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American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader
Michael A. Elliott and Claudia Stokes
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader gathers together leading scholars of American literature to address the questions of methodology that have invigorated and divided their field: the rise of interdisciplinarity and the wealth of theoretical methods now available to the critic of American literature. Their engagement with these issues takes a unique form in this book: Each scholar has chosen a methodologically innovative essay, which he or she then introduces, explaining why it is both exemplary in its approach and central to the issues that most engage American literary scholarship today. The book includes both an introduction to the controversial interdisciplinary methods that have made American literary studies such a vibrant field, as well as groundbreaking scholarship on topics as diverse as James Fenimore Cooper, minstrel songs, and Lakota Indian stories.
This volume has been designed to serve as a starting point for teachers and students to explore the fundamental questions of American literary scholarship: What does "method" mean in literary studies? Which texts should it study? What makes literary study unique? What should literary scholarship do? American Literary Studies argues that these questions can only be answered through a discussion of the interdisciplinary methods currently in use by scholars today. Finally, an original introduction by Michael A. Elliott and Claudia Stokes explains why questions of method are crucial to American literary studies and how past scholars of American literature have tried to answer them.
Contributors include: Lauren Berlant, Russ Castronovo, Wai Chee Dimock, Ann duCille, Michael A. Elliott, Frances Smith Foster, Elaine A. Jahner, Rob Kroes, Arnold Krupat, Paul Lauter, Marilee Lindemann, W. T. Lhamon, Jr., Christopher J. Looby, David Palumbo-Liu, Roy Harvey Pearce, Lora Romero, Ramón Saldívar, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Werner Sollors, Claudia Stokes, Claudia Tate, Paula A. Treichler, Priscilla Wald, Michael Warner, Laura Wexler, Sau-ling C. Wong.
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Health, Illness, and the Social Body: A Critical Sociology
Peter E.S. Freund, Meredith B. McGuire, and Linda S. Podhurst
This text presents a critical, holistic interpretation of health, illness, and human bodies that emphasizes power as a key social-structural factor in health and in societal responses to illness.
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The Theology of Dorothee Soelle
Sarah K. Pinnock
Dorothee Soelle is a pioneering figure: a leader among German Christians in grappling with Auschwitz; a poet expressing utopian longings; a political activist, socialist, and liberation theologian; a mystic offering a vision of faith for people disillusioned with bourgeois Christianity.
This is the first English language collection of original essays analyzing Soelle's work. It explores her contributions to biblical hermeneutics, Christian feminism, social ethics, post-Holocaust thought, Mysticism, literature, and political and liberation theology.
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Memory and Emotion
Paul Reisberg and Paula T. Hertel
Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony, psychobiologists, to name just a few. Memory and Emotion spans all these areas and brings them together into one volume. Daniel Reisberg and Paula Hertel have assembled contributions from the most visible and productive researchers working at the intersection of emotion and memory. The result is a sophisticated profile of our current understanding of how memory is shaped both by emotion and emotional disorder. The diverse list of topics includes the biology of traumatic memory, the memory disorders produced by depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, the nature of emotional memory both in children and the elderly, and the collective memory processes at work in remembering the Holocaust. This unified collection of cutting-edge research will be an invaluable guide to scholars and students in many different research areas.
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Intellectual Property and Doing Business in China
Deli Yang
An intellectual property (IP) system was established in China in 1985. Since then, the merits and drawbacks of the system have become apparent in theory and practice. Despite the fact that a great deal has been written about the Chinese IP system, systematic studies of the subject are still scarce, especially from a corporate management perspective. The book has three aims. It evaluates the problems UK and US multinational enterprises have encountered in their IP flows into different enterprises in China. It also analyses the causes of these problems and suggests methods of avoiding future problems. The overall rationale for the book is to fill a void in our understanding of IP rights in China, particularly from a corporate perspective. It is important to draw upon a variety of discipline approaches when exploring these issues, which are influenced by the political context, the legislative framework, economic factors and the existence of cultural differences. The book is composed of ten chapters containing studies of related IP history, previous study on the area, and the current empirical survey. Major findings are discussed in later chapters of the book. In the conclusions, the book provides eleven suggestions for future practice for companies involved with IP flows.
