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From decreased funding to censorship controversies and rising student debt, the public perception of the value of higher education has become decidedly more negative. This crisis requires advocacy...

Examines visual representations of and by persons defined as Creole, the term applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century--Author: Darcy...

Examines the life and writings of Roman Catholic Church reformer Ivan Illich (1926-2002) in the context of the wider field of cultural criticism that took shape in the 1960s and beyond--Author: David...

In Orthodox Judaism, Halacha--the legal code derived from the Torah and the Talmud--constructs and determines Jewish life, informing not only practices of prayer and holiday observance but also...

Reconstructs Kenneth Burke's drafting and revision process for A Rhetoric of Motives and The War of Words, placing Burke's work in historical context and revealing his reliance on the concept of...

Focuses on the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a southeastern Chinese city profoundly influenced by western missionaries. Illustrates the complexities of memory and...

Reassesses the genre of epideictic rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance by looking at a series of texts that exploit the potential of praise to undermine consensus and to challenge the...

An English translation of recorded depositions by men arrested for sodomy or pederasty in eighteenth-century Paris, exploring complex questions about sources, patterns, and meanings in the history of...

Explores stereotyping and electrotyping in U.S. literature and history. Examines how printers, typefounders, authors, and publishers managed the transition as new technologies displaced printing...

Russian state propaganda has framed the invasion of Ukraine as a liberation mission by invoking the Soviet-era myth of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45), in which the Soviet people, led by Russia,...

Argues for the importance of public higher education and the work of teaching and emphasizes the shared ethical responsibilities that underpin the connections between teachers and students.Author:...

Examines the relationship between rhetoric and debt, arguing that they are fundamentally entangled in producing and disciplining who is deemed worthy of credit and how debt materializes...

Ake Daun, a respected ethnologist who is sometimes referred to as the 'guru' of Swedish character, goes beyond stereotype, drawing upon statistics gathered during more than a decade of research. He...

Examines the history of the Anglican Church in Burma (Myanmar) and explores its complexities, and its future, in the context of world Christianity.Author: Edward JarvisPublisher: Penn State...

Explores how gender, socioeconomic status, and religious identity shaped the lives and work of Jewish and Christian women in medieval Catalan cities.Author: Sarah Ifft DeckerPublisher: Penn State...

Explores the layers of signification that A. B. Yehoshua constructs in his fiction to draw readers into a critical analysis of the condition of Israel as well as his representations of place,...

Traces the origins and evolution of online video platforms and how their algorithms now engineer human behavior, discussing present challenges and recommendations for reclaiming our online futures...

Celebrates insects, their crucial role in our ecosystems, and people working to preserve biodiversity.Author: Heather SwanPublisher: Penn State University PressPublication Date: May 21, 2024Number of...