The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds,
erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if …

The history, theoretical frameworks, methodology, and pedagogy of the new field of visual
culture; current debates and the possibility for future consensus. In recent years, visual …

The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then
went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life …

First published in 1994. Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness presents a model for studying
the history of lyric as a genre. Professor Miller drawls a distinction between the work of the …

What can Sociology add to our understanding of art? This volume brings together a range of
respected scholars in the field who demonstrate the many ways in which sociology can add …

Ten years ago, I moved from Britain to the United States. Before that date, I had taught for 13
years in a department of sociology in Britain. My geographical move also entailed an …

In analyzing these miracle narratives as semiotic entities we must simultaneously attend to
three aspects of the texts; we must see them as rhetorical structures (a set of internally …

Like all books this one has many beginnings. One of its most important, however, took place
in the office of Professor Wolfgang haase at Boston University in the winter of 1998 …

The sixteenth-century painter Hieronymus Bosch, though steeped in the traditions and
conventions of the Netherlandish triptych, inverted and subverted that format. As is …

Статья посвящена возникновению нового междисциплинарного поля в культуральных
исследованиях в ХХ в. Представлена краткая характеристика основных этапов …