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| 41. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Chaucerian play: comedy and control in the Canterbury tales Author: Kendrick, Laura Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Similar Items |
| 43. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | Music Publisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | 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 |
| 47. |  | 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 |
| 48. |  | Title: Time and the crystal: studies in Dante's Rime petrose Author: Durling, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: The Rime petrose , Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy , . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Writing signs: the Fatimid public text Author: Bierman, Irene A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Literature Publisher's Description: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Exa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Haiti, history, and the gods Author: Dayan, Joan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Haiti, History, and the Gods Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Luminous debris: reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc Author: Sobin, Gustaf Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | European Studies | Ancient History | Philosophy | French Studies Publisher's Description: Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: Golden days Author: See, Carolyn Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | California and the West Publisher's Description: Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Renard the Fox Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Literature in Translation | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: Spectacle and society in Livy's history Author: Feldherr, Andrew 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical History | Comparative Literature | Literature Publisher's Description: Public spectacle - from the morning rituals of the Roman noble to triumphs and the shows of the Arena - formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. The historian Livy (c. 60 B.C.E.-17 C.E.), who provides our fullest description of Rome's early history, presents his account o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Cervantes and the burlesque sonnet Author: Martín, Adrienne Laskier Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Until now the great renown of Cervantes as a prose humorist has eclipsed his skill as a humorous poet. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet amply illustrates the comic genius of Cervantes the poet, and at the same time establishes criteria by which comic poetry can be analyzed and evaluated.Adrienne M . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: Selected letters Author: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Literature | American Studies | Letters Publisher's Description: For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Dryden and the tradition of panegyric Author: Garrison, James D Published: University of California Press, 1975 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Russian opera and the symbolist movement Author: Morrison, Simon Alexander 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Opera | Musicology | Composers | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Literature Publisher's Description: An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth ce . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Residues of justice: literature, law, philosophy Author: Dimock, Wai-chee 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Studies | Law | Philosophy Publisher's Description: In this arresting book, Wai Chee Dimock takes on the philosophical tradition from Kant to Rawls, challenging its conception of justice as foundational, self-evident, and all-encompassing. The idea of justice is based on the premise that the world can be resolved into commensurate terms: punishment e . . . [more] Similar Items |