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If rhetoric is seen as language's capacity to differ from literal statement, and if "to differcan mean "to disagree,then the reading of the rhetoric of literature and theory here is an attempt to capture the logic of a text's own disagreement with itself.

Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralistmodel of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting potor "pure pluralistmodel.

Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.

With the renewed interest in the mind-body relationship as well as in the role of placebos in new and alternative medical procedures and therapies, the findings of this book are especially timely.

In America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.

In discovering the expectations and presuppositions that underlie all the perceptions, the reader learns to "readhimself as he does the text.

She argues that "a useful working definition of authorship permits a gradation of meaning between the poles of authority and originality,and guides us through the term's nuances with clarity rarely matched in a historical study.

The authors conclude with important recommendations for improving academic support, exploring various financial options, providing early encouragement-in other words, for recognizing the factors that influence students' decisions, and knowing when to pay attention to them.

The third volume covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.

Her study helps us not only to understand the contraceptive revolution as such but to appreciate the misinterpretations that surround it.

The book concludes with a survey of recent developments on coloring graphs on surfaces.

The story of how each age understood the nature biblical poetry, Kugel concludes, is a key to understanding the Bible's place in the history of Western thought.

Although few physicians, nurses, dentists and other health professionals perform laboratory test themselves, they need to be able to interpret their results and understand findings. This text offers an explanation of the necessary details in probability and statistics in a non-technical treatment.

Common Labour traces a dark picture of powerlessness, depravity, and rage in the lives of America's canal diggers.

Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? Arguing against the common view that it is, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse.

Focusing on the new science of psychoanalysis, Gilman looks at the strategic devices Sigmund Freud employed to detach himself from the stigma of being Jewish and shows how Freud's work in psychoanalysis evolved in response to the biological discourse of the time.

Miller contends that the modern capitalist state musters a variety of mixed messages about the nature of citizenship and the self. Using case studies, he examines mass entertainment, political discourse, and methods of resistance to powerful cultural forces.

Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.

Its unique synthesis enlarges the scope and critical power of both reader-response and feminist thought.

Memories of the author's youth are incorporated in a novel about the boyhood escapades of Noah Marlin, the son of a Chesapeake Bay waterman.

This book offers a practical, step-by-step guide to every phase of assessment and therapy, from the initial interview to follow-up treatments aimed at preventing relapse once formal treatment is over.

Instead, the contributors assert that the subjects traverse each other's boundaries and that their relationship is one of give and take.

The French New Wave directors of the 1950s rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature and exploded traditional methods of film narrative, embracing fragmentation and alienation. The author argues that this rebellious stance is far more complex than critics have acknowledged.

Coubertin's main contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.

This excellent introductory study follows the development of indicating and recording thermometers until recent times, emphasizing meteorological applications.