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A monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore

Entering the debate on American literary history, this study offers a perspective on what constitutes not only the canon of American literature, but also the notion of America itself. The author argues for a conception of American culture which is more responsive to trans-national ideologies.

Offers fresh readings of three tales: "The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter", "The Tale of Ise", and "The Tale of Genji". The author contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilization.

Traces the origins and meanings of the Aesopian fable, as well as its function in Renaissance culture and subsequently. The author shows how the fable worked as a medium of political analysis and communication, especially from or on behalf of the politically powerless.

Trespasses presents key writings of the cultural critic Misao Miyoshi, including eleven previously published selections and a major new essay in which he calls for a global environmental protection studies.

Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure.

Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order.

A literary exploration of the prevalence of death--its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation--in Richard Wright's work.

Theorizes the cultural reactions - within the realms of visual arts, literature, and the social sciences - to the oppression of the Chilean dictatorship. This title considers the importance of Walter Benjamin for the theoretical self-understanding of the Latin American intellectual left.

Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America. Richard helped to organize the 1987 International Conference on Latin American Women's Literature in Santiago. This work develops some of the key issues brought to the fore during that landmark meeting.

Thomas Lucchesi Jr, is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life - because grief alone inspires him to write - and searching for secret meaning in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick".

Presents a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly global world. This book explores how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends.

Examining how the limitations of representation have been discussed from Kant up through Marxist theorists of postmodernism, this title illuminates the epistemological, political, aesthetic, ideological, and cultural issues hinging on the inevitable failures of representation.

A comprehensive guide to the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882-1960) and to developments in Kleinian theory. It offers an analysis and a demonstration of the distinctive usefulness of Klein's thought for understanding modernist literature and visual art.

The expression laissez les bons temps rouler - let the good times roll - conveys the sense of exuberance and good times associated with southern Louisiana's cultural milieu. This title shows how vexed issues of cultural identity and authenticity are negotiated through the expressions of emotion, sensation, sound, and movement in Cajun music.

For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of capitalism point to a transformation in the way human beings experience time and duration. Focusing on Pynchon's novels as representative artifacts of the postwar period, this book analyzes this transformation in relation not only to Pynchon's work but also to its literary, and cultural context.

Suitable for all those for whom the politics of subjectivity pose real problems of authority, identity, and belief, this book discusses its roles within the fields of legal theory, social science, fiction, philosophy, and ethics.

The "Other" - source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonised and romanticised. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. This title encompasses Segalen's attempts to define "true Exoticism."

The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. This title argues for an understanding of that cinema as a negotiation between a national aesthetic tradition of realism and a nascent post-modern image culture. It is suitable for scholars and students in different areas of film studies.

Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields - not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. This book formulates a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization.

Explores the consequences of post-modernity for Latin American social theory and public policy.

This volume examines Asian staging of Western canonical theatre, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts.

Author has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. This book translates into English many of his seminal essays and, in the process, introduces the thought of one of Brazil's critics and theorists of the late twentieth century.

Bringing together an unusual array of South African writing, this book examines South African literature and theoretical writings, that resist the neocolonial outcome. Making an intervention in the debates about cultural production in the postcolonial areas of global capitalism, it is useful to specialists in South African fiction, and poetry.

Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government."

Offers a commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept. Drawing on readings of literature and of official documents and decrees with exiles and refugees, this book uses various historical incidents as a means of highlighting a recurring trope within constructs of nationalism.

Writing involves risks - the risk of being persecuted, the risks of being made a champion for causes in which one does not believe, and the risk of inadvertently supporting a reader's prejudices. This title illuminates the process by which writers negotiate difficult path to free themselves from the ideological and contextual traps.

An analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artefacts that represent it.

Examines writers, philosophers, and political leaders in China and the West, and reveals the extent to which they incorporate ideas about culture" and "aesthetics" in their theories and practices.

Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children.