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| 141. |  | Title: Montaigne's unruly brood: textual engendering and the challenge to paternal authority  Author: Regosin, Richard L 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | French Studies Publisher's Description: Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father uniformly and to assure the integrity of his name. Richard L. Regosin demonstrates how Montaigne's Essais both departs from and challenges this conventional fi . . . [more] Matches in book (69): ...Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature . Princeton, 1982.... Similar Items...129 -30, 136 , 137 , 151 nature: and art, 130 -32, 137 , 217 -19, 221 -22; book... ...that is to say, with sophistry and the art of persuasion, with rhetoric" (88).... |
| 142. |  | Title: Dedication to hunger: the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture Author: Heywood, Leslie Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Literature Publisher's Description: Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic - the privileging of mind o . . . [more] Matches in book (64): ...precondition for artistic genesis and makes the production of art possible. 15... Similar Items...of beauty and perfection . . . the never satisfied claim he made upon art,... ...his art[,] was that it should cleanse the . . . world . . . by means of the... |
| 143. |  | Title: Roberto Rossellini Author: Brunette, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more] Matches in book (89): ...pas le père du néo-réalisme," interview with Henri Hall, Arts (June 16, 1954).... Similar Items...how it all came about and that great works of art are never created ex nihilo.... ...1. Interview with J. Douchet, Arts , no. 739 (September 9, 1959), 6. 2. Pierre... |
| 144. |  | Title: Dioscorus of Aphrodito: his work and his world Author: MacCoull, Leslie B Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics Publisher's Description: From the hand of Dioscorus of Aphrodito, sixth-century Coptic lawyer and poet, we have the only autograph poems to come down to us on papyrus from the late ancient world. Both the poetry he wrote for special occasions and the documents he produced in his legal career, in Greek and Coptic, reflect th . . . [more] Matches in book (51): ...pl. 62. See also K. Wessel, Coptic art (New York 1965) pl. 38 and 39. Does the... Similar Items...4. For the nine Muses in Late Antique art, cf. Volbach, Elfenbeinarbeiten, nos.... ...personifications of cities in Coptic art. 12. Again it is through justice that... |
| 145. |  | Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | Comparative Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more] Matches in book (55): ...Ariadne, Victim of Art... Similar Items...say that the suspicion and fear of art's effect on its audience itself becomes a... ...of dramatic structures that the Roman audience enjoys in the art it consumes.... |
| 146. |  | Title: Cool conduct: the culture of distance in Weimar Germany Author: Lethen, Helmut Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Sociology | German Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Cool Conduct is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way o . . . [more] Matches in book (62): ...a practitioner par excellence of the arts of distinction. The palpable effect of... Similar Items...code of the seventeenth century: the Art of Worldly Wisdom, written in 1647 by... ...character—but do not mean disaster. The arts and sciences of the new objectivity... |
| 147. |  | Title: Roads to Rome: the antebellum Protestant encounter with Catholicism Author: Franchot, Jenny 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies | United States History | Christianity Publisher's Description: The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.Franchot anal . . . [more] Matches in book (84): ...Joshua C. Taylor. The Hand and the Spirit: Religious Art in America, 1700-1900 .... Similar Items...Berkeley, Calif. : University Art Musuem, 1972. Dillenberger,... ...John. The Visual Arts and Christianity in America.. The Colonial Period through... |
| 148. |  | Title: Horace and the gift economy of patronage Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhe . . . [more] Matches in book (54): ...LAND, OTIUM , ART: ECLOGUE 1... Similar Items...1975 . Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art . Trans. T. M. Knox. 2 vols . Oxford .... ...an imitation of a static work of art, his concept of a ritual-centered discourse... |
| 149. |  | Title: Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India Author: Hansen, Kathryn Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play , Kathryn Hansen draws on fie . . . [more] Matches in book (73): ...thus apparently refers to dramatic art in general; later it came to signify a... Similar Items...India. These little-known performance arts all contributed to the formative... ...Charles Frederick Usborne. Karachi: Lion Art Press, 1966. Waterfield, William,... |
| 150. |  | Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history Author: Bouwsma, William James 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t . . . [more] Matches in book (85): ...dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Paris, 1751-1765)... Similar Items...course, quite what Bacon meant by "art," i.e. , scientific procedure. 39. Erik... ...Nobility of the German Nation , Art. 27, items 2-3. 67. In Manifestations of... |
| 151. |  | Title: The Irish Ulysses Author: Tymoczko, Maria Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | English Literature Publisher's Description: In a radical new reading of Ulysses , Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary sources alone. Challenging conventional views that Joyce rejected Irish literature, Tymoczko demonstrates ho . . . [more] Matches in book (82): ...and Kenneth David Jackson, eds. The Art and Science of Translation. Dispositio... Similar Items...California P, 1973. Litz, A. Walten. The Art of James Joyce: Method and Design... ...UP, 1964. Loss, Archie K. Joyce's Visible Art: The Work of Joyce and the Visual... |
