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  • William Faulkner

    An Economy of Complex Words

    by Richard Godden ...
    Series series 20/21
    In William Faulkner, Richard Godden traces how the novelist's late fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's delayed modernization in the mid-twentieth century. As the New Deal rapidly accelerated the long-term shift from tenant farming to modern agriculture, many African Americans were driven from the land and forced to migrate north. At the same time, white landowners ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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    There's Someone in Reception

    Adventures in Local Journalism

    by Alex Morrison ...
    Narrated by Richard Godden ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 14 min

    “There’s a man in reception with a massive slug. Can you come down and interview him?”Welcome to the life of a local journalist, and the curious tradition of the “walk-in” – when a member of the public turns up with a tale to tell. The newsworthiness of these stories is... well... mixed, to say the least. But every journalist remembers their weirdest and most wonderful walk-ins.From stories that ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century

    Punctuating Capital

    by Prof Richard Godden ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives--and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely, fictional narrative may expose the historical structures that determine literary language use, and that of language more generally. ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

    Edited by Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • William Faulkner in the Media Ecology

    by Sarah Gleeson-White, Richard Godden, Robert Jackson, Donald Kartiganer, Catherine G. Kodat, John T. Matthews, Sascha Morrell, Mark Steven, Jay Watson, Michael Zeitlin, Dr. Peter Lurie ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history of the U.S. South, but also as a screenwriter, aviator, and celebrity. This fresh, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Presumptions and Burdens of Proof

    An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law

    by Hans Vilhelm Hansen, James Crosswhite, Richard Gaskins, David Godden, G. Thomas Goodnight, Hanns Hohmann, Lilian Bermejo-Luque, Prof. James B. Freeman0, Mr. Douglas Walton1, Mr. Fred J. Kauffeld4, Frans H. van Eemeren5 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
    An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proofIn the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. Their functions have been explicitly ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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  • Monster Theory

    Reading Culture

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ...
    We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors to Monster ... Read more

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  • The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

    by Robert Fulford ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit is one of the questions raised by journalist and 1999 CBC Massey lecturer Robert Fulford. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unruly Voices

    Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

    by Mark Kingwell ...
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  • Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

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    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer ...
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