1117 títulos para "University Of Pennsylvania Press"

Landscapes of the Islamic World

McPhillips, Stephen

Languages and Their Status

An introduction both to languages themselves and to their social role, Languages and Their Status gives insight into the meaning, value, and function of language within culture and into the ways language behavior varies and changes. It examines the part languages play in the evolution and structure...

Thucydides Mythistoricus

Cornford, Francis M.

This book falls into two parts: Thucydides Historicus and Thucydides Mythicus. In the first, Francis M. Cornford attempts to prove the inadequacy of Thucydides's account of the origins of the Peloponnesian War and develops a very different theory of its causes. In the second part he attempts to answ...

A Feast of Creatures

A Feast of Creatures Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs Edited and translated by Craig Williamson "A veritable feast."--Verbatim "Captivating."--Choice In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadence...

Recycling the Past

This is a book that explores in detail the use that Americans have made of their history for commercial, cultural, and ideological purposes. It focuses on popular adaptations of historical incidents and artifacts to reveal how successive generations of Americans have been able to adapt their heritag...

Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism

Sluga, Glenda

The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism. To the twenty-first-century historian, the period from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War is distinctive for its nationalist preoccupations, while internatio...

DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRATIC FUTURES

MICHAEL X. DELLI CARPIN

Guatemalan Military Project

Schirmer, Jennifer

Winner of the 1999 PIOOM Human Rights Award ""The Guatemalan Military Project is a remarkable achievement. As any journalist or diplomat who has spent time in Guatemala will attest, no group is more difficult to penetrate than the Guatemalan armed

The Private City

Warner, Sam Bass, Jr.

Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts

Stone, Albert E

Gives an anaylsis of the social themes and cultural perspectives of modern American autobiographies."An excellent reference for students of autobiography, an essential text for students of American autobiography, and the central critical work for students of modern American autobiography."...

The Magician, the Witch, and the Law

Peters, Edward

Postmodern Fairy Tales

Bacchilega, Cristina

"An extraordinary book, and a 'first' on the topic. . . . Bacchilega has a remarkable capacity to reveal the intersections of folklore, literature, and film. Her interpretations of classical folk-tale types and their postmodern revisions . . . are stunnin