The central concern of this radically innovative study is tooffer a critique of traditional Hispanism in the light of its assumption of atranscendental subject and its corresponding insistence on the autonomy of theliterary text. Rereading canonic Spanish texts from Renaissance humanism tomodernist literature, Read deploys a theoretical basis of ......
Spain's Golden Age represents a transition from a largely oral tradition to a world in which information and culture were transmitted by way of written or printed documents. Contemporary theory has done much to elucidate the cultural and aesthetic implica
An Ecological History of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.-A.D. 10,000 opens with the first known agriculture and ends in a future in which we might have to use fewer resources to feed more people. The book describes past and present agriculture and looks at future possibilities. Using environment, population, and available energy sources as the principal ......
Rhetorics, Allegory and the Interpretation of Postmodernity
The central concern of theseeight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at theshifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The authorcontends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the "spacetime" betweenthe Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension betweenaesthetics and ......
This volume provides a general account of the philosophy of David Hume in a way that shows that he is, contrary to common belief, a highly systematic thinker whose thought and personality are closely related. it is also designed to assist the reader to make the most informed use of the rich resources of contemporary Hume scholarship.
Sarah Cotterill's poems bring together the dramas of ordinary life and a complex understanding of the natural world. The poems are moments of suspension: early bridges braided of things found on the ground, in the wild. They are meant for travel on foot and in solitude. When we trust our weight to one, the whole of the bridge shifts, though the ......
Based on the premise that creativity is imagination coupled with intent, the aim of this text is to show the reader how to discover creative power and then how best to develop and hone that power.
Land and Law in California represents a collection of 13 essays by Paul W. Gates. Gates discusses and analyzes those those california land policies which date back to mid 1800's that have shaped present day landholdings in California
