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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West By Nicolas S. Witschi (ed.)
2011 | 569 Pages | ISBN: 1405187336 | PDF | 6 MB
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the westContent: Chapter 1 Imagining the West (pages 1-10): Nicolas S. WitschiChapter 2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780-1850 (pages 11-28): Edward WattsChapter 3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West (pages 29-47): Peter J. BlodgettChapter 4 The Literate West of Nineteenth?Century Periodicals (pages 48-62): Tara PenryChapter 5 A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833-1928 (pages 63-80): Nina BaymChapter 6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest (pages 81-97): Daniel WordenChapter 7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains (pages 98-114): Susan Naramore MaherChapter 8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place (pages 115-129): O. Alan WeltzienChapter 9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature (pages 130-144): Eric HeyneChapter 10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West (pages 145-160): Hsuan L. HsuChapter 11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West (pages 161-176): Michael K. JohnsonChapter 12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlan, and the Cosmic Race (pages 177-190): John L. EscobedoChapter 13 Writing the Indigenous West (pages 191-212): Kathleen WashburnChapter 14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double?Wides, and McMansions (pages 213-228): Nancy CookChapter 15 Postcolonial West (pages 229-243): Alex HuntChapter 16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest (pages 244-260): Krista ComerChapter 17 What we talk about when we talk about Western Art (pages 261-280): Brian W. DippieChapter 18 "All Hat and No Cattle": Romance, Realism, and Late Nineteenth?Century Western American Fiction (pages 281-296): Gary ScharnhorstChapter 19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry (pages 297-315): Barbara Barney NelsonChapter 20 "The Wind Blew them Away": Folksinging the West, 1880-1930 (pages 316-335): David FenimoreChapter 21 Autobiography (pages 336-352): Gioia WoodsChapter 22 Housing the American West: Western Women's Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond (pages 353-366): Cathryn HalversonChapter 23 The Apple doesn't fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism (pages 367-379): Hal CrimmelChapter 24 Detective Fiction (pages 380-394): Nicolas S. WitschiChapter 25 The American Western Film (pages 395-408): Corey K. CreekmurChapter 26 Post?Western Cinema (pages 409-424): Neil CampbellChapter 27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West (pages 425-442): Jefferson D. SlagleChapter 28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play (pages 443-461): Karen E. RamirezChapter 29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger (pages 462-482): Chadwick AllenChapter 30 The Nuclear Southwest (pages 483-498): Audrey GoodmanChapter 31 Ranging over Stegner's Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy (pages 499-513): Bonney MacDonaldChapter 32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production (pages 514-527): Susan KollinChapter 33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas (pages 528-545): Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis

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A Companion to Romantic Poetry By Charles Mahoney (ed.)
2010 | 632 Pages | ISBN: 1405135549 | PDF | 5 MB
Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital and indispensable place in the history of English literature. Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studied authors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the field and brings together some of the most exciting work being done at the present time Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographical approach Features essays on production and distribution and the different schools and movements of Romantic Poetry Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well as the issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in the field Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection of essays on British Romantic poetry currently available Content: Chapter 1 Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Feeling and Form in the Romantic Short Lyric and Song (pages 7-24): Michael O'neillChapter 2 Archaist?Innovators: The Couplet from Churchill to Browning (pages 25-43): Simon JarvisChapter 3 The Temptations of Tercets (pages 44-61): Charles MahoneyChapter 4 To Scorn or To "Scorn not the Sonnet" (pages 62-77): Daniel RobinsonChapter 5 Ballad Collection and Lyric Collectives (pages 78-94): Steve NewmanChapter 6 Satire, Subjectivity, and Acknowledgment (pages 95-106): William FleschChapter 7 "Stirring shades": The Romantic Ode and Its Afterlives (pages 107-122): Esther SchorChapter 8 Pastures New and Old: The Romantic Afterlife of Pastoral Elegy (pages 123-139): Christopher R. MillerChapter 9 The Romantic Georgic and the Work of Writing (pages 140-158): Tim BurkeChapter 10 Shepherding Culture and the Romantic Pastoral (pages 159-175): John BuggChapter 11 Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco?descriptive Poetry (pages 176-194): Adam PotkayChapter 12 "Other voices speak": The Poetic Conversations of Byron and Shelley (pages 195-216): Simon BainbridgeChapter 13 The Thrush in the Theater: Keats and Hazlitt at the Surrey Institution (pages 217-233): Sarah M. ZimmermanChapter 14 Laboring?Class Poetry in the Romantic Era (pages 234-250): Michael ScrivenerChapter 15 Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales (pages 251-267): Jane MooreChapter 16 Anglo?Jewish Romantic Poetry (pages 268-284): Karen WeismanChapter 17 Leigh Hunt's Cockney Canon: Sociability and Subversion from Homer to Hyperion (pages 285-301): Michael TomkoChapter 18 Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis, 1797-1798 (pages 302-317): Angela EsterhammerChapter 19 Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry (pages 319-336): Angela EsterhammerChapter 20 Celebrity, Gender, and the Death of the Poet: The Mystery of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (pages 337-353): Ghislaine McDayterChapter 21 Poetry and Illustration: "Amicable strife" (pages 354-373): Sophie ThomasChapter 22 Romanticism, Sport, and Late Georgian Poetry (pages 374-392): John StrachanChapter 23 "The Science of Feelings": Wordsworth's Experimental Poetry (pages 393-411): Ross HamiltonChapter 24 Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism (pages 412-424): Laura QuinneyChapter 25 Milton and the Romantics (pages 425-441): Gordon TeskeyChapter 26 "The Feel of not to Feel it," or the Pleasures of Enduring Form (pages 443-466): Anne?Lise FrancoisChapter 27 Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory: The Case of "A Slumber did my Spirit Seal" (pages 467-482): Marc RedfieldChapter 28 "Strange Utterance": The (Un)Natural Language of the Sublime in Wordsworth's Prelude (pages 483-502): Timothy BahtiChapter 29 The Matter of Genre in the Romantic Sublime (pages 503-520): Ian BalfourChapter 30 Sexual Politics and the Performance of Gender in Romantic Poetry (pages 521-537): James NajarianChapter 31 Blake's Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion (pages 538-553): Karen SwannChapter 32 The World without us: Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Imagining Nature (pages 554-571): Bridget KeeganChapter 33 Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan (pages 572-588): Guinn BattenChapter 34 The Persistence of Romanticism (pages 589-605): Willard Spiegelman

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A Companion to Richard M. Nixon By Melvin Small (ed.)
2011 | 646 Pages | ISBN: 1444330179 | PDF | 4 MB
This companion offers an overview of Richard M. Nixon's life, presidency, and legacy, as well as a detailed look at the evolution and current state, of Nixon scholarship.Examines the central arguments and scholarly debates that surround his term in officeExplores Nixon's legacy and the historical significance of his years as presidentCovers the full range of topics, from his campaigns for Congress, to his career as Vice-President, to his presidency and WatergateMakes extensive use of the recent paper and electronic releases from the Nixon Presidential Materials ProjectContent: Chapter One Nixon Biographies (pages 5-26): Iwan W. MorganChapter Two The Pre?Political Years, 1913-1945 (pages 27-48): Joseph DmohowskiChapter Three Pat Nixon (pages 49-67): Gil