Why must critics unmask & demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book Rita Felski examines critique the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies & situates it as but one method among many a method with strong allure-but also definite limits Felski argues that critique is a sensibility best captured by Paul Ricoeur's phrase the hermeneutics of suspicion She shows how this suspicion toward texts forecloses many potential readings while providing no guarantee of rigorous or radical thought Instead she suggests literary scholars should try what she calls postcritical reading rather than looking behind a text for hidden causes & motives literary scholars should place themselves in front of it & reflect on what it suggests & makes possible By bringing critique down to earth & exploring new modes of interpretation The Limits of Critique offers a fresh approach to the relationship between artistic works & the social world ...

Brilliantexplains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence-Evgeny Morozov author of To Save Everything Click Here In this fascinating book Davies inverts the conventional neoliberal practice of treating politics as if it were mere epiphenomenon of market theory demonstrating that their version of economics is far better understood as the pursuit of politics by other means-Professor Philip Mirowski University of Notre Dame A sparkling original & provocative analysis of neoliberalism It offers a distinctive account of the diverse sometimes contradictory conventions & justifications that lend authority to the extension of the spirit of competitiveness to all spheres of social life This book breaks new ground offers new modes of critique & points to post-neoliberal futures-Professor Bob Jessop University of Lancaster Since its intellectual inception in the 1930s & its political emergence in the 1970s neo-liberalism has sought to disenchant politics by replacing it with economics This agenda-setting text examines the efforts & failures of economic experts to make government & public life amenable to measurement & to re-model society & state in terms of competition In particular it explores the practical use of economic techniques & conventions by policy-makers politicians regulators & judges & how these practices are being adapted to the perceived failings of the neoliberal model By picking apart the defining contradiction that arises from the conflation of economics & politics this book asks to what extent can economics provide government legitimacy? Now with a new preface from the author & a foreword by Aditya Chakrabortty ...

Mma Ramotswe & Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade The Principles of Private Detection But who is the eminent author Mr Clovis Andersen & what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very unlikely possibility & yet When Mr Andersen visits Botswana on holiday he is delighted & intrigued to stumble across a roadside sign that reveals the existence of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Professional courtesy suggests that he call & announce himself Meanwhile Mma Makutsi & Phuti Radiphuti are embarking on married life & building a new house
- a tricky business under any circumstances but especially hazardous when the name of the contractor is the Joy & Light Building Company
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A major motion picture starring Matthew Mc Conaughey There is no client as scary as an innocent man From the bestselling author of THE GODS OF GUILT & BRASS VERDICT comes the first in the Mickey Haller legal thrillers Mickey is a Lincoln Lawyer a criminal defence attorney who operates out of the back of his car a Lincoln taking whatever cases the system throws in his path He's been a defence lawyer for a long time & he knows just how to work the legal systems When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman Haller has his first high-paying client in years The evidence mounts on the defence's side & Haller might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent But then the case starts to fall apart neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem
- & Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks it's easy to wind up as prey
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Mick Haller (Matthew Mc Conaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Towncar Having spent most of his career defending petty gutter-variety criminals he unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime defending a rich Beverly Hills realtor (Ryan Phillippe) who is accused of attempted rape & murder However what appears in the beginning to be a straightforward case with a big money pay-off swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation in Lakeshore Entertainment&s The Lincoln Lawyer Actors Matthew Mc Conaughey Josh Lucas Marisa Tomei Ryan Phillippe John Leguizamo Michaela Conlin William H Macy Bryan Cranston Margarita Levieva Frances Fisher Katherine Moennig Michael Peña Shea Whigham Bob Gunton & Michael Pare Director Brad Furman Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

A deceptively simple adventure into the unknown using only paper a pencil & a single line Wreck This Journal had a simple premise destroy the book in all the ways you can imagine The Line is even simpler find pencil start a line As you move through the pages of Keri Smith's newest book you'll be asked to let your line meander explore the book's gutter & jump around the edges of the pages You'll hide your line cut your line & even let someone else take over your line for a bit The farther you get into the book however the more you'll discover that maybe things aren't as simple as they first seemed The line has a mind of its own & it's up to you to discover what's at the end of the line (hint it's just the beginning) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The unstable new kingpin of a Tijuana drug cartel is targeted by an assassin for elimination ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Alan Hollinghurst&s The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class politics & sexuality in Margaret Thatcher&s 1980s Britain It is the summer of 1983 & young Nick Guest an innocent in the matters of politics & money has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens Gerald an ambitious new Tory MP his wealthy wife Rachel & their children Toby & Catherine Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend & his uneasy responsibility Innocent of politics & money Nick is swept up into the Feddens& world & an era of endless possibility all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst&s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece It is a novel that defines a decade exploring with peerless style a young man&s collision with his own desires & with a world he can never truly belong to ...

Michael is drawn to his new classmate Mina but they're on opposite sides of an issue that's tearing their town apart His parents are part of an anti-immigration group while her family have fled their besieged home in Afghanistan As tensions rise lines are drawn & both must decide what they want their world to look like no matter the cost ...

Almayer's Folly was Conrad's outstanding debut novel as well as exploring the culture of a part of the world previously unknown to English fiction it showed immense sophistication in its handling of narrative time-shifts & point of view Hailed as a writer of genius' by contemporary reviewers Conrad returned to the same riverine settlement in Borneo in his second novel An Outcast of the Islands Set some 15 years earlier this prequel to Almayer's Folly tells how Lingard lost his monopoly of trade in Sambir & follows the dangerous rivalry of his proteges Willems & Almayer In The Rescue the narrative moves even further back in time & shows the young idealistic Lingard torn between his loyalties to his Sulawesi allies & his unexpected attraction to Edith Travers with explosive consequences Throughout this sequence of novels the fascinating figure of Captain Lingard comes steadily into the foreground ...