Prantik banerjee (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. This book provides a critical analysis of important essays written by leading theorists in the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies. These essays are an essential component of English Studies curriculum in most universities in India and abroad. The book includes detailed commentary on path-breaking writings by Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Walter Benjamin, Stephen Greenblatt, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Arjun Appadurai and others. It explains major ideas, trends and applications, bringing out the text s affiliation to politics, culture and society. While locating each text in its own time and place, the commentary also shows its relevance by citing examples from the contemporary world. It is written in a lucid style that will be easily understood by the specialist as well as the lay reader. The book will be immensely helpful to students, teachers, research scholars, and those interested in cultural studies.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. This book is a critical application of theory to recent literary, social, and cultural phenomena. It deals with a range of ideas, acts, and practices that define who we are, what we think, and how we live our lives. The chapters are incisive explorations on illness, viruses, and modernity; wars, protests, and terrorism; babies, bodies, and technologies; nations, borders, and citizenship; films, comics, and the postcolonial; myths, market, and the national imaginary; and other topical subjects. The analysis focuses on some of the most searching cultural questions that have been hotly contested on the grounds of race, gender, class, caste, and national identity. These have been examined through the lens of critical theory. The essays enrol the ideas of a number of key thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Haraway, Zizek, Appadurai and Dipesh Chakrabarty. The book is written in a lucid style and promises to be an interesting read for those in the academia as well as for general readers. …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. The book is a significant intervention in the study of literature, culture and pedagogy. A variety of subjects are covered ranging from trauma theory, petro fiction, cyber culture, popular fiction, comic books, to digital humanities. Broadly, the essays fall into two categories teaching of culture and culture of teaching. The first section provides a probing analysis of the fascinating ways in which literature and culture are enmeshed in politics, ideology, and technologies of power. It also includes chapters on the rise of pulp fiction and the emergence of new millennial genres like campus novel, chick lit and crick lit in Indian Writing in English. The second section looks at the disruptive impact of Covid-19 crisis on higher education in India. It analyzes what 'to teach' means when pandemic and infodemic together cause seismic shifts to our ecosystem. Interdisciplinary in approach and written in a lucid style, the book will definitely engage the attention of both the serious scholar and the general reader.…