 | Difference and Repetition
Publication Date: April 15, 1995| ISBN-10: 0231081596 | ISBN-13: 978-0231081597 0 This brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,Difference and Repetition develops two central concepts—pure difference and complex repetition&mdasha;and shows how the two concepts are related. While difference implies divergence and decentering, repetition is associated with displacement and disguising. Central in initiating the shift in French thought a...
 |  | The Classical Roman Reader: New Encounters with Ancient Rome
Publication Date: November 19, 1998| ISBN-10: 0195127404 | ISBN-13: 978-0195127409Western civilization is in many ways an outgrowth of the Roman Empire. The Classical Roman Reader, which contains a collection of some of the finest and most important writing of the Roman period, brings the modern reader into direct contact with the literature, political thought, science, art and architecture, and psychology of classical Rome.Here are the wonders of the Roman world presented in a modern, accessible manner. Each selection is preceded by an introduction that identifies the author and provide...
|  | Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
Publication Date: March 13, 2012Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological, physical, and social processes. They describe the coming out process and its effect on family and friends, the relationship between sexual orientation, and gender and the differences between transsexualism and lesser-known types of transgenderism. The volume ...
|  | Far More Precious than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women (Gender & the Biblical Tradition)
Release Date: September 1, 1991| Series: Gender & the Biblical Tradition Using interpretation from modern critical scholars, rabbis, and feminist scholars, Katheryn Darr offers a fascinating book that provides new ways of understanding the stories of four biblical women. The author studies Ruth, a foreigner from Moab who became the ancestor of Israel's King David; Sarah, who lost hope of bearing a child yet she became the mother of Isaac and the entire Hebrew nation; Hagar, who was mistreated by Sarah, her boss, yet survived under persecution; and Esther, a Jewish queen of Persia who preserv...
|  | Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
Publication Date: August 25, 2001First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag. ...
|  | The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
Publication Date: August 3, 1995In the autumn of 1834, New York City was awash with rumors of a strange religious cult operating nearby, centered around a mysterious, self-styled prophet named Matthias.It was said that Matthias the Prophet was stealing money from one of his followers; then came reports of lascivious sexual relations, based on odd teachings of matched spirits, apostolic priesthoods, and the inferiority of women.At its climax, the rumors transformed into legal charges, as the Prophet was arrested for the murder of a once highly-regarded Christian gentleman who had fallen under...
|  | The Torah: A Women's Commentary
Publication Date: December 10, 2007| ISBN-10: 0807410810 | ISBN-13: 978-0807410813"The five daughters of Zelophehad in the Book of Numbers approach Moses, the leaders of the people, and the entire community. They draw near because they see a problem that needs a solution: they have not been given an inheritance that they believe is due to them. They refuse to be left out and demand their rightful share. And so they dare speak to Moses, the priest Eleazar, all the other leaders, and the entire edah (congregation or formally constituted assembly). They say: 'Give us a holding among our...
|  | The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
Publication Date: October 17, 2008"A modern classic....Thrilling andconstantly illuminating."—Michael Dirda,Washington Post Book WorldThrough a distinguished career of criticalscholarship and translation, Robert Alter hasequipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as apowerful, cohesive work of literature. In thislandmark work, Alter's masterly translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporaryreaders the definitive edition of The FiveBooks. Winner of the PEN Center USALiterary Award for Translation and the KoretJewish Book Award for Translation, aNewsweek Top 15 Book, Los Angel...
|  | Iberia
Release Date: October 12, 1984"Massive, beautiful...Unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain...The best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject...Stunning...Memorable."THE WALL STREET JOURNALHere, in the fresh, vivid prose that is James Michener's trademark, is the real Spain as he experiences it. He not only reveals the celebrated Spain of bullfights and warror kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards; he also shares the intimate, often hidden Spain he has come to know, where toiling peasants and their honest food, the salt of the shores and the oranges ...
|  | Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV
Publication Date: October 19, 2010Nearly every night on every major network, “unscripted” (but carefully crafted) “reality” TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. She deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple “guilty pleasures,” these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and sign...
|  | Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 31, 2009| ISBN-10: 0199552401 | ISBN-13: 978-0199552405Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy--later made into a six-partTV series--has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca's dialogues and essays in print, capturing the full range of his philosophical interests. Here the Stoic philosopher outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote exercises in practical philosophy that draw upon contempora...
|  | The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Publication Date: April 23, 1987| ISBN-10: 0195049969 | ISBN-13: 978-0195049961| Edition: 1 Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles.The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by A...
|  | Phaedrus (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: December 27, 2005| ISBN-10: 0140449744 | ISBN-13: 978-0140449747| Edition: Revised One of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works, Phaedrus takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an amateur rhetorical enthusiast, on the topic of passionate or romantic love. Concerned with establishing principles of rhetoric, it argues that rhetoric is only acceptable as an art when it is firmly based on the truth inspired by love, the common experience of true philosophic activity. It is in this dialogue that Plato employs the famous image of love as the driver ...
|  | Theatre/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
Release Date: November 1, 2003(Applause Books). Available for the First Time in Paperback! From Aristotle'sPoeticsto Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work,Theatre/Theory/Theatre , collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers whose ideas about theatre continue to shape its future. In complete texts and choice excerpts spanning centuries, we see an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas between actors and directors like Craig an...
|  | How to Read a Play
Publication Date: August 4, 1999How to Read a Play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; it has been a classic among actors, directors, and writers for the past twenty years. Now fully updated and revised, the book devotes a chapter exclusively to screenplays, noting the intrinsic differences between a screenplay and a playscript and thus bringing this invaluable classic up to date. ...
|  | Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition (Mark Twain Papers)
Publication Date: March 26, 2012| Series: Mark Twain Papers The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life's work of America's favorite author.This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the h...
|  | Folk and Fairy Tales, fourth edition: An Introductory Anthology
Publication Date: October 28, 2008| ISBN-10: 155111898X | ISBN-13: 978-1551118987| Edition: 4 This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. An accessible section of critical selections provides a foundation for readers to analyze, debate, and interpret the tales for themselves. An expanded introduction by the editors looks at the history of folk and fairy tales and disting...
|  | The Anthology of Rap
Publication Date: September 13, 2011From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the Billboard charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. In "The Anthology of Rap", editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois demonstrate that rap is also a wide-reaching and vital poetic tradition born of beats and rhymes. This pioneering anthology brings together more than three hundred lyrics written over thirty years, from the 'old school' to the 'golden age' to the present day. Rather than aim for encyclopaedic coverage, Bradley and DuBois render through exam...
|  | The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Bantam Classics)
Release Date: March 1, 1981Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period f...
|  | The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present (Translation/Transnation)
Publication Date: August 3, 2009| ISBN-10: 0691132852 | ISBN-13: 978-0691132853As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities. The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging anthology of classic essays and important recent statements on the mission and methods of comparative literary studies. This pioneering collection brings together thirty-two pieces, from foundational statements by Herder, Madame de Staël, and Nietzsche ...
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