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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Being before God
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Penn State University American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
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Penn State University Arguments from Ignorance
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Site of the Social
Book SynopsisInspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social life.Trade Review“Professor Schatzki’s The Site of the Social picks up where his groundbreaking Social Practices leaves off. Where the latter provided a compelling picture of how we are constituted by our social practices, his new book offers an ontology of the social itself. By including extended discussions of diverse social groupings such as Shaker herb practice and day trading on Nasdaq, Schatzki sketches a clear and compelling picture of what the nature of the social consists in. Essentially, The Site of the Social constructs an ontology that captures many of the features of the work of Foucault and Deleuze in such a way as to put them in dialogue with contemporary sociologists, biologists, and political theorists in the English-speaking world.”—Todd May,Clemson University“This is a book that any fan of Foucault, Deleuze, or Bourdieu, or for that matter Giddens, and anyone interested in the problem of the relevance of Heidegger to social theory, will find challenging—and essential. Schatzki makes an impressive case for a social ontology centered on practices, and in the course of it rethinks and convincingly critiques the thought of many of the contributors to ‘practice theory’ while showing its centrality to twentieth-century thought. But this book is not merely a book about books: Schatzki deals with real human material in a novel way.”—Stephen Turner,University of South Florida“This book is top-notch philosophical scholarship.”—R. F. White CHOICE“This is a book that any fan of Foucault, Deleuze, or Bourdieu, or for that matter Giddens, and anyone interested in the problem of the relevance of Heidegger to social theory, will find challenging—and essential. Schatzki makes an impressive case for a social ontology centered on practices, and in the course of it rethinks and convincingly critiques the thought of many of the contributors to ‘practice theory’ while showing its centrality to twentieth-century thought. But this book is not merely a book about books: Schatzki deals with real human material in a novel way.”—Stephen Turner,University of South Florida“Schatzki’s ideas continue to affect my thinking on the layers of complexity that practices represent; for others committed to engaging in broader explorations of education as a social practice and challenging reductionist viewpoints, his theoretical tools provide the ontological foundations from which to begin.”—Geoffrey Lewis Educational Review
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Penn State University The Caribbean Legion Patriots Politicians Soldiers of Fortune 19461950
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Penn State University Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination
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Penn State University A Space for Science The Development of the Scientific Community in Brazil
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Penn State University TMI 25 Years Later The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact
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Penn State University Comrades and Commissars The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
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Penn State University Foucault and the Critique of Institutions Studies of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium
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Penn State University The Miners of Windber The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization 1890s1930s
Trade Review“Mildred Allen Beik's account of a Pennsylvania coal town in the first three decades of this century is a powerful story of repression and resistance. This is both an important historical story and a lesson that Americans should keep in mind as they debate the merits of unions and the dismantling of the welfare-state in the late twentieth century.”—John Bodnar,Indiana University
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Penn State University A Kingdom on Earth
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Penn State University Falckners Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania
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Penn State University Eldorado Found The Central Pennsylvania Highlands A Tourists Survey Metalmark
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Pennsylvania State University Press All About Process The Theory and Discourse of
Book SynopsisA study of the concept of artistic process in the Western tradition of the visual arts. Focuses on modern and contemporary art and analyzes the development of process as a discourse that increasingly locates the primary value of art in the artist’s creative labor. Trade Review“This book is essential for libraries supporting graduate programs in art history or curatorial studies and is recommended for schools of art and design.”—Ian McDermott ARLIS/NA Reviews“This is an elegant, clear text that will serve as an excellent primer for anyone interested in the histories of thinking about making and the artistic process. Art students as well as students of aesthetics and history of art will benefit from its careful, thoughtful synthesis of an array of complex, foundational texts pertaining to the theme of ‘process’ and making.”