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| 1. |  | Title: Getting to be Mark Twain  Author: Steinbrink, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally. But he was not always as we know him today. Mark Twain began life as a loose gathering of postures, attitudes, and voices in the mind of Samuel Clemens. It was some ti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Acting naturally: Mark Twain in the culture of performance Author: Knoper, Randall K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Twain | American Studies Publisher's Description: The phenomenon of performance is central to Mark Twain's writing and persona. But Twain's performative aspects have usually been dismissed as theatrical and discounted as lowbrow burlesque. Randall Knoper takes Twain's theatricality seriously and shows how Twain's work both echoes and engages the so . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Traveling in Mark Twain Author: Bridgman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | American Literature Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: 1910, the emancipation of dissonance Author: Harrison, Thomas J 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Comparative Literature | European Literature | Art History Publisher's Description: The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate of Middle Europe and paying particular attentio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | 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 |
| 6. |  | Title: Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on U.S. Middle East policy Author: Christison, Kathleen 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. Kathleen Christison's controversial new boo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Slide Mountain, or, The folly of owning nature Author: Steinberg, Theodore 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Law | Environmental Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere - from suburban picket fences to elaborate schemes to own underground water, clouds, even the ocean floor.Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonst . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Dangerous emotions Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Philosophy | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Social and Political Thought | Travel Publisher's Description: Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses , taking the reader to Easter Island, Japa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Michelangelo's Last Judgment: the Renaissance response Author: Barnes, Bernadine Ann Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art Publisher's Description: In her analysis of Michelangelo's Last Judgment , Bernadine Barnes provides an original and stimulating view of this renowned fresco and of the audience for which it was created. Because Michelangelo is so often regarded as a nearly superhuman artistic genius, we tend to forget that his works were n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Authoritarian Argentina: the Nationalist movement, its history, and its impact Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: David Rock has written the first comprehensive study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical, right wing movement has had a profound impact on twentieth-century Ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Wising up the marks: the modern William Burroughs Author: Murphy, Timothy S 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Philosophy Publisher's Description: William S. Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. In the first comprehensive study of the writer, Timothy S. Murphy places Burroughs in the company of the most significant intellectual minds of our time. In doing so, he gives us an imm . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The last emperors: a social history of Qing imperial institutions Author: Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Anthropology | China | Asian History Publisher's Description: The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new inte . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | 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 |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. |  | Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Language and Linguistics | Medieval History | European History | Education | European Studies | Medieval Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Returning cycles: contexts for the interpretation of Schubert's impromptus and last sonatas Author: Fisk, Charles Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers Publisher's Description: This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Final judgments: duty and emotion in Roman wills, 200 B.C.-A.D. 250 Author: Champlin, Edward 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a mirror of the testator's true character and . . . [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: To place our deeds: the African American community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 Author: Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | African American Studies Publisher's Description: To Place Our Deeds traces the development of the African American community in Richmond, California, a city on the San Francisco Bay. This readable, extremely well-researched social history, based on numerous oral histories, newspapers, and archival collections, is the first to examine the historica . . . [more] Similar Items |