By John Storey
ISBN-10: 1317860454
ISBN-13: 9781317860457
During this sixth variation of his winning Cultural concept and pop culture: An Introduction, John Storey has largely revised the textual content all through. As prior to, the booklet provides a transparent and demanding survey of competing theories of and numerous ways to pop culture. Its breadth and theoretical cohesion, exemplified via pop culture, signifies that it may be flexibly and relevantly utilized throughout a few disciplines. additionally maintaining the available procedure of earlier variations, and utilizing acceptable examples from the texts and practices of pop culture, this re-creation is still a key advent to the area.
New to this edition
• generally revised, rewritten and updated
• greater and multiplied content material throughout
• New sections at the English Marxism of William Morris, Post-Feminism, and Whiteness
The new version continues to be crucial studying for undergraduate and postgraduate scholars of cultural experiences, media reports, communique reports, the sociology of tradition, pop culture and different similar matters.
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He causes the worthy to display their talents, and he employs them accordingly; hence his own worth never comes to an end. ’ • ‘Be empty, still, and idle, and from your place of darkness observe the defects of others. ’ • And finally: ‘This is the way to listen to the words of others: be silent as though in a drunken stupor. Say to yourself: Lips! teeth! Do not be the first to move; lips! teeth! Be thicker, be clumsier than ever! ’ Other writers have independently come to similar conclusions about the nature of kingship.
In came a triumvirate of powers: a professional army; farm labourers who supplied food; and the Law, applied uniformly and without exception to everyone, high and low, except of course the king himself, for he personified the Law and administered it by whatever means he could, moral or immoral, and was above such distinctions. Shang even persuaded the Qin ruler to punish the crown prince. As you might imagine, he was not popular, nor did he go out of his way to cultivate allies. As his follower Han Fei recorded, ‘when he came and went at court, he was guarded by iron spears and heavy shields to prevent sudden attack’.
This was the man who was soon to become the focus of his attention, and the unwitting cause of his tragedy. 3 It was not a big force for so ambitious a 3 Noyan Uul, 50 km north of the present-day capital, Ulaanbaatar. I give an account of the Xiongnu and Noyan Uul in Attila: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome (Bantam Press, 2005). 21 ORIGINS project. Perhaps Li Ling was confident that his repeating crossbows, with arrows carried by the hundred thousand in his wagons, would sweep him to victory.
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