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The basic premise of this study is that Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is a unified work, lyrical, yet epic in quality, design, and spirit.

An interpretation of the plot and characters of James's noted story.

How British-owned railways affected the development of Argentine economic nationalism.

A literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature?

How Faulkner's work can be viewed as an extraordinary attempt to transform the panorama of human social experience into thematic material.

A series of lectures delivered by five eminent statesmen and political theorists at the University of Texas in the spring of 1966 on the general theme of "The United States and the Atlantic Community: Issues and Prospects."

A moving, bittersweet tale of personal problems and family relationships.

An assessment of the foundations of political unity in the United States.

A thought-provoking analysis of the 1988 presidential election.

A study of how flint tools and weapons were made.

An incisive analysis of the labor-market experiences of Mexican American workers in the late twentieth century.

The first study to examine the agrarian history of a region in South America from the mid-sixteenth through late-seventeenth century.

In this pathfinding study of the Mayan language family, John S. Robertson explores major changes that have occurred in the core of Mayan grammar from the earliest, reconstructed ancestral language down through the colonial languages to the modern language

With subtlety and imagination, Robert Keefe examines Bronte's works as the creative response to the deaths of her family members, particularly the loss of her mother.

Bryce Wood describes the temptations laid before the leaders of one powerful state by its occasionally recalcitrant neighbors, and the ways of reacting that were found.

Twenty-one factual accounts of children who suffered rejection in the public schools.

The first book in English to study in depth the remarkable convention that produced the Mexican Constitution of 1917.

In this interpretation of the independence movement, Nettie Lee Benson tells the true story of Mexico's transition from colonial status to a federal state.

This book enables the reader to understand Borges's fantasies in ways that show them to be amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind.

In this innovative study of pragmatics in Brazilian Portuguese, Dale Koike analyzes the politeness phenomenon, specifically in the context of speech acts known as "directives."

The oral history of a lifelong resident of Caddo Lake.

This pioneering study of the evolution of blasphemy laws from the early Islamic empires to the present-day Taliban uncovers the history and questionable motives behind Pakistan's blasphemy laws and calls for a return to the prophet Muhammad's peaceful vis

Exploring the colonial encounter between France and Morocco as a process of embodiment, and the Muslim body as the place of resistance to the state, this book provides the first history of medicine, health, disease, and the welfare state in Morocco.

Through in-depth investigation of Soderbergh's work in film, television, and video, as well as an extensive interview with the filmmaker, this book offers a new model of film authorship in the twenty-first century that emphasizes its fundamentally collabo

This pioneering study examines television's impact on an Amazonian river town from the first broadcasts in Gurupa, in 1983, to the present.

This intriguing book provides an extraordinary tour of the Eastern European influence on Cuban culture and the multifaceted legacy of Soviet oppression and idealism.

Applies Deleuzian theories of cinema in a comparative approach to examine multiple genres and works from the most important national cinematic traditions

Foregrounding a fundamental aspect of the Swedish auteur's work that has been routinely ignored, as well as the vibrant connection between postwar American queer culture and European art cinema, this book offers a pioneering reading of Bergman's films as

Enriched with ethnographic stories of Ecuadorian women who struggle with the autoimmune disorder, lupus erythematosus, this book is one of the first to explore the meanings and experiences of medically managed chronic illness in the developing world.

Provides a personal view of a maquiladora worker's struggles with factory labor conditions, poverty, and violence as she journeys toward education, financial opportunity, and, ultimately, empowerment