John Cabot University Press: 5 books

Cover of Extravagance and Three Other Plays
by Dacia Maraini
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015

The collection includes four theatrical works of acclaimed Italian author, Dacia Maraini, in a dual-language format (Italian/English). The works have been chosen around the themes of distress, exclusion, and various manifestations of tragedy with particular reference to women. The works were chosen...
Cover of A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court
by Craig Smith, R Brandon Anderson, Jennifer Asenas
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice will be profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions...
Cover of Against Power

Against Power

For an Overhaul of Critical Theory

by Giacomo Marramao
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

In his latest book in the study of power, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Müller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command...
Cover of The Irish Fairy Tale

The Irish Fairy Tale

A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens

by Vito Carrassi
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of “fairy tale” and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It illuminates the fundamental ways in...
Cover of Five Lectures on the American Civil War, 1861–1865
by Raimondo Luraghi
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

The product of over thirty years of research on the American Civil War by Italy’s most renowned authority on the subject, this study synthetically analyzes the great drama that from 1861 to 1865 devastated the United States and gave life to the modern American nation. The book also highlights how...
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