TroyChapter Four The Congressional Years (pages 68-83): Anthony Rama MaravillasChapter Five The Alger Hiss Case (pages 84-101): Athan G. TheoharisChapter Six The Richard Nixon Vice Presidency: Research without the Nixon Manuscripts (pages 102-121): Irwin F. GellmanChapter Seven The Election of 1960 (pages 122-140): W. J. RorabaughChapter Eight The Election of 1968 (pages 141-163): Melvin SmallChapter Nine The Election of 1972 (pages 164-184): Rick PerlsteinChapter Ten The Administrative Presidency (pages 185-201): Karen M. HultChapter Eleven Richard Nixon, the Great Society, and Social Reforms: A Lost Opportunity? (pages 202-211): Romain HuretChapter Twelve Civil Rights Policy (pages 212-234): Dean J. KotlowskiChapter Thirteen Economic Policy (pages 235-251): Nigel BowlesChapter Fourteen Political Realignment (pages 252-269): Robert MasonChapter Fifteen Nixon and the Environment (pages 270-291): Paul Charles MilazzoChapter Sixteen Nixon and the Media (pages 292-310): Tim KiskaChapter Seventeen Nixon and Dissent (pages 311-327): Katherine ScottChapter Eighteen Nixon and Agnew (pages 328-342): Justin P. CoffeyChapter Nineteen Foreign Policy Overview (pages 343-361): Jussi M. HanhimakiChapter Twenty Nixon and Kissinger (pages 362-379): Robert D. SchulzingerChapter Twenty?One The Vietnam War (pages 380-399): Jeffrey P. KimballChapter Twenty?Two Explorations of Detente (pages 400-424): Keith L. NelsonChapter Twenty?Three The China Card (pages 425-443): Evelyn GohChapter Twenty?Four Nixon and Europe: Transatlantic Policy in the Shadow of Other Priorities (pages 444-459): Luke A. NichterChapter Twenty?Five Latin America and the Quest for Stability (pages 460-477): Mark Atwood LawrenceChapter Twenty?Six Watergate (pages 479-498): Keith W. OlsonChapter Twenty?Seven Nixon and Ford (pages 499-518): John Robert GreeneChapter Twenty?Eight Nixon's Image: A Brief History (pages 519-545): David GreenbergChapter Twenty?Nine The Nixon Tapes (pages 546-562): Sahr Conway?Lanz

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A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Second Edition By
2010 | 764 Pages | ISBN: 1405163577 | PDF | 8 MB
In 85 new and updated essays, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Includes contributions from established philosophers and rising stars 22 new entries have now been added, and all material from the previous edition has been updated and reorganized Broad coverage spans the areas of world religions, theism, atheism, , the problem of evil, science and religion, and ethics Content: Chapter 1 Hinduism (pages 3-12): Jonardon GaneriChapter 2 Buddhism (pages 13-22): Paul J. GriffithsChapter 3 Chinese Confucianism and Daoism (pages 23-33): Chad HansenChapter 4 African Religions from a Philosophical Point of View (pages 34-43): Kwasi WireduChapter 5 Judaism (pages 44-58): Lenn E. GoodmanChapter 6 Christianity (pages 59-66): William J. WainwrightChapter 7 Philosophy in the Islamic Context (pages 67-80): Aziz A. Esmail and Azim A. NanjiChapter 8 Ancient Philosophical Theology (pages 81-90): Kevin L. FlanneryChapter 9 The Christian Contribution to Medieval Philosophical Theology (pages 91-98): Scott MacdonaldChapter 10 The Islamic Contribution to Medieval Philosophical Theology (pages 99-105): David BurrellChapter 11 The Jewish Contribution to Medieval Philosophical Theology (pages 106-113): Tamar RudavskyChapter 12 Early Modern Philosophical Theology on the Continent (pages 114-123): Derk PereboomChapter 13 Early Modern Philosophical Theology in Great Britain (pages 124-132): Geoffrey GorhamChapter 14 The Emergence of Modern Philosophy of Religion (pages 133-140): Merold WestphalChapter 15 American Pragmatism (pages 141-150): Nancy FrankenberryChapter 16 Personalism (pages 151-158): Patricia A. SayreChapter 17 Process Theology (pages 159-166): David Ray GriffinChapter 18 Phenomenology and Existentialism (pages 167-175): Merold WestphalChapter 19 Wittgenstein (pages 176-188): John HymanChapter 20 Thomism (pages 189-195): Ralph McInernyChapter 21 Natural Theology (pages 196-203): Brian HebblethwaiteChapter 22 The Reformed Tradition (pages 204-209): Nicholas WolterstorffChapter 23 The Jewish Tradition (pages 210-216): Robert GibbsChapter 24 The Christian East (pages 217-224): Paul ValliereChapter 25 Perfect Being Theology (pages 225-234): Mark