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Quaternary Landscapes Linda C. K. Shane and Edward J. Cushing, Editors 1991 Fall: Research into the Quaternary period (the latest one million years of the earth's history) involves the study of dramatic changes in climate, flora, fauna, landforms, and cultural evolution. This book represents a synthesis of the most recent and significant research in the combined fields of archaeology, glacial geology, paleoecology, paleolimnology, geography, and climate change.
Selected Philosophical and Methodological Papers Paul E. Meehl C. Anthony Anderson and Keith Gunderson, Editors 1991 Fall: A collection of papers that demonstrates the unusual scope and imagination of Meehl’s contributions to the field of philosophy, inlcuding incisive writings on the mind-body problem, freedom and determinism, psychoanalytic explanation, theory appraisal, moral aspects of insanity and the law, and precognitive telepathy.
Readings The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva Helene Cixous Verena Andermatt Conley, Editor 1991 Fall: A leader in the feminist intellectual movement, Cixous presents this highly informative meditation on ethics and poetics which draws on philosophy and psychoanalysis.
The Education of a Public Man My Life and Politics Hubert H. Humphrey Norman Sherman, Editor 1991 Fall: A candid look into the private and political life of Minnesota's native son.
Essentials of Person-Environment-Correspondence Counseling Lloyd H. Lofquist and René V. Dawis 1991 Fall: The P-E-C theory provides the counselor with the tools necessary to assist the client in making changes that lead to “correspondence” between the client and his or her specific situation.
Border Writing The Multidimensional Text D. Emily Hicks 1991 Fall: A paradigmatic contribution to literary theory and interpretation out of the writings of Latin America.
Thinking Clearly about Psychology V1 Matters of Public Interest Dante Cicchetti and William M. Grove, Editors 1991 Fall
Reading the Postmodern Polity Political Theory as Textual Practice Michael J. Shapiro 1991 Fall: Offers the first demonstration by a political theorist of how textuality is inherent to political practice.
Toward a Medieval Poetics Paul Zumthor 1991 Fall: A major work of modern critical theory that is concerned with establishing the dynamics of textual production in the Middle Ages. Integrating knowledge in philosophy, history, sociology, and language, Zumthor produces a detailed synthesis that depicts the literary understanding during the historical period that laid the basis for modern literature.
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture Inventing National Literature Gregory Jusdanis 1991 Fall: Traces literature’s function in the formation of the nation-state through the “belated” emergence of a national aesthetic culture in Greece.
Assessment of Chronic Pain Patients with the MMPI-2 Laura S. Keller and James N. Butcher 1991 Fall: Supplies clinicians with data on the applicability of previous MMPI chronic pain research to the revised version of the test.
Thinking Clearly about Psychology V2 Personality and Psychopathology Dante Cicchetti and William M. Grove, Editors 1991 Fall
Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain Anne J. Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Perry, Editors 1991 Fall: Focuses on the various modes of repression and cultural/social control exerted by Spanish institutions during the counter-reformation.
Travel as Metaphor From Montaigne to Rousseau Georges Van den Abbeele 1991 Fall: A detailed reading of Montaigne, Descartes, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, underscoring the foundational and potentially liberating force of travel in early modern French philosophy.
Grounds of Dispute Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field John Tagg 1992 Spring: “This is an important book by a scholar of international stature. Tagg at once ‘practices’ art history, via his several essays on photography, while at the same time he critiques the disciplinary apparatus by which this can be done. Consistently brilliant, attractive, and compelling.” --Richard Leppert
A Passage to England Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home John Western 1992 Spring
Chaucer’s England Literature in Historical Context Barbara A. Hanawalt, Editor 1992 Spring: Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society. Contributors: Caroline M. Barron, Michael J. Bennett, Lawrence M. Clopper, Susan Crane, Richard Firth Green, Nicholas Orme, Nigel Saul, Paul Strohm, and David Wallace.
Cognitive Models of Science Ronald N. Giere, Editor 1992 Spring: Delineates the emerging impact the cognitive sciences are having on the content and methods of philosophy.
Private Screenings Television and the Female Consumer Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, Editors 1992 Spring: Analyzes how television delivers definitions of “femininity” to its female audiences. Includes a source guide for television shows from 1946-1970. Contributors: Julie D’Acci, Sarah Berry, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Robert H. Deming, Dan Einstein, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Mary Beth Haralovich, Lynne Joyrich, William Lafferty, Nina Liebman, George Lipsitz, Denise Mann, Lynn Spigel, Jillian Steinberger and Randall Vogt.
A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature V4 Agriculture in Economic Development 1940s to 1990s Lee R. Martin, Editor 1991 Fall: This comprehensive four-volume series provides surveys of the literature in agricultural economics published from the 1940s to the 1990s.
Red Lake Nation Portraits of Ojibway Life Charles Brill 1992 Spring: Movingly documents, in words and pictures, the life of the Red Lake band on a ‘closed reservation’ in northern Minnesota.
Knowing Nukes The Politics and Culture of the Atom William Chaloupka 1992 Spring: Countering critics who charge that postmodern positions on language, authority, and power cannot inform effective political responses, this compelling analysis employs these same methods to examine antinuclear politics. Star Wars (the movie and the antimissile system), the Freeze movement, Reaganism, and “lifestyle” politics all receive new treatments.
Voyage to the Other World The Legacy of Sutton Hoo Calvin B. Kendall and Peter S. Wells, Editors 1992 Spring: A fascinating exploration of pagan Anglo-Saxon culture-a world caught on the boundary between competing ideologies and contrasting social systems. Contributors: James Campbell, Martin Carver, Robert Payson Creed, Roberta Frank, Michael N. Geselowitz, Gloria Polizzotti Greis, Henrik M. Jansen, Simon Keynes, Edward Schoenfeld, Jana Schulman, Alan M. Stahl, Wesley M. Stevens, and Else Roesdahl.
Storm from Paradise The Politics of Jewish Memory Jonathan Boyarin 1992 Spring: ”An essay in the richest sense of that term, inspired by and modeled on Walter Benjamin’s essays. Based on varied, diverse, and abundantly cross-disciplinary readings, it moves and builds, questions and interrogates, and ultimately convinces us that the Jewish experience with being the ‘other’ and, conversely and recently, with ‘othering’ is indeed relevant to theorists of contemporary culture.” --Marianne Hirsch
Wild Knowledge Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment Will Wright 1992 Spring: “A bold and timely challenge to our accepted notions of the connections between scientific knowledge, objectivity and our social and physical nature. . . . A polemical intervention into social and scientific theory that should be essential reading.” --David Frisby “In Wild Knowledge, Will Wright has once again played his strongest suit. In his examination of the scientific ethos he is savagely critical, yet the slave of no special polemic.” --Neil J. Smelser “An important book. Will Wright is an original and usefully idiosyncratic thinker.” --Evelyn Fox Keller
Making Sense in Life and Literature Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 1992 Spring: “The translation of these essays by Gumbrecht on literary theory and history marks the appearance in English of one of Europe’s most learned, productive, and inventive scholars. Their range is extraordinary. They show that Gumbrecht is not only a sophisticated theorist and historian of literature, but a master practitioner of cultural studies.” --Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz
Intersecting Boundaries The Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck, Editors 1992 Spring: This collage of essays and interviews illuminates the complexity and richness of Adrienne Kennedy’s innovative dramas.
Letters from Side Lake A Chronicle of Life in the North Woods Peter M. Leschak 1992 Fall: After a brief taste of urban life, and convinced that nothing equaled the formidable challenge of life in the heart of the vast woods, Peter M. Leschak returned to northern Minnesota. Letters from Side Lake chronicles the marvelous range of adventures and reflections-described with thoughtfulness and humor-springing from his pioneer-like existence. In Leschak’s unique voice and beautifully crafted style, Letters from Side Lake captures the great pleasures and rugged feats and hardships of North Woods living. “Each entry in the delightful book is a treat. Every word rings with the sincerity of a life richly and fully lived. Anyone who has ever dreamed of forsaking the impersonality and hubbub of modern living will revel in Leschak’s stories.” --Library Journal
On Edge The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture George Yúdice, Jean Franco and Juan Flores, Editors 1992 Spring: “On Edge is where the reader will be, anxiously at the margins of Latin America’s elite centers, throughout this excellent collection of essays on cultural and political innovations. It is a most welcome hands-on guide to some of the post-modern challenges to projects of national modernization, a cultural analogue to studies of new political movements.” --Doris Sommer
Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus Rene Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini, Editors 1992 Fall: “Offers a well-informed and academically creative reading of texts which foster the so-called colonial imaginary in relation to Spanish and Portuguese colonial enterprises in the Americas.” --Guido A. Podesta
Channels of Desire Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen 1992 Fall: The classic revised and updated.
