 | | Adeena Karasick
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
English
The House That Hijack
Built
2006
With color collages, ironic war mongering subterfuge and
Kabbalistic translations, The House That Hijack Built is an
astonishing display of meaning production when language is pushed
to the "limits" of logical or normative semantic patterns.
"Karasick's writing is an extraordinary tour de force in the
new paraliterary initiative of `fiction/theory' that blends various
genres and revels in their `contamination'”
— Canadian Book
Review Annual |
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 | | David Kaspar
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Philosophy
Intuitionism
2012
Intuitionism is the moral theory which claims that you know what’s
right. Everyone has moral knowledge. In Intuitionism I explain how
many of our ordinary moral beliefs and beliefs about morality best
fit into the intuitionist framework. Major intuitionist
developments in the recent philosophical literature are spelled
out. Contemporary objections to the theory are considered and dealt
with, the overall result being an account of intuitionism which can
explain what’s right and best withstand attacks from rival moral
theories. |
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 | | Amy King, Ed.
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
English
Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in
the English Novel
2005
Bringing together novelistic courtships and the botanical systems
of Linnaeus and his followers, Bloom offers a striking account of
the way in which the language of “bloom,” derived from scientific
botany, enabled a sexualized representation of maturation and
marriage for novelists from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry
James. The girl in bloom—the girl at her social and sexual peak—is
a subject described and plotted through the language of botany.
Through a fusion of literary and scientific history, King revokes
the world of the botanical vernacular, a world in which the
“marriages of plants” and the marriages of humans helped explain
each other. |
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 | | Wives and Daughters
2005
Amy M. King is the author of the introduction and notes to this
Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s
19th-century novel Wives and Daughters. This is an
affordable edition for the student and general reader that pulls
together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical and
literary—to enrich each reader’s understanding. Tremendously
popular in her lifetime, Elizabeth Gaskell has often been
overshadowed by her contemporaries, the Brontes and George
Eliot. |
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 | | Jeffrey C. Kinkley, trans.
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
History
Selected Stories of Shen Congwen:
Chinese-English Bilingual Edition
2005
This book presents six representative stories by Shen
Congwen (1902–1988), with texts in the original Chinese facing the
English translations by Jeffrey C. Kinkley, from the author’s most
mature period, the 1930s and 1940s. Shen Congwen has been called
“one of the finest Chinese prose stylists of all time” and his
stories’ settings range from rural villages to urban
universities.
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 | | Corruption and Realism in Late
Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel
2007
An examination of the rebirth of the political novel in China in
the 1990s, in historical context and with an analysis of China’s
current and historical discourses of “official corruption” and
“realism.” |
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2010
First published in 1934, Border Town brings to life the
story of Cuicui, a young country girl coming of age during a time
of national turmoil. A moving testament to the human spirit, Border
Town is a beautifully written novel, considered Shen Congwen’s
masterpiece for its brilliant portrayal of Chinese rural life
before the Communist revolution. |
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 | | Thomas M. Kitts, Ph.D.
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, English/Speech
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else
2008
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical
biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times.
The book studies Davies’s work from the Kink’s first singles
through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early
1970s to his one man stage show in the 1990s and from his films to
his autobiography. Based on interviews with his closest associates,
as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates
the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date. |
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 | | Literature and Work
2011
This anthology with commentary, author profiles and questions
introduces readers to literature on work-related topics. The book
features contemporary as well as classic literatures with a global
perspective. This literature is arranged under eight primary
themes: Work: Definitions and Ideals; Entering the Work Force; Hard
Work and Hard Times: The Working Poor; The Immigrant Experience;
Class Struggle and the Dynamics of Power; Race, Gender and the
Dynamics of Power; Work and Ethics; and Work: Fulfillment and
Disillusionment. |
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 | | Terrance W. Klein
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Theology and Religious
Studies
How Things Are in the World:
Metaphysics and Theology in Wittgenstein and Rahner
2004
Klein begins by reviewing the theological implications of
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s (1889-1951) work. Then he argues that he and
Karl Rahner (b. 1904) share a common philosophical anthropology
that might serve in the construction of a post-linguistic
metaphysics, before applying the former’s insights to questions
raised about the latter’s theological contributions. |
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 | | Carmen Fernández Klohe
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Languages and Literatures
Rosa Chacel y las artes
plásticas
2006
In this book, the author explores a variety of literary uses of
the visual arts in La Escuela de Platón, an
autobiographical trilogy where Rosa Chacel relates her coming of
age as an artist while creating a vivid chronicle of the cultural
and intellectual environment experienced by her generation.
Chacel’s background in sculpture and painting gives this trilogy
its unique perspective, while her experiences as a woman in the
male dominated art world influence the structure of the novels. |
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