—Jo Applin,author of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field“All About Process brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and makes a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant’s book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life.”—Richard Shusterman,author of Thinking Through the Body: Essays in SomaestheticsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Process as ValueChapter One: Conceptualizing the Artist’s Labor Prior to the 19th CenturyChapter Two: Art, Craft, and Industrialization Nineteenth Century Philosophical and Theoretical Views of the Artist’s Process The Arts and Crafts Movement and Artistic Process Photography and Artistic ProcessChapter Three: The Artist’s Process from the Academic to the ModernChapter Four: New Conceptions of the Artist’s Process The Artist’s Labor in Time -- Series and Stages Modern Art and Industrial Processes – Purism Physicality and Matter – The Modern Artistic Process and the Artist’s MediumChapter Five: The Artist’s Process as a Means of Self-RealizationChapter Six: The Artist’s Process at Mid-Century Artistic Process and Amateur Artists Changes in Artists’ EducationChapter Seven: Art and Social ProcessesChapter Eight: Process Art Systems Aesthetics, Series, and Conceptualism The Artist’s Work and the Artist’s Role Process Art and Craft Artists’ Education and Process after 1960Chapter Nine: It’s All about the ProcessNotesBibliographyIndex
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Penn State University From Hysteria to Hormones
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Pennsylvania State University Press Titians Icons
Book SynopsisA reexamination of the career of Titian, the only Renaissance artist credited by contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Argues that a major part of the artist's legacy is to be found in his charismatic entrance into the tradition of Christian icon painting.Trade Review“An erudite study of Titian’s small-format paintings of biblical subjects. Through a careful analysis of this group of paintings, and with particular attention to the early modern conflicts between the traditions of devotional images and theorizations of art, Nygren’s book revises our understanding of Titian’s position in the history of early modern sacred art.”—Jodi Cranston,author of Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice“This searching and lucid study tactfully sets Titian’s art into contexts of Christian devotional traditions and reform thought, not to dress the artist in pious robes but to reveal Titian’s blazing pictorial intelligence at work at the very foundations of religious art.”—Alexander Nagel,author of Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time“In this groundbreaking investigation of Titian’s understudied small-scale religious paintings, Christopher Nygren convincingly demonstrates in his rich and erudite analysis that these were high-stakes painterly performances that prompted—even scripted—certain devotional responses from their sophisticated beholders. Provocatively referring to these polyvalent paintings as ‘icons,’ Nygren aligns Titian’s art with early modern understandings about miraculous agency, votive petition, vibrant matter, and spiritual comportment.”—Megan Holmes,author of The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence“This book deserves careful attention. It is as much a history of religion in Titian's time as it is a history of his paintings—specifically those that Nygren . . . calls icons, i.e., small, devotional, nontheatrical paintings with a tight focus on one or very few figures.”—J. T. Paoletti Choice“With its penetrating visual analysis and carefully conceived theoretical structure, this book makes a significant and innovative contribution not only to the field of Titian studies, but more broadly to the study of premodern visual culture.”—Giorgio Tagliaferro Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Titian, Charismatic Painter1. Icons and Agency: The San Rocco Christ Carrying the Cross2. Icons and Exegesis in Ferrara: Christ with the Coin and Judith/Salome3. Erasmian Icons: Visualizing the Philosophia Christi4. Icons and Community: Rome and the Network of Ecce Homos5. Rupestrian Icons: Ecce Homo on Slate, Mater Dolorosa on Marble, and the Matter of Devotion6. Explicit Icons: Historicity Between Tradition and Self7. The Twilight of the Icon? Titian’s Pietà in the Gallerie dell’AccademiaEpilogueNotesBibliographIndex
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Penn State University Pataphysics Unrolled
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Penn State University Spiritual Calculations
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Not Stated Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of
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Penn State University African American Artists and the New Deal Art
Book SynopsisThis book examines the involvement of African American artists in the New Deal art programs of the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed by the uniqueness of Black experience rather than individual artists' works, Mary Ann Calo makes the case that the revolutionary vision of these federal art projects is best understood in the context of access to opportunity, mediated by the reality of racial segregation. Focusing primarily on the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Calo documents African American artists' participation in community art centers in Harlem, in St. Louis, and throughout the South. She examines the internal workings of the Harlem Artists' Guild, the Guild's activities during the 1930s, and its alliances with other groups, such as the Artists' Union and the National Negro Congress. Calo also explores African American artists' representation in the exhibitions sponsored by WPA administrators and the critical reception of their work.