The Movie of the Week Private Stories Public Events Elayne Rapping 1992 Fall
Through the Shattering Glass Cervantes and the Self-Made World Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens 1992 Fall: “Offers an important new approach to Cervantes’s works, which have been studied in toto by relatively few critics.” --Edward Friedman
Chicanos and Film Representation and Resistance Chon A. Noriega 1992 Fall
Communists, Cowboys, and Queers The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams David Savran 1992 Fall
Patterned Peatlands of Minnesota H.E. Wright Jr. and Norman E. Aaseng, Editors 1992 Spring: The first in-depth examination of the ecological and political significance of the patterned peatlands of Minnesota, one of the largest peatland complexes in the world. Research conducted during the past decade has unraveled many secrets of the intricate peatland ecosystem, unique because it has been so little altered by human action and remarkable for its display of the complex adjustment of living organisms to their environment. The book describes the flora, vegetation, and animal life of the different patterned peatlands and considers the role of surface water and ground water in the development and differentiation of fens and raised bogs. Specific chapters explore the role of mammals, birds, and amphibians and reptiles in the peatland ecosystem.
Reading the Body Politic Feminist Criticism and Latin American Women Writers Amy K. Kaminsky 1992 Fall: Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices.
Wisdom in the Open Air The Norwegian Roots of Deep Ecology Peter Reed and David Rothenberg, Editors 1992 Fall: An introduction to Nordic deep ecological thought and its impact on the evolving worldwide environmental movement.
The End of Education Toward Posthumanism William V. Spanos 1992 Fall: “A powerful argument against and brilliant analysis of the liberal humanist project.” --Peter McLaren
Dancing in the Distraction Factory Music Television and Popular Culture Andrew Goodwin 1992 Fall: This first comprehensive, integrated analysis of MTV provides new ways to understand television and popular music narratives. ”A smart book: it will have an impact on the debates surrounding popular culture.” --Susan McClary
MMPI-A Content Scales Assessing Psychopathology in Adolescents Carolyn L. Williams, James N. Butcher, Yossef S. Ben-Porath and John R. Graham 1992 Fall
Exchange John Davis 1992 Fall: A fascinating examination of the universal human practice of exchange.
Stanzas Word and Phantasm in Western Culture Giorgio Agamben 1992 Fall: Through rereadings of Freud and Saussure, Agamben proposes a radical reconfiguration of the epistemological foundation of Western culture.
Is It Painful to Think Conversations with Arne Naess David Rothenberg 1992 Fall: “Watching a good mind at work is a privilege. Watching a good mind at play is a joy. Is It Painful to Think? shows both sides of Arne Naess, a philosopher who is making a real difference in the planet’s course.” --Bill McKibben
The Infinite Conversation Maurice Blanchot 1992 Fall: “Blanchot waits for us still to come, to be read and reread. . . I would say that never as much as today have I pictured him so far ahead of us.” --Jacques Derrida
The Semiotics of Passion From States of Affairs to States of Feelings Algirdas Julien Greimas and Jacques Fontanille 1992 Fall: A thought-provoking investigation of the multifaceted complexity of literary object-semiotics and the various representations of emotions.
The Fold Leibniz and the Baroque Gilles Deleuze 1992 Fall: In The Fold, Gilles Deleuze argues that Leibniz’s writings constitute the grounding elements of a Baroque philosophy and of theories for analyzing contemporary arts and science. A model for expression in contemporary aesthetics, the concept of the monad is viewed in terms of folds of space, movement, and time. Similarly, the world is interpreted as a body of infinite folds and surfaces that twist and weave through compressed time and space. According to Deleuze, Leibniz also anticipates contemporary views of event and history as multifaceted combinations of signs in motion and of the “modern” subject as nomadic, always in the process of becoming.
The Postmodern Explained Correspondence 1982-1985 Jean-François Lyotard Julian Pefanis and Morgan Thomas, Editors 1992 Fall: An engaging collection of letters written to young philosophers and theorists by the legendary philosopher.
After Jews and Arabs Remaking Levantine Culture Ammiel Alcalay 1992 Fall: “Painstakingly, brick by brick, he has reconstructed a shared literary and historical tradition that has linked Arab and Oriental Jewish thought for the better part of a millennium.” --Victor Perera
Dialogics of the Oppressed Peter Hitchcock 1992 Fall: “Presents a provocative set of readings-through the Bakhtinian model of dialogism-of texts by four women writers of the twentieth century. . . instructive and compelling.” --Barbara Harlow