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Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders
John Francis Burke
It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing. That there are political repercussions from these changes is also self-evident. How the changes can, must, and should alter our very understanding of democracy, though, may not be obvious. Political theorist John Burke addresses these issues by offering a “mestizo” theory of democracy and tracing its implications for public policy.
The challenge before the United States in the coming century, Burke posits, will be to articulate a politics that neither renders cultures utterly autonomous from each other nor culminates in their homogeneous assimilation. Fortuitously or ironically, the way to do this comes from the very culture that is now necessitating the change.
Mestizo is a term from the Mexican socio-political experience. It means “mixture” and implies a particular kind of mixture that has resulted in a blend of indigenous, African, and Spanish genes and cultures in Latin America. This mixture is not a “melting pot” experience, where all eventually become assimilated; rather, it is a mixture in which the influences of the different cultures remain identifiable but not static. They all evolve through interaction with the others, and the resulting larger culture also evolves as the parts do. Mestizaje (the collective noun form) is thus process more than condition.
John Burke analyzes both American democratic theory and multiculturalism within political theology to develop a model for cultivating a democratic political community that can deal constructively with its cultural diversity. He applies this new model to a number of important policy issues: official language(s), voting and participation, equal employment opportunity, housing, and free trade. He then presents an intensive case study, based on a parish “multicultural committee” and choir in which he has been a participant, to show how the “engaged dialogue” of mestizaje might work and what pitfalls await it.
Burke concludes that in the United States we are becoming mestizo whether we know it or not and whether we like it or not. By embracing the communitarian but non-assimilationist stance of intentional mestizaje, we can forge a future together that will be not only greater than the sum of its parts but also freer and more just than its past. -
Beyond Theodicy: Jewish and Christian Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust
Sarah K. Pinnock
Beyond Theodicy analyzes the rising tide of objections to explanations and justifications for why God permits evil and suffering in the world. In response to the Holocaust, striking parallels have emerged between major Jewish and Christian thinkers centering on practical faith approaches that offer meaning within suffering. Author Sarah K. Pinnock focuses on Jewish thinkers Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch and Christian thinkers Gabriel Marcel and Johann Baptist Metz to present two diverse rejections of theodicy, one existential, represented by Buber and Marcel, and one political, represented by Bloch and Metz. Pinnock interweaves the disciplines of philosophy of religion, post-Holocaust thought, and liberation theology to formulate a dynamic vision of religious hope and resistance.
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Internationalizing the Business Curriculum: A Field Guide
Robert F. Scherer, S. T. Beaton, M. F. Ainina, and J. F. Meyer
The book will enable the interested administrator to strengthen the Business School by including the internationalization\globalization dimension. This will, in turn, give your students and tomorrow’s business leaders a better understanding of how to conduct business in a rapidly changing business environment. Thoroughly contemporary, the book includes two chapters devoted to technology: (1)"A View from Abroad" and (2) "Expanding Horizons with E-learning." The book is chock-full of practical tips, guidelines and insights as well as the theories behind the internationalization process. The authors are "champions" of International Business who have effectively changed their business schools and campuses to encompass a global perspective and global skills to meet the challenges of today’s workplace. The book also includes a bank of CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research) programs/addresses, which provides a breadth of projects and programs for your faculty and administrators to discover throughout the country.
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Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society
Sulochana R. Asirvatham, Corinne Ondine Pache, and John Watrous
Between Magic and Religion represents a radical rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term 'religion' in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such concepts as religion and magic, highlighting the wide variety of meanings evoked by these shifting terms from ancient to modern times. The contributors put these meanings to the test, applying a wide range of methods in exploring the many varieties of available historical, archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence. No reader will ever think of magic and religion the same way after reading through the findings presented in this book. Both terms emerge in a new light, with broader applications and deeper meanings.
