UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Representation and its discontents: the critical legacy of German romanticism Author: Seyhan, Azade Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| German Studies Publisher's Description: Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Her analysis of key thinkers such as . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Placing movies: the practice of film criticism Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice , is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies , the first collection of his work, gathers together thirty of his most distinctive . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion \| Judaism \| Christianity \| Gender Studies \| Literature \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Revenge of the aesthetic: the place of literature in theory today Author: Clark, Michael 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: This cutting-edge collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the past thirty years as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory. The contributors challenge trends that have recently dominated the field--especia . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nets of awareness: Urdu poetry and its critics Author: Pritchett, Frances W 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| South Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry - long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture - became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent I . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Contesting Earth's future: radical ecology and postmodernity Author: Zimmerman, Michael E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Natural History \| Ecology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. Yet for more than twenty years, the activities of organizations such as the Greens and Earth First! have been influen . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tortured confessions: prisons and public recantations in modern Iran Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and pu . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	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
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cry for luck: sacred song and speech among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of northwestern California Author: Keeling, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ethnomusicology Publisher's Description: The "sobbing" vocal quality in many traditional songs of northwestern California Indian tribes inspired the title of Richard Keeling's comprehensive study. Little has been known about the music of aboriginal Californians, and Cry for Luck will be welcomed by those who see the interpretation of music . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: On human nature: a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984 Author: Burke, Kenneth 1897- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Intellectual History \| Rhetoric \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Earthwards: Robert Smithson and art after Babel Author: Shapiro, Gary 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogatio . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Collected prose Author: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| Poetry \| Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| Poetry Publisher's Description: The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmoder . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Should I be tested for cancer?: maybe not and here's why Author: Welch, H. Gilbert Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine \| Health Care \| Disease Publisher's Description: Getting tested to detect cancer early is one of the best ways to stay healthy - or is it? In this lively, carefully researched book, a nationally recognized expert on early cancer detection challenges one of medicine's most widely accepted beliefs: that the best defense against cancer is to always t . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The voice in the margin: Native American literature and the canon Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Native American Studies \| American Literature Publisher's Description: In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin invites us to broaden our notion of what a truly inclusive American literature might be, and of how it might be placed in relation to an international - a "cosmopolitan" - literary canon. . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Trials of authorship: anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare Author: Crewe, Jonathan V Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Renaissance Literature \| English Literature Publisher's Description: For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transg . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	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
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The listening composer Author: Perle, George 1915- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music \| Contemporary Music \| Composers Publisher's Description: George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music" - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	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
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The other modernism: F.T. Marinetti's futurist fiction of power Author: Blum, Cinzia Sartini Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of It . . . [more] Similar Items