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Danger Days
The poems in Catherine Pierce's new Danger Days celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st century, Pierce weaves superblooms and Legos, gun violence and ghosts, glaciers and contaminant masks, urging us to look closely at both the horror and beauty of our world. As Pierce writes in "Planet," "I'm trying to see this place even as I'm walking through it."
James Carey
James Carey - scholar, media critic, and teacher of journalists - almost single-handedly established the importance of defining a cultural perspective when analyzing communications. Interspersing Carey's major essays with articles exploring his central themes and their importance, this collection provides a critical introduction to the work of this significant figure. In James Carey: A Critical Reader, sever scholars who have been influenced by him consider his work and how it has affected the development of media studies. Carey has examined the roles the media and the academy have played in creating and maintaining a public sphere, as well as the ways technology helps or hinders that project. Carey's themes range from the strains on democracy and drawbacks of technology to the critique of journalism and the politics of academe.
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Mrs. Warren's Daughter
In "Mrs. Warren's Daughter," Harry Johnston intricately weaves a narrative that explores the complex intersections of gender, societal expectations, and personal ambition in the late Victorian era. The novel follows the life of Vivie Warren, a young woman caught in the web of her mother'Äôs controversial profession as a madam. With sharp wit and vivid characterizations, Johnston employs a blend of realism and melodrama, focusing on themes of morality and the pursuit of self-determination amidst societal constraints. The novel stands as a poignant critique of the responses to women's autonomy and the often hypocritical moral standards of the society in which they lived. Harry Johnston, a re...
American Cultural Studies
Drawing on literature, art, film theatre, music and much more, American Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary introduction to American culture for those taking American Studies. This textbook: * introduces the full range and variety of American culture including issues of race, gender and youth * provides a truly interdisciplinary methodology * suggests and discusses a variety of approaches to study * highlights American distinctiveness * draws on literature, art, film, theatre, architecture, music and more * challenges orthodox paradigms of American Studies. This is a fast-expanding subject area, and Campbell and Kean's book will certainly be a staple part of any cultural studies student's reading diet.
