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| 1. |  | Title: Flight from Eden: the origins of modern literary criticism and theory  Author: Cassedy, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: Steven Cassedy takes aim at two of the most enduring myths of modern criticism: that it is secular, and that it is new and autonomous. He argues that though modern criticism is often forbiddingly scientific and technical, the modern critic remains something of a mystic. Every school of modern critic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 Author: Duus, Peter 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | Japan | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: A fable of modern art Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Money and the modern mind: George Simmel's Philosophy of money Author: Poggi, Gianfranco Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Social Science | Philosophy | Economics and Business | Social Theory | European Studies Publisher's Description: A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money , published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be reade . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Out of Eden: essays on modern art Author: Di Piero, W. S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Dangerous intimacy: the untold story of Mark Twain's final years Author: Lystra, Karen Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Twain | American Literature | American Studies Publisher's Description: The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Gadamer's repercussions: reconsidering philosophical hermeneutics Author: Krajewski, Bruce 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | European Studies Publisher's Description: Certainly one of the key German philosophers of the twentieth century, Hans-Georg Gadamer also influenced the study of literature, art, music, sacred and legal texts, and medicine. Indeed, while much attention has been focused on Gadamer's writings about ancient Greek and modern German philosophy, t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 Author: Toepfer, Karl Eric 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Gender Studies | Dance Publisher's Description: Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The dissonant legacy of modernismo: Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the voices of modern Spanish American poetry Author: Kirkpatrick, Gwen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies | European Literature | Poetry Publisher's Description: This is a provocative new reading of a crucial and often misunderstood period of Spanish American literature. Most studies of modernismo have focused on the poetry of Rubén Darío and have noted the movement's aestheticism and its unmistakable French influences. Kirkpatrick concentrates instead on im . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Green thoughts, green shades: essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric Author: Post, Jonathan F. S 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the gr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Revolution and rebellion in the early modern world Author: Goldstone, Jack A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Political Theory | European History | Social Theory Publisher's Description: What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhel . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Dedication to hunger: the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture Author: Heywood, Leslie Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Literature Publisher's Description: Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic - the privileging of mind o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Paul Bowles on music Author: Bowles, Paul 1910- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | American Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | American Literature | Film Publisher's Description: "It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Garrett Eckbo: modern landscapes for living Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Art History | California and the West Publisher's Description: One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrate . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Problematics of sociology: the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995 Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory Publisher's Description: These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays ident . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Traveling in Mark Twain Author: Bridgman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | American Literature Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Setting the Virgin on fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution Author: Becker, Marjorie 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Anthropology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Railroad crossing: Californians and the railroad, 1850-1910 Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: California's spiritual frontiers: religious alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910 Author: Frankiel, Sandra Sizer 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Christianity Publisher's Description: In this fascinating work, Frankiel examines California's rich, multi-faceted religious history during the period in which the state was taking shape on the American landscape. Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Early modern Japan Author: Totman, Conrad D Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering na . . . [more] Similar Items |