Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? The Poetics of Gender is a brilliant assembly of leading feminist critics whose collective effort presents the most...

Focusing on the three centuries from Augustus to Constantine, the author analyzes the Roman emperor's functions, the social realities behind his exercise of power, and his communication with his subjects

This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced...

Book by Hayden, John O.

The Society of Biblical Literature is pleased to present a corrected edition in a new, attractive format with hopes that it will inspire a new generation of classicists and religious historians. This volume includes primary texts and documents in...

The eminent, award-winning psychologist examines the phenomenon of death and the flow of life, emphasizing the vital importance to the individual's life of a sense of continuity and of an awareness and acceptance of death

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Folk tales by told by generations of Beijing story-tellers, compiled by Jin Shoushen. First published by Beijing Publishing House in 1957.

This book makes an important contribution to the..debate about the functions of ideology in social life. The author sets out to contest the (usu Marxist) view...that capitalist society..maintains and reproduces itself through the effects of a 'dominant...