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Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking
This book is about a trait describing variations in the universal need for novel and intense stimulation and its expressions in various risky kinds... Les mer
Grammatical Roles and Relations
Frank Palmer’s new book is a typological survey of grammatical roles, such as Agent, Patient, Beneficiary, and grammatical relations, such as... Les mer
The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora, one of seventeenth-century Mexico’s best-known intellectuals, was a writer of fascinating and complex narratives that... Les mer
Mapping the Mind
What is the nature of human thought? A long dominant view holds that the mind is a general problem-solving device that approaches all questions in... Les mer
Writing and the Rise of Finance
The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England, whose impact on the literature of the period has hitherto been... Les mer
Print Culture in Renaissance Italy
The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts... Les mer
William Empson
This collection of William Empson’s essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama is the second volume of his writings on Renaissance literature. Edited... Les mer
Adult Eyewitness Testimony
Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Current Trends and Developments provides an overview of empirical research on eyewitness testimony and identification... Les mer
Swift’s Politics
Modern scholarship has represented Jonathan Swift as both an Old Whig and a non-Jacobite Tory. Ian Higgins’ contextual reassessment of Swift’s... Les mer
Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative
In Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative, Anìbal González explores the impact of journalism and journalistic rhetoric on the... Les mer
Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition
Language addressed to children, or Baby Talk, became the subject of research interest thirty years ago. Since then, the linguistic environment of... Les mer
The Cambridge History of American Literature
Volume I covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and... Les mer
Constructing the Subject
Constructing the Subject traces the history of psychological research methodology from the nineteenth century to the emergence of currently favored... Les mer
The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson
In The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson, Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the... Les mer
Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite
Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost’s poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and... Les mer
Emerson and the Conduct of Life
In Emerson and the Conduct of Life, David M. Robinson describes Ralph Waldo Emerson’s evolution from mystic to pragmatist, stressing the importance... Les mer
Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820
In this discerning study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J. Denby sheds new light on Enlightenment thought and... Les mer
Finding the Muse
Finding the Muse explores the lives of a group of aspiring fine artists from the mid-1960s, when they completed art school, to the mid-1980s. It... Les mer
Metaphor and Thought
Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language... Les mer
Progression and Regression in Language
This crosslinguistic collection looks at changes and developments in language involving gain or loss in structural complexity or utility. The... Les mer
Banished Voices
This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was... Les mer
Racine: Phèdre
This introductory study presents Racine’s Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary... Les mer
Mann: Doctor Faustus
In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany’s role in European culture and history since the... Les mer
Greek Poetry of the Imperial Period
This book contains a selection of pagan Greek poetic texts ranging in date from the first to the sixth century AD. It makes easily accessible for the... Les mer