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Jaime Manrique weaves into his own memoir the lives of three important 20th-century Hispanic writers: the Argentine Manuel Puig, the author of "Kiss of the Spider Woman"; the Cuban Reinaldo Arenas, author of "Before Night Falls"; and Spanish poet and playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca.

Scholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.

Amidst the militancy of the 1960s and early 1970s the Mexican population of the dusty agricultural town of Crystal City, Texas (Cristal in Spanish), staged two electoral revolts, winning control of the city council and school board. Armando Navarro presents the most comprehensive examination to date of the rise of the Chicano political movement in Cristal.

This study of ""apocalyptic writer"" Nathanael West examines his body of work, exploring his distinctive method of negation. Locating him in an American avant-garde tradition, the author considers the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism as modes of social criticism.

Placing the texts of James Joyce in the context of the medieval mystical tradition that had interested and influenced him since his schooldays, this text also identifies the origins of modernist aesthetics in medieval forms of representation.

A guide to trails that wind through the streets of old Milwaukee and the forests of the Kettle Moraine, across the Niagara Ledge, along the shores of Door County, and up to Lone Rock. Historical significance on many of the trails is noted, including ice-age features and picnic areas.

Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James and Dewey. The second tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge.

This study of the writer Stevie Smith, portrays her as a well-connected literary insider who used many genres to resist domestic ideology in Britain. It explores the connections between her work and mass media production, and focuses on such contempories as Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley.

This edition provides new examples of puffery and deceit in advertising. It examines in detail the role of laws and the Federal Trade Commission in ensuring fair representation of goods and services to consumers. It describes and assesses development in advertising from the mid-1970s to today.

Offering a cognitive and psychoanalytic approach, this work asks why culture is a problem that can never be solved. It develops a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of paradox, in which it shows how ambivalence and conflicts are at the heart of all cultural knowledge systems.

This comparative history looks at politics in the nations collectively known as the Group of Seven - the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Italy. From the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War, the book emphasizes political eras and political orders.

In this novel, the winner of Harper Prize 1927, the young Alwyn Tower leaves Wisconsin to travel in Europe, but finds himself haunted by a family of long-dead spirits - his grandparents and great-uncles and aunts, a generation whose young adulthood was shattered by the Civil War.

In this work Jewish-American scholars share their reflections on the interconnectedness of identities and ideas. They examine how their Jewishness has shaped and influenced their intellectual endeavours, and how their intellectual work has developed their sense of themselves as Jews.

Focusing specifically on the figural adornment of Hellenistic architecture, this study provides extensive information about the chronology and interpretation of figural motifs adorning religious, civic, commercial, commemorative and domestic constructions.

This text examines the activities of the Nevada regulatory agencies and organised crime in their respective efforts to control gambling. The focus is the ""Black Book"", a list of ""notorious and unsavoury"" persons banned for life from all licensed casinos in the state.

This volume contains 100 kanji that often appear in documents related to solid-state physics and engineering. Ten new kanji and related vocabulary are presented in each lesson, along with exercises for vocabulary building, kanji recognition and translation practice.

A compilation of articles on the cinematic period from 1919 to 1945. Many treat such early film-makers as Mary Ellen Bute and Theodore Huff and there is a listing of American avant-garde films produced before World War II and a bibliography of relevant criticism, literature and news accounts.

This text demonstrates the significance of constitutional disputes in instigating the American Revolution. It addresses the issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights and others.

A history of native American tribes in Wisconsin, this account follows Wisconsin's Indian communities from the 1600s through 1960. It covers the ways that native communities have striven to shape and maintain their traditions in the face of enormous external pressures.

An account of the political, social, and educational transformations, emphasizing the effect of Wisconsin's partisan politics on the University, the growth of the faculty's role in institutional governance, the development of student communities and the enhancement of its academic reputation.

Explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than 20 essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time.

The Jewish community in Spain was the largest and most important in the West for almost a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and political affairs with Christian and Muslim neighbors. Norman Roth traces the chain of events that led to mass conversions of Spanish Jews to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the rise of animosity against them, the establishment of the Inquisition, and finally, the 1492 Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Citing evidence from his extensive research of medieval documents, he firmly refutes the traditionally accepted story of "crypto-Judaism", which contends that the conversos were forced publicly to abandon their faith, while continuing secretly to maintain their Jewish traditions. Roth argues persuasively that the conversos were, in fact, sincere Christians.

The aim of this text is to demonstrate how advertising can better serve its audience. It points out that advertising is full of legal falsity, and argues that the problem with this falsity is not so much the bald lie, as it is the deception, and so calls for regulatory adjustment.

As he challenges classical semiological accounts of cultural representation in this ethnography of Melanesian religious phenomenology, Maschio aims to show that ritual and poetic performance are about the enactment, expression and invention of the self.

This is an introduction to the most important recent court decisions affecting women in the United States. Abortion, sexual harrassment, pornography, surrogate motherhood, rape, custody rights - the legal and social questions surrounding these issues are brought to life in this casebook.

Standing as a tribute to Fred Harrington of Wisconsin-Madison University, this book argues that in the last 100 years, United States presidents have received foreign policy advice from government servants who define world views for them, not only advising but often taking action to implement them.

Demonstrates how evolutionary theories shaped the American socialist movement and examines the attempts of radicals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to synthesise the evolutionary ideas of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer with socialist philosophy, social theory and political practice.

An exploration of the journey in relation to literature and discourse. The author focuses on movement as concept and metaphor, examining relations between travel experience and narrative, and discussing the whereabouts of writers and readers in Cervantes' novels.

This workbook, for intermediate-level students of Norwegian, accompanies an anthology intended primarily to complement ""Norsk, Nordmenn, og Norge"" a widely used Norwegian text. It contains a comprehensive grammar review and exercises, along with explanations of constructions found in the anthology.