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  • Penn State University Producing Knowledge Protecting Forests

    Book SynopsisDevelopment studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people live, love, and labor. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests contributes to such a vocabulary through a study of "local knowledge" that exposes the relationship between culture and political economy.Trade Review“In her account of Ciénaga and its people, Light Carruyo centers the voices, experiences, and political interests of Ciénagüeros as they confront the local state, national elites, foreign aid workers, and foreign scholars who lay claim to their community’s resources. She offers a rich portrayal of a peasant community in the Dominican Republic actively engaging the changing global economy, the contradictory development policies promoted among them by a range of actors, and competing notions of what constitutes ‘the good life.’ The result is a highly readable text that contributes significantly to multiple sociology sub-fields, including development, gender, and cultural studies.”—Ginetta E.B. Candelario,Smith College“The book is concise yet rich in ethnographic and theoretical insights. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests is a much needed contribution to the fields of development studies, rural sociology, tourism studies, Caribbean, Latin American, Women’s and Gender Studies. It will be classic for years to come.”—Amalia L. Cabezas International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Development and the Construction of the Productive Peasant2. Encounters: Tourism, Conservation, and Gendered Tourist Patronage in La Ciénaga3. Disjunctures: Why “Nothing Ever Comes to La Ciénaga”4. Collisions: Meaning, Mobility, and the Serious WomanEpilogueAppendixReferencesIndex

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  • Penn State University Mimesis and Its Romantic Reflections

    Book SynopsisTrade Review“A rich and meticulous study. With range and rigor, Burwick probes the origins—philosophical, aesthetic, and literary—of developing subjectivist mimeses in the literature and theory of the Romantic period.”—John L. Mahoney,Boston College“Competing or mirrored narratives are shown to call into question the nature of storytelling itself, but Burwick’s discussion of this relatively familiar narratological point in these works is original and concise. His book mirrors and renews a strain of analysis in Romantic literature, giving—one might as well say—much food for reflection.”—David E. Latané, Jr. South Atlantic Review“One walks away from this book with a strong sense of gratitude for a scholar and critic whose command of traditional texts and current literary theory is strong enough to persuade us that the highest literary scholarship and theoretical dexterity can work the same street.”—Peter Brier European Romantic Review“One walks away from his book with a strong sense of gratitude for a scholar and critic whose command of traditional texts and current literary theory is strong enough to persuade us that the highest literary scholarship and theoretical dexterity can work on the same street.”—Peter Brier European Romantic Review“One walks awy from this book with a strong sense of gratitude for a scholar and critic whose command of traditional texts and current literary theory is strong enough to persuade us that the highest literary scholarship and theoretical dexterity can work the same street.”—Peter Brier Review“Frederick Burwick’s erudite book should be commended first and foremost for its lucidity of argument and elegance of style.Reading this book feels like being taken on a comprehensive, comparative tour of European and British cross-cultural aesthetic thinking during the Romantic period. . . . A warmly recommended study.”—Heidi Thomson Yearbook of English Studies“The study would be benefited from the addition of a short concluding chapter, but Burwick’s well-researched and engaging text deserves serious attention as a significant challenge to traditional conceptions of mimesis in romanticism.”—Ben P. Robertson South Central Review

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  • Penn State University Ethnographies and Exchanges Native Americans Moravians and Catholics in Early North America Max Kade Research Institute Germans Beyond Europe

