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| 1. |  | Title: Melville's anatomies Author: Otter, Samuel 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | American Literature | United States History Publisher's Description: In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels - Typee , White-Jacket, Moby-Dick , and Pierre - Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Willie Brown: a biography  Author: Richardson, James 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive biography of Willie Brown, one of California's most enduring and controversial politicians. Audacious, driven, talented - Brown has dominated California politics longer and more completely than any other public figure. James Richardson, a senior writer for The Sacrame . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Dearest beloved: the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family Author: Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter) 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne - for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness - was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Rhetorics of self-making Author: Battaglia, Debbora Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Psychology Publisher's Description: Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social pract . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Dwelling in the text: houses in American fiction Author: Chandler, Marilyn R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | American Literature Publisher's Description: What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual psychology, national character and aspiration? The house holds a central place in American mythology, as Marilyn Chandler demonstrates in a series of "house tours" through American novels, beginning with Thoreau's Walden and ending . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politics Author: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public Policy | Sociology Publisher's Description: This original look at the dynamics of international relations untangles the vigorous interaction of domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights, and trade. An eminent group of political scientists demonstrates how international bargaining that refl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The disenchanted self: representing the subject in the Canterbury tales Author: Leicester, H. Marshall (Henry Marshall) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: The question of the "dramatic principle" in the Canterbury Tales , of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the interpretation of Chaucer's work. Drawing on ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and social the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The feminine sublime: gender and excess in women's fiction Author: Freeman, Barbara Claire Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The Feminine Sublime provides a new and startling insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. Barbara Claire Freeman argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual di . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The Social importance of self-esteem Author: Mecca, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Is the well-being of a society dependent on the well-being of its citizenry? Does individual self-esteem play a causal role in chronic social problems such as child abuse, school drop-out rates, teenage pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, welfare dependency?In an attempt to answer these questions, th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The rhetoric of confession: shishōsetsu in early twentieth-century Japanese fiction Author: Fowler, Edward Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature | Japan | Literary Theory and Criticism | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu , and discusses its linguisti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: A'aisa's gifts: a study of magic and the self Author: Stephen, Michele Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Indigenous Religions | Psychology Publisher's Description: Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, A'aisa's Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological theory. Based on twenty years' fieldwork, this richly detailed study of Mekeo esoteric knowledge, cosmology, and self-co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period Author: Anderson, Marston Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Chinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised "others" of Chinese societ . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The sacred self: a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healing Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Religion | Philosophy Publisher's Description: How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. Thi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Chaucer and the fictions of gender Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Gender Studies | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Hansen challenges both the long-standing myth of Chaucer as the tolerant, wise Father of English poetry and the recent arguments that Chaucer was a protofeminist, subversive of the misogyny of his day. Hansen argues that these mistaken interpretations inhibit readings of Chaucer that respond to femi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The Lioness in bloom: modern Thai fiction about women Author: Kepner, Susan Fulop 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Fiction | Southeast Asia | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexualit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Politics, death, and the devil: self and power in Max Weber and Thomas Mann Author: Goldman, Harvey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Political Theory | Philosophy Publisher's Description: This sequel to Harvey Goldman's well-received Max Weber and Thomas Mann continues his rich exploration of the political and cultural critiques embodied in the more mature writings of these two authors. Combining social and political thought, intellectual history, and literary interpretation, Goldman . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Art Theory | Cinema and Performance Arts | Politics | Political Theory | History Publisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The view from Bald Hill: thirty years in an Arizona grassland Author: Bock, Carl E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Conservation | California and the West | Ecology | Natural History | Science | Biology | Botany | Zoology Publisher's Description: In 1540 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado introduced the first domestic livestock to the American Southwest. Over the subsequent four centuries, cattle, horses, and sheep have created a massive ecological experiment on these arid grasslands, changing them in ways we can never know with certainty. The Ap . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: American domestic priorities: an economic appraisal Author: Quigley, John M Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Economics and Business Similar Items |