University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Samuel Beckett
A Study of His Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Collectively the works of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, reveal a remarkable continuity of theme. Together his writings present a particular view of life and each novel constitutes part of a larger whole.
by Harald Weinrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its first essay competition, was taken up by the philologist Harald Weinrich, with far-ranging results. The most immediate was his claiming first prize with this volume's title...
by Christianne Balk
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Emotion, raw and unadorned, is woven through the poems of Christianne Balk's The Holding Hours. Part I explores the subtle and surprising transformations that come from caring for her young, neurologically injured daughter. Insights unfold in metaphor and persona below the surface of an exquisitely...
Darwin's Pharmacy
Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin�s Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit,...
The Corpse Flower
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Corpse Flower brings works from Bruce Beasley's first four award-winning collections together with twenty-five new poems, organizing them around the metaphor that gives the book its title: an enormous tropical bloom that reeks like carrion, and around whose three-day florescence "dung beetles...
Family Revolution
Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing...
High-Tech Housewives
Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational employees...
The Edge of Knowing
Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers� attention to dreams...
Confucian Image Politics
Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the...
A Gift of Barbed Wire
America's Allies Abandoned in South Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A Gift of Barbed Wire is a penetrating look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. A former Marine who served in Vietnam, Robert McKelvey went on to practice psychiatry and, through his work in refugee camps and U.S. social...
The Self Between
From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
After the disappointing events of the 1960s, including the loss of Algeria, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the American war in the former French colony of Indo-China, people in France began to look seriously to Freudianism in the transformed version of Jacques Lacan, for a new way of understanding...
by Ernst Behler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Behler discusses the current state of thought on modernity and postmodernity, detailing the intellectual problems to be faced and examining the positions of such central figures in the debate as Lyotard, Habermas, Rorty, and Derrida. He finds that beyond the �limits of communication,� further...
Sky Train
Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Through a lyrical narrative of her journey to Tibet in 2007, activist Canyon Sam contemplates modern history from the perspective of Tibetan women. Traveling on China's new "Sky Train," she celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she'd befriended decades earlier and concludes...
by Calvin Goldscheider
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an unconventional and provocative argument, Calvin Goldscheider departs from the limiting vision of the demographic...