    Book SynopsisThe diaries, letters, and journals of these early ethnographers are among the most valuable resources for recovering the languages, religions, cultures, and political makeup of the “First Peoples.” This volume explores the interactions of two seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European settlement peoples with Native Americans.Trade Review“The anthology succeeds in recovering Native as well as missionary voices, carefully building context to make those voices understandable to contemporary readers and reintroducing these important texts in exciting ways that will stimulate further study.”—R. A. Bucko Choice“This volume’s greatest accomplishment well may be its attempt to elevate David Zeisberger to the status of reliable ethnographer as well as Christian missionary.”—David P. Dewar Canadian Journal of History“Ethnographies and Exchanges will appeal to scholars of Native Americans and early modern religion, as it demonstrates the virtues of interdisciplinary studies. Although the essays vary in length and tone, they are uniformly well written and researched, and they engage questions of great importance.”—Andrew K. Frank History“Taken as a whole, this collection brings needed scholarly attention to important epistemological and historical questions for mission and native history.”—Katherine Carté Engel Church History“Overall, this is a useful collection, with much to interest scholars specializing in either ethnohistory or religious history. The questions the volume raises about how we read early modern ethnographic sources make an important contribution to the field.”—Michelle LeMaster Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceA. G. Roeber“This Much Admired Man”: Isaac Glikhikan, Moravian DelawareDavid Edmunds I. Texts and Interpretive Perspectives1. Moravians and the Development of the Genre of EthnographyChristian F. Feest2. The Succession of Head Chiefs and the Delaware Culture of Consent: The Delaware Nation,David Zeisberger, and Modern EthnographyHermann Wellenreuther3. Zeisberger’s Diaries as a Source for Studying Delaware Sociopolitical OrganizationRobert S. GrumetII. Missions and Exchanges4. The Impossible Acculturation: French Missionaries and Cultural Exchanges in the Seventeenth CenturyDominique Deslandres5. The Holy See and the Conversion of Aboriginal Peoples in North America, 1760–1830Luca Codignola6. Policing Wabanaki Missions in the Seventeenth CenturyChristopher J. Bilodeau7. The Moravian Missionaries of Bethlehem and SalemRowena McClinton8. “Incline Your Second Ear This Way”: Song as a Cultural Mediator in Moravian Mission TownsWalter W. WoodwardIII. Indigenous Perspectives9. Munsee Social Networking and Political Encounters with the Moravian ChurchSiegrun Kaiser10. The Gender Frontier Revisited: Native American Women in the Age of RevolutionJane T. Merritt11. A Footing Among Them: Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Land Cessions, Government Relations, and ChristianityAlyssa Mt. PleasantIV. Conclusion12. Translation as a Prism: Broadening the Spectrum of Eighteenth-Century IdentityJulie Tomberlin WeberIndex

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  • The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society

    Penn State University The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society

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    Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dennis Rasmussen has written a fine book on Adam Smith’s defense of commercial society as a response to Rousseau. As Rasmussen demonstrates, Smith not only took Rousseau’s critique of commercial society seriously but also evinced a surprising degree of sympathy with it. By reviving Smith’s dialogue with Rousseau, Rasmussen examines an important episode in the history of political thought and engages a debate over the benefits and drawbacks of commercial society that continues today.”—John T. Scott,University of California, Davis“We have hitherto lacked a systematic and sophisticated book-length analysis of the relation between Smith and Rousseau. These two near-contemporaries addressed many of the same issues—such as the emergence of capitalism, the relation between the free market and morals, the relation of commerce to politics, the nature of sympathy or empathy, and the relation of the philosopher to the modern liberal order—and yet often came to opposing conclusions. Dennis Rasmussen’s beautifully written book will be important reading for anyone concerned with these two figures and, more broadly, the Enlightenment and its critics.”—Charles Griswold,Boston University“We have hitherto lacked a systematic and sophisticated book-length analysis of the relation between Smith and Rousseau. . . . Dennis Rasmussen’s beautifully written book will be important reading for anyone concerned with these two figures, and more broadly the Enlightenment and its critics.”—Charles Griswold,Boston University“Rasmussen has produced a concise, carefully organized, and insightful work that illuminates the thought of Rousseau and Adam Smith.”—M. Coulter Choice“In this lucidly written study, Dennis Rasmussen argues that a comprehensive consideration of Adam Smith must engage with the question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influence. And while others have already suggested this influence, Rasmussen offers what will likely be the definitive account of Smith’s grappling with Rousseau for years to come. He presents systematic and compelling evidence to defend the hypothesis that Smith was deeply affected by Rousseau’s deconstruction of commercial society.”—David Lay Williams Political Studies Review“Rasmussen’s short but elegant book is about the relationship between Adam Smith and Rousseau, a relationship about which, Rasmussen notes, only a ‘handful’ of articles and book chapters have been written. Rasmussen’s book will surely go a long way towards filling this scholarly gap, although it certainly will not (and probably should not) be the last word on the subject.”—Chad Flanders Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and EconomicsTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Rousseau’s Unhappy Vision of Commercial Society2. Smith’s Sympathy with Rousseau’s Critique3. The European Peasant and the Prudent Man4. Progress and HappinessConclusionReferencesIndex

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  • Illusion of Consent Engaging with Carole Pateman

    Penn State University Illusion of Consent Engaging with Carole Pateman

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  • Penn State University Land Protest and Politics The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil

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  • Penn State University Structure and Being A Theoretical Framework for a

