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Fragile Conviction
Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
How do specific secular and religious ideologies—such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism—gain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer these questions, Mathijs Pelkmans critically examines the trajectories of a range of ideologies...
Woolf’s Ambiguities
Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating,...
Spaces of Feeling
Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, but also deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are undone, Figlerowicz posits, by the realization that...
The Taming of Evolution
The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers...
by Bozena C. Welborne, Aubrey L. Westfall, Özge Çelik Russell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated in the U.S. setting, but rather it accentuates...
Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment...
The Old Faith and the Russian Land
A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world...
Chaos Bound
Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity....
Clarissa's Ciphers
Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically...
by Kathryn Hendley
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Everyday Law in Russia challenges the prevailing common wisdom that Russians cannot rely on their law and that Russian courts are hopelessly politicized and corrupt. While acknowledging the persistence of verdicts dictated by the Kremlin in politically charged cases, Kathryn Hendley explores how ordinary...
The Cosmic Web
Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure’s theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks...
Smartups
Lessons from Rob Ryan's Entrepreneur America Boot Camp for Start-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building successful start-ups was never quite as easy as it seemed, and the changing economic climate has raised the stakes, reduced the margin of error. New entrepreneurs can't stumble into wealth on the power of half-formed ideas, or turn dreams into reality without doing a lot of homework. It's...
A Kingdom of Stargazers
Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion...
Revolutionary Acts
Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts,...