Penn State University Press: 456 books
The Great Gap
Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
The relationship between socioeconomic inequality and democratic politics has been one of the central questions in the social sciences from Aristotle on. Recent waves of democratization, combined with deepened global inequalities, have made understanding this relationship ever more crucial. In The...
by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Globalization has affected everyone’s lives, and the reactions to it have been mixed. Legal scholars and political scientists tend to emphasize its harmful aspects, while economists tend to emphasize its benefits. Those concerned about human rights have more often been among the critics than among...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2004
The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. Demographic shifts and economic restructuring have conspired to alter dramatically the lives of rural people and their communities. Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century defines these changes and interprets...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke’s thought grapples with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for invention, revision, and, importantly,...
Appeals to Interest
Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the “culture wars” to vote Republican have been voting “against their interests.” But what, exactly, are these...
Privacy Rights
Moral and Legal Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
We all know that Google stores huge amounts of information about everyone who uses its search tools, that Amazon can recommend new books to us based on our past purchases, and that the U.S. government engaged in many data-mining activities during the Bush administration to acquire information about...
Together at the Table
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically...
Artworks
Meaning, Definition, Value
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1996
What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy...
In a Defiant Stance
The Conditions of Law in Massachusetts Bay, the Irish Comparison, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of the repressive...
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Set in the French countryside of George Sand’s childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in love. The brothers, Landry and Sylvinet, belong to...
Discourses of Empire
Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic...
Trafika Europe
Essential New European Literature, Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
In volume 1 of Trafika Europe, Andrew Singer gathers choice offerings from the first year of the quarterly journal of the same name. These fourteen selections—from seven women and seven men, seven poets and seven fiction writers—represent languages across the Continent, from Shetland Scots and...
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine
Volume 4: Athaliah
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racine’s last play, is “perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit.” Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly struggle for dominion: she, fiercely determined...
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine
Volume 3: Iphigenia
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English:...