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Product Description: Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements. They fostered circulation of ideas within and between disciplines, thus altering the shape of intellectual inquiry. This volume offers a new perspective on theoretical schools in the humanities, both as generators of conceptual knowledge and as cultural phenomena...read more
By Silvi Salupere (editor)

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9781138804616 | Routledge, April 23, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Schools and circles have been a major force in twentieth-century intellectual movements.

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9780395637531, titled "Megaskills: In School and in Life-The Best Gift You Can Give Your Child" | Revised edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1992), cover price $13.95 | also contains Megaskills: In School and in Life-The Best Gift You Can Give Your Child | About this edition: Helps parents teach children the skills necessary for life, among them confidence, responsibility, and common sense

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By Jean-Michel Rabate (editor)

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9781107040540 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2015, cover price $110.00

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Product Description: This book critically examines a wide range of contemporary literary scandals in order to identify the cultural and literary anxieties revealed by controversial works. It explores how scandal predominantly emerges in relation to texts which offer challenging representations concerning children, women, sexuality, religion and authenticity, and how literary controversies bring to the surface a series of concerns about the complex construction of identity, history and reality...read more

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9783034313957 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 29, 2013, cover price $82.95 | About this edition: This book critically examines a wide range of contemporary literary scandals in order to identify the cultural and literary anxieties revealed by controversial works.

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Product Description: Offers a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, demonstrating how his development as a writer was shaped by shifting twentieth-century ideas about the social function of literature. Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett's career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language, and narrative...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791447093 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $55.50 | About this edition: Offers a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, demonstrating how his development as a writer was shaped by shifting twentieth-century ideas about the social function of literature.

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9780791447109 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett s major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett s career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language, and narrative.

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Product Description: This book provides a radical and revisionary account of modernism, its many contradictions, and its troubled place in our public culture. Lawrence Rainey, widely known for his contributions to the debates on modernism, looks beyond the well-examined themes and innovative forms of the movement, asking instead where modernism was produced and how it was transmitted to particular audiences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780300070507 | Yale Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: This book provides a radical and revisionary account of modernism, its many contradictions, and its troubled place in our public culture.

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Product Description: Joel Kuortti's Fictions to Live In is a study of Rushdie's six novels to date: Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh. By analysing each of these individual texts, the present work aims at an evaluation of the status of fiction in these novels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780820436296 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Joel Kuortti's Fictions to Live In is a study of Rushdie's six novels to date: Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh.
9783631338742 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Joel Kuortti's Fictions to Live In is a study of Rushdie's six novels to date: Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh.

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A guide to instilling confidence, motivation, responsibility, initiative, and other values in children offers feedback on the MegaSkills program from parents, children, teachers, and employers and discusses new themes for the nineties. Simultaneous.

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9780395637548 | Rev sub edition (Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1992), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Helps parents teach children the skills necessary for life, among them confidence, responsibility, and common sense

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9780395637531 | Revised edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1992), cover price $13.95 | also contains Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy | About this edition: Helps parents teach children the skills necessary for life, among them confidence, responsibility, and common sense

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