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1. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

   The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era. Erudite, yet gracefully written and often amusing, Watt's study examines the nature of the novel audience, the role of the book trade, and the changing structure of society at large.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 22:07

2. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful

   An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also one of the first major works in European literature on the Sublime, a subject that has fascinated thinkers from Kant and Coleridge to the philosophers and critics of today.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 23:04

3. Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

   Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing the technological sublime.
    

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 23:33

4. The Theory of Affordances

   James J. Gibson originally introduced the term “affordance” in his 1977 article ‘The Theory of Affordances’, which he subsequently elaborated his book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception in 1979. Gibson defined affordances as all “action possibilities” latent in the environment, objectively measurable and independent of the individual’s ability to recognize them, but always in relation to agents and therefore dependent on their capabilities. For instance, a set of steps which rises four feet high does not afford the act of climbing if the actor is a crawling infant.

   An affordance is a relation between an object or an environment and an organism, that affords the opportunity for that organism to perform an action. For example, a knob affords twisting, and perhaps pushing, while a cord affords pulling. As a relation, an affordance exhibits the possibility of some action, and is not a property of either an organism or its environment alone.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 01:33

5. How Voters Feel

   The book sets out to unearth the hidden genealogies of democracy, and particularly its most widely recognized, commonly discussed and deeply symbolic act, voting. By exploring the gaps between voting and recognition, being counted and feeling counted, having a vote and having a voice and the languor of count taking and the animation of account giving, there emerges a unique insight into how it feels to be a democratic citizen. Based on a series of interviews with a variety of voters and nonvoters, the research attempts to understand what people think they are doing when they vote; how they feel before, during and after the act of voting; how performances of voting are framed by memories, narratives and dreams; and what it means to think of oneself as a person who does (or does not) vote. Rich in theory, this is a contribution to election studies that takes culture seriously.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 02:10

6. Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age

   Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 02:32

7. Word Perfect: Literacy In The Computer Age

   This book seeks to discuss the enourmus impact computers have on how we read and write, and how we define literacy. While it is written as a critical analysis, the book also reads as a narrative of two opposing models of writing: print literacy and the emerging online literacy.

   Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 29.09.2021 - 11:20

8. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

   This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

   In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 13:39

9. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture

   Henry Jenkins"s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers, not to mention researchers and fans, take for granted the idea that the success of a media franchise depends on fan investments and participation.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 13:57

10. The Postcolonial Unconscious

    The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need to be re-assessed and questioned. Drawing on a vast range of literary sources, Lazarus investigates works and authors from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Arab world, South, Southeast and East Asia, to reconsider them from a postcolonial perspective. Alongside this, he offers bold new readings of some of the most influential figures in the field: Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Frantz Fanon. A tour de force of postcolonial studies, this book will set the agenda for the future, probing how the field has come to develop in the directions it has and why and how it can grow further.

    Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 15:14

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