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Demonstrates the existence of a coherent pre-Islamic Arabian myth that was subsequently incorporated into Islamic poetic tradition. This book dissects the Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people.

Provides a "picture of Chinese literature of the past" that illustrates the four great literary genres of China: the classics, prose, poetry, and the literature of entertainment. This book combines personal insights with innovative historical accounts in a genre-based approach that aims to move beyond the typical chronology of dynasties.

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how Portuguese immigrant - merchants, professionals, and intellectuals, for the most part - reasserted their Judaism, while maintaining their Iberian heritage.

A medieval Arab-Islamic folk romance, this book offers unusual perspectives on issues of gender, religion, race, and ethnicity, as woven into the art of an oral narrative. The folk are composed between the 13th and 16th centuries during the Mamluk age.

Consists of 30 essays, most of them written by Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian scholars. The essays herein reflect a multiplicity of projects, ranging from explicitly national issues to quite "universal" themes such as signs of media, cinema, music, writing, actoriality, gastronomy, mental illness, language, habitus, distinction, and more.

An important historical account by a senior official of the South Vietnamese government, covering the period after World War II to the end of the Vietnam War.

Presents an introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. This book features practical examples of how semiotics can be used. It is suitable for those who want to understand the whys and wherefores of semiotics.

Develops new historical methods to discover the Chicana's own story.

Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world.

The role of gender in making and shaping mathematicians.

Presents an account of the religious dimension of Jacques Derrida's thought.

A work that presents the registrational practices of organists from 1550 to 1800. Along with the many stoplists and discussions of performance traditions, it discusses the religious and political context for each period and region - and how these affected the work of composers and organ builders.

Focussing on Leibniz's principle: 'nothing is without reason', this book shows that the principle of reason is in fact a principle of being. It also contains discussions of language, translation, reason, objectivity, and technology - as well as readings of Leibniz, Kant, Aristotle, and Goethe.

A newly translated epic about the premier leader of the Songhay Empire.

Reprint of a classic work in folklore and literature by a famous scholar.

Engages in an interdisciplinary investigation of the political technologies of the body in the wake of postmodernity, technologies apparent in film, medicine, entertainment industries, politics, and the arts. This book reflects the growing concern with interfaces between humans and computer and bio-medical technologies.

Covers the field of semiotics from Aesthetics to Zoosemiotics. This work contains sixty-five encyclopedic articles, a consolidated bibliography of almost 3,000 titles, an index of names, and an index of terms. It is intended for those who desire a comprehensive survey of this diverse field.

Contains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. This title is suitable for students of Heidegger and Hegel and of contemporary Continental philosophy.

Documents Dorothy Arzner's film career, her work as a film editor, her directorial debut, and her departure from Hollywood in 1943. This book analyzes a number of Arzner's films, and discusses how feminist preoccupations shape them. It treats Arzner's lesbianism and the role that desire between women played in her career, her life, and her films.

Cultural studies at the intersections of global media and everyday life: the Gulf War, the Beijing massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the stock market crash of 1987.

A sensitive analysis of the spiritual significance of ancient Greek religion.

The definitive study of the great filmmaker, set in the context of Russian cultural history.

Re-reads Freud and articulates a fresh model of "perverse" desire.

Tells the story of the most famous unit in the Union Army - the Iron Brigade. The brigade was initially made up of the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and the 19th Indiana Volunteers; later it was reinforced by the 24th Michigan Volunteers.

A ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine myth as a central cultural force

A chronological consideration of Heidegger's texts that assesses his achievement as a thinker, while pointing to the sources of his political and ethical failure. This work addresses the religious significance of Heidegger's thought.

Traces the cultural and social transformations and interventions that created a sense of Armenian nationality in the 19th and 20th centuries. This book shows that while the limits of Armenia excluded the diaspora, at a time of state renewal, the boundaries have been expanded to include Armenians who live beyond the borders of the republic.

A child of both the French and Industrial revolutions, Flora Tristan (1803-1844) became a social critic and political activist. The authors reflect the experiences that shaped Tristan's politics and philosophy, and their introduction and headnotes trace Tristan's life and describe the social and intellectual milieu of nineteenth-century France.

Explores the question of the kind of canon, privileged status, or Logos, the Torah actually has for the post-modern Western Jew. This book documents the intellectual and spiritual odyssey of one of North America's foremost Jewish biblical scholars.

Sets the pieces of the story that are known to historians into their cultural, religious, and political context. This book explores important questions about the period and about historical memory that is of interest to both the general reader and students of the period.