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Matriarchy and Power in Africa
Aneji Eko
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Aneji Eko was technically illiterate, but she represents a resource for understanding the complexities of African and Nigerian cultures. This is an account of matriarchy and the complex ties of kinship, their influences in shaping childhood culture, and how they determined cultural expectations across ethnic groups.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve previously unknown published works of fiction, poetry, and journalistic writing by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), three works never before reprinted, twelve period writings about Stoker, and the rare 1913 estate sale catalogue of his personal library.
Cognition in the Globe
Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is distributed across body, brain, and world.
Reformations of the Body
Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period.
Ulysses Explained
How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce’s Modernist Vision
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses , the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative, Dantesque structure, and Shakespearean plot, Weir rediscovers Joyce's novel through the lens of his renowned predecessors.
Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England
Legally Absent, Virtually Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England.
Teaching and Studying the Americas
Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.
The Footprints of Michael the Archangel
The Formation and Diffusion of a Saintly Cult, c. 300-c. 800
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Early Christians sought miracles from Michael the Archangel and this enigmatic ecumenical figure was the subject of hagiography, liturgical texts, and relics across Western Europe. Entering contemporary debates about angelology, this fascinating study explores the formation and diffusion of the cult of Saint Michael from c. 300-c.800.
Anti-Intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universities
Fictional Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
This book explores popular media depictions of higher education from an American perspective. Each chapter in this book investigates the portrait of higher education in an exciting array of media including novels, television, film, comic books, and video games revealing the ways anti-intellectualism...
Zizek and Media Studies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Film, media, and cultural theorists have long appealed to Lacanian theory in order to discern processes of subjectivization, representation, and ideological interpellation. Here, the contributors take up a Zizekian approach to studies of cinema and media, raising questions about power, ideology, sexual difference, and enjoyment.
Shakespeare’s Surrogates
Rewriting Renaissance Drama
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.
The Gnostic Paradigm
Forms of Knowing in English Literature of the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, discussing law, scholarly pursuits, art, culture, and poetry.
by S. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.