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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Renaissance History \| Christianity \| Rhetoric \| Art History \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Vale of tears: revisiting the Canudos massacre in northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897 Author: Levine, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: The massacre of Canudos In 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the event through the eyes of the inhabitants, Levine challenges traditional interpretations and gives weight to the fact that most of the Canudenses were of mixed-raced descent and were thus perceived as op . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Polyhymnia: the rhetoric of Horatian lyric discourse Author: Davis, Gregson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical strategies - what he calls modes of assimilati . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics Author: Thomason, Sarah Grey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Language and Linguistics \| Linguistic Theory \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of conta . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater Author: Worthen, William B 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Theatre \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identi . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Prayers in stone: Greek architectural sculpture ca. 600-100 B.C.E Author: Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Art \| Art and Architecture \| Art History Publisher's Description: The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unl . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Christianity and the rhetoric of empire: the development of Christian discourse Author: Cameron, Averil Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Religions \| Classical History \| History \| Christianity \| Ancient History \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: Many reasons can be given for the rise of Christianity in late antiquity and its flourishing in the medieval world. In asking how Christianity succeeded in becoming the dominant ideology in the unpromising circumstances of the Roman Empire, Averil Cameron turns to the development of Christian discou . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Masking the blow: the scene of representation in late prehistoric Egyptian art Author: Davis, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art \| Art History Publisher's Description: The meaning of late prehistoric Egyptian images has until now been tantalizingly mysterious, as little understood as the circumstances of their production. As a result, analyses of these images have been general and often incorrectly illustrated. Whitney Davis now provides a welcome remedy in this d . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Guardians of language: the grammarian and society in late antiquity Author: Kaster, Robert A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Language and Linguistics \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools" - the schools of grammar and rhetoric - in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the political and r . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Columbus and the ends of the earth: Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology Author: Kadir, Djelal Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| European History \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Columbus is the first blazing star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was absolutely unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of Kad . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 Author: Haynes, Douglas E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that exclude . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inalienable possessions: the paradox of keeping-while-giving Author: Weiner, Annette B 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine gro . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 Author: Wadley, Susan Snow 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur - the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser - as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s. In this long-awaited book, Wadley gives us . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies \| California and the West \| History \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, archite . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Intellectual History \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lawyers, lawsuits, and legal rights: the battle over litigation in American society Author: Burke, Thomas Frederick Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| Law Publisher's Description: Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	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
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	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
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Staged narrative: poetics and the messenger in Greek tragedy Author: Barrett, James 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: The messenger who reports important action that has occurred offstage is a familiar inhabitant of Greek tragedy. A messenger informs us about the death of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, the slaughter of Aigisthos, and the death of Hippolytus, among other important even . . . [more] Similar Items