The Figure of the Road examines the metaphor of the road, way, or path in works of representative humanities disciplines (literature, religion, philosophy, visual art, popular culture) to show how writers and artists anticipated the dilemma known to contemporary deconstruction as the -aporia- or -pathless place.- This tradition exposes the solution advocated in Derrida s late thought the search for the -tout autre- as a negative theology and suppression of writing s freedom to allegorize these insoluble problems. The Figure of the Road concludes by tracing the bleak,...

Between Two Cultures: The Case of Cambodian Women in America is a study of Cambodian (Khmer) refugee women who settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, a city known for its immigrant history. This study describes the -journeys- made and the challenges faced by these newcomers as they attempted resettlement in an environment very different from their home country. Simply and lucidly, Mitra Das gives us captivating insights and an understanding of the experiences of this group of refugees from -different shores.- In so doing, she brings to life the processes and conditions that are important...

This book stands in the tradition of past and current common sense philosophers, like Reid, Berkeley, Sidgwick, Moore, Conant, Slote, Bogdan, and Lemos, who defend common sense, yet it goes beyond their accounts by not only defending common sense but also considering what common sense means. Besides giving a historical exegesis of common sense in Thomas Reid and showing parallels in Austin, Searle, Moore, and Wittgenstein, common sense is also discovered in Hume s An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals and in Kant s Critique of Pure Reason. It is made clear how far...

Although cyberspace has become a reality in the daily lives of millions of people, there have been few successful attempts at charting the new virtual world(s). Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth presents, for the first time, a cogent theoretical blueprint for mapping our bearings in cyberspace. The last bastion of myth, cyberspace is a space which is continuously re-written by users who move in a city-like construct ultimately built on language. Juxtaposing critical theory, fiction, and philosophy, this book challenges us to re-assess our views of what we call -reality- in the light...

Anatoly Efros (1925-1987), one of the most admired and original directors of post-war Russia, directed at the Central Children s Theatre, Malaya Bronnaya Theatre, Lenkom Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Taganka Theatre, and elsewhere including the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the Toen Theatre in Tokyo. He taught directing at the State Institute for Theatre Training and wrote several influential books. His productions received numerous awards for creative excellence.
In The Craft of Rehearsal, his second work, Efros further illuminates the dynamics of the director s creative work...

Performing Africa is a collection of essays on contemporary African performance. From 1992 to 2002, Thomas Riccio worked with several groups in South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, West Africa, and Kenya the Zulu and the Xuu Bushmen of the Kalahari among them. Performing Africa combines a rare, in-the-field perspective with a keen insight into Africa s transformative and tumultuous confluence of tradition, urbanization, politics, history, and the AIDS crisis. The evolution of tradition and the emergence of dynamic new forms of expression are a matter of practical necessity and...

Breakthrough: Essays and Vignettes in Honor of John A. Rassias celebrates an outstanding educator who has revolutionized the art of learning languages. John A. Rassias method breaks down the barriers and inhibitions people have in learning another language. In his forty-plus years of teaching, he has touched and transformed many lives. This book includes a personal interview with Rassias; a listing of his life accomplishments; an article by Rassias; and scholarly essays on his method of teaching languages, as well as scholarly essays on teaching languages in general. A large portion of...

The Dilemma of Modernity is a study of the evolution of Ramon Gomez de la Serna s narrative fiction within the context of European Modernism. At a time when Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and Woolfe were experimenting with prose fiction, very little is known about Spain s contribution to the novel. Despite his years in Paris, when it was still considered the cultural capital of Europe, and his championing of the avant-garde in Spain in the 1920s through his literary salon Pombo, which attracted figures such as Borges, Picasso, Huidobro, Bunuel and Lorca, Ramon Gomez de la Serna s work...

A Distant Drummer attends more to F. Scott Fitzgerald s aesthetic merits, ideas, style, techniques, context of his works and less to biographical details which, critics believe, are intricately interwoven within his works. In striving to respond to Fitzgerald s artistry away from the impulse of the author s personal experience, it is in a very strange paradox more attuned and, in consequence, closer to Fitzgerald, who wanted his fiction to be objectively judged and free of the stigma which besmirches his reputation."

Bush versus Kerry analyzes the 2004 presidential campaign using the functional theory of political campaign communication. After an introduction and explication of political campaign communication theory, chapters investigate the content of candidate messages for example, television spots, debates, webpages, and acceptance addresses and media coverage of the campaign."