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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPREFACETRANSLATOR'S NOTETHE NEW LIFEAN ESSAY ON THE VITA NUOVAI. PATTERNSII. APSPECTSIII. GROWTHNOTES ON THE ESSAY

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Book SynopsisThe sixties began optimistically, with Americans full of hope and expectation, voting to support a new, young, charismatic leader who promised to move America forward. Tragically, something went wrong. Instead of finding its Utopia, America became a country struggling desperately to escape its Armageddon. President Kennedy's New Frontier fell far short of its promise in tangible domestic legislation and his foreign policy decisions pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust, while President Johnson's dream of a Great Society foundered in the quicksand of the Vietnam war. This revealing history of the Kennedy-Johnson years begins with the presidential primaries of 1960 and concludes with Johnson's final weeks as a lame duck President. An expert and objective history of an exciting periodits social, cultural, and economic facets as well as its political developments.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Role of the Reader I. Open 1. The Poetics of the Open Work 2. The Semantics of Metaphor 3. On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Messages in an Edenic Language II. Closed 4. The Myth of Superman 5. Rhetoric and Ideology in Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris 6. Narrative Structures in Fleming III. Open/Closed 7. Peirce and the Semiotic Foundations of Openness: Signs as Texts and Texts as Signs 8. Lector in Fabula: Pragmatic Strategy in a Metanarrative Text Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography

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Book Synopsis...reexamines our notions of the nature of reality by studying the ritual postures of native art assumed by her subjects during trance states.Trade Review"The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures." - Theological Book Review " ... a case study in experiential anthropology that offers a unique mix of autobiography, mythology, experiential research, and archaeological data to support a challenging thesis that certain body postures may help induce specific trance states." - Shaman's Drum "This is a spellbinding and exceptionally readable book by an extraordinary woman." - Yoga Journal "And suddenly the understanding of my own vision washed over me like a mighty wave ... For life or for death, I was committed to that mighty realm of which I was shown a brief reminder, the world where all was forever motion and emergence, that realm where the spirits ride the wind." --from the PrologueTable of ContentsPrologueI. The Search for the SpiritsOne: The Call of the Old PeopleTwo: Getting in Touch with the Spirits: The First DiscoveriesThree: The Old Ones RememberFour: A New Path OpensFive: The Way of the SpiritsII. The Postures and What They Have to OfferSix: Going on a Spirit JourneySeven: The Many Faces of DivinationEight: The Gift of HealingNine: Female Powers of HealingTen: Changing Shape-The Shimmering GameEleven: CelebrationsTwelve: The Pit of Death and the PsychopompThirteen: Life EverlastingIII. Myths of the Eternal PresentIntroductionThe Emergence StoryCoyote Comes CallingThe Man of CuautlaA Maya WhistleThe Story of Kats and His Bear WifeThe Spirits and the Wounded Tree of LifeIn the Land of Centaurs and MermaidsConclusion: THe Twlight of the SpiritsAppendix: Some Practical PointsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the principles of performing the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries as revealed in a variety of historical sourcesTrade Review"... is and will remain unsurpassed as 'the study' dealing with performance practice as it pertains to keyboard music of the Classical period." American Music Teacher "Rosenblum's monumental achievement is thorough, objective, balanced, and imaginative, a compelling blend of love and respect for the solo, chamber, and concerto literature she addresses." Journal of Musicological Research "The extent and quality of her research, the depth of her perception, and her musicianship together break new ground in the study of historic performance practice." Early Keyboard Journal "Her attention to details is absolutely scrupulous; no stone unturned, no argument unquestioned or unstated." The Musical Times "Its importance to thoughtful musicians cannot be overstated." Choice " ... thoroughly musicological." Performance Practice Review " ... indispensable ... " New York TimesTable of ContentsForeword by Malcolm BilsonPreface: About Performance PracticesAcknowledgmentsSources of FiguresIntroduction: Using this BookAbbreviationsI. Background for the StudyII. The Fortepiano circa 1780-1820III. Dynamics and AccentuationIV. Use of the PedalsV. Articulation and TouchVI. Historical Technique and FingeringVII. OrnamentsVIII. "Mixed Meters" and Dotted RhythmsIX. Choice of TempoX. Flexibility of Rhythm and TempoXI. Performing Beethoven's Bagatelle Op. 126, No. 5NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefacePart One: Sixteen CowriesChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Divination VersesChapter 3 The System of BeliefPart Two: The Verses of Sixteen CowriesChapter 4 Eji Ogbe 8 cowriesChapter 5 Ofun 10 cowriesChapter 6 Osa 9 cowriesChapter 7 Okanran 1 cowreyChapter 8 Eji Oko 2 cowriesChapter 9 Irosun 4 cowriesChapter 10 Ose 5 cowriesChapter 11 Ogunda 3 cowriesChapter 12 Obara 6 cowriesChapter 13 Odi 7 cowriesChapter 14 Owonrin 11 cowriesChapter 15 Ejila Sebora 12 cowriesChapter 16 Ika 13 cowriesChapter 17 Oturupon 14 cowriesChapter 18 Ofun Kanran 15 cowriesChapter 19 Irete 16 cowriesChapter 20 Opira 0 cowriesAppendixReferences Citeds

