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| 161. |  | 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] Matches in book (56): ...Slyomovics, Susan. 1987. The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet... Similar Items...Verso. Beissinger, Margaret H. 1991. The Art of the Lautar: The Epic Tradition... ...Press. Bauman, Richard. 1977. Verbal Art as Performance. Rowley, Mass. : Newbury... |
| 162. |  | Title: Tran sforming desire: erotic knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie queene Author: Silberman, Lauren Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.In these books, Spenser exposes fict . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...1929): 696–705. Hulse, Clark. The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the... Similar Items...Images: Games of Perception: Anamorphic Art. Illusion: From the Renaissance to... ...University Press, 1968. ———. Spenser's Art: A Companion to Book One of The... |
| 163. |  | Title: Hysteria beyond Freud Author: Gilman, Sander L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Literature | Women's Studies | Psychiatry | Medicine Publisher's Description: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others - especially women. How has this medical concept assumed its power? What cultural purposes . . . [more] Matches in book (69): ...238 , 243 , 247 ; aesthetic theory, 358 ; art, 356 Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 263-... Similar Items...the novel by Frances Burney, 163 Exhibition of the Arts of Women in Paris, 310... ...New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990), 55. 2. Hèléne Cixous and... |
| 164. |  | Title: Licensing entertainment: the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 Author: Warner, William Beatty Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | European History | Print Media | English Literature Publisher's Description: Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William Warner shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early . . . [more] Matches in book (52): ...The Art of The Novel... Similar Items...C. The Moral Basis of Fielding's Art: A Study of Joseph Andrews . Middletown,... ...Scribner's Sons, 1907–1917. ———. The Art of the Novel . Introduction by Richard... |
| 165. |  | Title: Misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy Author: Bloch, R. Howard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations , explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does miso . . . [more] Matches in book (54): ...completely, one point after another, the art of love. . . . In the latter... Similar Items...the figure in an era when figurative art was giving way to abstraction. And yet... ...9:104. 44. Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love , trans. John J. Parry (... |
| 166. |  | Title: The Question of "eclecticism": studies in later Greek philosophy Author: Dillon, John M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" in the context of anci . . . [more] Matches in book (48): ...above), 66 ("Eklektiker der geringeren Art"), and K. Praechter, Die Philosophie... Similar Items...n36 Arnim, H. von, 138 n21, 144 n30 art, 11 -12; imaginative vs. mimetic, 209 -... ...24, 228 ; imagined and represented in art, 210 , 218 -22, 226 , 228 , 230 . See... |
| 167. |  | Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement Author: Fisher, David James Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European History Matches in book (60): ...Alexander, 275 Art. See Political art L'Art libre (periodical), 87 , 313 n.30... Similar Items...theory that engaged writing debases art while offering only a superficial gain... ...marks only an hour on the dial. The art issued from it must function to uphold... |
| 168. |  | Title: The vanishing vision: the inside story of public television Author: Day, James 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Television and Radio | History Publisher's Description: This spirited, first-ever history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy, forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, chronicles public television's fascinating evolution from its inauspicious roots in the 195 . . . [more] Matches in book (61): ...Subsidized Muse: Public Support for the Arts in the United States. Cambridge,... Similar Items...director, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Polykarp Kusch, professor of physics,... ...for the Advancement of Science and Art. His "farewell" message is contained in a... |
| 169. |  | 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] Matches in book (40): ...Cecilia's improvements on Timotheus's art do not diminish it: he is all the more... Similar Items...her. In the transcendent reaches of art to which Dryden declares his allegiance,... ...and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (Princeton University... |
| 170. |  | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Matches in book (60): ...Taos: Toward a Sociology of the Art Colony," Journal of Anthropological Research... Similar Items...Fischer, "Ethnicity and the Post-Modern Arts of Memory," in Writing Culture: The... ...1987). 19. Quoted in Sylvia Rodriguez, "Art, Tourism, and Race Relations in... |
