Commanding Words

Essays on the Discursive Constructions, Manifestations, and Subversions of Authority

Buch | Hardcover

340 Seiten

2016 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781443888806 (ISBN)

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In a twenty-first century which celebrates freedom and equality while also beginning to question the lax attitudes and methods which have triumphed since the late Sixties, reflecting on the concept of authority is as necessary as ever. What role does, and should, authority play in political, social, and academic organization? Should one plead for stricter or more flexible authority? Where does the frontier between authority and authoritarianism lie? In examining these, and other related questions, this volume, postulating the interconnectedness between authority and discourse, also discusses the rhetorical strategies whereby authority is constructed, manifested, and resisted.Pertaining to subjects as various as politics, culture, literature, history, and pedagogy, the twenty chapters which constitute this book offer an interdisciplinary, yet thematically coherent, coverage of the question under discussion, and encompass a wide historical and spatial scope, which ranges from the Islamic Middle Ages to twenty-first century America, passing through nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, India, and North Africa on the way.

Lynda Chouiten is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages of the University of Boumerdès, Algeria, of which she is also currently the Head of the Scientific Committee. Her PhD, awarded by the National University of Ireland, Galway, was funded by the Irish Government under its internationally competitive PRTLI programme (Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions). Chouiten's research interests include colonial and postcolonial literature, travel writing, Orientalism, and gender studies. She is the author of Isabelle Eberhardt and North Africa: a Carnivalesque Mirage (Lexington Books, 2015) and of several articles pertaining to the (post)colonial condition.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2016
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781443888806 / 9781443888806
Zustand	Neuware