Author: Paul A. Bové
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312451
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mastering Discourse gathers and elaborates more than a decade of thought on the problems of the intellectual in contemporary society, by one of the most distinguished critics writing on these issues today. From Derrida and Foucault to Kristeva and Irigaray, Paul A. Bové looks at the practices of literary and cultural theory, and discusses the way theorists have produced their institutional positions and politics. Examining some of the major theories developed out of and in relation to the problems of discourse, Bové analyzes the limited successes and failures of these efforts. Mastering Discourses offers an account of why "theory" fails to deal adequately with the politics of discursive cultures and warns that unless critics take much more seriously their own disciplinary inscriptions they will always reproduce structures of power and knowledge that they claim to oppose. Moreover, Bové argues, they will not fulfill the main role of the post-enlightenment intellectual, namely: to respond effectively to the present, through new theoretical and historical formulations that address the changing world of transnational capitalism and its neoliberal ideologies.
Mastering Discourse
Author: Paul A. Bové
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312451
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mastering Discourse gathers and elaborates more than a decade of thought on the problems of the intellectual in contemporary society, by one of the most distinguished critics writing on these issues today. From Derrida and Foucault to Kristeva and Irigaray, Paul A. Bové looks at the practices of literary and cultural theory, and discusses the way theorists have produced their institutional positions and politics. Examining some of the major theories developed out of and in relation to the problems of discourse, Bové analyzes the limited successes and failures of these efforts. Mastering Discourses offers an account of why "theory" fails to deal adequately with the politics of discursive cultures and warns that unless critics take much more seriously their own disciplinary inscriptions they will always reproduce structures of power and knowledge that they claim to oppose. Moreover, Bové argues, they will not fulfill the main role of the post-enlightenment intellectual, namely: to respond effectively to the present, through new theoretical and historical formulations that address the changing world of transnational capitalism and its neoliberal ideologies.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822312451
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Mastering Discourse gathers and elaborates more than a decade of thought on the problems of the intellectual in contemporary society, by one of the most distinguished critics writing on these issues today. From Derrida and Foucault to Kristeva and Irigaray, Paul A. Bové looks at the practices of literary and cultural theory, and discusses the way theorists have produced their institutional positions and politics. Examining some of the major theories developed out of and in relation to the problems of discourse, Bové analyzes the limited successes and failures of these efforts. Mastering Discourses offers an account of why "theory" fails to deal adequately with the politics of discursive cultures and warns that unless critics take much more seriously their own disciplinary inscriptions they will always reproduce structures of power and knowledge that they claim to oppose. Moreover, Bové argues, they will not fulfill the main role of the post-enlightenment intellectual, namely: to respond effectively to the present, through new theoretical and historical formulations that address the changing world of transnational capitalism and its neoliberal ideologies.
I Have Something to Say
Author: John Bowe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593133161
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A veteran journalist discovers an ancient system of speech techniques for overcoming the fear of public speaking—and reveals how they can profoundly change our lives. In 2010, award-winning journalist John Bowe learned that his cousin Bill, a longtime extreme recluse living in his parents’ basement, had, at the age of fifty-nine, overcome a lifetime of shyness and isolation—and gotten happily married. Bill credited his turnaround to Toastmasters, the world's largest organization devoted to teaching the art of public speaking. Fascinated by the possibility that speech training could foster the kind of psychological well-being more commonly sought through psychiatric treatment, and intrigued by the notion that words can serve as medicine, Bowe set out to discover the origins of speech training—and to learn for himself how to speak better in public. From the birth of democracy in Ancient Greece until two centuries ago, education meant, in addition to reading and writing, years of learning specific, easily taught language techniques for interacting with others. Nowadays, absent such education, the average American speaks 16,000 to 20,000 words every day, but 74 percent of us suffer from speech anxiety. As he joins Toastmasters and learns, step-by-step, to successfully overcome his own speech anxiety, Bowe muses upon our record levels of loneliness, social isolation, and political divisiveness. What would it mean for Americans to learn once again the simple art of talking to one another? Bowe shows that learning to speak in public means more than giving a decent speech without nervousness (or a total meltdown). Learning to connect with others bestows upon us an enhanced sense of freedom, power, and belonging.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0593133161
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A veteran journalist discovers an ancient system of speech techniques for overcoming the fear of public speaking—and reveals how they can profoundly change our lives. In 2010, award-winning journalist John Bowe learned that his cousin Bill, a longtime extreme recluse living in his parents’ basement, had, at the age of fifty-nine, overcome a lifetime of shyness and isolation—and gotten happily married. Bill credited his turnaround to Toastmasters, the world's largest organization devoted to teaching the art of public speaking. Fascinated by the possibility that speech training could foster the kind of psychological well-being more commonly sought through psychiatric treatment, and intrigued by the notion that words can serve as medicine, Bowe set out to discover the origins of speech training—and to learn for himself how to speak better in public. From the birth of democracy in Ancient Greece until two centuries ago, education meant, in addition to reading and writing, years of learning specific, easily taught language techniques for interacting with others. Nowadays, absent such education, the average American speaks 16,000 to 20,000 words every day, but 74 percent of us suffer from speech anxiety. As he joins Toastmasters and learns, step-by-step, to successfully overcome his own speech anxiety, Bowe muses upon our record levels of loneliness, social isolation, and political divisiveness. What would it mean for Americans to learn once again the simple art of talking to one another? Bowe shows that learning to speak in public means more than giving a decent speech without nervousness (or a total meltdown). Learning to connect with others bestows upon us an enhanced sense of freedom, power, and belonging.
