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In his latest book of poems, Wyatt Pruncy finds beauty, violence, mystery, and humour in a variety of public and private worlds. Wyatt Prunty's previous collections of poems, ''The Times Between, What Women Know, What Men Believe'', and ''Balance as Belief'' are also available from Johns Hopkins.
''Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here.''--Terence Cave, TLSThe pioneer of ''literary anthropology,'' Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field in an attempt to explain the human need for the ''particular form of make-believe'' known as ......
The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815
In the early 1800s, when once-powerful North American Indian peoples were being driven west across the Mississippi, a Shawnee prophet collapsed into a deep sleep. When he awoke, he told friends and family of his ascension to Indian heaven, where his grandfather had given him a warning: ''Beware of the religion of the white man: every Indian who ......
''[This book's] timeliness is remarkable. Now that the Western system of responsible (that is, profit-based) production has emerged as the victor over command economies, the secrets of how we did it may replace foreign relations as `topic A' at conferences, and historians who continue to reject `material civilization' as unworthy of genuine ......
Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology.''An exciting, major contribution to the field of history, for it establishes very convincingly that the growth of . . . power networks is as intrinsic to and characteristic of modern society as the growth of manorialism was to medieval society.''--American Historical ......
Focusing on the elections of 1980, 1982, and 1984, Mansfield critiques contemporary conservatism for its ignorance of the political theory implicit in the Constitution. ''Provides `food for thought' for both `left' and `right,' and in particular for the American citizens about whom this book is concerned.''--Bradley A. Kletscher, Constitutional ......
''An important transitional book, usefully summarizing the past and thoughtfully mapping out the future of a significant critic's theoretical project.''--Modern Philology.''There is a much greater emphasis on the reader's function as `performer' of the text in Prospecting than in Iser's other books. The two brilliant chapters on Beckett's fiction ......
With the end of the Cold War, says Thomas L. Pangle, liberal democracy was deprived of its traditional enemy, and forced to re-examine its internal structure and fundamental aims. One result has been the moral-relativist ''postmodernism'' of mainstream Western intellectuals. Focusing on Lyotard, Vattimo, and Rorty, The Ennobling of Democracy ......