    Book SynopsisPresents, and in part develops, a systematic philosophy as the universal science, or the theorization of the unrestricted universe of discourse, explicitly including being as such and as a whole. Argues that complete exploration of the theoretical domain requires such a science.Trade Review“Puntel’s Structure and Being is a rare work of integration and synthesis. A book conceived and executed in the grand tradition of philosophical systematization, it integrates treatments of a wide array of fundamental philosophical problems within a grand overarching design. Examining key theories and theses from the Anglo-American analytic and the Continental European traditions, it both expounds and exemplifies a holistic vision of philosophy that can be appreciated by philosophers of both traditions alike.”—Nicholas Rescher,University of Pittsburgh“Through sustained critical engagement with the leading philosophical positions taken in the past century on both sides of the Atlantic, Structure and Being effectively challenges current conventional wisdom by elaborating a formidable theoretical framework for a structural systematic philosophy—an ongoing, self-grounding yet nonfoundationalist attempt to determine the nature of beings as completely and comprehensively as possible.”—Daniel Dahlstrom,Boston University“Structure and Being is rich and challenging. In an age in which the narrow specialist has taken center stage, Puntel has returned to an older tradition: that of the philosopher who attempts to understand the whole. For this he should be congratulated.”—David Roochnik,Boston University“Lorenz Puntel’s systematic structural philosophy is a bold and challenging attempt to overcome the contemporary fragmentation of philosophical discourse. Its depth and breadth regarding issues of logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics are unparalleled, as is the ease with which the author moves between so-called analytic and continental positions. Both the overall project as a new comprehensive metaphysics and the particular arguments developed demand a serious response from philosophers today.”—Hans-Herbert Koegler,University of North FloridaTable of ContentsContentsPreface to Struktur und SeinPreface to Structure and BeingKey to Abbreviations and Logical/Mathematical SymbolsIntroduction1. Global Systematics: Determination of the Standpoint of the Structural-Systematic Philosophy1.1 “A Theoretical Framework for a Systematic Philosophy”: the complexity of the concept and of its presentation 1.2 A first determination of systematic philosophy1.3 Structure and being: a first characterization of the basic idea behind the structural-systematic philosophy1.4 The idealized four-stage philosophical method1.5. (Self-)grounding of systematic philosophy?2. Systematics of Theoreticity. The Dimension of Philosophical Presentation2.1 Theoreticity as a dimension of presentation2.2 Language as the medium of presentation for theoreticity 2.3 The epistemic dimension as the domain of the accomplishment of theoreticity 2.4 The dimension of theory in the narrower sense 2.5 Fully determined theoreticity: first approach to a theory of truth 3. Systematics of Structure: The Fundamental Structures 3.1 What is the systematics of structure? 3.2 The three levels of fundamental structures 3.3 Theory of truth as explication (articulation) of the fully determinate connections among fundamental structures 4. World-Systematics. Theory of the Dimensions of the World 4.1 The concept of world 4.2 The “natural world” 4.3 The human world 4.4 The aesthetic world 4.5 The world as a whole5. Comprehensive Systematics: The Theory of the Interconnection of All Structures and Dimensions of Being as Theory of Being As Such and As a Whole 5.1 The philosophical status of comprehensive systematics 5.2 Basic features of a theory of being as such and as a whole5.3 Starting points for a theory of absolute being 6. Metasystematics: Theory of the Relatively Maximal Self-Determination of Systematic Philosophy 6.1 The status of metasystematics 6.2 Immanent metasystematics 6.3 External metasystematics 6.4 Self-determination, metasystematics, and the self-grounding of the structural-systematic philosophy Works CitedIndex

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  • Pathways to Power Political Recruitment and

