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East European politics and societies.
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ISSN: 15338371 08883254 Year: 1987 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications

Insight and solidarity : a study in the discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas
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ISBN: 0520080459 0520082044 0520919173 0585098700 9780585098708 9780520080454 9780520919174 058528203X 9780585282039 0520208978 Year: 1997 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berkeley, California : University of California Press,

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Discourse ethics represents an exciting new development in neo-Kantian moral theory. William Rehg offers an insightful introduction to its complex theorization by its major proponent, Jürgen Habermas, and demonstrates how discourse ethics allows one to overcome the principal criticisms that have been leveled against neo-Kantianism. Addressing both "commun-itarian" critics who argue that universalist conceptions of justice sever moral deliberation from community traditions, and feminist advocates of the "ethics of care" who stress the moral significance of caring for other individuals, Rehg shows that discourse ethics combines impartiality with solidarity. He provides the first systematic reconstruction of Habermas's theory and explores its relationship to the work of such contemporary philosophers as Charles Taylor. His book articulates a bold alternative to the split between the "right" and the "good" in moral theory and will greatly interest philosophers, social and legal scholars, and political theorists.

Grounds for play : the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India
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ISBN: 0520072731 0520910885 0585130647 9780520910881 9780585130644 9780520072732 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play, Kathryn Hansen draws on field research to describe the different elements of nautanki performance: music, dance, poetry, popular story lines, and written texts. She traces the social history of the form and explores the play of meanings within nautanki narratives, focusing on the ways important social issues such as political authority, community identity, and gender differences are represented in these narratives. Unlike other styles of Indian theater, the nautanki does not draw on the pan-Indian religious epics such as the Ramayana or the Mahabharata for its subjects. Indeed, their storylines tend to center on the vicissitudes of stranded heroines in the throes of melodramatic romance. Whereas nautanki performers were once much in demand, live performances now are rare and nautanki increasingly reaches its audiences through electronic media--records, cassettes, films, television. In spite of this change, the theater form still functions as an effective conduit in the cultural flow that connects urban centers and the hinterland in an ongoing process of exchange.

Aristocratic experience and the origins of modern culture : France, 1570-1715
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ISBN: 0520078373 0585120498 Year: 1993 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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History of France --- anno 1500-1799 --- Nobility --- Aristocracy (Social class) in literature. --- Social evolution. --- Aristocracy (Social class) in literature --- Social evolution --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- France --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life --- Civilization --- -Social evolution --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Aristocracy in literature --- -Aristocracy (Social class) in literature --- -Nobility --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike

English choral practice 1400-1650
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ISBN: 0521441439 0521544084 1139085107 0511552416 0511882882 Year: 1995 Volume: 5 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is the first book to survey the performing practices in English choral music in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the period of the English Reformation. The essays, all written by specialists in the field, consider in depth such areas as the growth and development of the 'church' choir, related issues of vocal tessitura, performing pitch, the systems of pronunciation appropriate for Latin- and English-texted music, and the day-to-day training of choristers. There is also an investigation of the local circumstances under which many of the important manuscripts of the period were compiled, which reveals an unsuspectedly close interrelationship between domestic music and music for the church. In addition, a study of surviving sources reveals that they give little more than a general guide as to their composers' and copyists' intentions.

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Choral music --- Performance practice (Music) --- Choirs (Music) --- Church music --- Sacred vocal music --- Latin language --- English language --- Musique chorale --- Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) --- Chorales --- Musique d'église --- Musique vocale sacrée --- Latin (Langue) --- Anglais (Langue) --- Church Latin --- Pronunciation --- Latin de l'Eglise --- Prononciation --- -Choral music --- -Church music --- -Latin language --- -Performance practice (Music) --- -Sacred vocal music --- -English language --- -Germanic languages --- Liturgical music --- Pastoral music (Sacred) --- Vocal music, Sacred --- Sacred music --- Vocal music --- Musical performance practice --- Performing practice (Music) --- Music --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Religious music --- Devotional exercises --- Liturgics --- Music in churches --- Psalmody --- Choruses --- Choruses, Sacred --- Choruses, Secular --- Music, Choral --- Sacred choral music --- Secular choral music --- Choral groups --- Chorales (Musical groups) --- Choruses (Musical groups) --- Vocal groups --- Choral societies --- -Pronunciation --- History and criticism --- Pronoun --- Performance --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Pronunciation. --- History and criticism. --- -Church Latin --- Pratique de l'exécution (Musique) --- Musique d'église --- Musique vocale sacrée --- -Liturgical music --- Church Latin&delete& --- England --- 78.41.2 --- Germanic languages

Hooliganism : crime, culture, and power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914
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ISBN: 0520080114 0520913078 0585115451 9780520913073 9780585115450 9780520080119 Year: 1993 Volume: 19 Publisher: Berkeley : University of Calif. Press,

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In this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between classes, society's failure to "civilize" the poor, the desperation of the destitute, and the proliferation of violence in public spaces.

Second language writing
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ISBN: 0521827051 0521534305 0511501951 0511667256 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This text is a highly accessible and authoritative approach to the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of English. This book is an accessible and authoritative approach to the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of English. It sets out the key issues in second language writing instruction to offer both pre-service and in-service teachers a guide to writing instruction grounded in current theory and research. The author takes the stance that student writers not only need realistic strategies for drafting and revising, but also a clear understanding of genre to structure their writing experience according to the demands and constraints of particular target contexts. This book will be extremely useful to prospective and practicing teachers alike.

Cecil B. DeMille and American culture : the silent era
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ISBN: 0520085566 9780520085572 0520085574 058507884X 0520914813 9780520914810 9780585078847 9780520085565 Year: 1994 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMille artfully inserted cinema into genteel middle-class culture by replicating in his films such spectacles as elaborate parlor games, stage melodramas, department store displays, Orientalist world's fairs, and civic pageantry. The director not only established his signature as a film author by articulating middle-class ideology across class and ethnic lines, but by the 1920's had become a trendsetter, with set and costume designs that influenced the advertising industry to create a consumer culture based on female desire. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped material from the DeMille Archives and other collections, Higashi provides imaginative readings of DeMille's early feature films, viewing them in relation to the dynamics of social change, and she documents the extent to which the emergence of popular culture was linked to the genteel tradition.

Playing with power in movies, television, and video games : from Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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ISBN: 0585315698 0520912438 9780520912434 9780585315690 0520075706 9780520075702 0520077768 9780520077768 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the "new world order"? In assessing these questions, Marsha Kinder provides a brilliant new perspective on modern media.

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