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by L. Cardon
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Fictional depictions of intermarriage can illuminate perceptions of both 'ethnicity' and 'whiteness' at any given historical moment. Popular examples such as Lucy and Ricky in I Love Lucy (1951-1957), Joanna and John in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Toula and Ian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
The Gothic Imagination
Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over the last 200 years and its contemporary influence on film and media.
Between Feminism and Materialism
A Question of Method
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
In her latest book, Gillian Howie offers a bold new way to make sense of the relationship between feminist theory and capitalism. This exciting combination of existentialism, phenomenology, and critical theory delivers a proactive feminism ready to respond to the challenges presented by our thoroughly modern times.
Literature, Ethics, and Aesthetics
Applied Deleuze and Guattari
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
A conceptualization of the literary aesthetic for a concern for the Self.Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks the ways in which literature is understood and taught.
Reconstruction in Literary Studies
An Informalist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Pointing the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature, Reconstruction in Literary Studies draws on philosophical pragmatism to justify the academic study of literature. In turn, Vescio connects the changing field to its social function as an institution.
Intersubjectivity and the Double
Troubled Matters
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book extends philosophy’s engagement with the double beyond hierarchized binary oppositions. Brian Seitz explores the double as a necessary ontological condition or figure that gets represented, enacted, and performed repeatedly and in a myriad of configurations. Seitz suggests that the double...
Egyptian Colloquial Poetry in the Modern Arabic Canon
New Readings of Shi‘r al-‘?mmiyya
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Noha Radwan offers the first book-length study of the emergence, context, and development of modern Egyptian colloquial poetry, recently used as a vehicle for communications in the revolutionary youth movement in Egypt on January 25th 2011, and situates it among modernist Arab poetry.
by M. Yegenoglu
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding of the subject formation, to Zygmunt Bauman's notion of the stranger.
Bringing Light to Twilight
Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The essays in this collection use the interpretative lens to interrogate the meanings of Meyer's books, making a compelling case for the cultural relevance of Twilight and providing insights on how we can "read" popular culture to our best advantage.
Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran’s contemporary political and intellectual history. It investigates the way Iranian Muslim intellectuals have discussed politics and democracy. As a history of Iranian Islamism and its transformation to post-Islamism, this work demonstrates that Muslim...
The International Politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict
The Original “Frozen Conflict” and European Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book frames the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in the context of European and international security. It is the first book to focus on the politics of the conflict rather than the dispute itself. Since their emergence twenty years ago, this and other “frozen conflicts”...
Kurdish Diaspora Online
From Imagined Community to Managing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its imagined community. Online activities and communications between people and across borders suggest that digital media...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.
Educational Policy in an International Context
Political Culture and Its Effects
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes 'the standards movement' and 'new public management' or accountability in the public sector.