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A Stubborn Fury : How Writing Works in Elitist Britain
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Year: 2021 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Open Humanities Press,

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Two fifths of Britain's leading people were educated privately: that's five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than the remaining 2894 state schools combined, making modern Britain one of the most unequal places in Europe. In A Stubborn Fury, Gary Hall offers a powerful and provocative look at the consequences of this inequality for English culture in particular. Focusing on the literary novel and the memoir, he investigates, in terms that are as insightful as they are irreverent, why so much writing in England is uncritically realist, humanist and anti-intellectual. Hall does so by playfully rewriting two of the most acclaimed contributions to these media genres of recent times. One is that of England's foremost avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, and the importance he attaches to European modernism and antihumanist theory. The other is that of the celebrated French memoirists Didier Eribon and Édouard Louis, and their attempt to reinvent the antihumanist philosophical tradition by producing a theory that speaks about class and intersectionality, yet generates the excitement of a Kendrick Lamar concert. Experimentally pirating McCarthy, Eribon and Louis, A Stubborn Fury addresses that most urgent of questions: what can be done about English literary culture's addiction to the worldview of privileged, middle-class white men, very much to the exclusion of more radically inventive writing, including that of working-class, BAME and LGBTQIAP+ authors?

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Diversités recherches et terrains : DIRE.
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Year: 2012 Publisher: [Limoges] : [Université de Limoges],

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French-speaking African countries : ratification of international treaties and agreements.
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Directorate,

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E-rea : revue d'études anglophones.
Year: 2003 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence : Université de Provence,

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Journal of postcolonial cultures and societies.
ISSN: 19481853 Year: 2009 Publisher: Delray Beach, Fla. : Guild of Independent Scholars

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Acolhendo a alfabetização nos países de língua portuguesa : revista eletrônica.
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Year: 2007 Publisher: São Paulo, SP, Brasil : Acoalfaplp

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Effective Presentations
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Year: 2002 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Course Technology

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Debating women : gender, education, and spaces for argument, 1835-1945
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ISBN: 1628953381 1609175751 1611862957 Year: 2018 Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press,

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"Spanning a historical period that begins with women's exclusion from university debates and continues through their participation in coeducational intercollegiate competitions, Debating Women highlights the crucial role that debating organizations played as women sought to access the fruits of higher education in the United States and United Kingdom. Despite various obstacles, women transformed forests, parlors, dining rooms, ocean liners, classrooms, auditoriums, and prisons into vibrant spaces for ritual argument. There, they not only learned to speak eloquently and argue persuasively but also used debate to establish a legacy, explore difference, engage in intercultural encounter, and articulate themselves as citizens. These debaters engaged with the issues of the day, often performing, questioning, and occasionally refining norms of gender, race, class, and nation. In tracing their involvement in an activity at the heart of civic culture, Woods demonstrates that debating women have much to teach us about the ongoing potential for debate to move arguments, ideas, and people to new spaces"--Publisher's description.


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Currículo sem fronteiras : revista para uma educação critica e emancipatória = a journal for a critical and emancipatory education.
Year: 2001 Publisher: Braga, Portgual : Comissão Executiva

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Year: 2010 Publisher: Toulouse Cédex : Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes.

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"Multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world."

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