| 152. |  | Title: American literary realism and the failed promise of contract Author: Thomas, Brook Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | American Studies | Law | United States History Publisher's Description: In law, the late nineteenth century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of Realism. Brook Thomas's new book brings contract and realism together to offer groundbreaking insights into both while exploring the social and cultural crises that accompanied America's transition fro . . . [more] Matches in book (80): ...Jacques Rousseau, Politics and the Arts. Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre,... Similar Items...his comparison of Verena to a work of art helps to answer charges that he denies... ...possible autonomy. 58 Like a work of art, Verena does lack autonomy, but since... |
| 153. |  | Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Conceiving of urban design in terms of architectural actions and reactions, Attoe and Logan propose a theory of "catalytic architecture" better suited to specifically American circumstances than the largely European models developed in the last thirty years for the remaking of cities.After exploring . . . [more] Matches in book (49): ...Quality, design: Beaux-Arts, 15 ; catalysis and, 46 , 171 ; controls and, 170 ;... Similar Items...City Hall to the right, Performing Arts Center above). tainly, similar areas in... ...c. Broadway side of Performing Arts Center. Photograph by Timothy Hursley. ample... |
| 154. |  | Title: High culture fever: politics, aesthetics, and ideology in Deng's China Author: Wang, Jing 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian Literature | Asian History | Politics | China Publisher's Description: Jing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish decade of the 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Wang's energetic, creative, and highly intelligent take on Chinese culture provides a broad portrait of the post-revolutionary era and a pr . . . [more] Matches in book (74): ...encounter with modernist literature and art, China's young generation found an... Similar Items...fiction. Poetry, drama, the fine arts, and films are not treated here. 3. Ji... ...consciousness and literature and the arts), Wenyi lilun 10 (1986), 49. The essay... |
| 155. |  | Title: Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hishō of twelfth-century Japan Author: Kwon, Yung-Hee K Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Japan | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents the picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. In popular songs called im . . . [more] Matches in book (57): ...the Heian period may owe much to the emperor's fascination with the visual arts.... Similar Items...hisho , he implied a correspondence between art and religion: rather than being... ...the hand-maiden of religion, art was worthy of the same degree of devotion as... |
| 156. |  | Title: Legitimate differences: interpretation in the abortion controversy and other public debates Author: Warnke, Georgia Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Legitimate Differences challenges the usual portrayal of current debates over thorny social issues including abortion, pornography, affirmative action, and surrogate mothering as moral debates. How can it be said that our debates oppose principles of life to those of liberty, principles of liberty t . . . [more] Matches in book (55): ...place it already has in our discussions of art and literature. For one way to... Similar Items...in general insofar as it uses our discussions of art and literature as a model.... ...discussions of literature and works of art. In these cases, we assume that our... |
| 157. |  | Title: The master and Minerva: disputing women in French medieval culture Author: Solterer, Helen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language.Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a bro . . . [more] Matches in book (53): ...Madrid: Castelion de la Plana, 1929. ———. The Art of Courtly Love . Trans. with... Similar Items...Felix Meiner, 1988. Aristotle. The "Art" of Rhetoric . Ed. and trans. John Henry... ...d'Andeli. The Battle of the Seven Arts: A French Poem . Ed. Louis John Paetow.... |
| 158. |  | Title: The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422 Author: Hedeman, Anne Dawson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular, frequently illustrated history of the medieval French monarchs. Originally describing the lives of the kings from their origins in Troy in 1274 to the reign of Philip Augustus, it was updated in several stages to the life of Charles VI. Copied and am . . . [more] Matches in book (69): ...Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Hs. W. Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W.... Similar Items...which survives while more ephemeral public art has been destroyed, is thus an... ...Program in the Reign of Saint Louis." Art Bulletin 56 (1974):224–43. ———. "The... |
| 159. |  | Title: Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900 Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In Music as Cultural Practice , Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms wi . . . [more] Matches in book (42): ...to dominate the content of a work of art while the utopian idea retreats to the... Similar Items...3/4". Collection, Museum of Modern Art Library, New York. This was the period... ...purposes, music refers to European art music composed between 1798 and 1888.... |
| 160. |  | Title: Althusser and the renewal of Marxist social theory Author: Resch, Robert Paul Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The writings of the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and his associates have figured prominently in the development of contemporary social theory. The Althusserian school of Structural Marxism is a startlingly original synthesis of Marxism and Modernism, which has produced a large body of . . . [more] Matches in book (72): ...Eagleton 1976, 85). The final step toward conceptualizing art as a discourse is... Similar Items...to ground the work of art in its specific historical location, rendering its "... ...revolutionary politics is the art of the possible, and even revolutionary... |