Owen WebbChapter 26 Holiness (pages 235-242): Jacqueline MarinaChapter 27 Omnipotence (pages 243-250): Joshua Hoffman and Gary RosenkrantzChapter 28 Omniscience (pages 251-257): George I. MavrodesChapter 29 Omnipresence (pages 258-262): Edward R. WierengaChapter 30 Goodness (pages 263-269): Paul HelmChapter 31 Simplicity (pages 270-277): Eleonore StumpChapter 32 Eternity (pages 278-284): Brian LeftowChapter 33 Necessity (pages 285-291): William E. MannChapter 34 Incorporeality (pages 292-299): Charles TaliaferroChapter 35 Beauty (pages 300-307): Patrick SherryChapter 36 Divine Action (pages 308-314): Thomas F. TracyChapter 37 Creation and Conservation (pages 315-321): Hugh J. McCannChapter 38 Immutability and Impassibility (pages 322-328): Richard E. CreelChapter 39 Providence (pages 329-336): Thomas P. FlintChapter 40 Pantheism (pages 337-347): Michael LevineChapter 41 Religious Language (pages 348-356): Janet SoskiceChapter 42 Ontological Arguments (pages 357-367): Peter van InwagenChapter 43 Cosmological Arguments (pages 368-374): William L. RoweChapter 44 Teleological and Design Arguments (pages 375-384): Laura L. GarciaChapter 45 Moral Arguments (pages 385-391): C. Stephen EvansChapter 46 Arguments from Consciousness and Free Will (pages 392-397): Stewart GoetzChapter 47 Miracles (pages 398-404): George N. SchlesingerChapter 48 Religious Experience (pages 405-413): Keith E. YandellChapter 49 Cumulative Cases (pages 414-424): Paul DraperChapter 50 Pragmatic Arguments (pages 425-433): Jeffrey JordanChapter 51 Tradition (pages 434-440): Basil MitchellChapter 52 Fideism (pages 441-447): Terence PenelhumChapter 53 The Presumption of Atheism (pages 449-457): Antony FlewChapter 54 The Verificationist Challenge (pages 458-466): Michael MartinChapter 55 Theism and Incoherence (pages 467-473): Michael MartinChapter 56 Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (pages 474-481): Linda ZagzebskiChapter 57 The Problem of No Best World (pages 482-490): Klaas J. KraayChapter 58 The Logical Problem of Evil (pages 491-499): Michael L. PetersonChapter 59 The Evidential Problem of Evil (pages 500-508): Graham OppyChapter 60 Divine Hiddenness (pages 509-518): J. L. SchellenbergChapter 61 Naturalistic Explanations of Theistic Belief (pages 519-525): Kai NielsenChapter 62 Historical Perspectives on Religion and Science (pages 527-538): John Hedley BrookeChapter 63 Theism and Physical Cosmology (pages 539-547): William Lane CraigChapter 64 Theism and Evolutionary Biology (pages 548-556): William HaskerChapter 65 Theism and the Scientific Understanding of the Mind (pages 557-565): Robert AudiChapter 66 Theism and Technology (pages 566-573): Frederick FerreChapter 67 The Ethics of Religious Commitment (pages 575-584): Samantha CorteChapter 68 Divine Command Ethics (pages 585-592): Janine Marie IdziakChapter 69 Natural Law Ethics (pages 593-597): Robert P. GeorgeChapter 70 Religion, Law, and Politics (pages 598-605): Paul J. WeithmanChapter 71 Theism and Toleration (pages 606-613): Edward LangerakChapter 72 Sin and Original Sin (pages 614-621): Philip L. QuinnChapter 73 Atonement, Justification, and Sanctification (pages 622-629): John E. HareChapter 74 Resurrection, Heaven, and Hell (pages 630-638): Jonathan L. KvanvigChapter 75 Reincarnation and Karma (pages 639-647): Paul ReasonerChapter 76 Theological Realism and Antirealism (pages 649-658): Roger TriggChapter 77 Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion (pages 659-666): John H. WhittakerChapter 78 Continental Philosophy of Religion (pages 667-673): John D. CaputoChapter 79 Reformed Epistemology (pages 674-680): Alvin PlantingaChapter 80 Evidentialism (pages 681-688): Richard SwinburneChapter 81 Feminism (pages 689-694): Sarah CoakleyChapter 82 Philosophical Reflection on Revelation and Scripture (pages 695-701): William J. AbrahamChapter 83 Philosophical Reflection on Mysticism (pages 702-709): Anthony Novak PerovichChapter 84 Religious Pluralism (pages 710-717): John HickChapter 85 Comparative Philosophy of Religion (pages 718-723): Paul J. Griffiths

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A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Second edition By
2010 | 699 Pages | ISBN: 1405170069 | PDF | 6 MB
