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ISBN: 9781861898692 - A Philosophy of Sport

A Philosophy of Sport
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 186189869X ISBN13: 9781861898692
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Sep 2011
In A Philosophy of Sport Steven Connor offers a new philosophical understanding of sport. In order to define what sport essentially is and means, Connor presents a complete sporting grammar, isolating and describing its essential spaces... More

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Paraphernalia
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 1846682703 ISBN13: 9781846682704
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 Jun 2011
From combs and keys to sweets and handkerchiefs, certain objects, though seemingly mundane, can have a magical quality, and an often surprising power to arouse, absorb, disturb, or soothe. This title explores the stories and meanings behind the... More

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ISBN: 9780521648400 - The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 0521648408 ISBN13: 9780521648400
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Jul 2004
This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture... More

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The Matter of Air
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 1861897669 ISBN13: 9781861897664
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 27 Aug 2010
Air - without it, life on Earth would cease to exist. Though not usually seen, its presence is relied upon. At once ethereal and physical, air has been associated with flight and spirit, transcendence and optimism. Yet, as humans have... More

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ISBN: 9780631200529 - Postmodernist Culture

Postmodernist Culture
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 0631200525 ISBN13: 9780631200529
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Blackwell Publishers
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Dec 1996
In this completely revised and considerably expanded new edition, Steven Connor considers the recent work of the most influential postmodern theorists, including Lyotard and Jameson, and offers accounts both of the work of newly emerging theorists... More

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The Book of Skin
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 1861891938 ISBN13: 9781861891938
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Nov 2003
The Book of Skin explores the amazingly varied meanings of human skin in Western culture from classical times to the here and now. Every aspect and nuance of skin in history is to be found here: its poetry as well as its pathology, the chromatics... More

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Paraphernalia
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 1846682711 ISBN13: 9781846682711
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2012
Presents an exploration of the stories and meanings behind the everyday objects that shape our lives. The author embarks on a historical, philosophical and linguistic journey that explores our relationships with the curious things with which we... More

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Samuel Beckett
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 0333546032 ISBN13: 9780333546031
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Sep 1992
Gathers together interpretations of Beckett's best-known plays, illustrating a range of theoretical approaches from deconstruction to reader-response theory, psychoanalysis and feminism. Steven Connor has written books on Dickens, Beckett and... More

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Dumbstruck
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 0198184336 ISBN13: 9780198184331
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 Oct 2000
Why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? Why does the metaphor of ventriloquism, the art of 'seeming to speak where one is not', speak so resonantly... More

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Fly
Steven Connor

ISBN10: 1861892942 ISBN13: 9781861892942
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Oct 2006
Few insects are as universally loathed as the fly. Steven Connor delights in tracking his lowly subject through myth, literature, painting, film and biology. This the first book to give this much maligned animal its due, and it concludes with the... More

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