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''Home'' is the unnamed goal in this collection whose characters are somehow always searching for that ideal state of calm and warmth and perfect tolerance. Of course, that dream is quite unlike the hard world of Providence, where these dreamers really live - a world of wary neighbours and vague priests, of flinty teachers, of parents distant and ......
Includes the first complete English translation of Jacques Derrida's book-length essay, ''Shibboleth for Paul Celan.''''Despite a growing interest in Celan over the past twenty years, there is no collection in English which comes as close to the extended critical presentation assembled here. Word Traces will be a standard text on Celan--the ......
First published in 8 A.D. when he was 52, Ovid's epic poem contains profoundly entertaining tales of Adonis, Midas, Apollo, Icarus, and many others. (Poetry)
In this text, Ford offers an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America. From office towers in the central business district to commercial strips in the ''edge city'', Ford shows how changes in the built environment parallel ......
''That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology'', wrote Aldo Leopold in 1933, ''but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics''. Since then, every generation has taken up Leopold's search for a ''land ethic'' to guide decision-making which would balance economic considerations with concerns for beauty, ......
In Heuretics--a word defined as ''the branch of logic that treats the art of discovery or invention''--Gregory Ulmer sets forth new methods appropriate for conducting cultural studies research in an age of electronic hypermedia. ''A book like Ulmer's, that aims to put theory to use to create a generative apparatus for the writer's invention, is a ......
Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. Throughout, he progressively ......
A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology
''The definitive account . . . Detailed, meticulous, and accurate.''--American Scientist.Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars ......