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Not Stated Debt and Redemption in the Blues
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Penn State University The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity 18301937
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Pennsylvania State University Press Saint George Between Empires
Book SynopsisExamines the image networks of St. George in the eastern Mediterranean, revealing how the different portrayals became central to Crusader, East Christian, and Islamic visual cultures.Trade Review“This panoramic volume follows the images of military saints across Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Crusader, Georgian, Islamic, Syriac, and many other fields of study usually held separate. Badamo ties together the fragmented political map of the later medieval eastern Mediterranean in unexpected ways that cause us to rethink broader questions of global art and history.”—Benjamin Anderson,Cornell University“Saint George Between Empires particularly excels in highlighting the importance of Saint George / al-Khiḍr in both Christian and Islamic contexts, and is by far the most all-encompassing study on this subject.”—Dr. Mat Immerzeel,Fellow International Studies, Leiden University
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Penn State University Maritime Animals
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Pennsylvania State University Press Aromas of Asia Exchanges Histories Threats
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the interconnections and disjunctures in Asian cultural histories of scent. Examines how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies.Trade Review“Aromas of Asia is very much at the cutting edge of the field. Many books on smell engage in a battle with the straw man of ‘smell-as-neglected’ and ‘the West as ocular-centric.’ This book has moved way beyond such simplicities, and through its varied methodologies and diverse topics we emerge with a number of fresh perspectives on smell in Asia.”—James McHugh,author of Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and CultureTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scents, Sensory Colonialism, and Social Worlds in AsiaGwyn McClelland and Hannah GouldPart I: Poetics and Philosophies1. On a Trail of Incense: Japan and Olfactory ThoughtLorenzo Marinucci2. The Shifting Smellscape of Early Medieval China: Emperor Wu’s Strange AromaticsPeter Romaskiewicz3. The Poetics of Incense in the Lives of Medieval Chinese OfficialsQian JiaPart II: Making Sensory Boundaries4. A Whiff of Southeast Asia: Tasting Durian and KopiGaik Cheng Khoo and Jean Duruz5. The Aroma of a Place in the Sunshine: Breathing in Japanese History Through the Fiction of Endō ShūsakuGwyn McClelland6. Words That Smell: Caste and Odors in Hindi Dalit AutobiographiesShivani Kapoor7. Love Is in the Air: A Study of Johnnie To’s Blind DetectiveAubrey TangPart III: Bodies–Life, Work, Death8. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Smell of Vulnerability in Lombok, IndonesiaSaki Tanada9. Harnessing the Stenches of Waste: Human Bodies as Olfactory Environmental Sensors in Contemporary ChinaAdam Liebman10. The Smell of a Corpse: Olfactory Culture in a Singaporean Funeral ParlorRuth E. ToulsonList of ContributorsIndex
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Penn State University Quaker Women 18001920
Book SynopsisThis collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century. New research illuminates the complexities of Quaker testimonies of equality, slavery, and peace and how they were informed by questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture. The essays in this volume challenge the view that Quaker women were always treated equally with men and that people of color were welcomed into white Quaker activities. The contributors explore how diverse groups of Quaker women navigated the intersection of their theological positions and social conventions, asking how they challenged and supported traditional ideals of gender, race, and class. In doing so, this volume highlights the complexity of nineteenth-century Quakerism and the ways Quaker women put their faith to bot
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Penn State University Enlightenment Anthropology
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Pennsylvania State University Press Actors Carved and Cast Netherlandish Sculpture
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Penn State University Speaking Words of Wisdom
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Penn State University Collective Courage A History of African American
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Penn State University A Tale of Two Surrogates A Graphic Narrative on
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Penn State University Democracy and the Politics of Silence
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Penn State University Love and Degradation Excessive Desires in
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Penn State University People of the Image
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Penn State University Father Chaucer and the Apologists
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Penn State University Iridescence and the Image
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Penn State University Enemies a Love Story
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Penn State University Facing Decay Beauty Aging and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe
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Penn State University Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza The Politics of an AngloSpanish Life
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Penn State University Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature
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University of Texas Press They Die Strangers
Book SynopsisA novella and thirteen short stories by this distinguished Yemeni writer, dealing with the common experiences of Yemenis like himself who are caught between cultures by the displacements of civil war or labor migration.Table of Contents Introduction The Land, Salma The Road to Asmara The Slap The Color of Rain The Saturday Market The Last Class Abu Rupee Nothing New Ya Khabiir A Woman China Road The Ghoul Brother, Are You Going to Fight Them All? They Die Strangers
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University of Texas Press The Memory of Bones Body Being and Experience
Book SynopsisThree leading experts offer a new, standard-setting interpretation of how the Classic Maya experienced and thought about the human body.Table of ContentsPreamble Chapter 1. The Classic Maya Body Chapter 2. Bodies and Portraits Chapter 3. Ingestion Chapter 4. Senses Chapter 5. Emotions Chapter 6. Dishonor Chapter 7. Words on Wings Chapter 8. Dance, Music, Masking Epilogue: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya Bibliography Inde
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