Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
Poetic Memory
The Forgotten Self in Plath, Howe, Hinsey, and Glück
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
How do poems remember? What kinds of memory do poems register that factual, chronological accounts of the past are oblivious to? What is the self created by such practices of memory? To answer these questions, Uta Gosmann introduces a general theory of 'poetic memory,' a manner of thinking that eschews...
Re-reading Italian Americana
Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This book is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy. It also discusses other social and cultural issues that pertain to Italian Americana. Section two consists of six chapters,...
Suburban Erasure
How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequences of enslavement. Even after this phase passed, the modern Civil Rights Movement took center stage and filled hundreds of pages, creating a new framework...
New England Federalists
Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Beginning with controversies related to British and French attacks on U.S. neutral trade in 1805, this book looks at crucial developments in national politics, public policy, and foreign relations from the perspective of New England Federalists. Through its focus on the partisan climate in Congress...
The American Way of Life
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Telling the full story of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way) in the United States over the course of the last century reveals key insights that add to our understanding of American culture. Lawrence R. Samuel argues that since the term was popularized in the 1930s, the American...
by Bat Ye'or
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The scope and the theme of the book is to analyze the modern political trends and strategies that are leading to major changes in Western civilization, America included, since the OIC strategy targets America also. Learning from the European experience is crucial for Americans. Moreover this evolution...
Judges in Street Clothes
Acting Ethically Off-the-Bench
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
To maintain public confidence in the judiciary, judges are governed by the strictest of ethical codes. Codes of conduct not only circumscribe a judge’s official conduct but also restrict every aspect of a judge’s off-bench life. Judges in Street Clothes: Acting Ethically Off-the-Bench provides...
Fixing Gender
Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender...
The Contemporary African American Novel
Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the “neo-urban novel,” and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday...
Nixon in New York
How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Richard Nixon’s loss in the 1962 gubernatorial election in California was more than just a simple electoral defeat. His once-promising political career was in ruins as he dropped his second high-profile race in as many years. Nixon, himself, rubbed salt in his own self-inflicted wounds by delivering...
Chicano While Mormon
Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
This is a memoir of the early years of a well-known Chicano scholar whose work and activism were motivated by his Mormon faith. The narrative follows him as an immigrant boy in San Antonio, Texas, who finds religion, goes to segregated schools, participates in the first major school boycott of the...
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance
The Bear Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings together scholars, actors, directors, dramaturges, and students to share important new work on the staging practices...
by Ruth A. Hottell, Janis L. Pallister
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors: A Sequel is a comprehensive guide that acts as both a teaching tool and a directory for research. The book begins following films released after the publication of Pallister and Hottell's last volume, Francophone Women Film Directors in 2005 and stops after...
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies
Definition, Theory, and Accented Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies. Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices is a collection of essays that identifies a number of different approaches in cultural studies and in Italian cultural studies in particular. It highlights that history of cultural studies and new developments...