    Pennsylvania State University Press Pathways to Power Political Recruitment and

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    Book SynopsisA cross-national analysis of political recruitment and candidate selection in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. Provides typology and theoretical insights for other countries in the region and around the world. Trade Review“This book sets the new scholarly standard for the analysis of the recruitment and selection of candidates for Congress and President in the major Latin American countries. The editors formulate a general framework to study the role of political parties in candidate selection. The authors apply it to the country studies for the legislature and the executive. The book is theoretically coherent, making it possible for the empirical case studies to generate genuinely comparable results. The result is a gem of rigorous scholarship that sheds light on understudied key questions for constitutional democratic politics. Its scholarship is excellent.”—Jorge I. Domínguez,Harvard University“Employing a common typology and framework, this outstanding collection provides the first sustained examination of issues of political recruitment and candidate selection for major legislative and executive posts in contemporary Latin America.”—Jonathan Hartlyn,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“A heavily documented and scholarly sophisticated text, it will find its main audience with comparative politics scholars and advanced graduate students in the area of Latin American politics.”—J.A. Rhodes Choice“Pathways to Power represents an enormous undertaking by an illustrious team of scholars, and the rewards of this effort are substantial. The book opens a research agenda that previous studies have often acknowledged but less often pursued, because of the empirical demands of doing thorough comparative work on candidate selection. Siavelis and Morgenstern harness the resources, both conceptual and in the form of raw labor, to advance this agenda. The book is a major achievement, and those of us with an interest in political institutions and democracy in Latin America are the beneficiaries.”—John M. Carey Latin American Politics and SocietyTable of ContentsContents Part I Theoretical Framework1. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis Peter M. Siavelis and Scott MorgensternPart II Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection for the Legislative Branch 2. Legislative Candidates in Argentina Mark P.Jones3. Political Ambition, Candidate Recruitment, and Legislative Politics in Brazil David Samuels4. Legislative Candidate Selection in Chile Patricio Navia5. Mejor Solo Que Mal Acompañado: Political Entrepreneurs and List Proliferation in Colombia Erika Moreno and Maria Escobar-Lemmon 6. Legislative Recruitment in Mexico Joy Langston7. Why Factions? Candidate Selection and Legislative Politics in Uruguay Juan Andres MoraesPart III Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection for the Executive Branch 8. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Argentina: Presidents and Governors, 1983 to 2006 Miguel De Luca 9. Political Recruitment in an Executive-Centric System: Presidents, Ministers, and Governors in Brazil Timothy J. Power and Marilia G. Mochel 10. Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Chile, 1990–2006: The Executive Branch David Altman11. Precandidates, Candidates, and Presidents: Paths to the Colombian Presidency Steven L. Taylor, Felipe Botero, and Brian F. Crisp12. Political Recruitment, Governance, and Leadership: How Democracy Has Made a Difference in Mexico Roderic Ai Camp13. Presidential Candidate Selection in Uruguay, 1942 to 2004 Daniel Buquet and Daniel ChasquettiPart III Gender and Political Recruitment 14. How Do Candidate Recruitment and Selection Processes Affect Representation of Women? Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle Taylor RobinsonPart IV Summary and Conclusions15. Pathways to Power and Democracy in Latin America Scott Morgenstern and Peter M. Siavelis References Index About the Contributors

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  • Penn State University Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics

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  • Political Solidarity

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    Book SynopsisExamines the relations and obligations of committed individuals working to create social change. Addresses issues involving forms of solidarity, the role of violence in activism, the moral and epistemological privilege of the oppressed, the relation between solidarity and social justice, and the prospects for global solidarity.Trade Review“The very idea of a theory of solidarity that is akin to a theory of justice is a revelation. Sally Scholz does a marvelous job of presenting hers in this thorough and illuminating work.”—Chris Cuomo,University of Georgia“Scholz offers a new, vigorous theory of the concept of ‘political solidarity’ by pursuing a different course than that of typical empirical studies of the nature of solidarity within the usual panoply of social movements. Of benefit primarily to graduate students and researchers, Scholz’s monograph provides a rich storehouse of thinking about ethical facets of political solidarity.”—J. R. Pottenger Choice“Lucidly written, theoretically interesting, and closely in touch with the real world, this book should be read by anyone interested in feminism, social ontology, political philosophy, or progressive politics.”—Shelley Wilcox Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews“Scholz’s book is perhaps the best I have read in dispensing with the vexing problem that has shadowed liberation movements: whether only the victims know best. Yes, Scholz writes, those who have been oppressed have vital knowledge, but others can bring other perspectives and points of view that can connect one movement with other ones.”—Noe¨ lle McAfee SignsTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Solidarities2. Toward a Theory of Political Solidarity3. The Moral Relations and Obligations of Political Solidarity4. The Solidary Collective5. The Paradox of the Participation of the Privileged6. The Social Justice Ends of Political Solidarity7. On Human Solidarity and the Challenge of Global SolidarityReferencesIndex

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  • Penn State University Consensus and Debate in Salazars Portugal Visual

    Book SynopsisA study of art, architecture and literature produced in Portugal and Cape Verde during the period 1933-1948. Documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by the Salazar government's Office of State Propaganda. Examines the works of José de Almada Negreiros, Irene Lisboa, and Baltasar Lopes.Trade Review“I find Professor Sapega’s book informative and persuasive. It begins to fill a long-standing void of research on cultural production in Salazar’s Portugal by presenting some of the discourses on nationalist-imperialist identity disseminated by the regime and analyzing a diverse sample of the artistic and literary responses that they compelled.”—Ana Paula Ferreira,University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Staging Memory: “The Most Portuguese Village in Portugal” and the Exposition of the Portuguese World2. Between Modernity and Tradition: José de Almada Negreiros’s Visual Commentaries on Popular Experience3. Family Secrets: Irene Lisboa’s Critique of “God, Pátria, and Family”4. Imperial Dreams and Colonial Nightmares: Baltasar Lopes’s Ambivalent Embrace of LusotropicalismConclusion: Memory and the Collective Imagination Under the Estado Novo and in Its AftermathReferencesIndex

