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Duke Ellington / Ken Rattenbury

No review available on this record. Title : Duke Ellington : jazz composer Material Type: printed text Authors: Ken Rattenbury, Author Publisher: London and New Haven : Yale University Press Publication Date: 1990 Pagination: xii, 327 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-300-04428-7 General note: Includes index Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-321) and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Criticism and interpretation Ellington, Duke 1899-1974 Class number: 781.6509 Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=1470

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Appropriating Shakespeare / Brian Vickers

No review available on this record. Title : Appropriating Shakespeare : contemporary critical quarrels Material Type: printed text Authors: Brian Vickers, Author Publisher: London and New Haven : Yale University Press Publication Date: 1996 Pagination: xvii, 508 p. Size: 26 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-300-06105-5 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-500) Includes index (p. [501]-508) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: English literature - Drama English literature - History and criticism William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Class number: 822.33 Abstract: The last twenty years have seen an increasing fragmentation in Shakespeare studies, with the emergence of several critical schools, each with its own ideology, each convinced that all other approaches are deficient. In this important book, Brian Vickers argues that, in attempting to appropriate Shakespeare for their own purposes, each of these schools distorts the text by omission and misrepresentation. Two substantial opening chapters trace the derivation of current literary theory from the iconoclastic mood of l960s Paris. They show how an influential group of thinkers in the structuralist and post-structuralist tradition (Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, Foucault) promulgated a wholly negative concept of language, arguing that language cannot reliably represent reality; that literature cannot represent life; and that since no definitive reading is possible, all interpretation is misrepresentation. Vickers demonstrates that these attitudes have been decisively refuted, restates the central properties of language, and rehabilitates the notion of the author as creator of a literary work. At the core of the book he surveys the main conflicting schools in Shakespearian literary criticism - deconstructionism, feminism, new historicism, cultural materialism, and psychoanalytic, Marxist and Christian interpretations - describing the theoretical basis of each school, both in its own words and in those of its critics. Evaluating the resulting interpretations of Shakespeare, he shows that each is biased and fragmentary in its own way. Solidly researched, sharply argued and inevitably controversial, this book challenges many recent orthodoxies. As well as to theatre goers and readers of Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama, it will be of great interest to anyone concerned with modern literary theory. Contents note: Critical theories; Critical practices; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=18945

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Off Center / Jacob S Hacker

No review available on this record. Title : Off Center : The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy Material Type: printed text Authors: Jacob S Hacker, Author ; Paul Pierson, Author Publisher: London and New Haven : Yale University Press Publication Date: 2005 Pagination: 261 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 2900300108704 General note: Includes bibliographical index (p. 251-261) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Conservatism - United States Republican Party Class number: 324.273 Abstract: When President George W. Bush took the stage to deliver his ne of the Union Address in 2005, he had plenty of cause to celebrate. Begin with, he was on the podium, having emerged victorious in a bit fought election that saw him escape the embarrassing fate of his career, who had been defeated after a single term. Yet the larger reason se celebration was all around him-in the regal House chamber he . Flanking Bush were Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush's conservative policy , and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, the head of Republican-controlled House of Representatives. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the ultraconservative Texan soon as “The Hammer” who had pushed through a controversial plan in Bush's home state, padding the Republicans' House. In the audience, too, was Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of, who had helped the GOP increase its margin in the Senate to live seats, to the Democrats' forty-four. As Bush outlined his plans the long-standing conservative goal of partially privatizing Social majority, the air of triumph in the room was unmistakable: A new order wah taken root. A conservative governing coalition, balanced on a razor's Date of partisan control, had seized the reins of power and was now remaking the laws of the land. the feeling of accomplishment was certainly warranted. Contents note: Abandoning the Middle; Off Center; Partying with the ''Peoples Money'' New Rules for the Radicals; Broken Checks and Balances; Race to the Base; The Republican Machine; The Center Does Not Hold; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19562

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On Toleration / Michael Walzer

No review available on this record. Title : On Toleration : The Castle Lectures in Ethics Politics, and Economics Material Type: printed text Authors: Michael Walzer, Author Publisher: London and New Haven : Yale University Press Publication Date: 1999 Pagination: 126 p. Size: 20 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-300-07600-4 General note: Includes bibliographical index (p. 123-126) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Political science Religion Class number: 322.261 Abstract: As an American Jew, I grew up thinking of myself as an ob ject of toleration. It was only much later that I recognized myself as a subject too, an agent called upon to tolerate others, including fellow Jews whose idea of what Jewishness meant differed radically from my own. My dawning sense of the United States as a country where everyone had to tolerate everyone else (a formula I shall explain later on) was the starting point of this essay. It led me to reflect on the ways in which other countries were different, and only sometimes intolerably different. All the world is not America! Tolerating and being tolerated is a little like Aristotle's ruling and being ruled: it is the work of democratic citizens. I don't think that it is easy or insignificant work. Contents note: How to Write About Toleration; Personal Attitudes and Political Arrangements; Five Regimes of Toleration Multinational Empires; Complicated Cases; Power Class Gender Religion Education; Civil Religion Tolerating the Intolerant; Modern and Postmodern Toleration; The Modern Projects Postmodernity; Reflections on American Multiculturalism; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=20078

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Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory / Donald P. Green

No review available on this record. Title : Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory : a Critique of Applications in Political Science Material Type: printed text Authors: Donald P. Green, Author ; Ian Shapiro, Author Publisher: London and New Haven : Yale University Press Publication Date: 1994 Pagination: 239 p. Size: 21 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-300-06636-4 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-232) Includes bibliographical index (p. 233-239) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Methodology Political aspects Political science Class number: 320.01 Abstract: This is the first comprehensive critical evaluation of the use of rational choice theory in political science. Writing in an accessible and nontechnical style, Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro assess rational choice theory where it is reputed to be most successful: the study of collective action, the behavior of political parties and politicians, and such phenomena as voting cycles and Prisoner's Dilemmas. In their hard-hitting critique, Green and Shapiro demonstrate that the much heralded achievements of rational choice theory are in fact deeply suspect and that fundamental rethinking is needed if rational choice theorists are to contribute to the understanding of politics. In their final chapters, they anticipate and respond to a variety of possible rational choice responses to their arguments, thereby initiating a dialogue that is bound to continue for some time. Contents note: Rationality in Politics and Economics; The Nature of Rational Choice Theory; Methodological Pathologies; The Paradox of Voter Turnout; Social Dilemmas and Free - Riding; Legislative Behavior and The Paradox of Voting; Spatial Theories of Electoral Competition; Responses to Likely Counterarguments; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=20214

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1702-002499	320.01 Gre-Pat 1994	General Collection	Library "Max van der Stoel"	English	Available