"The rich holdings of African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian art in the Indiana University Art Museum constitute one of the finest collections of its kind in the United States. This catalog reproduces and describes in detail more than 160 selected examples of the traditional arts of these diverse cultures. Three of the world's leading specialists have contributed substantial essays on the stylistic, cultural, and historical characteristics ..."
"The rich holdings of African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian art in the Indiana University Art Museum constitute one of the finest collections of its kind in the United States. This catalog reproduces and describes in detail more than 160 selected examples of the traditional arts of these diverse cultures. Three of the world's leading specialists have contributed substantial essays on the stylistic, cultural, and historical characteristics ..."
""Among the numerous diaries published recently as scholars probe women's history, Farnsworth's is a real find." -- Sally Mitchell"The publication now of books like Martha Farnsworth's has contributed to radical revisions of women's history and reassessment of women's skills as writers." -- Elizabeth Hampsten"... superb edition of the diary of Kansas pioneer Martha Farnsworth... a fact-filled, revealing account of an extraordinary-but-or ..."
""... an excellent collection... " ―Journal of Language & Social PsychologyAn important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language."
"Margaret. Whitford. This paper is about a feminist philosopher, Luce Irigaray,
whose work raises particular difficulties for the Anglo-Saxon reader unfamiliar
with the Continental tradition of philosophy.1 In attempting to elucidate, with
reference to its context, one of the strands of her critique of Western metaphysics,
I hope to make her work more accessible for discussion to a wider readership. I
must emphasise that this paper ..."
"Semiotics is rapidly establishing itself as one of the most fruitful and exciting fields of intellectual inquiry. Literary scholars, philosophers, social scientists, and students of linguistics and communication are all finding something of value in the various insights and approaches to knowledge that are included within the general field of semiotics. This significant new collection contains some of the most important contemporary wor ..."
First Feminists(1st Edition) British Women Writers, 1578-1799 by Moira Ferguson, IndianaUniversityPress Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1985 by IndianaUniversityPress ISBN-13: 978-0-253-28120-3, ISBN: 0-253-28120-2
"""An invaluable resource to scholars interested in feminist thought.... "" --Ruth Perry""Anyone interested in women's history or feminist thought must read this book."" --Lillian Faderman""Moira Ferguson has selected wisely from well-known and little-known figures and from fiction, polemic and poetry to illustrate the long and diverse history of feminist reflection up to and including Mary Wollstonecraft.... Good reading for scholars an ..."
Semiotics(1st Edition) An Introductory Anthology (Advances in Semiotics) by Robert E. Innis, Robert Innes, IndianaUniversityPress Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1985 by IndianaUniversityPress ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20344-1, ISBN: 0-253-20344-9
"In a comment bearing on the semiotic structure of perception, for example, Buhler
contended that "the theory of ... which deals with the semiotic foundations of
psychology, Buhler had contended, with reference to the three sign- functions (
Sinn fun ... Moreover, as Jakobson attests in his famous essay "Linguistics and
Poetics," the Biihlerian trichotomy became the source ... Buhler clearly shows
how the concept of "representation," ..."
""The most consistently rewarding of the recent anthologies focusing on Afro-American women's writing... " —Modern Fiction Studies"... successfully [exposes] the core of Black women's writing and confidently [places] it within the American literary tradition." —Belles LettresBlack women have been writing and publishing fiction for more than a century, yet little is known of their literary history, their influence on each other, or th ..."