The subject should be a good basis for a career in journalism: It's a very discursive subject, you're practiced at writing to time and to word limits, you're used to being presented with a brief (an essay title) and researching the background.
Using Nanjing a metropolis along the Yangzi River and onetime capital of the Ming as a central case, the author demonstrates that, prompted by this unique form of urban rural contradiction, the actions and creations of urban residents transformed the city on multiple levels: as an urban community, as a metropolitan region, as an imagined space, and, finally, as a discursive subject.
Other, more discursive, subject areas for example, may not lend themselves as well as pharmacology to the use of podcasting.
"In contrast, more discursive subjects [ie humanities] suffer disproportionately in such environments because they require students to have the eloquence and self-confidence to make arguments on topics that are more matters of opinion than of fact.
Leslie Mitchell, an English academic and biographer, seems eager to rehabilitate Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73); his book is less a straightforward biography than a series of discursive footnotes on his subject's varied career: society figure, fashion-setting novelist, successful playwright, member of Parliament and even, briefly, cabinet minister.
In Le Cid, Corneille rejected the discursive treatment of the subject given in his Spanish source (a long, florid, and violent play by Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, a 17th-century dramatist), concentrating instead on a conflict between passionate love and family loyalty, or honour.
Molloy (Eng. trans. Molloy) was the first of a trilogy exploring the constitution of the individual subject in discursive form, setting out the framing limits of identity constituted by language, history, social institutions, family, and the forms of storytelling (the other two volumes in the trilogy are Malone meurt [1951; Malone Dies] and L'Innommable [1953; The Unnameable]).
The norms themselves are subject to discursive, norm guided reflection and revision which gives philosophy the familiar open, "meta" character that underwrites its image as "thinking about thinking".
Yet beyond Donald Kuspit and a few others, it rarely published writing that aspired to a discursive consideration of its subject: the art market.
As the well-known critic and longtime Artnet contributor Jerry Saltz has commented, Artnet "convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all". Yet beyond Donald Kuspit and a few others, it rarely published writing that aspired to a discursive consideration of its subject: the art market.
Virtuoso discursive paragraphs on such subjects as horned animals, cats or minor inventions could appear as self-standing prose poems, no questions asked.
