This new collection of distinctive studies tracks developments in the most recent published work during the period 1990-95, with an integral guide and editorial commentary by Leslie Smith. A useful and compact text for students and researchers.
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Nicholas Nickleby is Dickens' commentary on the educational system in place in England when he was growing up. In it he uses "Dotheboys Hall" as the school setting where his main character, who is a teacher's aide, finally rebels at the evil of his boss and strikes out on his own. Another powerful social commentary, and one that led directly to legislation to correct the perceptions/situations Dickens identifies.
Charting the rise of cricket from its disreputable gambling origins in the 19th century to its current status as a first-class game of today, this part social history, part blooper tape is a humorous and acerbic commentary on the game's evolving—and often absurd—manners and mores.
Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms - A Philosophical Commentary
This book—the first commentary on Ernst Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms—provides an introduction to the metaphysical views that underlie the philosopher’s conceptions of symbolic form and human culture.
