An attack on the dominance of radical literary theories such as structuralism, semiotics, Marxist and feminist criticism. The author asserts that we should concentrate on literature itself rather than on theories about literature.

Fraud: Literary theory and the end of English (A Fontana original)

Washington, Peter

Literature & Fiction

Fontana Press

Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline answers.

Brodie's Notes on William Shakespeare's "Othello" (Pan Study Aids)

Reference

Pan/Macmillan

Providing intelligent, unpatronising guidanc e to people who love music but have no technical knowledge o f it, this pack includes a select musicography with hints fo r further listening, a comparative chronology and an annotat ed bibliography '

Bach: Everyman's Library-EMI Classics Music Companions

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Everyman"s Library

The Future of Thinking: Rhetoric and Liberal Arts Teaching

Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. The aim of this topical book is to encourage practical educational reform in the Humanities by taking the emphasis away from the reception of texts to their production. Adapting rhetorical teaching methods, the authors encourage students to participate in the activities of thinking giving them short written and verbal exercises to develop conceptual competences and linguistics skills. It is argued that these methods can be implemented successfully across a wide number of humanities subjects and that they encourage the development of practical transferable skills, both cognitive and linguistic. The authors have used these methods successfully in class, and the book includes sample exercises, the initial results, and feedback from their students.

Mason, Jeff

*Ga*, Peter Washington

Routledge

Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. The aim of this topical book is to encourage practical educational reform in the Humanities by taking the emphasis away from the reception of texts to their production. Adapting rhetorical teaching methods, the authors encourage students to participate in the activities of thinking giving them short written and verbal exercises to develop conceptual competences and linguistics skills. It is argued that these methods can be implemented successfully across a wide number of humanities subjects and that they encourage the development of practical transferable skills, both cognitive and linguistic.The authors have used these methods successfully in class, and the book includes sample exercises, the initial results, and feedback from their students.

In 1875 the Theosophical Society was founded in New York by a renegade Russian aristocrat and a superannuated American colonel. Its stated objectives were to promote the brotherhood of man and encourage the study of comparative religion and psychic phenomena, but it was really the vehicle whereby one of the founders, Madame Blavatsky, could exercise her occult powers. These she claimed to derive from communion with an immortal secret brotherhood who revealed to her - and only to her - the secrets of the universe. Despite the fact that Blavatsky was repeatedly exposed as a fraud, her society prospered for more than half a century, attracting thousands of members from around the world. She also became the model, and sometimes the source, for the gurus and spiritual teachers whose influence is still with us, from Annie Besant and Rudolph Steiner to Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti. This book traces the rise and fall of theosophy and the careers of the other Western gurus who have looked to the East for esoteric wisdom. The story, a curious comedy of passion, power and gullibility, illuminates some of the 20th century's abiding preoccupations - the revolt against materialism, the quest for immortality, the argument between science and religion, and the hunger for authority. Peter Washington's other books include "Fraud: Literary Theory and the End of English".

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

I contain multitudes, Walt Whitman says in his great poem Song of Myself, and this multitudinousness, expressed with a genius for language and an imaginative energy as powerful as that possessed by any writer, has come to define the inner meaning - the mystic idea - of the American experience. Though he himself lived most of his life in and around New York City, Whitman's poetry encompassed the sweep of a continent.

Selected Poems by Whitman

WHITMAN, WALT

Poetry

Thorndike Pr

Just before the turn of the century, a renegade Russian aristocrat named Madame Blavatsky came to America claiming that man was descended not from the ape but from spiritual beings. Thus began Theosophy, the very first "new age" religion. This thought-provoking and often hilarious study delineates the course of Theosophy and other sects which have come down through the years. Photos.

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to Ameri ca

History

Schocken

A history of spiritualism in America discusses the development of Theosophy; the religious beliefs of Madame Blavatsky, Steiner, Krishnamurti, and other gurus; and the evolution of their ideas into the world of New Age thinking.

MADAME BLAVATSKY'S BABOON: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought...

Detective Stories

Contemporary

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Books by Washington, Peter

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Fraud: Literary theory and the end of English (A Fontana original)

Brodie's Notes on William Shakespeare's "Othello" (Pan Study Aids)

Bach: Everyman's Library-EMI Classics Music Companions

The Future of Thinking: Rhetoric and Liberal Arts Teaching

The Future of Thinking: Rhetoric and Liberal Arts Teaching

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon

Selected Poems by Whitman

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to Ameri ca

MADAME BLAVATSKY'S BABOON: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought...

Detective Stories