjamin
Smith, Pamela J. Stumpo, Maha El-Taji Daghash, Nicole F. Watts, and
Patricia J. Woods.
"The coherence of the collection is outstanding. The
state-in-society approach that informs the individual contributions
and the volume as a whole provides a strong foundation that holds
together analyses that cover a wide geographical scope." -Resat
Kasaba, University of Washington"
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