First published in 1991, Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum provides a context for debates about the place of Shakespeare within the English curriculum in the 1990s, and examines the possibilities in teaching Shakespeare afforded by the application of contemporary critical approaches, such as communication, cultural and gender studies, in the classroom and seminar room. The collection will be of particular to interest to sixth-form students, secondary school teachers, teacher trainers and students and lecturers in further and higher education.

Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.
This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses:
* the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain
* structures of patronage and censorship
* the fundamental role of the publishing industry
* the relation between elite literary and popular cultures
* and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.

Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.
This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses:
* the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain
* structures of patronage and censorship
* the fundamental role of the publishing industry
* the relation between elite literary and popular cultures
* the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.

Contents:
Part 1: Postmodernism: a new representation? Paradigms of the Postmodern. Modernism and its Consequences: Continuity of Break?. Postmodernism: from Elite to Mass Culture? Conclusion: Resisting the Postmodern. Part 2: Essays on Postmodernism. One: Popular Culture. Introduction. Popular Music and Postmodern Theory, Andrew Goodwin. Recognizing a `human-Thing': Cyborgs, Robots and Replicants in Philip K. Dick's `Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' and Ridley Scott's `Blade Runner', Nigel Wheale. Two: Architecture and Visual Arts. Introduction. Three: Melancholy Meanings: Architecture, Postmodernity and Philosophy, Julian Roberts. Four: `The World Is Indeed and Fabulous Tale': Yve Lomax - a Practice around Photography, Hilary Guest in dialogue with Yve Lomax. Five: Televising Hell: Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway's `TV Dante', Nigel Wheale. Three: Literature. Introduction. A New Subjectivity? John Ashbery's `Three Poems, Nigel Wheale. Reading the Satanic Verses, Gayatari Chakravorty Spivak. Four: The Real and the True: Documentary Film. Introduction. The Totalizing Quest of Meaning, Trinh T. Minh-Ha

For better or worse, modernism and postmodernism are now the two most comprehensive and influential terms applied to twentieth-century culture. The Postmodern Arts begins by establishing definitions of both words, while also demonstrating the inconsistencies and contradictions which are inherent within them.
As with all books in the Critical Readers in Theory and Practice series, the volume is divided into two halves: the first, a comprehensive and thorough introduction by the editor, offering a schematic survey of the major themes and positions taken in the debates around modernism and postmodernism. The second is a collection of pertinent essays grouped into four sections to demonstrate how the debates have been applied to specific cultural activities:
* Popular Culture
* Architecture and Visual Arts
* Literature
* Documentary Film

A summing-up of the poetic career of scholar Nigel Wheale - now resident in Orkney - covering over thirty years of his work. Hitherto, all of the author's poetry has appeared in small-press and generally hard-to-find volumes and 'Raw Skies' is the largest collection of his poetry to have been published.