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Melville’s Anatomies

By: Samuel Otter

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In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels—Typee, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre—Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues of race, the body, gender, sentiment, and national identity. He articulates a range of contemporary texts (narratives of travelers, seamen, and slaves; racial and aesthetic treatises; fiction; poetry; and essays) in order to flesh out Melville's discursive world. Otter presents Melville's works as "inside narratives" offering material analyses of consciousness. Chapters center on the tattooed faces in Typee, the flogged bodies in White-Jacket, the scrutinized heads in Moby-Dick, and the desiring eyes and eloquent, constricted hearts of Pierre. Otter shows how Melville's books tell of the epic quest to know the secrets of the human body. Rather than dismiss contemporary beliefs about race, self, and nation, Melville inhabits them, acknowledging their appeal and examining their sway. Meticulously researched and brilliantly argued, this groundbreaking study links Melville's words to his world and presses the relations between discourse and ideology. It will deeply influence all future studies of Melville and his work.

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Univ of California Press

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0520918010

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9780520918016

Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy

The Borromeo Brothers of Milan, 1620-1680

By: Samuel Weber

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Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy

The Borromeo Brothers of Milan, 1620-1680

By: Samuel Weber

In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed to during the period of Spanish rule. Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy, the first major study of the family in the seventeenth century, challenges this myth and explains how it came about. Based on research in the previously inaccessible Borromeo private papers, the volume details the Borromeo's increasing involvement with, and dependence on, the patronage of the kings of Spain. At the center of the analysis are the ways in which one family sought to rationalize and conceal this controversial relationship in the face of popular opposition to their methods of buying their way into political power. As their self-seeking behavior came under scrutiny, the clients of successive minister-favorites reinvented themselves as paternalist courtiers committed to delivering good governance for the subject populations under their rule. In doing so, the book offers new perspectives on broader questions: through a case study of three brothers from a representative noble family, it explains a major shift in aristocratic power in the seventeenth century, uncovering how dissimulation and subterfuge became central to the preservation of social privilege in an age of unprecedented threats to established power from below. Steeped in sociological and anthropological research on elite power, this captivating story from seventeenth-century Italy tells us much about the reproduction of social inequality in our own times.

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228

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Oxford University Press

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0198872615

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9780198872610

Music and More

Essays, 1975-1991

By: Samuel Lipman

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Music and More

Essays, 1975-1991

By: Samuel Lipman

Dissent, but even Lipman's opponents will concede that he argues with skill and vigor and that he makes a case that needs to be answered.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810110768

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9780810110762

The Cabildo on Jackson Square

By: Wilson, Jr., Samuel

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The Cabildo on Jackson Square

By: Wilson, Jr., Samuel

Originally written and published in 1970, the book is divided into two sections: one dealing with the Colonial Period (1723-1803), written by Samuel Wilson, Jr., and one on the American Period (1803-present), written by Leonard V. Huber.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455601713

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9781455601714

Moral Minefields

How Sociologists Debate Good Science

By: Shai M. Dromi,Samuel D. Stabler

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Moral Minefields

How Sociologists Debate Good Science

By: Shai M. Dromi,Samuel D. Stabler

In Moral Minefields, Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler take a systematic look at the profound effects moral debates have on sociological research. The authors explore five recent controversial topics in sociology-about race and genetics, secularization theory, methodological nationalism, the culture of poverty, and parenting practices-to show how researchers make decisions about what topics to study and how to engage with them. They present three broad ways in which sociologists respond to moral criticism of scholarly work: while some accept and endorse the criticism, others work out new ways to address these topics that would transcend the criticism, and still others build on the debates to form new, more morally acceptable research. Moral Minefields addresses one of the most prominent questions in contemporary sociological theory today: how can sociology contribute to the development of a virtuous society? Rather than suggesting that sociologists adopt a clear paradigm that can guide their research toward clearly defined moral aims, Dromi and Stabler argue that sociologists already largely possess and employ the repertoires to address questions of moral virtue in their research. They thus shift the conversation away from attempts to theorize the moral goods sociologists should support, and toward questions about how sociologists manage the plurality of moral positions that present themselves in their studies. Moral diversity within sociology, they show, fosters disciplinary progress. The book promises to be of interest to sociologists of knowledge production, of higher education, and especially to sociologists who aim to reach a wider public"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226828182

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9780226828183

In Hawthorne's Shadow

American Romance from Melville to Mailer

By: Samuel Chase Coale

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In Hawthorne's Shadow

American Romance from Melville to Mailer

By: Samuel Chase Coale

The world is so sad and solemn," wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, "that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves." From the radical dualism of Hawthorne's vision, Samuel Coale argues, springs a continuing tradition in the American novel. In Hawthorne's Shadow is the first critical study to describe precisely the formal shape of Hawthorne's psychological romance and to explore his themes and images in relation to such contemporary writers as John Cheever, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, and John Updike. When viewed from this perspective, certain writers—particularly Cheever, Mailer, Oates, and Gardner—appear in a new and very different light, leading to a considerable reevaluation of their achievement and their place in American fiction. Mr. Coale's long interviews and conversations with John Cheever, John Gardner, William Styron, and others have provided insights and perspectives that make this book particularly valuable to students of contemporary American literature. Coale links contemporary writers to an on-going American romantic tradition, represented by such earlier authors as Melville, Harold Frederic, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers. He explores the distinctly Manichean matter of much American romance, linking it to America's Puritan past and to the almost schizophrenic dynamics of American culture in general. Finally, he reexamines the post-modernist writers in light of Hawthorne's "shadow" and shows that, however similar they may be in some ways, they differ remarkably from the previous American romantic tradition.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813185939

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9780813185934

Dictionary of Genocide [2 volumes]

[2 volumes]

By: Paul R. Bartrop,Samuel Totten

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Dictionary of Genocide [2 volumes]

[2 volumes]

By: Paul R. Bartrop,Samuel Totten

Over 600 terms identify and explain the history and suffering of ethnic and religious groups experiencing genocide throughout the world. The people, places, governments, agencies, documents, legal terms, and all other aspects of genocide are defined for new students and scholars alike.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313346410

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Melville’s Anatomies

Melville’s Anatomies

Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy

Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy

Music and More

Music and More

The Cabildo on Jackson Square

The Cabildo on Jackson Square

Moral Minefields

Moral Minefields

In Hawthorne's Shadow

In Hawthorne's Shadow

Dictionary of Genocide [2 volumes]

Dictionary of Genocide [2 volumes]

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