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Walt Whitman - American Writers 9 was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

William Faulkner - American Writers 3 was first published in 1959. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

How we respond to pain, what we think about it, what we say, and what we do, is the focus of this work. It discusses biomedical responses, surgical interventions, pharmacology and positions that embrace pain. Each section includes analyses, poetic and literary texts, and discussions by activists.

This work is a critical look at the cultural politics behind the quest for a cure for aids.

Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Roman Jakobson, one of the most important thinkers of our century, was bet known for his role in the rise and spread of the structural approach to linguistics and literature. His formative structuralism approach to linguistics and literature. His formative years with the Russian Futurists and subsequent involvement in the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles (which he co-founded) resulted in a lifelong devotion to fundamental change in both literary theory and linguistics. In bringing each to bear upon the other, he enlivened both disciplines; if a literary work was to a him a linguistic fact, it was also a semiotic phenomenon - part of the entire universe of signs; and above all, for both language and literature, time was an integral factor, one that produced momentum and change. Jakobson''s books and articles, written in many languages and published around the world, were collected in a monumental seven-volume work, Selected Writings (1962 -1984), which has been available only to a limited readership. Not long before his death in 1982, Jakobson brought together this group of eleven essays—Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time — to serve as an introduction to some of his linguistic theories and especially, to his work in poetics. Jakobson''s introductory article and the editor''s preface together suggest the range of his work and provide a context for the essays in this book, which fall into three groups. Those in the first section reflect his preoccupation with the dynamic role of time in language and society. Jakobson challenges Saussure''s rigid distinction between language as a static (synchronic) system and its historical (diachronic) development - a false opposition, in his view, since it ignores the role of time in the present moment of language. The essays on time counter the notion that structuralism itself, as heir to Saussure''s work, has discarded history; in Jakabson''s hands, we see a struggle to integrate the two modes. In central group essays, on poetic theory, he shows how the grammatical categories of everyday speech become the expressive, highly charged language of poetry. These essays also deal with the related issues of subliminal and intentional linguistic patterns of poetry. These essays also deal with the related issues of subliminal and intentional linguistic patterns in poetry—areas that are problematic in structural analysis—and provide exemplary readings of Pushkin and Yeats. The last essays, on Mayakovsky and Holderlin, make clear that Jakobson was aware of the essential (and in these instances, tragic) bond between a poet''s life and art. The book closes with essays by Linda Waugh, Krystyna Pomorska, and Igor Melchuk that provide a thoughtful perspective on Jakobson''s work as a whole.

In this critique, the author demonstrates the failure of international law to address the issues surrounding African self-determination during decolonization. The volume uses the case of Namibia to illuminate the general context of Africa.

The writing or reading or buying or selling or judging of a written work is always at the same the act of making a place - or making places. This text develops a geography of this process, a theory of the nature of space and places in written work.

Addressing issues of the global integration of surveillance, social control, new information technologies, privacy violation and protection, and workplace surveillance, this work examines the ramifications of these concerns for society today.

Leaving their depleted fields for better prospects, Senegalese immigrants have made their way to Italy in significant numbers. What this migration means, in the context of both the migratory traditions and conditions of Africa, and the history and future of the European nation-state, is the subject of this timely study. Illustrated.

The essays in this book focus on contested memories in relation to time and space. These ethnographic studies explore fundamental questions about the nature of memory, the limits of politics, and the complex links between them.

Additions to this third edition include a comparison of freshwater basin wetlands with swamps, tidal marsh, and other wetlands; expanded information on wetland evaluation, mitigation, and restoration; and a new glossary of current wetland terminology.

This volume features original essays which combine feminism and Bakhtin by interpreting texts through these two perspectives, to arrive at new theoretical approaches. Together, the essays point to a direction that would lead to a feminine "etre" rather than a feminine "ecriture".

Reveals that James Joyce's "Ulysses" can be seen as a guerrilla text written to resist colonialism.

Scott's investigation of "Yaktovil" within the Sri Lankan Sinhala cosmology, also inquires into the ways in which anthropology (ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions and relationships it seeks to describe) tends to reproduce ideological, often specifically colonial, objects.

Offers perspectives and subjects largely outside traditional historiography. This book broadens the concept of media history to include lesser-studied media, and offers alternative interpretations of traditional media.

In this sequel to her last book "Developing Variations", Rose Rosengard Subotnik continues her work on musicology. Her concerns are both formal and sociological, linking music to social and cultural contexts and breaking down the barriers between music and life.

For Clarice Lispector, narrative demands a victim, and Marta Peixoto details the dynamics of victimization that her writing describes. By the end of this study, we are left with a sense of Lispector's work which is less comfortable but infinitely more complicated and interesting.

Jenny Sharpe brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction. She introduces race and colonialism to feminist theories of rape and sexual difference.

Ours is an era of dramatic changes in basic social relationships, changes we usually negotiate without thinking about them in any systematic way. In this study, the author sets out to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the complicated social transformations of our day.

The Medieval Castle was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Looks at the domains of inquiry we call "science" and "technology" to assert that traditional perspectives (like classical idealism and materialism) fail to suggest the rich and complex interplay between them.

Based on detailed research, this book defends UNESCO and chronicles the history of the organization and the Reagan administration's alleged disinformation campaign against it.

A critique of high modernism from a newly formulated Marxist perspective, achieved through analyses of texts by Marx and Adorno, Manet's paintings, and the works of several Latin American writers.

Using a wide range of examples, Cottom argues for the necessity of multiple readings of text and culture, and against the repression of historical differences, conflicts, and possibilities.

A study of American women's humorous writing which proposes that the American literary tradition be redefined to include women's humour as well as men's. The book is an exploration of relationships between cultural realities and women's humorous responses to those realities.