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  • Penn State University In the Name of Reason Technocrats and Politics in

    Book SynopsisExplores the role played by technocrats in the political and institutional evolution of Chile since the late nineteenth century until today, with emphasis on the period from 1938-1973 as well as the period following democratic restoration in 1990.Trade Review“State organization was highly elaborated in Chile well before it took shape in neighboring republics. The required technical expertise was supplied by highly developed systems of educational and professional training that nurtured a local technocratic elite. Much that is distinctive about Chilean politics—both under democracy and during the dictatorship—can only be understood in this context. Patricio Silva is a master of this topic, and his analysis not only illustrates the strange dynamics of Chilean political development but also indicates why that experience has proved difficult to transfer elsewhere.”—Laurence Whitehead,Oxford University“There are many books that look at Chile’s political history in the twentieth century, but very few have focused on the critical role that technocrats have had on the country’s economy and politics. In The Name of Reason provides an outstanding analysis of the forces that have stimulated the development of technocratic groups in Chile and their impact on the country’s economy and society. Patricio Silva presents a new and creative analysis of critical economic policies and the role of technocrats both under democratic and authoritarian regimes. This book is essential reading for those interested in Chilean politics, economic policy making, and the role of technocrats in Chile.”—Silvia Borzutzky,Carnegie Mellon University“In the Name of Reason brilliantly shakes up the pejorative conventional wisdom regarding technocracy and democracy. Patricio Silva links the problem of technocracy to the larger question of the role of the middle class in Latin American politics and socioeconomic development. Largely of middle-class origins, technocrats may make a positive contribution by offering their political masters a buffer from political pressures in the policy process, thereby contributing to political stability and state-building.”—Eduardo Silva,University of Missouri, St. LouisTable of ContentsContentsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroduction: Technocrats and Politics in Chile1 Scientific Politics in Chile: The Positivist Design2 Pablo Ramírez and the “Administrative State” 3 Technocrats and the Entrepreneurial State4 The Age of Global Planning5 Pinochet and the Chicago Boys6 The Concertación and the Emergence of a Technocratic Democracy7 Technocracy in Chile: Past, Present, and FutureReferencesIndex

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  • Penn State University Five Chapters on Rhetoric Character Action Things

    Book SynopsisExamines concepts for persuasive communication. Explores the art of rhetoric and how it aids in clarification when we speak to communicate, but also helps to protect us from clarity when we speak to maintain our connections to others.Trade Review“Kochin demonstrates the importance of classical rhetoric in making sense of contemporary politics. The book is highly accessible to an audience unfamiliar with rhetorical studies, and the analytic framework will force rhetoricians to rethink their own assumptions about their art and its relationship to truth. The book deserves a wide audience across rhetoric and communication, English, political science, and sociology.”—James Arnt Aune,Texas A&M University“Political theory and rhetoric are close cousins, even if neither particularly wants to admit its own paternity. Political theorists ought then to pay close attention to Kochin’s new book. Students of rhetoric will also find themselves enlightened in ways they may not expect. Kochin’s effort is of signal importance for teaching us how to keep the descendants of philosophy sitting down to, if not the same dinner, at least one from the same kitchen.”—Stephen L. Elkin,University of Maryland“This is a significant book that cuts, neatly and insightfully, across the various disciplinary literatures around rhetoric and persuasion. The author opens new pathways for social scientists, humanists, and professionals to think together about rhetoric and persuasion. It’s heartening to see a book grounded in a classical perspective on rhetoric incorporate not only the social science persuasion literature, but public relations as well.”—William Keith,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee“Is it possible to say something new about one of the oldest topics of political philosophy, the question of rhetoric? Michael Kochin’s penetrating book proves that it is. He does so by taking seriously a whole range of sources on political speech, communication, and persuasion, from Aristotle and Demosthenes to social science on the nature of public opinion to Bruno Latour’s sociology of knowledge, and by reflecting on the topic in unusual depth. His book is original and it has a provocative simplicity.”—Bryan Garsten Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Character 2. Action 3. Things 4. Nothing 5. Art Postscript: How to Begin to Analyze a Speech Select Bibliography Index

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