Review Essay: Taking the Long View - Edge Effects.
De Certeau, like Bakhtin, advocates questioning and resisting those who have most to gain by exploiting the fear, pain and bewilderment that has divided peoples worldwide since September 11. While the repercussions of this chronotopic event will continue to undulate through the oceans of history, to be enclosed in a discourse built of panic is to navigate such dangerous seas in an unsound vessel.
How to Write a Cultural Studies Thesis. Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field which combines sociology, political economy, philosophy, media and communications theory, anthropology, literary theory, social psychology and various other social science disciplines. Cultural Studies generally examines the phenomena of everyday life and practices (for individuals and societies) within.
To borrow a term from gaming, the interactive digital lyric—especially in its long form—is a work one can play and re-play. 4. Synaptic Writing New forms of reading require new forms of writing, and to discuss this I would like to hover for a moment around the idea of place.
Book description. This is the first book on British theatre historiography. It traces the practice of theatre history from its origins in the Restoration to its emergence as an academic discipline in the early twentieth century.
De Certeau emphasizes that all too often free speech is upheld in the abstract while social institutions work in such a way as to deny access to effective communication. The book's title essay was written in response to the revolutionary events of May 1968.
In what follows, I consider whether there is a set of particular qualities that might characterise a specifically feminist approach to critical spatial practice. I suggest that collectivity, subjectivity, alterity, performativity and materiality highlight modes of operation that feature strongly in a predominantly feminist mode of critical spatial practice.
We propose to examine Virginia Woolf’s relationship to history by reflecting on her reading and writing of history, be that the history of her own time, of the past, women’s history or literary history. This will involve analysing how the literary and historicity are interlinked not only in her novels, but also in the essays, letters and journals.
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