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Book SynopsisA polemical anthology of criticism that seeks to redraw the boundaries of the study of romanticism and question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centring on these concernsTrade Review" ... provocative insights." --Nineteenth-Century Literature "... a series of well researched and persuasive essays examining what has been traditionally excluded from the Romantic literary canon: the feminine, the domestic, the local, collective, sentimental and novelistic." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter "... a contribution of real quality to ongoing debates." --British Journal for 18th Century StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Wordsworth and Romanticism in the Academy: John Rieder2. Climbing Parnassus, and Falling Off: Peter T. Murphy3. A Home for Art: Painting, Poetry and Domestic InteriorsMary A. Favret4. A Voice from across the Sea: Communitarianism at the Limits of RomanticismAnne Janowitz5. The Uneducated Imagination: Romantic Representations of LaborKurt Heinzelman6. Sexual Politics and Literary History: William Hazlitt's Keswick Escapade and sarah Hazlitt's JournalSonia Hofkosh7. Why Should I Wish for Works?: Literacy, Articulation, and the Borders of Literary CultureLucinda Cole and Richard G. Swartz8. History, Imperialism, and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Hemans and the Post-Napoleonic MomentNanora Sweet9. Trans-figuring Byronic IdenityNicola J. Watson10. Butchering James Hogg: Romantic Identity in the Magazine MarketMark L. Schoenfield11. An Embarrassing Subject: Use Value and Exchange Value in Early Gothic CharacterizationAndera Henderson12. Liquidating the Sublime: Gossip in Scott's Novels Jan B. Gordon13. Romantic Criticism: The State of the ArtMarjorie LevinsonNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisCovers the field of semiotics from Aesthetics to Zoosemiotics. This work contains sixty-five encyclopedic articles, a consolidated bibliography of almost 3,000 titles, an index of names, and an index of terms. It is intended for those who desire a comprehensive survey of this diverse field.Table of ContentsHistory and Classics of Modern SemioticsSign and MeaningSign — Meaning, Sense, and Reference — Semantics and Semiotics — Topology of Signs: Sign, Signal, Index — Symbol — Icon and Iconicity — Metaphor — InformationSemiosis, Code, and the Semiotic FieldZoosemiotics, Ethology, and Semiogenesis — Communication and Semiosis — Function — Magic — Structure — System — Code — TeachingLanguage and Language-Based CodesVerbal Communication: Introduction — Language in a Semiotic Frame — Arbitrariness and Motivation: The Language Sign — Paralanguage — Writing — Universal Language — Sign Language — Language SubstitutesFrom Structuralism to Text Semiotics: Schools and Major FiguresIntroduction — Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Neostructuralism — Russian Formalism, Prague School, Soviet Semiotics — Barthes's Text Semiotics — Greimas"s Structural Semantics and Text Semiotic Project — Kristeva's Semanalysis — EcoText Semiotics: The FieldText Semiotics: Introduction — Hermeneutics and Exegesis — Rhetoric and Stylistics — Literature — Poetry and Poeticalness — Theater and Drama — Narrative — Myth — Ideology — TheologyNonverbal CommunicationNonverbal Communication: Introduction — Gesture, "Body Language," and Kinesics — Facial Signs — Gaze — Tactile Communication — Proxemics: The Semiotics of Space — Chronemics: The Semiotics of TimeAesthetics and Visual CommunicationAesthetics — Music — Architecture — Objects — Image — Painting — Photography — Film — Comics — Advertising