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1979: The Year That Shaped the Modern Middle East
David W. Lesch
Lesch's analysis of 1979 is interesting, accurate, and well written. After briefly reviewing the watershed events themselves, he jumps forward in time, proving that these events were truly monumental, using later developments as evidence. In a chapter aptly entitled "Future Past," Lesch shows how the events of 1979 are every bit as salient today as they were then. But the book has too much padding. The 25-page introduction strays from the book's topic to list various other books on particular years in history and other trivialities. The 25-page appendix reprints several readily-available texts, including the Camp David accords, the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, and the Carter doctrine.
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Unleashing Kids' Potential: What Parents, Grandparents, and Teachers Need to Know
Karen A. Waldron
Unleashing Kids' Potential turns research into reality. Dr. Waldron shows parents, grandparents, step-parents, and other adults how to have more fun with children and teens, solve family problems, and develop a lifetime of open communication. Dr. Waldron (who teaches children, young adults, and graduate students) shares practical lessons on ways teachers and parents can work together so children become Winners.The author of this beneficial book is a talented storyteller, weaving humorous and poignant anecdotes about real people's successes at home and school.
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Designing Music Environments for Early Childhood
Susan H. Kenney and Diane C. Persellin
A compilation of methods, ideas, and suggestions for creating special places to encourage music making by young children. Developed by early childhood music experts over years of experience and research, the suggestions also offer ways to effectively explore the Prekindergarten Music Education Standards.
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Student Solutions Manual for Elementary Differential Equations and Elementary Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems
William F. Trench
This book was published previously by Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning.
This book has been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the Editorial Board of theAmerican Institute ofMathematics in connection with the Institute’s Open Textbook Initiative. It may be copied, modified, redistributed, translated, and built upon subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Céramiques Mycéniennes d'Ougarit
Marguerite Yon, Vassos Karageorghis, and Nicolle E. Hirschfeld
Les fouilles menées depuis 1929 par la mission française de Ras Shamra-Ougarit sur la côte de Syrie, et qui se poursuivent à ce jour, ont livre une quantité considérable de céramique de type mycénien, qui constitue dans la dernière phase de l'Age du Bronze un des fossiles directeurs les plus significatifs. Les objets mycéniens d'Ougarit déjà publiés representaient la proportion la plus importante du repertoire connu à travers tout le Proche-Orient; mais une partie restait inédite, comprenant notamment des échantillons d'étude rapportés au Louvre et les découvertes des campagnes récentes. Le présent volume fait connaître près de quatre cents nouveaux documents, que l'on a tenté de replacer dans leur contexte archéologique, et qui bénéficient des travaux les plus récents sur cette céramique et sa diffusion dans l'antiquité.
Marguerite YON, qui a poursuivi des recherches sur la céramique antique, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS (Maison de l'Orient, Lyon), fouilleur de Salamine (site de la ville) et des sanctuaires phéniciens et du port de guerre de Kition Bamboula (Larnaca) a Chypre, a dirigé de 1978 à 1998 la mission française de Ras Shamra-Ougarit (Syrie).
Vassos KARAGEORGHIS, dont les travaux sur la céramique mycénienne font autorité, Directeur des Antiquités de Chypre (1963-1989), puis Professeur d'Archéologie a l'Université de Chypre (1992-1996), a fouillé en particulier la nécropole royale de Salamine et le quartier des temples du Bronze Récent et phéniciens de Kition-Kathari (Larnaca) a Chypre.
Nicolle HIRSCHFELD, Professeur a I'Université du Texas à Austin et candidate au doctorat, a mené des travaux importants sur la céramique mycénienne trouvée en Égée, en Turquie (épave d'Uluburun), à Chypre, en Syrie et sur la côte du Levant, en Égypte, en même temps que des recherches sur le commerce de l'Age du Bronze Récent en Méditerranée orientale.
