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Examines the literary and intellectual relationships between "Piers Plowman" and "The Faerie Queene". This book links these two rich and problematical poems by showing their development from a common religious and artistic matrix and by assessing their roles in the evolution of allegory.

Applying the rules and systems of mathematics and logic to instance ontology, this work argues for the validity and problem-solving capacities of instance ontology, and associates it with a version of the realist position which is named by the author as "moderate realism".

Discusses the nature of the internalization processes and structure building, the nature and role of reality, preoedipal modes of perceiving and the permanence of a "psychotic core" in every personality, the relationship of psychoanalysis to culture, mastery and defense, and the nature of time.

This publication seeks to help students learn Italian through opera. Designed to supplement intermediate level programmes, it can be used in courses emphasizing language, conversation, and/or culture. Six operas are examined, including "La Boheme", "Otello", "Tosca" and "La traviata".

An examination of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House" and "Hard Times", the two novels written after "David Copperfield". Alexander Welsh offers a reassessment of this important stage in the author's career and provides discussions of and insights into each novel.

An examination of two examples of social action on the Internet -the organized protests against Lotus MarketPlace and the Clipper chip -in order to evaluate the impact of the net on our social and political life.

A perspective on the problem of bankruptcy. It provides an introduction to and evaluation of the federal bankruptcy system, places legal issues of bankruptcy in their social context, explores the conflicting interests of those involved, and suggests a humanitarian approach to bankruptcy.

Impoverished after 50 years of continuous war, Spain negotiated treaties with her three most powerful enemies at the end of the 16th century. This investigation looks at the strategies which led King Philip III to seek peace, arguing that this was in fact part of a grand plan to regain power.

A study of ekphrasis - a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a work of art or other object - in Virgil's final masterpiece, the "Aeneid". The author shows how the descriptions provide metaphors for the entire poem and reinforce its ambiguities.

Between 1892 and 1920 nearly 30 Arabic periodicals by, for and about women were produced in Egypt for circulation around the Arab world. This book is a history of such texts which explores the connections between literary culture and social transformation.

This collection of poetry was the winner of the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

An interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey which attempts to show the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. The author argues that a hermeneutic approach illuminates the complex relations between religion and politics in post-Ottoman Turkey.

An examination of the many unknown attempts by some people to negotiate with the Nazis for the release of Jews in exchange for money, goods or political benefits. Characters are described, both Jews and Nazis, and the moral issues raised by their negotiations.

Freud's psychoanalytical discoveries have had a profound impact on morals but in this text, the author asserts that Freud is misunderstood on the various psychological issues relevant to morality and the ethical implications that can be drawn from his views. He reinterprets Freud's ideas.

Provides historical and anthropological perspectives on the Western family, focusing on family life in Italy from the Roman Empire to the present. Topics covered include marriage, divorce, matchmaking, inheritance, sexual mores, celibacy, adoption and property rights.

First published in 1597, the "Metaphysical Disputations" provide a philosophical introduction to the medieval Aristotelian discussion of efficient causality. Disputations 17, 18 and 19, translated from Spanish, deal with causality, types of efficient causes, human free choice, and chance.

George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher and Anglican priest, settled in Newport, Rhode Island, one of the few places in New England that was hospitable to Anglicans. There his lively mind and sympathetic spirit involved him in a variety of interests. This book is an account of an episode of his religious life of colonial New England.

Here, environmentalists argue that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relationships among ecology, economics and ethics. Concerns addressed include loss of forests, species extinction and toxification.