The articles in this new edition of A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory have been updated throughout, and the addition of ten new articles ensures that the volume continues to offer the most up-to-date coverage of current thinking in legal philosophy. Represents the definitive handbook of philosophy of law and contemporary legal theory, invaluable to anyone with an interest in legal philosophy Now features ten entirely new articles, covering the areas of risk, regulatory theory, methodology, overcriminalization, intention, coercion, unjust enrichment, the rule of law, law and society, and Kantian legal philosophy Essays are written by an international team of leading scholars Content: Chapter 1 Property Law (pages 7-28): Jeremy WaldronChapter 2 Contract (pages 29-63): Peter BensonChapter 3 Tort Law (pages 64-89): Stephen R. PerryChapter 4 Criminal Law (pages 90-102): Leo KatzChapter 5 Public International Law (pages 103-118): Philip BobbittChapter 6 Constitutional Law and Religion (pages 119-131): Perry DaneChapter 7 Constitutional Law and Interpretation (pages 132-144): Philip BobbittChapter 8 Constitutional Law and Privacy (pages 145-159): Anita L. AllenChapter 9 Constitutional Law and Equality (pages 160-176): Maimon SchwarzschildChapter 10 Evidence (pages 177-187): John Jackson and Sean DoranChapter 11 Interpretation of Statutes (pages 188-196): William N. EskridgeChapter 12 Conflict of Laws (pages 197-208): Perry DaneChapter 13 Natural Law Theory (pages 209-227): Brian BixChapter 14 Legal Positivism (pages 228-248): Jules L. Coleman and Brian LeiterChapter 15 American Legal Realism (pages 249-266): Brian LeiterChapter 16 Critical Legal Studies (pages 267-278): Guyora BinderChapter 17 Postrealism and Legal Process (pages 279-289): Neil DuxburyChapter 18 Feminist Jurisprudence (pages 290-298): Patricia SmithChapter 19 Law and Economics (pages 299-326): Jon Hanson, Kathleen Hanson and Melissa HartChapter 20 Legal Formalism (pages 327-338): Ernest J. WeinribChapter 21 German Legal Philosophy and Theory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (pages 339-349): Alexander SomekChapter 22 Marxist Theory of Law (pages 350-360): Alan HuntChapter 23 Deconstruction (pages 361-367): Jack M. BalkinChapter 24 Law and Society (pages 368-380): Brian Z. TamanahaChapter 25 Postmodernism (pages 381-391): Dennis PattersonChapter 26 Kantian Legal Philosophy (pages 392-405): Arthur RipsteinChapter 27 Legal Pragmatism (pages 406-414): Richard WarnerChapter 28 Law and Its Normativity (pages 415-445): Roger A. ShinerChapter 29 Law and Literature (pages 446-456): Thomas MorawetzChapter 30 The Duty to Obey the Law (pages 457-466): M. B. E. SmithChapter 31 Legal Enforcement of Morality (pages 467-478): Kent GreenawaltChapter 32 Indeterminacy (pages 479-492): Lawrence B. SolumChapter 33 Precedent (pages 493-503): Larry AlexanderChapter 34 Punishment and Responsibility (pages 504-512): George P. FletcherChapter 35 Loyalty (pages 513-520): George P. FletcherChapter 36 Coherence (pages 521-538): Ken KressChapter 37 The Welfare State (pages 539-547): Sanford LevinsonChapter 38 Legal Scholarship (pages 548-558): Edward L. RubinChapter 39 Authority of Law (pages 559-570): Vincent A. WellmanChapter 40 Analogical Reasoning (pages 571-577): Jefferson WhiteChapter 41 Risk (pages 578-589): John OberdiekChapter 42 Regulatory Theory (pages 590-606): Matthew D. AdlerChapter 43 Methodology (pages 607-620): Andrew HalpinChapter 44 Overcriminalization (pages 621-631): Douglas HusakChapter 45 Intention (pages 632-641): Kimberly Kessler FerzanChapter 46 Coercion (pages 642-653): Grant LamondChapter 47 Unjust Enrichment (pages 654-665): Ernest J. WeinribChapter 48 The Ideal of the Rule of Law (pages 666-674): Andrei Marmor

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A Companion to Persius and Juvenal By Susanna Braund, Josiah Osgood
2012 | 628 Pages | ISBN: 1405199652 | PDF | 4 MB
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives.Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal Offers substantial discussion of the reception of both authors, reflecting some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary ClassicsContains a thorough exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives

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A Companion to Film Comedy By Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf (eds.)
