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Lesbian Rule : Cultural Criticism And The Value Of Desire

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Amy VillarejoPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2003Links
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Integrating cinema studies, queer and feminist theory, and cultural studies, Villarejo illuminates the contexts within which the lesbian is rendered visible. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ75.5 .V55 2003 AVAILABLE
Our Culture, What’s Left Of It : The Mandarins And The Masses

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Theodore DalrymplePublication Details
BookIvan R. Dee2005Links
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This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple’s bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) R489.D357 A3 2005 AVAILABLE
Leslie A. White : Evolution And Revolution In Anthropology

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William J. PeacePublication Details
BookUniversity of Nebraska Press2004Links
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His trip to the Soviet Union and participation in the Socialist Labor Party brought him to the attention of the FBI during the height of the Cold War, and near-legendary scholarly and political conflicts surrounded him at the University of Michigan. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN21.W48 P43 2004 AVAILABLE
After Theory

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Terry EagletonPublication Details
BookBasic Books2003Description
In a new era of globalization and terrorism, Eagleton warns, the bundle of ideas known as post-modernism is essentially toothless.In this eloquent synthesis of a lifetime of learning, Eagleton challenges contemporary intellectuals to engage with a range of vital topics-love, evil, death, morality, religion, and revolution-that they’ve ignored over the past thirty years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM621 .E15 2003 AVAILABLE
An Intelligent Person’s Guide To Modern Culture

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Roger ScrutonPublication Details
BookSt. Augustine’s Press2000Description
Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM621 .S27 2000 AVAILABLE
Museums And Memory

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edited by Susan A. CranePublication Details
BookStanford University Press2000Description
The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields?history, anthropology, art history, and museum scholarship?the contributors discuss museums across disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) AM7 .M8815 2000 AVAILABLE
Faded Mosaic : The Emergence Of Post-cultural America

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Christopher ClausenPublication Details
BookIvan R. Dee2000Description
Contrary to today’s widespread emphasis on cultural diversity, the United States has become not a multicultural society but the world’s first post-cultural society. In striking contrast to societies of the past, he declares, the United States today has neither one big culture nor many smaller ones, only a dizzying mixture of freedom and nostalgia. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E169.12 .C543 2000 AVAILABLE
Mappings

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edited by Denis CosgrovePublication Details
BookReaktion Books1999Description
In what ways do contemporary changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa?In their diverse expressions, maps and the representational processes of mapping have constructed the spaces of modernity since the early Renaissance. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GA102.3 .M36 1999 AVAILABLE
The Revival Of Pragmatism : New Essays On Social Thought, Law, And Culture

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edited by Morris DicksteinPublication Details
BookDuke University Press1998Description
Contributors such as Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Nancy Fraser, Robert Westbrook, Hilary Putnam, and Morris Dickstein trace pragmatism?s cultural and intellectual evolution, consider its connection to democracy, and discuss its complex relationship to the work of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. Richard Bernstein, David Bromwich, Ray Carney, Stanley Cavell, Morris Dickstein, John Patrick Diggins, Stanley Fish, Nancy Fraser, Thomas C. Posner, Ross Posnock, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Anna Putnam, Richard Rorty, Michel Rosenfeld, Richard H. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) B832 .R43 1998 AVAILABLE
Culture And Critique : An Introduction To The Critical Discourses Of Cultural Studies

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Jere Paul SurberPublication Details
BookWestview Press1998Description
In its narrower sense, cultural studies is a recently developed type of discourse, first appearing in several British universities in the 1950s, which, while eclectically drawing on certain theoretical aspects of earlier forms of critical cultural discourse, orients itself toward the analysis and practical critique of concrete contemporary cultural distinctions based on economic and political inequities.A useful reference for reading works in cultural studies, Culture and Critique puts unfamiliar terms and ideas into historical perspective and explains how the founding texts of the discipline first appeared. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM101 .S947 1998 AVAILABLE
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