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Mark Bracher
Convinced that cultural criticism need not merely be an academic exercise but can help improve people’s lives, Mark Bracher proposes a method of cultural criticism which is based on the…
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Argues that people avoid knowledge of how to solve social problems because solving these problems is threatening to them. This title explains how our major social problems are the result…
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A collection that introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity, and society. It offers an account of how language both interacts with and constitutes structures of…
Introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity, and society. This title provides an account of how language both interacts with and constitutes structures of subjectivity, producing…
Drawing insights from cognitive and social neuroscience, this book uncovers the cognitive roots of social injustice and makes a powerful case that literature can positively alter the way we view…
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In explaining the nature and importance of these thinking skills and the ability of literary study to develop them, this book will be of value to literature teachers and students…
This exemplary philosophical reading of Milton is going to make a tremendous change in Blake’s criticism. It will take a while to digest, and critics without a firm grounding in…
Originally published in 1991, this volume tackles the diverse teachings of the great psychoanalyst and theoretician. Written by some of the leading American and European Lacanian scholars and practitioners, the…
When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her new-found courage to campaign for the teacher’s…