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Book SynopsisReprint of a classic work in folklore and literature by a famous scholar.Trade Review"This is an extraordinary book." Progress in Human Geography "... fresh and fascinating." Come-All-Ye " ... an extraordinarily rich and rewarding book... it is about the effort of one man to find for himself and us the life's breath of the people of Ballymenone... It is certainly a remarkable tour de force." Emmet Larkin, New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsPrefacePart One: A Territory of Wits1. Crossing Drumbargy Brae2. Silence, Speech, Story, SongPart Two: Saint Febor, Black Francis, and the Performance of History3. Ceili at Flanagans'4. The Next Day5. Late HarvestPart Three: Saints6. Sacred Beginnings7. Saints at WarPart Four: Battles8. The Ford9. Mackan Hill10. The Band11. Saints at WorkPart Five: Working the Land12. Plans and Snags13. Home14. Clay15. Moss16. BogPart Six: Patterns of Historical Action17. The Man Who Would not Carry Hay18. The Days of the Landlords19. The FaminePart Seven: Enough and a Little Bit More20. Butter21. BrickPart Eight: A Place on The Holy Land22. Humanity23. Society24. Space25. Time26. LifePart Nine: The Topography of Past Time27. Ballymenone's Terrain28. A Chronicle29. Culture30. History31. The Idea of Placepart Ten: Stars32. The Star's Nature33. QuietNotesSourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn invaluable resource on the pronunciation of historic European languages for singers, scholars, actors, and readers of early music and literature With CDTrade Review"... it certainly belongs in every institutional library and among the holdings of all those interested in any way in early music and literature. Singing Early Music is a pioneering work of surpassing quality that can not be too highly recommended." Journal of Singing "Commendable in its scholarship, this sturdily bound book should prove of interest to linguists, medievalists, and Renaissance academicians, as well as to fastidious performers of early music." Choice "This book ... addresses the needs of the performer directly, giving historical pronunciation for a range of languages, sample texts, and just enough explanation of how we know... " Early Music "... required study for any musician venturing seriously into the performance of early Western European vocal music." Notes "I highly recommend this book for singers and teachers of early music eager to add an extra dimension to their singing." European Journal of Early MusicTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsHow to Use This GuideCommon Abbreviations1. Introduction Phonetics, David N. Klausner Overview of European Languages, A. G. Rigg Latin, A. G. RiggBritain2. English, David N. Klausner Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts3. Sixteenth-Century Scots, David N. Klausner Sample Texts4. Anglo-Latin, A. G. Rigg Diachronic Sound Chart Sample TextsFrance5. Old French, Robert Taylor Diachronic Sound Chart Picard Sounds (Typical Picard Sounds) Sample Texts6. French Latin, Harold Copeman Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts7. Occitan, Robert Taylor Sample TextsIberian Peninsula8. Catalan, Beata FitzPatrick Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts9. Spanish (Castilian), James F. Burke Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts10. Spanish Latin, Harold Copeman Sample Texts11. Galician-Portuguese, Joseph T. Snow and James Burke Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts12. Portuguese Latin, Harold Copeman Sample TextsItaly13. Italian, Gianrenzo Clivio Sample Texts14. Italian Latin, harold Copeman Sample TextsGermany and the Low Countries15. Middle High German, Peter Frenzel Sample Texts16. Late Medieval German and Early New High German, Peter Frenzel Diachronic Sound Chart Sample Texts17. German Latin, Harold Copeman and Vera U. G. Scherr Sample Texts18. Flemish (Dutch), William Z. Shetter Sample Texts19. Netherlands Latin, harold Copeman Sample TextsGlossaryIndex to Compact DiskContributorsPhonetic Chart, David N. Klausner