Interlanguage Pragmatics
Author: Anna Trosborg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311088528X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints and Apologies (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics).
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311088528X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints and Apologies (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics).
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere
Author: Vincent H. Gaddis
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761832348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover's ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933. The economic system Herbert Hoover envisioned, one based on cooperation and individual initiative with limited government, and the language he used to promote this system defined New Era discourse. His American Individualism, printed in 1923, served as the political philosophy of the administrations of the 1920s. In his discourse from 1919-1921, Hoover expanded the criteria- the conceptual definitions of virtue and liberty. The book includes a foreword by Mary O. Furner.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761832348
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover's ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933. The economic system Herbert Hoover envisioned, one based on cooperation and individual initiative with limited government, and the language he used to promote this system defined New Era discourse. His American Individualism, printed in 1923, served as the political philosophy of the administrations of the 1920s. In his discourse from 1919-1921, Hoover expanded the criteria- the conceptual definitions of virtue and liberty. The book includes a foreword by Mary O. Furner.
Levinas and Education
Author: Denise Egéa-Kuehne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135989400
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume, providing an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics, justice, hope, hospitality, forgiveness, and more.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135989400
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume, providing an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics, justice, hope, hospitality, forgiveness, and more.
Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology
Author: Kirsten Campbell
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415300872
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis as a starting point, Campbell examines contemporary feminism's turn to accounts of feminist 'knowing' to create new conceptions of the political.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415300872
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis as a starting point, Campbell examines contemporary feminism's turn to accounts of feminist 'knowing' to create new conceptions of the political.
Writing Spaces
Author: C. Greig Crysler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134477937
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book explores how journals mediate and transform our understanding and experience of buildings urban spaces and architectural cultures.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134477937
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book explores how journals mediate and transform our understanding and experience of buildings urban spaces and architectural cultures.
Textual Practice
Author: Terence Hawkes
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415096553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Since its launch in 1987, Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415096553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Since its launch in 1987, Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory.
Strategic Leadership of Change in Higher Education
Author: Stephanie Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134127855
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Drawing on the current research base on the management of change, this book analyzes the key features in planning, delivery and monitoring the impact of planned change initiatives in higher education. Comparing and contrasting the findings of twenty-five action research high level corporate change management projects, the initiatives discussed include: the introduction of Kaplan and Norton’s ‘Balanced Scorecard’ approach, resulting in strategic mapping at all levels a major cultural shift programme to bring about globalisation of all aspects of the university, taking account the perspectives as to how this should be achieved the introduction of a mentoring scheme to promote diversity and equality and greater understanding and support of black and ethnic minority staff. Filled with practical lessons for leadership and change in higher education, this book raises awareness as to how to tackle topical issues and effectively lead universities through major change. With expert commentary and feedback from the stakeholders involved at each institution, Strategic Leadership of Change in Higher Education is essential reading for all those taking on leadership and management positions in higher education.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134127855
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Drawing on the current research base on the management of change, this book analyzes the key features in planning, delivery and monitoring the impact of planned change initiatives in higher education. Comparing and contrasting the findings of twenty-five action research high level corporate change management projects, the initiatives discussed include: the introduction of Kaplan and Norton’s ‘Balanced Scorecard’ approach, resulting in strategic mapping at all levels a major cultural shift programme to bring about globalisation of all aspects of the university, taking account the perspectives as to how this should be achieved the introduction of a mentoring scheme to promote diversity and equality and greater understanding and support of black and ethnic minority staff. Filled with practical lessons for leadership and change in higher education, this book raises awareness as to how to tackle topical issues and effectively lead universities through major change. With expert commentary and feedback from the stakeholders involved at each institution, Strategic Leadership of Change in Higher Education is essential reading for all those taking on leadership and management positions in higher education.
The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner
Author: John T. Matthews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050383
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050383
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.