LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard hoggart

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard hoggart

  • Everyday Language and Everyday Life
    Richard Hoggart
    For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences 'from scratch,' unless that becomes inescapable. But in this book he is interested in more specific questions. How far do the British, and particularly the English, share t...
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    88,36 €

  • Promises to Keep
    Richard Hoggart
    The outstanding quality of Richard Hoggart’s new book is its warmth. In the style of Montaigne, Hoggart looks back over his years and pinpoints those human qualities which have come to mean most to him and which he has appreciated in others. Part of this man’s attraction derives from the fact that he is also extremely self-effacing. Literacy and the use of language remain an ab...
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    44,96 €

  • Mass Media in a Mass Society
    Richard Hoggart
    Hoggart takes a number of aspects of mass society today - celebrity worship, youth culture, broadcasting, and a decline in the proper use of language - and considers the paradox that the ready accessibility of information of all types does not automatically lead to greater comprehension of our world. Information itself is inert and only leads to knowledge if it has been ordered...
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    28,96 €

  • The Uses of Literacy
    Richard Hoggart
    This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media ...
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    90,27 €

  • The Way We Live Now
    Richard Hoggart
    ’This is his most powerful book since THE USES OF LITERACY and. . . deserves to be equally widely read. ’ SUNDAY TIMES Richard Hoggart is one of Britain’s most distinguished cultural critics. In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself to take the temperature of the nation at the end of the 20th century - to test its blood for health and heartiness sample its ima...
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    22,19 €

  • Rural Europe
    Henry Buller / Keith Hoggart / Richard Black
    Examines the interaction of the economic, political and social change processes within Europe which are bringing about fundamental transformations in rural areas. The authors expand on this view of rural Europe, and place its significance within the broader field of rural studies. ...
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    64,72 €