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| 1. |  | Title: Traditional oral epic: the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian return song  Author: Foley, John Miles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European Literature | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | Language and Linguistics | Classics | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Christian figural reading and the fashioning of identity Author: Dawson, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Judaism | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: This book makes an illuminating contribution to one of Christianity's central problems: the understanding and interpretation of scripture, and more specifically, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New. John David Dawson analyzes the practice and theory of "figural" reading in the Chr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Nationalism and the genealogical imagination: oral history and textual authority in tribal Jordan Author: Shryock, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegy Author: James, Sharon L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature | Poetry | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed - . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Survivors: an oral history of the Armenian genocide Author: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention. Through interviews with a hundred elderly Armen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry Publisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: When we began there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya Author: Fadiman, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Anthropology | African Studies | African History Publisher's Description: This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the earliest times through the colonial period. Many of these tales have been ritually passed down through no fewer than nineteen generations; others were remembered by those personally involved. Jeffrey Fadim . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Homer the theologian: Neoplatonist allegorical reading and the growth of the epic tradition Author: Lamberton, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Re-reading Sappho: reception and transmission Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry Publisher's Description: Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's "afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. As the contributors explore the ways that each generation creates its own Sappho, the Sapphic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Reading Columbus Author: Zamora, Margarita Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | European Literature Publisher's Description: Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological impli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Overtones and undertones: reading film music Author: Brown, Royal S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Music Publisher's Description: Since the days of silent films, music has been integral to the cinematic experience, serving, variously, to allay audiences' fears of the dark and to heighten a film's emotional impact. Yet viewers are often unaware of its presence. In this bold, insightful book, film and music scholar and critic Ro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Writing and rebellion: England in 1381 Author: Justice, Steven 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Medieval History | European History Publisher's Description: In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactica . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Keeping slug woman alive: a holistic approach to American Indian texts Author: Sarris, Greg Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Native American Studies | Anthropology | Native American Ethnicity | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a ra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Faultlines: cultural materialism and the politics of dissident reading Author: Sinfield, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance to that social order? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in early-modern England.New h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Women in the Chinese enlightenment: oral and textual histories Author: Wang, Zheng Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | China | Women's Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a ge . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle Author: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | United States History | Labor Studies | African American Studies Publisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: How the other half works: immigration and the social organization of labor Author: Waldinger, Roger David Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Labor Studies | Immigration | Chicano Studies | Social Problems | Urban Studies | California and the West | California and the West Publisher's Description: How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors tha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Mental ills and bodily cures: psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twentieth century Author: Braslow, Joel T 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Psychiatry | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | Psychology Publisher's Description: Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: A flowering tree: and other oral tales from India A.K. Ramanujan ; edited with a preface by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes Author: Ramanujan, A. K 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Language and Linguistics | Asian Literature | Folklore and Mythology | South Asia Publisher's Description: This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time . . . [more] Similar Items |