2012 | 568 Pages | ISBN: 1444338595 | PDF | 5 MB
A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the 'silent' days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political contextA wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the presentInternational in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and KoreaEssays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual worksEngages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironicFeatures original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributorsContent: Chapter 1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid (pages 13-38): Frank ScheideChapter 2 Pie Queens and Virtuous Vamps (pages 39-60): Kristen Anderson WagnerChapter 3 "Sound Came Along and Out Went the Pies" (pages 61-84): Rob KingChapter 4 Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays (pages 85-110): Frank KrutnikChapter 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance (pages 111-129): Kevin W. SweeneyChapter 6 Woody Allen (pages 130-150): David R. ShumwayChapter 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation (pages 151-171): Henry JenkinsChapter 8 Humor and Erotic Utopia (pages 173-195): Celestino DeleytoChapter 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) (pages 196-216): Leger GrindonChapter 10 The View from the Man Cave (pages 217-235): Tamar Jeffers McDonaldChapter 11 The Reproduction of Mothering (pages 236-247): Lucy FischerChapter 12 It's Good to be the King (pages 249-272): Charles MorrowChapter 13 No Escaping the Depression (pages 273-292): William PaulChapter 14 The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be (pages 293-314): Maria DibattistaChapter 15 Dark Comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude (pages 315-339): Mark EatonChapter 16 Black Film Comedy as Vital Edge (pages 341-364): Catherine A. JohnChapter 17 Winking Like a One?Eyed Ford (pages 365-386): Joshua B. NelsonChapter 18 Ethnic Humor in American Film: The Greek Americans (pages 387-406): Dan GeorgakasChapter 19 Alexander Mackendrick (pages 407-431): Claire MortimerChapter 20 Tragicomic Transformations (pages 432-453): Jane ParkChapter 21 Comedy "Italian Style" and I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) (pages 454-473): Roberta Di CarmineChapter 22 "Laughter that Encounters a Void" (pages 474-493): Najat RahmanChapter 23 Laughter is Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream (pages 495-520): Paul WellsChapter 24 Theatrical Cartoon Comedy (pages 521-543): Suzanne Buchan

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A Companion to European Romanticism By
2005 | 599 Pages | ISBN: 1405110392 | PDF | 5 MB
This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century.Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain.Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment.Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts.Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.Content: Chapter 1 On Pre?Romanticism or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences (pages 10-28): Inger S. B. BrodeyChapter 2 Shakespeare and European Romanticism (pages 29-48): Heike GrundmannChapter 3 Scottish Romanticism and Scotland in Romanticism (pages 49-66): Fiona StaffordChapter 4 Byron's Influence on European Romanticism (pages 67-85): Peter CochranChapter 5 The Infinite Imagination: Early Romanticism in Germany (pages 86-100): Susan BernofskyChapter 6 From Autonomous Subjects to Self?Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism (pages 101-122): Thomas PfauChapter 7 German Romantic Fiction (pages 123-137): Roger PaulinChapter 8 The Romantic Fairy Tale (pages 138-156): Kari LokkeChapter 9 German Romantic Drama (pages 157-171): Frederick BurwickChapter 10 Early French Romanticism (pages 172-191): Fabienne MooreChapter 11 The Poetry of Loss: Lamartine, Musset, and Nerval (pages 192-207): Jonathan StraussChapter 12 Victor Hugo's Poetry (pages 208-223): E. H. Blackmore and A. M. BlackmoreChapter 13 French Romantic Drama (pages 224-237): Barbara T. CooperChapter 14 Romantic Poetics in an Italian Context (pages 238-255): Piero GarofaloChapter 15 UGO Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi: Italy's Classical Romantics (pages 256-275): Margaret BroseChapter 16 Spanish Romanticism (pages 276-292): Derek FlitterChapter 17 Pushkin and Romanticism (pages 293-308): Michael BaskerChapter 18 Lermontov: Romanticism on the Brink of Realism (pages 309-325): Robert ReidChapter 19 Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism (pages 326-344): Roman KoropeckyjChapter 20 The Revival of the ODE (pages 345-359): John HamiltonChapter 21 "Unfinish'd Sentences": The Romantic Fragment (pages 360-375): Elizabeth Wanning HarriesChapter 22 Romantic Irony (pages 376-392): Jocelyne KolbChapter 23 Sacrality and the Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century (pages 393-412): Virgil NemoianuChapter 24 Nature (pages 413-432): James C. McKusickChapter 25 Romanticism and Capitalism (pages 433-449): Robert Sayre and Michael LowyChapter 26 Napoleon and European Romanticism (pages 450-466): Simon BainbridgeChapter 27 Orientalism (pages 467-485): Diego SagliaChapter 28 A Continent of Corinnes: The Romantic Poetess and the Diffusion of Liberal Culture in Europe, 1815?50 (pages 486-504): Patrick VincentChapter 29 Lighting up Night (pages 505-521): Lilian R. FurstChapter 30 Romantic Opera (pages 522-537): Benjamin WaltonChapter 31 At Home with German Romantic Song (pages 538-551): James ParsonsChapter 32 The Romantic System of the Arts (pages 552-570): Michael Ferber

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A Companion to Cultural Resource Management By Thomas F. King (ed.)