| 171. |  | Title: Willie Brown: a biography Author: Richardson, James 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive biography of Willie Brown, one of California's most enduring and controversial politicians. Audacious, driven, talented - Brown has dominated California politics longer and more completely than any other public figure. James Richardson, a senior writer for The Sacrame . . . [more] Matches in book (62): ...200 -201, 205 , 206 Turk, Al, 20 Turk, Art, 17 , 18 , 20 Turner, Charles, 245... Similar Items...The Speaker as a 'Living Piece of Art. '" 61. Joan Chatfield-Taylor, "An... ...Sun-Reporter , Mar. 31, 1962. 16. Art Agnos, interview, San Francisco, Calif. ,... |
| 172. |  | Title: Henry David Thoreau and the moral agency of knowing Author: Tauber, Alfred I Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | History and Philosophy of Science | Ethics Publisher's Description: In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today - more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Tran . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...THE ART OF MEMORY... Similar Items...Hutton, P. H. 1993 . History as an Art of Memory . , Hanover and London :... ...1992 . Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .... |
| 173. |  | Title: Memory and re-creation in troubadour lyric Author: Van Vleck, Amelia Eileen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: In spite of the fame of individual singers, many of whose names are legendary, the songs of the troubadours often come to us in multiple versions, each with a different sequence of stanzas. What accounts for this variability? Authorial self-effacement might explain why much anonymous medieval poetry . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...in love . Lovely cat! / Thou art that / which fights / in the nights (... Similar Items...53 , 165 , 190 , 194 ; apres (educated), 183 Arretener (to memorize), 47 Art:... ...art d'amor, 103 , 172 ; belh'art (fine art of composing), 183 Asezer (to sit, to... |
| 174. |  | Title: Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity Author: Lim, Richard 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Christianity Publisher's Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and sel . . . [more] Matches in book (47): ...in Alexandria that he allegedly learned the art of eristic disputation and the... Similar Items...20. Brubaker, L. "Politics, Patronage, and Art in Ninth-Century Byzantium: The... ...D. Wood. , ed. , The Church and the Arts . Studies in Church History 28. Oxford,... |
| 175. |  | 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] Matches in book (47): ...the pleasure that had inspired his art. And so he forged on, for American... Similar Items...the “achievements of literature and art” to “enjoy the breeding of full-sized... ...he browsed storefronts and bookstores and art galleries and concert halls and... |
| 176. |  | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Matches in book (41): ...and goals. Certainly the popular arts of memory so central to Carnival are... Similar Items...Frank E. Overseas Caribbean Carnivals: The Art and Politics of a Transnational... ...Rivers Film Festival program, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis , 1994 . Boyarin,... |
| 177. |  | Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Dance | Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Matches in book (31): ...mechanical forms he has advanced in the art of surface decoration. He has gained... Similar Items...H. Douglas, Curator of the Denver Art Museum. 57 Hough, 1919:259. 58 Hough,... ...and bead sewing techniques. Denver Art Museum, Leaflet 2. 1930 b . Pueblo Indian... |
| 178. |  | Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more] Matches in book (66): ...between a law school and a school of arts and sciences. "Law and Sociology:... Similar Items...Make-up became a self-styled art, with lipstick, powder, rouge, eye shadow and... ...Changing Class Structure," appears in Art, Ideology and Politics , ed. Judith H.... |
| 179. |  | Title: Theory of culture Author: Münch, Richard 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Political Theory | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue. The contributors to this volume have answered this call, each adding new insight to the debate over culture, its . . . [more] Matches in book (51): ...Castel, and J. C. Chamboredon, 1965. Un art moyen. Paris: Minuit. Bourdieu, P. ,... Similar Items...163 -64. See also Cultural production Arts, 40 -41, 124 , 138 -39, 141 -42n.15,... ...at the Death of His Son, 1961. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame.... |
| 180. |  | Title: Orphans of Petrarch: poetry and theory in the Spanish Renaissance Author: Navarrete, Ignacio Enrique 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: In Spain as elsewhere, Renaissance poets transformed the lyric tradition by using Petrarch as a source of poetic renewal. But political unity and military hegemony, coupled with a sense of cultural inferiority and an obsession with ethnic purity, made Spain different. Drawing on modern critical theo . . . [more] Matches in book (44): ...Panofsky, Erwin. Meaning in the Visual Arts . Paperback Edition. Garden City, N.... Similar Items...1973. Weiss, Julian. The Poet's Art: Literary Theory in Castile c. 1400–60 .... ...25 (1966): 21–46. Bergmann, Emilie L. Art Inscribed: Essays on Ekphrasis in... |