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Humanities
Between Languages and Cultures Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 374
ISBN: 9780822955412
Pub Date: 15 Jan 1996
Description:
Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice, influenced also by social and political imperatives, which can open more doors than it closes. The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.
Mad River Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9780822955702
Pub Date: 04 Jan 1996
Description:
Winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Winner of the 2000 Creative Achievement Award from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust "In every poem, she keeps her fury contained, but omnipresent, so that it resembles a cornered dog’s warning growl, yet she hints of happier possibilities."—Booklist
Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 584
ISBN: 9780822955351
Pub Date: 04 Jan 1996
Description:
This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.
Selected Poetry, 1937–1990 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 214
ISBN: 9780819522313
Pub Date: 01 Jan 1996
Description:
This bilingual anthology brings together a representative selection from more than a half century of this distinguished Brazilian poet's lifetime work. Along with previously translated poems are many others in English for the first time. The remarkable group of poets and translators includes Elizabeth Bishop, Alastair Reid, Galway Kinnell, Louis Simpson, and W.
The Carriage Stone Cover The Carriage Stone Cover
Format: 
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780802313058
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1995
Imprint: Dufour Editions
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780802313096
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1995
Imprint: Dufour Editions
Description:
The first appearance in English of this finely wrought novel by Norwegian writer Holmebakk (1922-81) exploring the fundamental tensions between life and death that perhaps only love and hope can palliate. Two middle-aged men, retired Lutheran pastor Eilif Grotteland and Olav Klungland, a novelist and active communist, meet by accident outside a hospital. Olav has just visited a dying comrade, and Eilif is admitting his terminally ill wife, but these obvious reminders of death are mere introductions to the spiritual concerns that preoccupy both men.
The Family Scalpel Cover The Family Scalpel Cover
Format: 
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780802313072
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1995
Imprint: Dufour Editions
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780802313089
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1995
Imprint: Dufour Editions
Description:
"Deep in international intrigue… A gripping story..
Refiguring Authority Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780813119229
Pub Date: 14 Dec 1995
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Description:
In this wide-ranging study E. Michael Gerli shows how Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one another -- glossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against one another -- while playing sophisticated games of literary one-upmanship.The result was that literature in late Renaissance Spain was often more than a simple matter of source and imitation.

The History of Sir George Ellison

The History of Sir George Ellison Cover
Format: 
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813119380
Pub Date: 16 Nov 1995
Series: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813108490
Pub Date: 16 Nov 1995
Series: Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
Description:
The History of Sir George Ellison (1766) is an important novel, both utopian and dystopian. Sir George, a man of benevolence, follows the pattern of the female utopia set forth in Scott's first novel, A Description of Millenium Hall (1762). In this sequel, Scott addresses issues of slavery, marriage, education, law and social justice, class pretensions, and the position of women in society, consistently emphasizing the importance, for both genders and all classes and ages, of devoting one's life to meaningful work.
Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780813119397
Pub Date: 09 Nov 1995
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend.
The Irish Question Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780813108551
Pub Date: 09 Nov 1995
Illustrations: 1 map
Description:
From 1800 to 1922 the Irish Question was the most emotional and divisive issue in British politics. It pitted Westminster politicians, anti-Catholic British public opinion, and Irish Protestant and Presbyterian champions of the Union against the determination of Ireland's large Catholic majority to obtain civil rights, economic justice, and cultural and political independence.In this completely revised and updated edition of The Irish Question, Lawrence J.
The Land Beyond the Mountains Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813108483
Pub Date: 19 Oct 1995
Description:
In her fourth novel of the Kentucky frontier, Giles combines her fascination for the past with her gift for storytelling.Had it not been for the loyalty of men like Giles's fictional hero, Major Cassius Cartwright, General James Wilkinson's 1783 attempt to create a Spanish empire in the West might have succeeded. Interwoven with the Spanish Conspiracy are tales of struggles with Indians, of the birth of a Green River Valley town, and of the two women Cass loves: Rachel, a gentle Quaker, and Tattie, a fiery waif he rescues from Philadelphia slums.
Dangerous Men Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780822962496
Pub Date: 15 Oct 1995
Series: Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Description:
Geoffrey Becker’s Dangerous Men was selected by Charles Baxter as the winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His manuscript was selected from nearly three hundred submitted by published writers.In these tightly drafted stories, Becker creates a wide variety of distinct voices, peculiar characters, and odd stettings, with tantalizing emphasis on lonliness, loss, and the ever-present struggle to find one’s place in the world.
The Emergence of Standard English Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780813108520
Pub Date: 12 Oct 1995
Illustrations: tables
Description:
Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces.
Women Editing Modernism Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813108544
Pub Date: 12 Oct 1995
Illustrations: illus
Description:
For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as "little" magazines were the key to recognition. Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, and scores of other iconoclastic writers now considered central to modernism received little encouragement from the established publishers. It was the avant-garde magazines, many of them headed by women, that fostered new talent and found a readership for it.
Labyrinths Of Literacy, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780822955627
Pub Date: 14 Sep 1995
Description:
A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Literacy offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.
Alcools Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 185
ISBN: 9780819512284
Pub Date: 25 Aug 1995
Description:
Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity. Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no New York School of poetry and no Beat Movement.