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by J. Knapp
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts.
Technically Alive
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Drawing on the later writings of Martin Heidegger, the book traces the correspondence between the philosopher's concept of technology and Shakespeare's poetics of human and natural productivity in the Sonnets.
Debating American Exceptionalism
Empire and Democracy in the Wake of the Spanish-American War
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Spanish-American War focused not only on foreign policy, but also on the nation's very essence and purpose. At the heart of this debate was a consensus on American nationalism. This book explains why the belief in exceptionalism still serves as the basis of American nationalism and foreign policy even in spite of more recent military failures.
Cuba Under Siege
American Policy, the Revolution and Its People
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
For more than 50 years America's unrelenting hostility toward the Cuban Revolution has resulted in the development of a siege mentality among island leadership and its citizens. In a vibrant new look at Cuban-American relations, Keith Bolender analyzes the effects this has had on economic, cultural, and political life.
by F. Tolhurst
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose.
Mapping Malory
Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's M orte Darthur and contributors shine a light on questions of politics and genre to help readers better understand Malory's world.
A Poetics of Relation
Caribbean Women Writing at the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
Faulkner’s Gambit
Chess and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit . Wainwright looks at the importance of chess as a literary device and examines the structural analogy drawn between the game and linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help
Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's Th e Hel p .
by Felipe Cala Buendía
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cultural producers adapted or developed strategies as resources for social actors to use for change.
Social Movements in Latin America
Neoliberalism and Popular Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decline, and capitalism is in crisis.
Telling West Indian Lives
Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804–1834
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written narrative shaped evangelical, philanthropic, and antislavery reform projects.
by Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.