Business Functions is part of a major new national programme of highly developed texts and modules for undergraduate students following business studies courses. It provides 150 hours of quality study to be used by students in a supported learning environment. This introduction to Business Functions delivers the knowledge and skills required to ...
After decades of feminism and deconstruction, romance remains firmly in place as a central preoccupation in the lives of most women. Romance is still the most compelling discourse by which any one of us is inscribed. This critical collection revisits romance across the disciplines, not just in fiction and film, but in a whole range of cultural ...
Feminist scholars explore their personal negotiations of gender, class, ethnicity and national or regional identity through their readings of two literary and "cultural" texts. The collection centres on the ontological experience of reading and writing "as a feminist", and combines the discussion of texts which are inscribed - whether consciously ...
This work theorizes the processes and practices of reading within a gendered context. Looking at what it is to be a self-conscious "feminist reader" and at what happens when feminism is "off-duty", the author explores the personal and political implications of what one does each time one reads. Presenting a range of literary and visual texts and ...
"Romance Writing" explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. Faced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is ...
Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made? Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the popular journalism of Naomi Wolf and Germaine Greer - Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist ...
This critique of the portrayal of women in pre-Raphaelite art and its related literature covers artists such as Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, Arthur Hughes, William Morris and Burne-Jones. The human subjects of these portrayals are studied from the point of view of artist, painting, viewer and society. The heart-sick, sex-starved women depicted ...
This work theorizes the processes and practices of reading within a gendered context. Looking at what it is to be a self-conscious "feminist reader" and at what happens when feminism is "off-duty", the author explores the personal and political implications of what one does each time one reads. Presenting a range of literary and visual texts and ...
"Romance" is one of the most enduring of the "grand narratives". The impulse to consume those cultural constructions otherwise known as love stories is seemingly timeless and certainly insatiable. But in these post-colonial, post-modern times, how is the conventional love story faring? And what does its continuing appeal tell us about the culture ...
Business Plans Handbook is a collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. For those looking for examples of how to approach, structure and compose their own business plans, the Handbook presents 24 sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and ...
What is involved in examining a research-based higher degree? What are the roles of the internal and external examiners? What are the hidden agendas of higher degree examining? What are the essential ingredients of a 'good' viva? This handbook offers a revealing insight into the written - and unwritten - rules and regulations of higher degree ...
This is the guide to CAMRA's favourite London pubs, chosen because these pubs sell traditional real ale, often brewed in the capital itself. The guide also points out the pub features you will want to discover on your trip around London: the architecture, personalities, history, local ambience and nearby attractions. This is the guide to CAMRA's ...
The books in this series aim to combine the discussion and explication of some of the key discourses of contemporary literary theory (eg postmodernism, psychoanalysis, feminism) with reading of popular/classic literary texts. This text analyzes the way in which dialogism - based on the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin - has been taken up, refined and ...
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