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The Medieval Fold
Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance...
Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz
Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination of human beings, irrevocably...
by A. Nunes
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel.
Gender, Empire, and Postcolony
Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism.
The Works of Tim Burton
Margins to Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. This book examines how his aesthetics, influences, and themes reflect the shifting social expectations in American culture by tracing his Burton's move from a peripheral figure in the 1980s to the center of Hollywood filmmaking.
Playing to the Crowd
London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.
by R. Boer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Based on a careful reading of Lenin's Collected Works, Roland Boer pursues the implications for linking Lenin with religion and theology and seeks to bring Lenin into recent debates over the intersections between theology and the Left, between the Bible and political thought.
Art and Life in Modernist Prague
Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI.
London Clubland
A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.
by A. Biney
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Inspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence. This analysis of his political, social and economic thought centres on his own writings, and re-examines his life and thought by focusing on the political discourse and controversies surrounding him.
Social Theory of Fear
Terror, Torture, and Death in a Post-Capitalist World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion.
Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780-1840
After Shylock
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures.
by Michael J. Blouin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes, including Candyman, Frozen, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, cultivate neoliberal subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change, but they too often deliver more of the same. Although proponents...
Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century
Seduction and Sentiment
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental...