Patrick Brantlinger

States of Emergency

Essays on Culture and Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (IUP, 1998); Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay; Crusoe¿s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America; Who Killed Shakespeare? What¿s Happened to English since the Radical Sixties; and Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780253010193
• ISBN-10: 0253010195
• Artikelnr.: 36842926

Autorenporträt

Patrick M. Brantlinger, Alan Wald, Alan Wald

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
I. Class Conflicts
1. Cultural Studies and Class War
2. "It's the Economy, Stupid!"
3. Tea Party Brewhaha
4. Shooters
5. What's the Matter with Mexico?
6. Waste and Value: Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells
II. Postmodern Conditions
7. Shopping on Red Alert: The Rhetorical Normalization of Terror
8. The State of Iraq
9. On the Postmodernity of Being Aboriginal-and Australian
10. McLuhan, Crash Theory, and the Invasion of the Nanobots
11. Army Surplus: Notes on "Exterminism"
12. World Social Forum: Multitude versus Empire?
Notes
Works Cited
Index