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The Moral Life
Steven Luper and Curtis Brown
The second edition of The Moral Life covers a wide variety of applied ethical issues, from issues that confront the individual to international, intergenerational, and interspecies issues. The diverse readings cover a range of differing viewpoints chosen to stimulate class discussions.
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The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works
Heather I. Sullivan
One of the major challenges in Western literature and philosophy today is seeking non-dualistic perspectives of the world. This study examines the German romantic Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) with just such an end in mind. It focuses on how Tieck's early works combine multifaceted narrative contexts, like framing tales and the mixing of genres, with ambiguously defined connections among the various figures and the natural world in order to reveal unexpected and often inexplicable interdependencies. It also demonstrates how Tieck's early novellas and novels, when considered in light of the «intercontextuality» of the figures in their layered tales, suggest a much less autonomous «subject.»
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A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction
Victoria Aarons
Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in 20th-century American Jewish fiction, this study focuses upon the short story, and on figures such as Aleichem, Schwartz, Roth, Malamud, Salinger and Spiegelman.
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Beyond the Swastika
Peter O'Brien
Since unification, alarmist reports of neo-Nazi attacks against foreign workers and new immigrants have led to fears that Germany is reverting to a xenophobic nationalist stance. Peter O'Brien argues that fears of a resurgent German nationalism are overstated. He traces, in the policies of the Federal Republic, a longstanding and steadily increasing commitment to the liberal principles of the Basic Law, which legally protect foreigners from hostile German nationalism. The real cause for concern in Germany, O'Brien argues, is the very entrenched liberalism which holds nationalism in check; a 'technocratic liberalism' which overzealously protects Germany's liberal democracy and prevents minority groups from achieving full rights of political participation.
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Introduction to a Special Education: The Inclusive Classroom
Karen A. Waldron
A unique introduction text that guides prospective special and regular educators toward understanding and meeting the needs of students with exceptionalities. Written in an integrated, non-categorical format to match the placement of most students. This book maintains the critical information of the traditional introductory text: the history of special education, state and federal legislation, and the role of the courts. Yet this book goes beyond conventional content. Based on the premise that all students are special and that "good teaching is still good teaching," it provides more than one hundred reproducible tables listing collaborative and teaching strategies to improve the education of all students, including those traditionally not eligible for special services.
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Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East
David W. Lesch
The "Syrian crisis" of 1957, sparked by a covert attempt by the Eisenhower administration to overthrow what it perceived to be an emerging Soviet client-state in the Middle East, represented the denouement of a badly misguided U.S. foreign policy, according to David Lesch. The repercussions of this incident, which almost precipitated a superpower confrontation, made glaringly obvious the pitfalls of a Middle East policy so obsessed with the "Soviet threat" that it precluded a reasoned analysis of the complex dynamics of the region.
Focusing on regional politics and utilizing newly available primary documentation, Syria and the United States offers a multi-dimensional analysis of Syrian-American relations during the Eisenhower years and presents a new interpretation of the "Syrian crisis" and the evolution of U.S. foreign policy that led to it. In addition, Lesch offers important new insight into the roles played by Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and the United Nations as well as a thorough examination of the Syrian political scene. The implications of the past for the present, Lesch emphasizes, should not go unremarked in light of current events - and Syria's pivotal role in them - in the Middle East. -
Constructivity in Computer Science
J. Paul Myers Jr. and Michael J. O'Donnell
Mathematicians have long recognized the distinction between an argument showing that an interesting object exists and a procedure for actually constructing the object. Computer science adds a new dimension of interest in constructivity, since a computer program is a formal description of a constructive procedure that can be executed automatically. It has beenover a decade since a conference was devoted to constructivity, and never before has one been held specifically relating computer science to constructivity. Thus, this proceedings volume is the most concentrated offering ever produced of the diverse ways in which constructivity and computer science are related. The papers cover semantics and type theory, logic and theorem proving, real and complex analysis, topology and combinatorics, nonconstructive graph-theoretical techniques, and curriculum and pedagogic issues. The book offers a concentrated view of the many ways in which constructivity has assumed importance in computer science, and contains results available nowhere else.
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