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The Domesticated Penis
How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Domesticated Penis challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection has made to the attributes of the...
Rhetorical Secrets
Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Davin Allen Grindstaff, through a series of close textual analyses examining public discourse, uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. In Part One, Grindstaff establishes his notion of the "rhetorical secret" central to constructions...
by Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling...
by Kathy A. Fedorko
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
An investigation into Wharton’s extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction
Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton is an innovative study that provides fresh insights into Wharton’s male characters while at the same time showing how Wharton’s imagining of...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17
Outdoor Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many...
Strange Bodies
Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque, as well as the latest in gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of acclaimed southern writer Carson McCullers.
This innovative reconsideration of the themes of Carson McCullers's fiction argues that her work has heretofore suffered...
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces
Searching for an Architectural Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Archaeologists and architects draw upon theoretical perspectives from their fields to provide valuable insights into the structure, development, and meaning of prehistoric communities.
Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our...
Caribbean Paleodemography
Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Important information on prehistoric island populations and migrations.
According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Taino or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has...
Hispaniola
Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
In 1492 the island of Hispaniola was inhabited by the Taino, an Indian group whose ancestors had moved into the Caribbean archipelago from lowland South America more than 1,500 years before. They were organized politically into large cacicazgos, or chiefdoms, comprising 70 or more villages under the...
On Land and Sea
Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native...
by Dabney Adams Hart
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
"This book focuses on Lewis as a teacher, how he opens doors by challenging 20th-century views... Two ideas run through and unify the book. The first is that in all his writing Lewis encourage 'radical key' to all Lewis's critical and imaginative writings. Hart's aim is to show that there is...
by Thomas E. Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
This study uses the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology to explore the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. By scrutinizing the available archaeological...
Etowah
The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
This is a detailed reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important center of the prehistoric world.
At the time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, thousands of earthen platform mounds...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent
Feminist Rhetoric and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has shifted the rhetorical boundaries of jurisprudence on a wide range of fundamental issues from...