Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
by Maurice Charney
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Shakespeare's Villains is a close reading of Shakespeare's plays to investigate the nature of evil. Charney closely considers the way that dramatic characters are developed in terms of language, imagery, and nonverbal stage effects. With chapters on Iago, Tarquin, Aaron, Richard Duke of Glaucester,...
The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England
Three Treatises
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England is a scholarly edition of three early modern treatises on the unruly tongue: Jean de Marconville, A Treatise of the Good and Evell Tounge (ca.1592), William Perkins, A Direction for the Government of the Tongue according to Gods worde (1595), and George Webbe,...
by Heather L. Braun
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale: From Gothic Ghosts to Victorian Vamps explores the femme fatale’s careerin nineteenth-century British literature. It traces her evolution—and devolution—formally, historically, and ideologically through a selection of plays, poems, novels, and personal...
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller
A Nomad Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature,...
Shakespeare Expressed
Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A collection of essays originally presented on the Blackfriars stage at the American Shakesepeare Center, Shakespeare Expressed brings together scholars and practitioners, often promoting ideas that can be translated into classroom experiences. Drawing on essays presented at the Sixth Blackfriars...
Manolis Anagnostakis
Poetry and Politics, Silence and Agency in Post-War Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The book reflects on the life and work of a significant poet, public figure, and influential commentator of the cultural, social, and political history of Greece post-World War II: Manolis Anagnostakis (1925–2005). It considers his oeuvre in relation to the work of his peers and to traditions of...
Embodying Difference
Scripting Social Images of the Female Body in Latina Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Embodying Difference: Scripting Social Images of the Female Body in Latina Theatre explores contemporary theatrical productions by Latina dramatists in the United States and focuses on the effects that neoliberal politics, global market strategies, gender formation, and racial and ethnic marginalization...
Avant-Garde Hamlet
Text, Stage, Screen
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Hamlet stands as a high water mark of canonical art, yet it has equally attracted rebels and experimenters, those avant-garde writers, dramatists, performers, and filmmakers who, in their adaptations and appropriations, seek new ways of expressing innovative and challenging thoughts in the hope that...
Paris in American Literatures
On Distance as a Literary Resource
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
“Paris” could be the first word of an epic poem. While there are many cultural pilgrimages in Western Arts (The Alhambra, Venice, Mumbai, Machu Picchu, and others), Paris stands above others, flourishing as an image of possibility and sophistication. The city has a rich history with foreign artists...
by Richard F. Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution...
by Gavin Alexander, April Bernard, Elisabeth Chaghafi
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Spenser in the Moment collects specially commissioned essays critical of established readings, each of which in surveying the state of the art attempts radically to unsettle our conception of the poetry of Edmund Spenser (1552–1599).
The editors were drawn together by a shared restlessness...
The Unimagined in the English Renaissance
Poetry and the Limits of Mimesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
When we read poetry, we tend to believe that we are getting a glimpse of the interior of the poet’s mind—pictures from the poet’s imagination relayed through the representative power of language. But poets themselves sometimes express doubt (usually indirectly) that poetic language has the capability...
by Oliver Hennessey
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism examines Yeats’s writing on Shakespeare in the context of his work on behalf of the Irish Literary Revival. While Shakespeare’s verse drama provides a source of inspiration for Yeats’s poetry and plays, Yeats also writes about Shakespeare in...
Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century
A Styles of Thinking Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from sixteenth-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems...