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Radio Free Europe Robert T. Holt None

Radio Voices American Broadcasting, 1922-1952 Michele Hilmes 1997 Spring

An overview of radio’s impact on American culture in the first half of the twentieth century.

Radio’s Intimate Public Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy Jason Loviglio 2005 Fall

Uncovers radio’s role in the development of an imagined national community

Rails to the North Star A Minnesota Railroad Atlas Richard S. Prosser 2007 Fall

The sought-after standard reference on Minnesota railroad history

Rain Forest Literatures Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture Lucia Sá 2004 Spring

Recaptures native literatures of the Amazonian rain forest

Rainer Maria Rilke The Ring of Forms Frank Wood None

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Writers 41 University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Josephine Miles 1964 Fall

Ramona Memories Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California Dydia DeLyser 2005 Spring

How the heroine of a nineteenth-century romance novel pervades southern California’s regional identity

Randolph Bourne - American Writers 60 University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers Sherman Paul 1966 Fall

Rape Warfare The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia Beverly Allen 1996 Spring

A shocking and impassioned exposé of new and horrifying methods of war in the Balkans.

Rational Expectations and Econometric Practice Volume 2 Robert E. Lucas Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent, Editors 1981 Fall

A comprehensive collection of readings published in the literature on rational expectactions in macroeconomics, including Sargent's "Classical Macroeconomic Model" as well as the original papers by Muth that started the rational expectations literature.

Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology François Debrix 1999 Fall

A critical look at the meaning of UN peacekeeping missions.

Re-takes Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages John Mowitt 2005 Spring

A sustained theoretical reevaluation of “film languages,” both visual and verbal

Reading Autobiography A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson 2010 Spring

The completely updated edition of the definitive guide to life narrative, from memoirs to blogs

Reading De Man Reading Lindsay Waters and Wlad Godzich, Editors 1989 Spring

Thirteen essays address de Man’s theory and practice of reading, including the nature of those readings and what they signify for reading in general, not just for literary texts. "Accomplishes the goal of insisting on the continuing importance of de Man's work for literary studies." --American Book Review

Reading Dido Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid Marilynn Desmond 1994 Fall

Describes the variations in the figure of Dido as she emerges from ancient literary texts.

Reading North by South On Latin American Literature, Culture, and Politics Neil Larsen 1995 Spring

Concerned with misleading interpretations of literature and culture that dominate Latin American studies, Larsen proposes the need for a freshly conceived historical materialist approach to Latin American texts and cultural practices. He provides insightful commentaries on political discourses, cultural events, films, and literary texts, as he draws upon a wide diversity of texts written in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Of particular interest is Larsen's discussion of writings from the Caribbean, an area that is not frequently included in Latin American studies.

Reading Proust In Search of Wolf-Fish Maria Paganini 1994 Spring

Reading Proust focuses on the specificity of Proustian writing, revealing the patterns of thought and play of words peculiar to Proust's language, and showing how these metamorphose throughout La Recherche du temps perdu. Her work offers a new model for reading fictional prose, one that replaces the critical "why?" with the more practical and productive "how?"

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.

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.

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