In this book Paul Willis, a renowned sociologist and ethnographer, aims to renew and develop the ethnographic craft across the disciplines. Drawing from numerous examples of his own past and current work, he shows that ethnographic practice and the ethnographic imagination are vital to understanding the creativity and irreducibility of experience in all aspects of social and cu...(展开全部)

Paul Willis is Professor of Social and Cultural Studes at Wolverhampton University. He is also the Founding Editor of the journal Ethnography.

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the...(展开全部)

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the...(展开全部)

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 诺思罗普·弗莱（Northrop Frye ，1912—1991），加拿大文学理论界代表人物，原型批评创始人。真正把文学批评当作一门独立的学科，对其自身进行比较系统的探讨，是从弗莱的《批评的解剖》开始的。另著有《世俗的经典》《神力的语言》等30余部著作。 弗莱是加拿大文学领域的杰出代表，1951年入选加拿大皇家学会，1967年任多伦多大学教授，曾获加拿大勋章、加拿大总督文学奖、多伦多文科终身成就奖等众多奖项。2000年，加拿大政府为纪念弗莱，发行了弗莱主题邮票并设立了诺思罗普·弗莱国际艺术节。 ··· 【译者简介】 李雪菲，北京大学法语系学士学位，巴黎索邦大学文学硕士学位，纽约大学法语系博士在读。

Addressed to educators and general readers--the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life--this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge ...(展开全部)

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency ...(展开全部)

Designed for courses in Creativity, Two-, Three- or Four-Dimensional Design, "Launching the Imagination" offers a comprehensive framework on which students, teachers, and administrators can build. The approach in this third edition is refined, distilled, and updated, using over 600 examples drawn from traditional and contemporary sources. Interviews of artists and designers, kn...(展开全部)

This title, from a well-regarded and established expert, explores the changing relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, these essays reach beyond the narrow conventional view of the purely technical to encompass the poetics of a...(展开全部)