2011 | 590 Pages | ISBN: 1405198737 | PDF | 3 MB
A Companion to Cultural Resource Management is an essential guide to those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of CRM and heritage management. Expert contributors share their knowledge and illustrate CRM's practice and scope, as well as the core issues and realities in preserving cultural heritages worldwide. Edited by one of the world's leading experts in the field of cultural resource management, with contributions by a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, architectural historians, museum curators, historians, and representatives of affected groups Offers a broad view of cultural resource management that includes archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, historic structures, shipwrecks, scientific and technological sites and objects, as well as intangible resources such as language, religion, and cultural values Highlights the realities that face CRM practitioners "on the ground" Content: Chapter 1 Studying and Evaluating the Built Environment (pages 13-28): Kathryn M. KurandaChapter 2 Principles of Architectural Preservation (pages 29-53): David L. Ames and Leila HamrounChapter 3 Archaeology of the Distant Past (pages 54-77): Michael J. MorattoChapter 4 Archaeology of the Recent Past (pages 78-94): Thomas F. KingChapter 5 Geographies of Cultural Resource Management: Space, Place and Landscape (pages 95-113): William M. HunterChapter 6 Culturally Significant Natural Resources: Where Nature and Culture Meet (pages 114-127): Anna J. WillowChapter 7 History as a Cultural Resource (pages 128-140): Deborah Morse?KahnChapter 8 Portable Cultural Property: "This belongs in a Museum?" (pages 141-155): Wendy Giddens TeeterChapter 9 "Intangible" Cultural Resources: Values are in the Mind (pages 156-171): Sheri Murray EllisChapter 10 Religious Belief and Practice (pages 172-202): Michael D. McNallyChapter 11 Language as an Integrated Cultural Resource (pages 203-220): Bernard C. PerleyChapter 12 Challenges of Maritime Archaeology: In too Deep (pages 223-244): Sean KingsleyChapter 13 Historic Watercraft: Keeping them Afloat (pages 245-262): Susan B. M. LangleyChapter 14 Historic Aircraft and Spacecraft: Enfants Terribles (pages 263-271): Ric GillespieChapter 15 Studying and Managing Aerospace Crash Sites (pages 272-280): Craig Fuller and Gary QuiggChapter 16 Evaluating and Managing Technical and Scientific Properties: Rockets, Tang™, and Telescopes (pages 281-297): Paige M. PeytonChapter 17 Historic Battlefi elds: Studying and Managing Fields of Conflict (pages 298-318): Nancy FarrellChapter 18 Managing Our Military Heritage (pages 319-336): D. Colt DenfeldChapter 19 Linear Resources and Linear Projects: All in Line (pages 337-350): Charles W. WheelerChapter 20 Rock Art as Cultural Resource (pages 351-370): Linea Sundstrom and Kelley Hays?GilpinChapter 21 Consultation in Cultural Resource Management: An Indigenous Perspective (pages 373-384): Reba FullerChapter 22 A Displaced People's Perspective on Cultural Resource Management: Where We're From (pages 385-401): David NickellChapter 23 Cultural Resource Laws: The Legal Melange (pages 405-419): Thomas F. KingChapter 24 International Variety in Cultural Resource Management (pages 420-438): Thomas J. GreenChapter 25 Consultation and Negotiation in Cultural Resource Management (pages 439-453): Claudia NissleyChapter 26 Being a US Government Cultural Resource Manager (pages 454-471): Russell L. KaldenbergChapter 27 Making a Living in Private Sector Cultural Resource Management (pages 472-487): Tom LennonChapter 28 The Historic Built Environment: Preservation and Planning (pages 488-514): Diana PainterChapter 29 CRM and the Military: Cultural Resource Management (pages 515-533): Michael K. Trimble and Susan Malin?BoyceChapter 30 A Future for Cultural Resource Management? (pages 534-549): Thomas F. King

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A Companion to Chinese Cinema By Yingjin Zhang (ed.)
