1010 títulos para "Penn State University Press"
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Art and Globalization
978-0-271-03717-2The “biennale culture” now determines much of the art world. Literature on the worldwide dissemination of art assumes nationalism and ethnic identity, but rarely analyzes it. At the same time there is extensive theorizing about globalization in political theory, cultural studies, postcol...
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A Feeling of Wrongness
Packer, Joseph / Stoneman, Ethan
978-0-271-08236-3In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated cartoons to speculative fiction.Packer and Stonem...
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The Powerless Church and Other Selected Writings, 1955-1985
Illich, Ivan
978-0-271-08229-5Dalmatian-Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and radical cultural critic Ivan Illich is best known for polemical writings such as Deschooling Society and Tools for Conviviality, which decried Western institutions of the 1970s. This collection brings together Illich’s shorter writings...
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The Human Spirit
Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke
978-0-271-08205-9In this volume, Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle probes significant concepts of the human spirit in Western religious culture across more than two millennia, from the book of Genesis to early modern science. The Human Spirit treats significant interpretations of human nature as religious in politi...
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Right Romance
Jones, Emily Griffiths
978-0-271-08492-3In this book, Emily Griffiths Jones examines the intersections of romance, religion, and politics in England between 1588 and 1688 to show how writers during this politically turbulent time used the genre of romance to construct diverse ideological communities for themselves.Right Romance argues for...
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Uncanny Bodies
978-0-271-08474-9Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal ho...
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Democracy as Fetish
Cintron, Ralph
978-0-271-08485-5Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated by it.In this innovative multidisciplin...
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Milton and the Parables of Jesus
Urban, David V.
978-0-271-08505-0In Milton and the Parables of Jesus, David V. Urban examines Milton’s self-referential use of figures from the New Testament parables in his works of poetry and prose.Urban’s informative introduction explores the history of parable interpretation and the writings of sixteenth- and sevent...
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Votes That Count and Voters Who Don't
Jarvis, Sharon E. / Han, Soo-Hye
978-0-271-08125-0For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections—often in error—well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han investigate what motivates journalists to call elections before the votes...
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Writing as Resistance
Brenner, Rachel Feldhay
978-0-271-02285-7In this moving account of the life, work, and ethics of four Jewish women intellectuals in the world of the Holocaust, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores the ways in which these women sought to maintain their faith in humanity while aware of intensifying destruction. She argues that through their writt...
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