Mike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard's literary essays: his confrontation with Calvino, Styron, Ballard and Borges. Gane offers a coherent account of Baudrillard's theory of cultural ambience, and the culture of consumer society. And it provides an introduction to Baudrillard's fiction theory, and the analysis of transpolitical figures. The book also includes an interesting and provocative comparison of Baudrillard's powerful essay against the modernist Pompidou Centre in Paris and Frederic Jameson's analysis of the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. An interpretation of this encounter leads to the presentation of a very different Baudrillard from that which figures in contemporary debates on postmodernism.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction, which focuses on Morocco's history, provides a helpful synopsis of the kingdom, and is supplemented with a useful chronology of major events. Hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on former rulers, current leaders, ancient capitals, significant locations, influential institutions, and crucial aspects of the economy, society and culture form the core of the book.
A bibliography of sources is included to promote further more specialized study.
Если не считать собственно указаний к проведению уроков курса, в этой книге преподаватели найдут один из самых удачных, на мой взгляд, сборников с дополнительными заданиями для того, чтобы разнообразить свои уроки, сделать их интереснее и веселее. Преподаватели всего мира ценят этот курс за продуманность и основательность программы, а также за большое разнообразие дополнительных материалов. Данное учебное пособие позволяет дать студентам прочные знания в области грамматики, акцентирует их внимание на наиболее часто употребляемых словах и выражениях, аз четко структурированные заданияэффективно развиваюткоммуникативные навыки учащихся. Cutting Edge is a multi-level general English course for adults and young adults. It combines rich international content, comprehensive grammar, and real-life functional language within a clear, easy-to-teach structure. Cutting Edge Teacher's Resource Book provides teachers with all the support they need in order to be able to use the course successfully in a variety of teaching situations.
Teacher's tips section with practical ideas on teaching vocabulary and grammar, using the Mini-dictionary and making speaking tasks work.
Step-by-step Teacher's notes with suggestions for alternative procedures and extension activities.
The integrated photocopiable Resource bank provides up to 30 hours of additional material to consolidate and extend the Students' Book. It includes learner-training worksheets, communicative activities to provide additional practice of grammar and vocabulary, and progress tests.
The lexical syllabus affords the learner a coherent learning opportunity. It does not dictate what will be learned and in what order. It offers the learner experience of a tiny but balanced corpus of natural language from which it is possible to make generalizations about the language as a whole. It then provides the learner with the stimulus to examine that mini-corpus in order to make those productive generalizations.
From relative obscurity, even at the time of his death in 1969, Jack Kerouac has risen to icon status with invigorated interest at all levels of scholarship and readership. This biography serves an important purpose in cutting through both the hagiography and the critical backlash that still surrounds the figure most closely identified with the Beat movement. Using the same structure--the events of his life-- that Kerouac himself utilized in writing his roman a clef novels such as On the Road, this biography provides an accessible alternative to current studies that will help readers, particularly students understand the creative legacy left by Kerouac.