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Book SynopsisPresents an account of the religious dimension of Jacques Derrida's thought.Trade Review"... the most thorough and illuminating study to date of the decisive role played by the religious within Jacques Derrida's writings." Journal of Religion "The question of the relation between Derrida and religion has gradually been attracting attention. Caputo ... offers us here what may be the definitive study of this issue... Highly recommended." Choice "The book is a feast of wordplay, but it is wordplay the mind can feed on... a landmark publication." --Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Caputo's book is riveting... A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis... There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work." -- Edith Wyschogrod "No one interested in Derrida, in Caputo, or in the larger question of postmodernism and religion can afford to ignore this pathbreaking study. Taking full advantage of the most recent and least discussed writings of Derrida, it offers a careful and comprehensive account of the religious dimension of Derrida's thought." -- Merold WestphalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: A Passion for the ImpossibleA Map for the PerplexedI. The Apophatic1. God Is Not différance2. Dreaming the Impossible Dream: Derrida and Levinas on the Impossible3. Affirmation at the Limits: How Not to Speak4. Save the Name: Wholly Other Towards a General Apophatics Edifying Divertissement No. 1. Bedeviling FaithII. The Apocalyptic5. Viens!6. Messianic Time: Derrida and Blanchot7. An Apocalypse sans Apocalypse, To Jacques of El Biar8. The Secret Edifying Divertissement No. 2. From Elea to Elohim: God of the Same, God of the OtherIII. The messianic9. Of Marx and the Messiah10. Messianic Passion and the Religion of Saint Jacques11. Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone (Almost)IV. The Gift12. The Time of Giving and Forgiving Edifying Divertissement No. 3. Traditions and the World-Play13. Abraham's Gift14. Abraham and the Pharisees Edifying Divertissement No. 4. Deconstruction and the Kingdom of GodV. Circumcision15. Hegel and the Jews Edifying Divertissement No. 5. Deferring Incarnation—and Jesus the Jew16. Circumcision17. Is Deconstruction Really a Jewish science?VI. Confession18. The Son of These Tears: The Confession of Jacques de la Rue-Augustin Edifying Divertissement No. 6. A Prayer19. These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears: The Faith of Jacques DerridaConclusion: A Passion for GodBibliography on Derrida and Religion

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Book SynopsisArgues that not only our thought is governed by an imperative, as Kant had maintained, but, rather, our sensual, sensing, perceiving, and emotional life is continually regulated by imperatives that come to us from the world around us.Trade Review"... a more compelling reading of Kant than any I have ever seen." - David Farrell KrellTable of ContentsPreface Part One. Directives 1. Nightwatch 2. The Elements 3. The Levels 4. The Intimate and the Alien 5. Things 6. Intimate and Alien Things 7. Action with Things 8. The Production of Purposes 9. The Pageantry of Things 10. Phantom Equator 11. The Reasons of the Heart 12. Other Passions 13. Face to Face 14. Association 15. Erotic Demands 16. The Summons of Death 17. The Death of Strangers 18. The Walkabout 19. Importance, Urgency, Immediacy Part Two The Imperative 20. Images of the Imperative 21. The Theoretical and Practical Uses of Reason 22. The Rational and the Required

