What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. Surveying the whole span of the language's history, it explores the evidence that exists for ordinary Latin around the Roman world, arguing that this material is just as worthy of readers' attention as the famous classics. Those clas...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers w...(展开全部)

Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are uni...(展开全部)

Herbert J. Gans, author of Levittowners and The Urban Villagers, is professor of sociology at Columbia University and the former president of the American Sociological Association.

One of the world's most respected sociologists updates his classic work on public views of popular and high culture. Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards? In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality ...(展开全部)

Story's 5th edition of this market leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory through popular culture. * Extensively revised, rewritten and updated to offer better value and a wider knowledge base for the student * Improved and expanded content throughout including: New chapter on ‘Race’, racism and representation New sections on T...(展开全部)

Story's 5th edition of this market leading textbook provides an engaging, clear and coherent introduction to cultural theory through popular culture. * Extensively revised, rewritten and updated to offer better value and a wider knowledge base for the student * Improved and expanded content throughout including: New chapter on ‘Race’, racism and representation New sections on T...(展开全部)

米歇尔·德·塞托，法国哲学家和历史学家，致力于研究宗教历史，著有作品《神秘寓言》等，对历史、认识论、精神分析法以及宗教在现代社会中的地位等领域，他都有所涉猎并进行了广泛的思考。 吕斯·贾尔，研究文艺复兴时期科学、哲学以及知识分子阶层的历史学家，巴黎历史研究中心的研究员、该中心科学历史实验室副主任，美国加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校历史系客座教授。她还曾和米歇尔·德·塞托等合著有《历史、神学和政治》。 皮埃尔·梅约尔，曾任职于文化部，任教于巴黎八大欧洲研究学院和勃艮第大学。写过多篇文章描述年轻人的生活，发表于各大杂志。 冷碧莹，毕业于南京大学法语系，现为上海大学法语讲师，一直致力于法国社科类作品的翻译。