2012 | 696 Pages | ISBN: 1444330292 | PDF | 12 MB
A Companion to Chinese Cinema is a collection of original essays written by experts in a range of disciplines that provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution and current state of Chinese cinema. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of Chinese cinema to dateApplies a multidisciplinary approach that maps the expanding field of Chinese cinema in bold and definitive waysDraws attention to previously neglected areas such as diasporic filmmaking, independent documentary, film styles and techniques, queer aesthetics, star studies, film and other arts or mediaFeatures several chapters that explore China's new market economy, government policy, and industry practice, placing the intricate relationship between film and politics in a historical and international contextIncludes overviews of Chinese film studies in Chinese and English publications Content: Chapter 1 General Introduction (pages 1-22): Yingjin ZhangChapter 2 Transplanting Melodrama (pages 23-41): Zhang ZhenChapter 3 Artists, Cadres, and Audiences (pages 42-56): Paul ClarkChapter 4 Directors, Aesthetics, Genres (pages 57-74): Yingjin ZhangChapter 5 Hong Kong Cinema Before 1980 (pages 75-94): Robert ChiChapter 6 The Hong Kong New Wave (pages 95-117): Gina MarchettiChapter 7 Gender Negotiation in Song Cunshou's Story of Mother and Taiwan Cinema of the Early 1970s (pages 118-132): James WicksChapter 8 Second Coming (pages 133-150): Darrell William DavisChapter 9 Propaganda and Censorship in Chinese Cinema (pages 151-178): Matthew D. JohnsonChapter 10 Chinese Media Capital in Global Context (pages 179-196): Michael CurtinChapter 11 Film and Society in China (pages 197-217): Stanley RosenChapter 12 Vulnerable Chinese Stars (pages 218-238): Sabrina Qiong YuChapter 13 Ports of Entry (pages 239-261): Nikki J. Y. Lee and Julian StringerChapter 14 In Search of Chinese Film Style(s) and Technique(s) (pages 263-283): James UddenChapter 15 Film Genre and Chinese Cinema (pages 284-298): Stephen TeoChapter 16 Performing Documentation (pages 299-317): Qi WangChapter 17 Chinese Women's Cinema (pages 318-345): Lingzhen WangChapter 18 From Urban Films to Urban Cinema (pages 346-358): Yomi BraesterChapter 19 The Intertwinement of Chinese Film and Literature (pages 359-376): Liyan QinChapter 20 Diary of a Homecoming: (Dis?)Inhabiting the Theatrical in Postwar Shanghai Cinema (pages 377-399): Weihong BaoChapter 21 Cinema and the Visual Arts of China (pages 400-416): Jerome SilbergeldChapter 22 From Mountain Songs to Silvery Moonlight (pages 417-428): Jerome SilbergeldChapter 23 Cross?Fertilization in Chinese Cinema and Television (pages 429-448): Ying Zhu and Bruce RobinsonChapter 24 Chinese Cinema and Technology (pages 449-465): Gary G. XuChapter 25 Chinese Film Scholarship in Chinese (pages 467-483): Chen XiheChapter 26 Chinese Film Scholarship in English (pages 484-498): Chris BerryChapter 27 The Return of the Repressed (pages 499-517): Shuqin CuiChapter 28 Homosexuality and Queer Aesthetics (pages 518-534): Helen Hok?Sze LeungChapter 29 Alter?centering Chinese Cinema (pages 535-551): Yiman WangChapter 30 The Absent American: Figuring the United States in Chinese Cinema of the Reform Era (pages 552-574): Michael Berry

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