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At a 1966 international symposium hosted by the Johns Hopkins University, many of the leading figures of European structuralist criticism first presented their ideas to the American academic community. This work includes the proceedings of this event.

Tsang, Tak Fai. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-168). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Abstract --- p.i ; Acknowledgement --- p.iii ; Dedication --- p.iv ; Contents --- p.v ; Chapter Chapter 1 - --- Introduction ; Postmodernism and the poststructuralist view of enunciation ; Chapter A.) --- What is Postmodernism? - Three Dimensions --- p.1 ; Chapter B.) --- What constitutes a problem with Postmodernism? --- p.26 ; Chapter C.) --- What is an alternative framework? --- p.33 ; Chapter D.) --- Conclusion --- p.41 ; Chapter Chapter 2 - --- Complementary relationships between discourses and subjects ; One Hundred Years of Solitude - solitudes longing for dialogue ; Chapter A.) --- Introduction - a Poetics of Contest --- p.42 ; Chapter B.) --- The Insufficiency of Contest and Subversion --- p.60 ; Chapter C.) --- One Hundred Years of Solitude - a longing for dialogue --- p.69 ; Chapter D.) --- Conclusion: Dialogism and Liberal Humanism --- p.83 ; Chapter Chapter 3 - --- Subject and History ; Midnight's Children - dialogues of individual and national unity ; Chapter A.) --- Hutcheon's view of subjectivity and history --- p.84 ; Chapter B.) --- Hypothesis: a dialogical structure of discourses in Midnight's Children --- p.93 ; Chapter C.) --- Conclusion: re-defining the liberal humanist subject --- p.115 ; Chapter Chapter 4 - --- Subject and Politics ; Beloved 226}0ؤ Agency and the articulation of a favourable identity for ex-slaves ; Chapter A.) --- p.117 ; Chapter B.) --- Problems of Hutcheońةs framework in Beloved --- p.131 ; Chapter C.) --- "Modifying Hutcheońةs framework: Dialogism, Centres and Discourses" --- p.137 ; Chapter D.) --- Conclusion: redefining postmodernist subjectivity --- p.149 ; Chapter Chapter 5 - --- Conclusion ; Reconfiguring Liberal Humanism - an enunciative basis ; Chapter A.) --- Significance --- p.151 ; Chapter B.) --- "The Enunciating Subject, The Enonce and Power" --- p.152 ; Chapter C.) --- From Epistemology to ...

Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. ; Methodological comments on critical realism in economics have proliferated over the past decade - typically focusing on Tony Lawson's Economics and Reality and Reorienting Economics, which constitute the core of this project. In the present paper we select a series of important, mostly very recent arguments against critical realism in economics and assess their merits and demerits.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. In this extended essay, Michael Gardiner examines the ideology of the discipline of English Literature in the light of the serious redefining work on England and Englishness that has been conducted in Political Studies in the last decade. He argues that English Literature emerges from the development of the state and that consequently it has suppressed the idea of the nation. His claim is that English Literature has lost its form since its methodology and canonicity depended so heavily on a constitutional form which can no longer be defended. He calls upon those working in English Literature to recognise that they are not really participating in the same discipline, defined by the Burkean constitutional settlement, even if they think of themselves as writing 'within the canon'. His view is that a lack of appreciation of 'hard-edged' political factors have led to a 'continuant' and regressive form of English Literature which tends to hang on to stifling methodologies. In its place, he appeals for the creation of a more open-ended, inclusive, internationalist, and comparative 'literature of England'.

Electronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holder ; This research focuses on the study of Mexican comics and films from 1969 to 1976. It uses the language of humour to understand how these media expressed contemporary social and political concerns. After reviewing theories of humour and proposing an eclectic theory to analyse visual sources, three different comic books and four films were examined in order to gain an understanding of the issues that troubled the society at the time. This eclectic theory considered academic approaches from a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, linguistics, psychology, and others. The theory of humour proposed in this thesis can be used to study humorous visual expressions from other cultures and historical times. Thus, one of the novelties of this research is the proposal of an eclectic theory of humour to study visual culture. A second original contribution of this thesis is that it proposes an approach to social history through the analysis of two relevant cultural manifestations: humour and visual culture. This work also invites us to reflect on Mexican society during the presidency of Luis Echeverría Álvarez, as well as the circumstances of the mass media and the arts, both of which enjoyed some freedom in what was called the apertura democrática. Nevertheless, since some topics were still prickly and difficult, humour helped society discuss them, kept them on the social agenda, and acted as a safety valve to express the discomfort of the members of society. Finally, this thesis considers social manifestations, such as humour, as sources through which to study culture and history; it highlights the relevance of the cultural legacy of comics which have been considered as a sub-cultural product; and it shows how we can use films to discover something new about a specific time and social group.

Connecting the environment with societies' cultures through literature has created a new awareness of environmental issues. The current environmental crisis is a product of modern human culture. The thought of using land as a commodity and disregard for environmental ethics has worsened the ecological crisis. The paper focuses issues of environment highlighted in Native American literature. The anthropocentric behavior of Euro-Americans is contrary to Native American idea of biocentrism. For American Indians, land is considered not merely a stage on which the act is played but also as an active participant in the drama with major role to play in the lives of the characters. This article applies Ecocriticism theory on Louise Erdrich's fiction Tracks to generate an ecological criticism of the text. This paper highlights new ways of treating the natural world, putting responsibility on humans to see how their cultures are affecting environment.