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Everything you need to know about Derrida's Of Grammatology in one volume.Jacques Derrida was one of the most famous philosophers of the later twentieth century and Of Grammatology is his best known text. This book will provide the first commentary on Of Grammatology which can be read alongside of - rather instead of - the text itself, by students encountering Derrida for the first time.

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Nonviolent political action has played a significant role in achieving social and political change in the last century. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King were prominent proponents of nonviolence. This book examines the relevance of nonviolent tactics to the debates about political action and political thought.

Explores the lasting cultural and political impact of the events of this remarkable year, which included Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry and its disastrous repercussions.

Exploring gender, race, nation and narration, this groundbreaking study isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain lives and specific socio-cultural identities in a hierarchical and partisan way. Dedicated to the popular, to the political and ethical implications of mass culture's themes and imperatives, this book takes this culture to task for its mortal economies of expendability. It also disinters the capacity for fil...

Focuses on Robert Burns's achievements as a poet and his special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary culture since the 18th century. Contributors include leading poet-critics such as award-winning Burns author Robert Crawford & Douglas Dunn, and experts in poetry criticism such as Stephen Gill and Patrick Crotty.

What does advanced or university study of English literature involve today? How should students read literary texts? Answers to these questions have substantially changed over recent decades, particularly in response to advances in literary theory. In the light of these trends, this volume provides a new, updated guide for students beginning their study of literature. It provides clear, prgamatic explanations of critical practices and literary...

This book examines the course and nature of Roman expansion during the Republic and Early Empire, focusing on the impact of Roman rule on the subject, and the effect of empire on the imperial power. These are topics which have long generated considerable controversy among modern scholars. The study and judgement of Roman imperialism have always been informed by contemporary perceptions of international power relations and this is one reason st...

Designed to meet today's ever-increasing demand for access to the Arabic media, this practical textbook provides the basic skills required for comprehension and newsgathering from Arabic media including the web, TV, radio and newspapers.Assuming no more than a basic knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, the primary emphasis throughout is on learning to manipulate structures, short-term and vocational vocabulary acquisition, and self-assessment....

This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary critical theory in a manner both accessible to the beginning student and expert enough to interest the curious scholar.

Michael Pickering Provides students with a clear overview of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. He advocates a multimethod approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation. The book covers the use of experience and how narratives make sense of experience. It also explores cultural memory and historical pre...

An expanded and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to linguistic morphology. The text guides the reader from the very first principles of the internal structure of words through to advanced issues of current controversy.

The Companion provides a thorough, up-to-date and critical evaluation of Welsh's work.

This guide introduces you to the interplay between human rights and Scots law. It covers fundamental rights, procedural rights, qualified rights and other rights. Summary sections of Essential Facts and Essential Cases will help you to learn and revise the core points of the subject.