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Give The Word - Responses To Werner Hamacher'S &Quote;95 Theses On Philology&Quote;

by Werner Hamacher

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 Werner Hamacher's witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanitiesâ€"and particularly academic philologyâ€"that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars take up the challenge presented by Hamacher's theses.
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Give The Word - Responses To Werner Hamacher'S &Quote;95 Theses On Philology&Quote;

by Werner Hamacher

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 Werner Hamacher's witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanitiesâ€"and particularly academic philologyâ€"that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars take up the challenge presented by Hamacher's theses.
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In Praise Of Flattery

by Willis Goth Regier

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 Where would we be without flattery? Giving flattery light, attention, and care, this title treats readers to hundreds of historical examples drawn from the highest social circles in politics, romance, and religion, from the courts of Byzantium and China to Paris, Rome, and Washington, DC.
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Second To None - A Documentary History Of American Women. Volume 1, From The Sixteenth Century To 1865

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 At the beginning of the 20th century it was still necessary for women to ask lawmakers, 'Are women persons?' The rights and treatment of women in their homes, workplaces, and government were issues that men often preferred to ignore. But women refused to remain silent. This volume looks at women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims.
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Loiterature

by Ross Chambers

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 Loiterature distracts attention the way a street conjurer diverts us with his sleight of hand
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Palimpsests - Literature In The Second Degree

by Gérard Genette

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 One of GÃ©rard Genetteâ€™s most important works, this examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts. Genette describes the multiple ways a later text asks readers to read or remember an earlier one. In this regard, he treats the history and nature of parody, antinovels, pastiches, caricatures, commentary, allusion, imitations, and other textual relations.
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Mimologics - Voyage En Cratylie

by Gérard Genette

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 Do words - their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns - imitate the world? Aiming to bridge mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method, this book presents a study of language as a representation of reality. It draws upon the traditions of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature.
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Art For Art'S Sake And Literary Life - How Politics And Markets Helped Shape The Ideology And Culture Of Aestheticism, 1790-1990

by Gene H. Bell-Villada

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 Covers the history of literary aestheticism from the eighteenth century to modern deconstruction. This book examines writings by critics, philosophers, and other writers from Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
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Silence On The Shores

by Leila Sebbar

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 Having crossed the Mediterranean as a young man to find work, he remained in France, married a French woman, and broke the promise he made to his mother to return home one day. Aware that death is close, he fears experiencing the ultimate form of exile: dying alone, with no fellow Muslim at his side to whisper the prayer for the dead in his ear.
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Wounding The West - Montana, Mining, And The Environment

by David Stiller

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 Traces the role of hardrock mining and its relationship with the American West by following the environmental history of one Montana mine, the Mike Horse, from its 1898 discovery, through its heyday in the 1940s, subsequent abandonment, and eventual cleanup under the coercion of a state law that many would consider ill-suited for abandoned mines.
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Boundaries Between - The Southern Paiutes, 1775-1995

by Martha C. Knack

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 Relates the history of the Southern Paiutes from their first contacts with European trappers and traders in the late eighteenth century through the end of the twentieth century.
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Strangers To Relatives - The Adoption And Naming Of Anthropologists In Native Noth America

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 Sheds light on how anthropology fieldwork is conducted, but also makes a seminal contribution to our understanding of the ongoing, often troubled relationship between the academy and Native communities. leading anthropologists in the United States and Canada share personal experiences of adoption and naming.
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Rue Ordener, Rue Labat

by Sarah Kofman

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 A memoir which opens with the horrifying moment in July 1942 when the author's father, the rabbi of a small synagogue, was dragged by police from the family home on Rue Ordener in Paris, then transported to Auschwitz - the place, where no eternal rest would or could ever be granted.
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Art From Trauma - Genocide And Healing Beyond Rwanda

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 Explores the possibility of art as therapeutic, capable of implementation by mental health practitioners crafting mental health policy in Rwanda. This anthology of scholarly, personal, and hybrid essays was inspired by scholar and activist Chantal Kalisa (1965-2015).
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Give The Word - Responses To Werner Hamacher'S "95 Theses On Philology"

by Werner Hamacher

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 Werner Hamacher's witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanitiesâ€"and particularly academic philologyâ€"that assume language to be a given entity rather than an event. In Give the Word eleven scholars take up the challenge presented by Hamacher's theses.
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After Utopia - The Rise Of Critical Space In Twentieth-Century American Fiction

by Nicholas Spencer

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 By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts.
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The Impact Of Nazism - New Perspectives On The Third Reich And Its Legacy

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 The consequences of Germany's twelve-year Nazi regime continue to spark debate among scholars and the general public. This book presents essays probing the nature, history, and aftermath of the Nazi regime, including its connections to the Federal Republic of Germany after the war.
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A Calendar Of The Letters Of Willa Cather

by Willa Cather

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 An infamous clause in the author's will, forbidding publication of her letters and other papers, has long caused consternation among her scholars. For her, a complex and private person who seldom made revelatory public pronouncements, personal letters provide a valuable key to understanding. This title tells her story.
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Eugene Field And His Age

by Lewis O. Saum

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 Eugene Field (1850-95) is perhaps best remembered for his children's verse, especially "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod". During his lifetime politics saw more public awareness and involvement than at any other time in American history, and his popularity derived from his near-ceaseless commentary on that arena of affairs.
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Minister To The Cherokees - A Civil War Autobiography

by James Anderson Slover

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 In 1857 the author rode into Indian Territory as the first Southern Baptist missionary to the Cherokee Nation. As the Civil War began to divide the Cherokees along with the rest of the nation, Slover was caught up in one of the most intense dramas of his century. This title tells his story.
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Groundwater Management In The West

by Jeffrey S. Ashley e Zachary A. Smith

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 Provides an overview of groundwater management in 19 western states of United States. This book presents for each state various management strategies, laws, and political realities that have made groundwater appropriation such a volatile subject. It identifies appropriate management techniques for protecting water supplies for future use.
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Naming And Unnaming - On Raymond Queneau

by Jordan Stump

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 Focuses on the work of Raymond Queneau, one of the influential French novelists of the twentieth century. This work examines four issues in Queneau's novels - the nature of writing and of creation in general, the possibility or impossibility of knowledge, the relationship between the individual and the group, and the uses of power and control.
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Pictures Into Words - Images In Contemporary French Fiction

by Ari J. Blatt

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 The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as such. Pictures into Words explores how this proliferation of graphic images has profoundly affected narrative writing in France.
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The Crimes Of Paris - A True Story Of Murder, Theft, And Detection

by Dorothy Hoobler e Thomas Hoobler

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 In Paris, on August 21, 1911, came a crime like none other: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. In The Crimes of Paris, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the gripping story of the theft and the investigation that followed.
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