Discourse Studies is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. A combined Second Edition of two seminal texts in the field (the 1997 titles Discourse as Social Interaction and Discourse as Structure and Process) this essential handbook: * is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research litera...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·鲍威尔（James M. Powell），美国雪城大学中世纪史教授，曾任普林斯顿大学高等研究院客座研究员。著有《一次十字军运动剖析，1213至1221年》（Anatomy of a Crusade，1213-1212）（获约翰·吉尔马里·谢伊奖）和《布雷西亚的阿尔伯塔努斯：13世纪初的幸福追寻》（Albertanus of Brescia：The Pursuit of Happiness irl the Early Thirteenth Century）。

詹姆斯·鲍威尔（James M. Powell），美国雪城大学中世纪史教授，曾任普林斯顿大学高等研究院客座研究员。著有《一次十字军运动剖析，1213至1221年》（Anatomy of a Crusade，1213-1212）（获约翰·吉尔马里·谢伊奖）和《布雷西亚的阿尔伯塔努斯：13世纪初的幸福追寻》（Albertanus of Brescia：The Pursuit of Happiness irl the Early Thirteenth Century）。

Performance Studies: An Introduction marks the coming of age of performance studies not just as an acknowledged field of study but as an influential anti-discipline. - James Harding, Theatre Journal A very effective summary of a lifetime of major creative and scholarly experiment that is almost certainly already having a major influence on numerous students in many drama, theat...(展开全部)

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references ranging from Goethe's Werther to Winnicott, from Plato to Proust, from Baudelaire to Schubert, A Lover's Discourse artfully draws a portrait in which every reader will find echoes o...(展开全部)

The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'. This book revives beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject. ...(展开全部)

Watching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. They made brief appearances (think of Mafia boss Marlon Brando gently stroking a cat in a scene from The Godfather); their looks provided inspiration to film creators (Avatar); they even held major roles (The Lion King). In Cinema Is a Cat...(展开全部)