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| 41. |  | Title: Diffusion of distances: dialogues between Chinese and Western poetics  Author: Yip, Wai-lim Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Philosophy | China | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | 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 |
| 43. |  | Title: Domestic individualism: imagining self in nineteenth-century America Author: Brown, Gillian Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | Gender Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: Douglas Hyde: a maker of modern Ireland Author: Dunleavy, Janet Egleson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | European History Publisher's Description: In 1938, at an age when most men are long retired, Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was elected first president of modern Ireland. The unanimous choice of delegates from all political factions, he was no stranger to public life or to fame. Until now, however, there has been no full-scale biography of this i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Dryden and the tradition of panegyric Author: Garrison, James D Published: University of California Press, 1975 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Dryden in revolutionary England Author: Bywaters, David A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | European History Publisher's Description: In 1681, when he wrote Absalom and Achitophel , John Dryden was poet laureate and historiographer royal at the court of his patron Charles II, and the acknowledged champion of a successful political cause. Only a few years later, Dryden's conversion to Roman Catholicism, followed by James II's depos . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | 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 |
| 48. |  | Title: Elizabeth Bishop: life and the memory of it Author: Millier, Brett Candlish Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | United States History | Women's Studies | Poetry Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Emerson: the mind on fire: a biography Author: Richardson, Robert D 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Social and Political Thought | United States History Publisher's Description: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: An empire nowhere: England, America, and literature from Utopia to The tempest Author: Knapp, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | United States History | Renaissance Literature | European History Publisher's Description: What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: The enchantments of love: amorous and exemplary novels Author: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de 1590-1650 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: An instant best-seller in Spain in 1637, The Enchantments of Love is a collection of shrewd and timeless tales in the tradition of Bocaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although some of the tales have appeared in English through the centuries, this delightful translation by H. Patsy . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Encounter: a novel of nineteenth-century Korea Author: Han, Mu-suk 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Asian Literature | South Asia Publisher's Description: This historical novel, Encounter ( Mannam ), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Be . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: Entangled edens: visions of the Amazon Author: Slater, Candace Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Literature | Folklore and Mythology | Natural History | Latin American Studies | History of Science Publisher's Description: Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widel . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: The erotic Whitman Author: Pollak, Vivian R Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Gender Studies | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Ethnocriticism: ethnography, history, literature Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Anthropology | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Native American Studies Publisher's Description: Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures.For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: The Ethnography of reading Author: Boyarin, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature Publisher's Description: Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars.The essays move well beyond the simple ru . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Facundo: civilization and barbarism: the first complete English translation Author: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811-1888 Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature | History | Latin American History | Politics | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Fathering the nation: American genealogies of slavery and freedom Author: Castronovo, Russ 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Faultlines: cultural materialism and the politics of dissident reading Author: Sinfield, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance to that social order? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in early-modern England.New h . . . [more] Similar Items |