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Demanding Democracy - Reform And Reaction In Costa Rica And Guatemala, 1870s-1950s

by Deborah J. Yashar

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 This work examines the origins of democracy and authoritarianism using a novel coalitional approach to examine two questions: What are the conditions under which actors found democracy? and what are the conditions conducive to its endurance?
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The Culture Of Autobiography - Constructions Of Self-Representation

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 Diverse tendencies in critical and cultural theory have combined to give autobiography a new importance. The essays in this collection address from different vantage points the larger problems posed by the form and the question of its institutional and cultural marginality.
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Languages Of The Unsayable - The Play Of Negativity In Literature And Literary Theory

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 This volume brings together fifteen outstanding literary theorists and philosophers to examine ways to make the unsayable-that which has been excluded by what is sayable-tangible.
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Epistolary Bodies - Gender And Genre In The Eighteenth-Century Republic Of Letters

by Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook

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 Proceeding from the perspective of Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular 18th-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of Montesquieu, Richardson, Riccoboni, and Crevecoeur.
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Basho And His Interpreters - Selected Hokku With Commentary

by Makoto Ueda

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 This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94). The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.
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Between Reform And Revolution - Political Struggles In The Peruvian Andes, 1969-1991

by Linda J. Seligmann

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 The reform programme introduced by Peruvian President General Juan Velasco Alvarado in 1969 ushered in one of the most ambitious agrarian reforms in Latin America. This is a study of the effects on the lives and sense of identity of a Peruvian peasant community.
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Reading Marx Writing - Melodrama, The Market And The "Grundrisse"

by Thomas M. Kemple

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 This volume uses the eight notebooks "the Grundrisse" Karl Marx worked on in 1857-58 to examine his literary, political, and scientific imagination. The author speculates on the limits and possibilities of Marx's interpretive approach for addressing current issues in philosophy and hermeneutics.
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Caring For Patients - A Critique Of The Medical Model

by Allen Barbour

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 An experienced and compassionate physician questions the prevailing medical model of patient care-that every illness has a physical cause that can be identified and treated medically-and argues for the necessity of taking the psychological and social situation of the patient into account in the process of diagnosis and treatment.
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The Revolution Of 1905 - Russia In Disarray

by Abraham Ascher

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 The first of two volumes, this is the most comprehensive account of the Revolution of 1905-a decisive turning point in modern Russian history-to appear in any Western language in a generation.
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Thinking Bodies

by Juliet Flower (University Of California, Irvine) Maccannell e Laura (University Of California, Irvine) Zakarin

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 The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis.
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Black Prophetic Fire

by Christa Buschendorf e Cornel West

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The President Has Been Shot - Confusion, Disability And The 25th Amendment In The Aftermath Of The Attempted Assassination Of Ronald Reagan

by Herbert L. Abrams

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 A detailed study of the events surrounding the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.
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God Between Their Lips - Desire Between Women In Irigaray, Bronte, And Eliot

by Kathryn Bond Stockton

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 Connecting the cultural domains of religion, sex, and work, this book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian thought, and two prominent 19th-century women's novels (Charlotte Bronte's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch)-to understand desire between women as a form of "spiritual materialism."
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The Photograph - A Strange, Confined Space

by Mary Price

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 This richly evocative study of photography emphasizes that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that the use of a photograph determines its meaning.
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Thinking Bodies

by Juliet Flower (University Of California, Irvine) Maccannell e Laura (University Of California, Irvine) Zakarin

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 The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the arts, and psychoanalysis.
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Convicts And Orphans - Forced And State-Sponsored Colonizers In The Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755

by Timothy J. Coates

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 This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire. In addition, it addresses the issue of gender in the state's use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas.
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Social Formalism - The Novel In Theory From Henry James To The Present

by Dorothy J. Hale

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 Contemporary literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. This text argues that it was the compatibility of Bakhtin with James that prompted Anglo-American theorists to embrace Bakhtin with such enthusiasm.
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An Obsession With History - Russian Writers Confront The Past

by Andrew Baruch Wachtel

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 Providing a theoretical paradigm for understanding the relationship of history and literature in Russia, this book traces how major Russian writers of the past 200 years defined the nation's past through creating fictional and non-fictional works on historical themes.
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Seeing Together - Friendship Between The Sexes In English Writing From Mill To Woolf

by Victor Luftig

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 Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships-their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change.
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Dangerous Encounters - Meanings Of Violence In A Brazilian City

by Daniel Touro Linger

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 This text examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation.
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Oedipus Ubiquitous - The Family Complex In World Folk Literature

by Allen W. Johnson e Douglass Price-Williams

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 Is the "Oedipus complex" universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made.
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Oedipus Ubiquitous - The Family Complex In World Folk Literature

by Allen W. Johnson e Douglass Price-Williams

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 Is the "Oedipus complex" universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made.
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Headhunting And The Social Imagination In Southeast Asia

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 This book brings together material on headhunting from several Southeast Asia societies, examines its cultural contexts, and relates them to colonial history, violence, and ritual.
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The Translatability Of Cultures - Figurations Of The Space Between

by Sanford (Hebrew University Of Jerusalem) Budick e Wolfgang (University Of California, Irvine) Iser

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 These essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures.
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