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The result is that civic leaders tend to succumb to the blackmail tactics of professional sports, rather than developing and supporting sound economic policies.

An epilogue by Nancy Norton, founder of the International Foundation for Bowel Dysfunction, describes the personal challenge of living with fecal incontinence and explains how she and many others have found the courage to cope with the problem and live life to the fullest.

He demonstrates how literature and philosophy have been driven to account self-critically for a "money of the mindthat pervades all discourse, and concludes the book with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy in the modern world.

Contributors are Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Regina Barreca, Elisabeth Bronfen, Carol Christ, Sander Gilman, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret Higonnet, Regina Janes, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Ronald Schleifer, Charles Segal, and Garrett Stewart.

Why do we need literature and what does this need tell us about human nature? Iser shows how these questions come from his work on reader-response criticism and that the answers may lie in the new field of literary anthropology. He relates theoretical issues to analyses of individual works.

Each of the filmmakers studied here define their own authorial task in relation to that of the literary precursor, and insert "umbilicalscenes or "allegories of adaptationto teach viewers how to read their cinematic rewriting of literary sources.

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And, as the years went on, they gradually built a more permanent hospital to alleviate the terrible suffering of the Congo people.

Ranging from the Renaissance pastoral to Coleridge to Sartre and Beckett, The Fictive and the Imaginary is a distinguished work of scholarship from one of Europe's most respected and influential critics.

This is an excellent summary of the most recent literature on the subject (especially of studies in Italian); and it is also a superb compendium of specific religious practices and of scholarly approaches to them.

Includes the first complete English translation of Jacques Derrida's book-length essay, "Shibboleth for Paul Celan."

Pease, Walter Benn Michaels, and Allen Grossman.

Describing the variety of influences that drove scientists to challenge Darwin's conclusions, Bowler reevaluates the influence of social forces on the scientific community and explors the borad philosophical, ideological, and social implications of scientific theories.

She explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects and describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.

This rich and provocative study offers a bold reinterpretation of the social history of the working men and women of Paris.

Carefully weighing various models and strategies, Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance provides new ways of understanding and addressing the changes that are transforming higher education.

Employing such literary techniques as "reality effectsand "horizons of expectations,Baldwin successfully discerns the historical content in these romance narratives.

Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture thoroughly reviews more than two decades of research, and thus will be of interest to both students and professionals in evolutionary biology, ecology, and genetics.

An expansion of Cohn's Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton and the product of many years of labor and thought, The Distinction of Fiction builds on narratological and phenomenological theories to show that boundaries between fiction and history can be firmly and systematically explored.

Drawing on a wide array of sources-personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides-Haiken reveals how our culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and social problems.

Turning life into art, Bohemia became a space where many innovative and original figures-some famous, some obscure-found a home.

No recent book in English (or for that matter in any language) has attempted a concise survey of the subject."-from the Preface

A documentary and analytical record, this work presents the classical background of primitivism and anti-primitivism in modern literature, historiography, and social and moral philosophy. The theories of Plato and Aristotle, and the concepts of cynicism and stoicism are discussed.

This paperback edition reprints the Harper & Brothers edition, published in New York in 1858-59.

Throughout, Chartier keeps his focus on historians who have stressed the relations between the products of discourse and social practices.

In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings of nature, The Social Creation of Nature seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature in order to defend what is actually imperiled-"wildness,in which, Thoreau wrote, lies hope for "the preservation of the world."

A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.

These analyses explore both intra- and interregional similarities and differences.