Readers and scholars often question the inclusion of the Book of Esther in the canon. Where, they wonder, do the book’s flagrant displays of hatred, deceit, violence, and the antidotal grotesqueries o
Much has been written about the economic and political implications of the contemporary process of globalization. Much less has been written about the specific cultural implications. Previously publis
Death is the opposite not of life, but of power. And as such, Mohammed Bamyeh argues in this original work, death has had a great and largely unexplored impact on the thinking of governance throughout
This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this pro
In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new school of literary studies that promises-or threaten
A new critical model drawing on the ideas of Wittgenstein and Cavell and focusing on the role of the ordinary and the familiar in the experience of writing and reading
Seventeen essays written by eminent literary critics and philosophers offer criticism grounded in the "ordinary" or natural language we all speak, based on the ordinary language philosophy deriving pa
In a trenchant critique of the full range of theoretical discourses that have come into favor in literary studies since the 1960s, Tony Hilfer demonstrates that none of the practitioners of these form
If the question of the 1970s was "Why can't Johnny read?" and the question of the 1980s was "Why can't Johnny think?" Orlofsky (music education, Troy State U.) asks the millennial question, "Why can't
Goldstein (education, U. of Texas, Austin) offers this text in an effort to reestablish "caring" in teaching and in teacher education, with an urge to move away from the "gentle smiles and warm hugs"
The dimension of religion in the life and work of Bakhtin has been fiercely contested--and willfully ignored--by critics. Unique in its in-depth focus on this subject, Bakhtin and Religion brings toge
Lowery (children's literature and language arts, U. of Florida) analyzes issues of race and class in 17 works of children's literature featuring immigrants. The volume is divided into six sections in
Recently, a number of Anglo-American philosophers of very different sorts--pragmatists, metaphysicians, philosophers of language, philosophers of law, moral philosophers--have taken a reflective rathe
This collection assembles in-depth and insightful writings by and about, and interviews with, one of the most fascinating writers of the twentieth century. Anyone interested in Lem's provocative and u
The Romanian critic Eugen Simion contests leading twentieth-century critics who deny the author a place in criticism by maintaining that the author's life can tell us nothing about his or her literary
The Russian critic M. M. Bakhtin has recently become a major figure in contemporary theory beyond his traditional influence in Slavic literary studies. Bakhtin in Contexts explores the revolutionary i
After Poststructuralism: Interdisciplinary and Literary Theory challenges the premises of and suggests new alternatives to the more extreme approaches in current literary theory. The essays collected
Focusing on the six year period after the protests at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 1999 Seattle Millennium Ministerial Conference, the book offers a unique analysis of the impact of the alter-
Introduction: studying human development -- Theories of development -- Genetics -- Prenatal development and birth -- Physical development in the first two years -- Cognitive development in the first t
