Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century
Constructing Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining...
by Nancy Mohrlock Bunker
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton examines the dynamics of early modern marriage-making, a time-honored practice that was evolving, often surreptitiously, from patriarchal control based on money and inheritance, to a companionate union in which love and the couple’s own agency played...
The Text, the Play, and the Globe
Essays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare's World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which...
by Sean Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The last quarter century has seen a “turn to religion” in Shakespeare studies as well as competing assertions by secular critics that Shakespeare’s plays reflect profound skepticism and even dismissal of the truth claims of revealed religion. This divide, though real, obscures the fact that...
Appropriating Shakespeare
A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe argues that the vibrant, transformative history of Shakespeare’s play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night’s Dream across four centuries allows us to see the way in which Shakespeare is used to both create and critique emergent...
Reimagining Life
Philosophical Pessimism and the Revolution of Surrealism
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In Reimagining Life, Raihan Kadri presents a pioneering critical history of the epistemological and theoretical origins of the Surrealist movement and its subsequent legacy. The book contains extensive examination and new interpretations of the oft-neglected theoretical writing of Surrealists such...
The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor
with Selected Poetry and Prose by Mary E. Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor with Selected Poetry and Prose, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, seeks to reclaim Coleridge’s reputation as a novelist, poet, critic, and educator by featuring familiar works alongside unpublished or out-of-print works. This collection includes a substantial introduction...
Durrell and the City
Collected Essays on Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Durrell and the City commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Alexandria Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical consideration of Durrell's urban landscapes, from the London of his...
Creating Albert Camus
Foundations and Explorations of His Philosophy of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The contributors to this collection come from disparate fields such as theology, literature studies, political science, and communication studies and are guided by a commitment to consider what we can learn from Camus as opposed to where he was wrong or misguided in his life and writing. If there...
by Melissa Coburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Race as Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives by female authors Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Natalia Ginzburg, and Gabriella Ghermandi, who wrote in Italy after national unification. Starting from the premise...
Janet Frame
Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
In Janet Frame: Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction, Paul Matthew St. Pierre exploits the linguistic discipline of semiotics and the neurobiological discipline of biosemiotics to propose an original and dynamic reading of the first four works of fiction by New Zealand writer Janet Frame...
'What May Words Say . . . ?'
A Reading of the The Merchant of Venice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
'What may words say_?' A Reading of The Merchant of Venice contains, in a form resembling a running commentary, a comprehensive and in many respects unconventional interpretation of The Merchant of Venice. The play's development of ideas is unfolded in a literary analysis that focuses on the poet's...
by John Howlett
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book represents the first scholarly gathering together of the long-neglected poetry of the School Inspector, educationalist and philosopher Edmond Holmes (1850 – 1936). Alongside a generous selection from Holmes’s six volumes of poetry there is also a full reproduction of Holmes’s essay...
Images of the Modern Vampire
The Hip and the Atavistic
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire...