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Words at Work in Vanity Fair
Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914–1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society.
The Charismatic City and the Public Resurgence of Religion
A Pentecostal Social Ethics of Cosmopolitan Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Two powerful and interrelated transnational cultural expressions mark our epoch, Charismatic spirituality and global city. This book demonstrates how these two forces can be used to inform ethical design of cities and their common social lives to best support human flourishing, spirituality, and social and ecological wellbeing of their residents.
Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries
Playing the Heresy Card
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion. Essays examine individual cases, in addition to the close relationship of orthodoxy and political dominance in medieval games of power.
Milton Now
Alternative Approaches and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.
Modernist Fiction and News
Representing Experience in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Modernist Fiction and News characterizes uses novel reading of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf to explore how these authors engaged with a rapidly expanding news industry in order to establish an experimental space in which to represent experience with the hope of greater immediacy and faithfulness to reality.
The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave
Juan Francisco Manzano 1797–1854
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures.
The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision
Media, Counterculture, Revolt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Despite the explosion of interest in the "global 1968," the arts in this period - both popular and avant-garde forms - have too often been neglected. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars in history, cultural studies, musicology and other areas to explore the symbiosis of the sonic and the visual in the counterculture of the 1960s.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well as what the experience was.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies. In doing so it makes a significant contribution...
Performing Bodies in Pain
Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.
America in An Arab Mirror
Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature: An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from...
by D. Cohen-Mor
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of male authors from across the Arab world to explore the traditional and evolving nature of father-son relationships in Arab families.
Where Islam and Judaism Join Together
A Perspective on Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Introducing a framework to generate new conversations about inter-religious dialogue and create a community of religions, Shai Har-El argues that Islam and Judaism, sister religions, are closely related to one another with roots intertwined in the land, in the language, and in the memories of shared history.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Interreligious Friendships after Nostra Aetate explores the ways in which personal relationships are essential for theology. Catholic theologians tell the personal stories of their interreligious friendships and explore the significance of their friendships for their own life and work.