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''One of our very finest poets in full stride.'' -- Harvard Review, on Adjusting to the Light A 1995 recipient of the Academy Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Miller Williams is one of America's best known and loved poets. He also has won the prestigious Poets' Prize; the Amy Lowell Award in Poetry, presented by ......
From Mennonite Missionary to Anthropologist in the Argentine Chaco
Unique in ethnography, Nurturing Doubt documents the transforming effects of field experiences on a young Mennonite who went to Argentina to work with the Toba, first as a missionary and later as an anthropologist. Elmer Miller insightfully probes the documents--diaries, field journals, and letters--of both his lives, revealing as he does the ways ......
In response to widespread cultural fantasies about the child--including childhood innocence, the child as origin of the adult, the fetal emergence of subjectivity, and the ''inner child'' movement--Hide and Seek examines representations of the child in fiction, psychoanalysis, and popular culture.Concentrating on the ''go-between'' function of the ......
Writing in The Hudson Review, David Mason has characterized Lorna Goodison's work as a ''revelation to me, much of it beautiful for its simple negotiation of the line between life and art.''One of the most distinguished contemporary poets of the Caribbean, Goodison draws on both African and European inheritances in her finely crafted poems, which ......
This collection is distinguished first by its focus on women in struggle over the course of U.S. history and second by its source, the pioneering journal Feminist Studies, which has from its inception sought to link scholarship to activism and has made a major contribution to the development of women's history. The editors have selected many of ......
''Real mystery fans will enjoy this survey of nearly 300 female sleuths in 100 years of British and U.S. fiction.'' -- Feminist Bookstore News This new edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character ......
A haunting fascination fuels our interest in the robot, the android, the cyborg, the replicant. Born in science fiction literature, the artificial human has come into its own in films, lurching to life, holding a mirror to humanity's soul.Beginning with a pre-history of the filmic robot, J. P. Telotte traces its development through early sci-fi ......
Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music
In Heartland Excursions, one of today's foremost ethnomusicologists takes the reader along for a delightful, wide-ranging tour of his workplace. Bruno Nettl provides an insightful, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, always pithy ethnography of midwestern university schools of music from a different perspective in each of four chapters, alternating among ......
Written by William E. Berry, Sandra Braman, Clifford Christians, Thomas G. Guback, Steven J. Helle, Louis W. Liebovich, John C. Nerone, and Kim B. Rotzoll In Last Rights, eight communications scholars at the University of Illinois critique and expand on an influential classic that has been used as text or whipping boy in communications and ......
