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Texts : : Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches / / Peter Childs.

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620449);Being able to analyse different types of text is an essential skill for students of literature. Texts is a new kind of book which shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural and media texts of the kin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Childs, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2006
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: STARTING POINTS
  • CHAPTER 1 FILM: THE MATRIX AND THE I-POD Approach: Cyberphilosophy
  • CHAPTER 2 BUILDING: SHOPPING IN UTOPIA Approach: Spatial Criticism
  • CHAPTER 3 MOVIE POSTER: ALIEN NATURE Approach: Ecocriticism
  • CHAPTER 4 POP VIDEO: MICHAEL JACKSON’S ‘THRILLER’ AND ‘RACE’ Approach: ‘Race’ Studies
  • CHAPTER 5 CELEBRITY: DIANA AND DEATH Approach: Trauma Theory
  • CHAPTER 6 TV SHOW: BIG BROTHER AFTER THE BIG OTHER Approach: Performativity Theory
  • CHAPTER 7 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: THE GULF WAR IN REAL TIME AND VIRTUAL SPACE Approach: Hyperreality
  • CHAPTER 8 PHOTOGRAPH(ER): CINDY SHERMAN AND THE MASQUERADE Approach: Feminism
  • CHAPTER 9 POLITICAL SPEECH: MARGARET THATCHER’S HYMN AT THE SERMON ON THE MOUND Approach: Historicism
  • CHAPTER 10 CRITICAL TEXT: ALAN SOKAL’S SHAM TRANSGRESSION Approach: Reading Postmodernism
  • CHAPTER 11 POPULAR NOVEL: THE ETHICS OF HARRY POTTER Approach: Ethical Criticism
  • CHAPTER 12 SHORT STORY: BARTHELME’S BALLOON AND THE RHIZOME Approach: Deleuzian Criticism
  • CHAPTER 13 LYRIC: ‘WHERE’S MY SNARE?’: EMINEM AND SYLVIA PLATH Approach: Psychoanalytic Criticism
  • CHAPTER 14 AUTOBIOGRAPHY: MARTIN AMIS’S EXPERIENCE Approach: Self-Life-Writing
  • CHAPTER 15 VIRTUAL TEXT: AMAZONIAN DEMOCRACY Approach: Globalization Studies
  • CHAPTER 16 WORLD MEDIA EVENT: IT’S ABOUT TIME: CULTURAL HISTORY AT THE MILLENNIUM Approach: Cultural Studies
  • INDEX

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