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Book SynopsisFrom 1861 to 1865, the region along the Missouri-Kansas border was the scene of unbelievable death and destruction. This book presents a report of life in this merciless guerrilla war. It features bushwhackers and jayhawkers, soldiers and civilians, scouts, spies, runaway slaves, the generals and the guerrillas, who describe their ordeals.Table of ContentsPrologue: May 24, 1856 1. The Prairies Ablaze 2. The Besom of Destruction 3. One Desperate Man 4. Fighting the Devil 5. Black Harvest 6. The Lot Was Cast 7. Lawrence 8. Order No. 11 9. A Most Fearful Sight10. With a Heavy Heart11. Rider on a Pale Horse12. A Land without Pity13. At War with PeaceBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisConsists of 30 essays, most of them written by Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian scholars. The essays herein reflect a multiplicity of projects, ranging from explicitly national issues to quite "universal" themes such as signs of media, cinema, music, writing, actoriality, gastronomy, mental illness, language, habitus, distinction, and more.Table of ContentsForeword - Eero TarastiGeneralitiesMy 'Short Happy Life' in Finno-Ugric Studies - Thomas A. SebeokSketch of a Finno-Ugric Semiotic - Vilmos VoigtMetaphysical Contemplations — Finland and Eastern Thought - Henri BromsSwedish-speaking Finns Between East and West - Henri BromsA Mediator Between Russia and the West: V. Sesemann as Philosopher and Semiotician - Thorsten Botz-BornsteinFrom Philosophy to CultureOntological Nihilism, or The Meaning of the So-called Finnish Passive Construction - Pauli PylkkoText and Intelligence - Kristian BankovPierce, Rantala, and Theological Semiotics - Heikki KirjavainenLa neige et le silence - Matthieu GuillotFinland Among the Paradigms of National Anthems - Eero TarastiInvasion as an Object of Semiotics: Representing Invasion — Creating Invasion - Anti RandviirCultural Arbitrariness and Linguistic Bias - Niilo KauppiApproaches to Media Semiotics: Journalism in Social Context - Maarja Parl LohmusEthnofuturism in Udmurtia - Viktor ShibanovSigns in Human BehaviorEthnic Identity in the Light of an Ancient Myth: Psychoanalytic and Semiotic Interpretations of the Finnish Kullervo-Legend - Heikki MajavaSigns and Meanings in Education - Tuomo JamsaInside Out — From Verbal Imagery and Inner Voice to Verbal Hallucinations - Hannu LauermaArts I: MusicEthnomusicology and Media Reality - Erkki PekkilaMusic as Narrative Discourse - Anne Sivuoja-GunaratnamJean Sibelius as an Icon of the Finns and Others: An Essay in Post-colonial Analysis - Eero TarastiArts II: Theater and CinemaFilm and Reality - Ilkka NiiniluotoActors as Characters, Characters as Actors in Audiovisual Fiction - Henry BaconThe Signs of the Player: A Solution - Kari SalosaariArts III: Literature and Verbal SignsProblems of Reference in Description - Harri VeivoThe Lure of Etymology in the Poetry and Prose of Pentti Saarikoski - Hannu RiikonenRebellious Words: Avant-garde Literature and Theories of Formalism to Post-structuralism - Sinikka TuohimaaThe Kanteletar as Poetic Text and Discourse in the Semiotics of Culture - Pirjo KukkonenThe Poetic Legacy of the Eighties: In the Home of Human Voices and Touches - Immo PekkarinenSigns Between - Erja HannulaArts IV: GastronomyOn Culinemes, Gastrophemes, and Other Signs of Cooking

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Book SynopsisExamines "masked" lesbian representation in Hollywood cinemaTrade ReviewWhite (Swarthmore College) seeks traces of lesbian desire and difference in the films of the classic era. Since the Production Code forbade even the slightest hint of sexual deviancy, White must engage in a great deal of what she calls retrospectatorship, with somewhat mixed results. She begins by discussing the Code itself; moves on to a discussion of star personae (e.g., Davis, Hepburn, Dietrich, Garbo), the gothic/horror film and maternal melodrama, overt lesbian overtones among supporting players such as McDaniel, Waters, Fitter, McCambridge, and—especially—Moorehead; and closes with a chapter on retrospectatorship. She draws on all of the major figures in feminist film theory, if only to chastise them for ignoring the lesbian spectator. Since White covers much of the same ground that Mary Ann Doane does in The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Films of the 1940s (CH, Oct'87), she is particularly concerned with correcting Doane's omissions. White writes with considerable flair, and her arguments are always interesting, if not always fully convincing. A useful addition to studies of spectatorship in and of the classic era. Upper—division undergraduates through professionals. -- W. A. Vincent * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Reading the Code(s) Chapter 2: Lesbian CinephiliaChapter 3: Female Spectator, Lesbian SpectatorChapter 4: Films for Girls: Lesbian Sentiment and the Maternal MelodramaChapter 5: Supporting "Character"Chapter 6: On RetrospectatorshipNotesWorks CitedIndex

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