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Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

How did the USA establish its dominant role in international relations in the second half of the 20th century? What central ideas, policies and methods shaped Cold War international order? These questions are examined in this text - an account of the establishment of global political order.

This text provides ideas and strategies for affirming diversity and overcoming heterosexism and homophobia in a wide variety of settings, such as education, politics, the media and the helping profession.

This book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within a richly detailed account of its working at the village level.

This portrait of the cave bear conveys facts about this animal, including its structure, habits, and society, the Ice Age environment, sexual and racial variations, and extinction. The text also details the relationship between man and bear, and theories surrounding bear-hunting and bear cults.

Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the world. Contributors look beyond each society's "official" institutions to explore expressions of love, offering new perspectives on arranged marriages and polygamy and reexaminging as well the other side of the equation: rejection and grief.

Originally published in 1932, this treatise attempts to demonstrate that Karl Marx was a systematic thinker who developed a sound set of philosophical principles. The author explains how Marx engaged Hegel and his disciples in order to develop the notion of the dialectic.

This major anthology includes all of the major American poets--Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich--but also a broad sampling from voices that have not been widely heard--Native Americans, African Americans, women.

Straayer looks at commercial film and video from a new angle, and compels readers to consider the wealth of films made by and for non-traditional viewers. She surveys Hollywood productions ranging from the 1935 Stella Dallas to 1994's Mrs. Doubtfire.

Reflexivity refers to those moments in fiction when the work suddenly calls attention to itself as a fictional construct. This study explores reflexivity from different viewpoints, reviewing the rise of modernism and the production process in such films as "Rear Window" and "Tom Jones".

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative English-language anthology of primary source material on Korean civilization ever assembled. Encompassing social, intellectual, religious, and literary traditions, this volume covers the seventeenth century to the modern period.

Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.

An exploration of the social movements, ideas and beliefs that have been most influential in shaping the development of the empowerment tradition in US social work practice. An explanation of empowerment is given, and the basic processes of the empowerment approach are described.

The author argues that Korea's rapid industrial growth is neither miracle nor cultural mystery, but the outcome of a previously misunderstood political economy.

A representative sampling of works by the leading Chinese poets is acompanied by biographical sketches and a brief history of Chinese literature.

A survey of the literature of United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties.

A series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time - from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King. The text explores such issues as the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the persistence of the notion of paradise, and the lure of horror.

Collects English extracts reflecting the range of Virilio's diverse career. This book illustrates the development and interconnectedness of Virilio's work. It prefaces each extract by bibliographical and contextual commentary, and includes a guide to reading Virilio.

The introduction to this work recounts how the collection was assembled, how the lessons of the Cold War remain vital to the debate of current events, and how the influence of communism was able to reshape the direction of intellectual life.

Describes theories of normal human development advanced by Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jean Piaget, Nancy Chodorow, Daniel Levinson, Erik Erikson, and Margaret Mahler. This book features chapters examining corresponding ideologies concerning maturation and development in middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.

Attempting to find answers and to come to grips with some of the dilemmas confronting security in the wake of the Cold War, this text represents a wide range of views on changing concepts of security at the turn of the millennium.