 BACKLIST The San Diego State University Press Backlist features volumes Linguistics, German Expressionist Art, Cultural Conflict, Performance Theory and many more by a stable of remarkable scholars and writers including Noam Chomsky, Jane Goodall, Arthur Kornberg, Carlos Gagini and a host of others. |
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Ida Katherine Rigby foreword
Earl A. Powell, III The
anguish, frustration, and desperate experimentation
which characterized
German society in the wake of its bitter defeat in World
War I and
during the ensuing revolution are nowhere more apparent
than in the
graphic posters, prints, and book and periodical
illustrations produced
by the German Expressionist artists who, between 1918
and 1922, joined
the effort to reshape society.
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Using a series of clear exercises and diagrams, this manual provides a basic tool for interchange among users of three different languages: spoken English, spoken Spanish, and American Sign Language.
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  Perceiving
and Telling: A Study of Iterative
Discourse
Danièle Chatelain ISBN 1-879691-52-3 1998 paper, 202 pp. US $17.50 Perceiving
and
Telling: A Study of Iterative Discourse is a
comparatist
study
exploring verbal conventions that create the
illusion of time, as well
as of theories about how these conventions have
operated in the works
of
various authors. In her introduction, Danièle
Chatelain
says, "Central
to current theories of narratology is a persistent
sense of the
separation
of space and time. In Gerald Prince's A Dictionary
of Narratology
(1987),
the categories of narratology appear to have
reached canonical status,
and the separation between time and space seems
encoded in them.
Typically,
Prince defines "description," as "the
representation of objects,
beings,
situations, or (nonpurposeful, nonvolitional)
happenings in their
spatial
rather than temporal existence, their topological
rather than
chronological
functioning, their simultaneity rather than
succession" (19).
"Narration,"
on the other hand, is "a discourse representing
one or more events,"
that
is, temporal phenomena (57). What we have, then,
are sets of binary
oppositions,
which inform everything from structural
distinctions, such as narration
versus description, down to the fundamental binary
histoire (story) and
récit (narrative). In terms of story versus
narrative, the
separation
of space and time is in a sense built into the
very terms in which that
distinction is traditionally formulated. In
Prince's Dictionary,
"story"
is the content of the narrative; it is a
succession of events "with an
emphasis on chronology" (91). On the other hand,
"narrative"is the
recounting
of this chronology; it is a "structuration," that
is, a mental
spatialization
of this presumed flow of events. Underlying modern
theory of narrative,
in fact, is both a separation of time and space
(story = chronology;
narrative
= structuration), and a sense of rivalry between
these two dimensions.
This book responds to a growing demand for practical devices which will enable disabled persons to participate in a full range of individual recreational services.
The author's Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture addresses the implications of repeated live performances for establishing a play's definitive text. Physician, author, stage producer, and director, Miller has produced twelve plays in the acclaimed BBC Shakespeare Series, directed six of them, and has directed at least a dozen opera productions for the English National and Frankfurt Opera Companies.
This title presents the author's University Research Lecture and a colloquium on the subject of social and cultural attitudes towards aging.
During the summer of 1984, a collection of scholars, athletes, and artists convened in Coroebus's honor to celebrate the alliance of sport and the arts with the formation of the Sport Literature Association.
Four Trips to Antiquity narrates an artist's search through Central America for the space form which inheres in ancient Maya sculpture.
Genetic Chemistry and the Future of Medicine by Arthur Kornberg ISBN: 0-916304-80-9 Paper / Paper: 54 / $9.50 1988 This title presents Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg's formal San Diego State University Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture. It is followed by excerpts from a colloquium discussion and by a short bibliography.
San Diego State University's Fourth Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture, this title features the author's lecture, transcript of a colloquium, and a Goodall bibliography.
Looking Glass presents the best of contemporary American Indian writing. This unique collection comprises short fiction, criticism, and visuals. Among the authors presented here are Darryl Wilson, Joseph Bruchac, Greg Sarris, David Lucero, LeAnne Howe, Misha, Mourning Dove, Patricia Riley In-The-Woods, and Gerald Vizenor.
San Diego State University's seventh University Research Lecture, Luster of Jade presents a demonstration of the interconnections among three different art forms.
