Author: Frederick Turner
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Keywords: values, value, beauty
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 1992-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0813913578
ISBN-13: 9780813913575

In this interdisciplinary work, Frederick Turner presents a new theory of aesthetics based on the argument that beauty is an objective reality in the universe. He identifies the experience of beauty as a pancultural, neurobiological phenomenon. Drawing on recent work in a wide range of fields - ritual and dramatic performance, the oral tradition, paleoanthropology and human evolution, neurobiology, cosmology and theoretic physics, chaos theory and fractal mathematics - the book describes evolution as a self-organizing, emergent process that generates increasingly advanced forms of self-reflect

Author: John H. Willis
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: hogarth, press, publishers, woolf, virginia, leonard
Number of Pages: 451
Published: 1992-09-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0813913616
ISBN-13: 9780813913612

Has any couple in twentieth-century intellectual life so captured and held attention as have Leonard and Virginia Woolf? The have proved endlessly interesting as individuals, partners, writers, modernists, and as the central players in the absorbing drama of Bloomsbury. Yet surprisingly scant attention has been paid to their remarkable achievements as publishers. Now J.H. Willis, Jr., combines wide-ranging literary knowledge with more than ten years of research to enhance forever our appreciat

Author: Peirce F. Lewis
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: landscape, urban, making, orleans, new
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 1930066104
ISBN-13: 9781930066106

In his now classic work of historical geography, published in 1976, Lewis traces the rise and expansion of New Orleans through four major historic periods. This revised and greatly expanded second edition brings that story up-to-date, illustrating how the city continues to overcome its site on the Mississippi Delta - "a fearsome place, difficult enough for building houses, lunacy for wharves and skyscrapers."

Author: Winston Davis
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: religion, culture, studies, perspectives, responsibility, comparative, taking
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0813920515
ISBN-13: 9780813920511

Responsibility has become the "queen of modern virtues," Winston Davis argues, even if there is no consensus as to what responsibility means. This illuminating collection of essays encompasses conceptions of responsibility around the globe, as discussed by leading scholars in the fields of philosophy, anthropology, intellectual history, religious studies, classics, and law. Including "Law as Response to Thou" by Walter Brueggemann, "Jewish Philosophers after Heidegger: Levinas and Jonas on Res

Author: Brian Steel Wills
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: college, wise, virginia, history, ordinary, university
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-09-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0813922933
ISBN-13: 9780813922935

"You are making history today," the University of Virginia Extension Division agent Samuel Crockett observed to a gathering of students and faculty on September 15, 1954, in Wise, Virginia. The occasion was the opening convocation of what would become Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, and the 109 students assembled, many of whom were Korean War veterans or women, were indeed part of something quite special. People in Southwest Virginia and friends in Charlottesville -- not t

Author: Malika Mokeddem
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: literature, african, caribbean, assassins, dreams
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 0813919940
ISBN-13: 9780813919942

Of Dreams and Assassins is the urgent and rhythmic fourth novel of Malika Mokeddem, her second to appear in English. Born in Algeria to a Bedouin family that had only recently become sedentary, Mokeddem was raised on the stories of her grandmother, who encouraged her education at a time when girls did not go to school. Though raised in a tolerant version of Islam, Mokeddem nevertheless felt the weight of custom and tradition. Of Dreams and Assassins, though not strictly autobiographical, evokes through the beauty and vastness and oppressive heat of the desert Mokeddem’s early yearning fo

Author: Ralph H. Lutts
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: nature, explorations, ecocriticism, sentiment, science, fakers, wildlife
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $21.50
ISBN-10: 0813920817
ISBN-13: 9780813920818

In 1903 John Burroughs published an "Atlantic Monthly" article attacking popular nature writers as "sham naturalists". This debate resulted in a new standard of accuracy for the nature writer and reflected a new way of thinking about moral responsibilities to wildlife.