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The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French
intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact
on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education,
anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art,
Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus
specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study
of cultural production. Though Bourdieu's own work has illuminated
diverse cultural phenomena, the essays in this volume extend to new
cultural forms and to national situations outside France. Far from
simply applying Bourdieu's concepts and theoretical tools to these
new contexts, the essays in this volume consider both the
possibility and limits of Bourdieu's sociology for the study of
culture.
This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the items have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities. There is also a complete alphabetical index to the words in the list. A learner who knows all or most of these 10,000 words can be regarded as competent in Russian for all normal purposes. The list takes you from a beginner's core vocabulary through to postgraduate level.
This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities. There is also a complete alphabetical index to the words in the list. A learner who knows all or most of these 10,000 words can be regarded as competent in Russian for all normal purposes. The list takes you from a beginner's core vocabulary through to postgraduate level. eBook available with sample pages: 0203437438
Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of
multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and
reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic
regionalism, shifts in political agendas associated with the impact
of neo-liberalism, and moves to frame political agendas less at the
macro-level of state intervention and more at the level of
community partnership and empowerment. In related but distinct
ways, each state is being challenged to devise policies and offer
outcomes that address an unfolding and unsteady synthesis of issues
relating to citizenship, the role of nation-states in a
'borderless' world, and the management of economic change while
preserving an enabling sense of national identity and social
cohesion.
Analyzing issues ranging from urban planning and the provision
of broadcasting services for minority languages, to principled
debates over basic rights and entitlements, these essays offer
penetrating summaries of each political culture while also
prompting comparative reflection on the broad theme of "democracy
and difference."
In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical
argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a
commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art
and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in
confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of
capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his
readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of
literature, photography, music, television, and sculpture, from
Cindy Sherman's photography and the novels of Ben Lerner and
Jennifer Egan to The Wire and the music of the White Stripes. He
demonstrates that through their attention and commitment to form,
such artists turn aside the determination posed by the demand of
the market, thereby defeating the foreclosure of meaning entailed
in commodification. In so doing, he offers a new theory of art that
prompts a rethinking of the relationship between art, critical
theory, and capitalism.
"Masterfully shuttling back and forth between Europe and Africa,
Nicholas Brown gives us an exciting new perspective on modernism
that is as philosophically astute as it is politically
engaged."--Michael Hardt, Duke University, coauthor of "Empire and
Multitude"
"An enormously significant contribution to the fields of
modernist and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Nicholas
Brown aims to 're-constellate' modernism and African literature
within a single framework, and he does so with great success. Along
the way, however, the book accomplishes a great deal more than
this. For example, it provides a new, critical-theoretical account
of modernism itself. Superbly well-organized and wonderfully
well-written, the book is replete with sentences that resonate with
the reader long after closing its pages."--Neil Larsen, University
of California, Davis, author of "Modernism and Hegemony"
"A complex, sensitive, and sophisticated investigation of the
utopian aspects of both Western modernist literature and
postcolonial African literature. Because modernist literature has
become the standard of aesthetic achievement in Western literature,
this is an audacious project. Brown not only gives equal weight to
the two sets of works he is reading, but he reads each set on its
own terms. As a result, he has produced an extremely useful and
thought-provoking work of criticism that provides important new
insights into both modernism and African literature."--M. Keith
Booker, University of Arkansas, author of ""Ulysses," Capitalism,
and Colonialism"
"In "Utopian Generations," Nicholas Brown's grasp of marxian
analysis is subtle and his general argument about the literary
configurations ofthe idea of Utopia and the sublime on the works of
the modernist and African writers he examines is both riveting and
insightful. However, the book's greatest strength lies in its
detailed and multilayered analyses of the authors and the texts
themselves. Every chapter contains moments of real brilliance,
which derive directly from the analyses. In fact, the writing
inadvertently illustrates a species of immanent criticism in the
best Adornian sense, and in a way that proves really illuminating
as a method of comparative scholarship."--Ato Quayson, University
of Cambridge, author of "Calibrations: Reading for the Social"
Writing for Public Relations and Strategic Communication equips
students with the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to write
persuasively. The book underscores the importance of strategic
analysis at the beginning of the writing process. Utilizing an
audience-centered perspective, it shows how persuasive writing
emerges organically after critically assessing the goals of an
organization's message in light of its intended audience. Students
learn essential strategic thinking and planning skills to create
effective and intentional writing. The book presents the
theoretical underpinnings of behavior, which students can then
employ to generate prose that prioritizes the audience's reasons
for attending to the message. The book is unique in presenting a
primer on communication, persuasion, and moral theories that
provides students a roadmap for constructing effective, ethical
arguments. Throughout, anecdotes, examples, quizzes, and
assignments help connect theory to practical, real-world
applications. Writing for Public Relations and Strategic
Communication helps readers build their persuasive writing skills
for professional and effective public relations, employing unique
strategies and tactics, such as: A generative writing system that
helps students identify and organize important information to
produce quality prose, then adapt it to various media, on deadline.
Interactive walkthroughs of writing examples that deconstruct
prose, offering students insights not just into what to write, but
how and why practitioners make strategic choices-down to the word
level. Long-form scenario prompts that allow students to hone their
persuasive writing, editing, and communication management skills
across an array of platforms. Three two-chapter modules where the
first chapter demonstrates how to write effective prose for a
particular channel and the second offers practical help in
delivering those products through message-delivery channels.
Detailed case studies demonstrating how to translate research and
planning into storytelling that addresses organizational problems.
Unique chapters building important analytical literacies, such as
search engine optimization tactics, marketing statistics analysis
and data-driven audience targeting methods.
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