Author : Crystal Parikh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108481329
This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.
Author : Coral Ann Howells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827316
Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.
Author : Susan M. Felch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316757269
Each essay in this Companion examines one or more literary texts and a religious tradition to illustrate how we can understand both literature and religion better by looking at them in tandem. Unlike most literature and religion books, which tend to focus on Christianity and take a highly theoretical approach inappropriate for non-specialists, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion offers an accessible treatment of both Dharmic and Abrahamic traditions. It provides close readings of texts rather than surveys of large topics, making it an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students of literature and religion.
Author : Crystal Parikh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108665195
Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently generated innovative and timely perspectives on the history, meaning, and scope of human rights. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature introduces this new and exciting field of study in the humanities. It explores the historical and institutional contexts, theoretical concepts, genres, and methods that literature and human rights share. Equally accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researches, this Companion emphasizes both the literary and interdisciplinary dimensions of human rights and the humanities.
Author : John Parham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108498531
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
Author : Conor Gearty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107495776
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has been achieved and at what cost, in terms of expected or produced unexpected side-effects. The authors pass judgment about the consistency, efficacy and success of human rights law (set against the standards of the field itself or other external goals). Written by world-class academics, this Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of human rights law.
Author : Bruce Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107086205
This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.
Author : Clare Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107087821
Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.
Author : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521514711
A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
Author : Sarah Ensor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108841902
Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.