Noam Chomsky uses the historical background and nature of cognitive psychology to enable us to better understand several important problems of human thought and perception and the interrelationship of the body and the mind.
Mourning Dove, an Okanagan Indian from the Pacific Northwest, was the first American Indian woman novelist. This is a book rich in culture, depicted by an unusual native woman who preserved and interpreted the oral tradition of her people in this moving and colorful account.
The New Immigration examines the social and political implications of recent waves of immigration to the United States.
In their University Research Lecture, the authors examine the sources of reading behavior and set out a theory which accounts for the acquisition of reading skills.
Set in and around San José during the first years of the twentieth century, Redemptions tells the story of the seduction and betrayal of a young Costa Rican woman by a North American entrepreneur.
Tod Sloan, a brash American jockey who pioneered a new style of riding, tells the story of turn-of-the-century racing from both sides of the Atlantic--an apology, an explanation, an effort at vindication, a final desperate appeal against his fate.
The author's thesis that there are significant analogues among painting, music, and literature is explored in detail in this lavishly illustrated treatment. David Ward-Steinman has composed major works for orchestra, ballet, band, opera, oratorio, chamber, and voice.
The essays in this book provide a broad spread of perspectives on the ways the utopian vision has appeared, ranging from the "heavenly garden" of the ancient Near East, through Sir Thomas More's Utopia and the idealized societies of feminist science fiction, to the utopian/dystopian expressions of Kurt Vonnegut.
This publication marks the long overdue appearance in English of Jean Norton Cru's controversial classic on the nature of war, as told in the words of witnesses, the French soldiers in the trenches of World War I.
The fifth in the University Research Lecture series, The Unfought War includes a lecture that explores the subject of oral history within the specific context of Japan's involvements in World War II.
Both scholarly and intimate, The Unseen Elderly provides a fascinating study of elderly persons who live in the marginal social and economic environments of single-room occupancy hotels in America's inner cities. OUT OF PRINT Tijuana: History of a Mexican Metropolis by T. D. Proffitt, III ISBN: 0-916304-90-6 Paper / $34.50 1994 This is the first book-length study of Tijuana in English in over a decade. It is an in-depth history which theorizes a symbiotic frontier-a frontier of mutually advantageous interdependence between two different socioeconomic and cultural urban centers: San Diego and Tijuana. Tijuana is studied not in isolation but within its geographic, social, and cultural contexts. Photographs.
This collection presents sixteen stories ranging in subject matter from the commonplaces of domestic and illicit togetherness to the mythologies of love and death in America.
British
Activities
in California and the Pacific Coast of North
America to 1860: An
Archival
Calendar Guide This title provides the raw materials to put the story of English activities in California and the west coast of North America in a historical perspective. Letters are calendared in summary, precis, and verbatim form, with major topics highlighted.
Chant
the Names
of God: Music and Culture in Bhojpuri-Speaking
India In describing the main occasions of which music enhances cultural events such as weddings, births, and mother goddess worship, Chant the Names of God shows how music responds to its social and cultural contexts.
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Clash
of
Identities presents Dipak K. Gupta's
research on issues
surrounding
prediction in the social sciences, specifically,
forecasting outbreaks
of political violence. Honored as San Diego State
University's eleventh
Distinguished Graduate Research Lecturer, Gupta
explores ethnic
nationalism,
globalization, and the dimensions of reason and
intuition in the
complex
processes of political prediction in a variety of
contexts. This book
features
Gupta's public lecture "Clash of Identities," his
colloquium "Can We
Predict
Humanitarian Crises?", the article "An Early
Warning about Political
Forecasts:
Oracle to Academics," 
The
Afterlife of Plays 
In
this, his fourth book, Everett Gee Jackson
recounts tales from his
earliest
memories through his youth and college years which
reveal the gentle
nudges
that life gave him on the journey to his career as
an artist and,
especially,
as a painter of the Mexican and Central American
scene. Jackson was one
of several distinguished American artists who
worked in Mexico during
the
1920s and 1930s. He was, for many years, chair of
the Art Department at
San Diego State University, and he founded the
Latin American Committee
of the San Diego Museum of Art.
