Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.
Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination
Re-reading History
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination.
Staging Modern American Life
Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental
TransLatin Joyce
Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and post-Euclidean physics.
Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays
New Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Eugene O'Neill, Nobel Laureate in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winner, is widely known for his full length plays. However, his one-act plays are the foundation of his work - both thematically and stylistically, they telescope his later plays. This collection aims to fill the gap by examining these...
Children's Literature Collections
Approaches to Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship,...
by Paul Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Focusing on Glasgow’s earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city’s most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing...
The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine
Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.
Theatre/Performance Historiography
Time, Space, Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
How do the ethical implications of writing theatrical histories complicate the historiographical imperative in our current sociopolitical context? This volume investigates a historiography whose function is to be a mode of thinking and exposes the inner contradictions in social and ideological organizations of historical subjects.
by Gene A. Plunka
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.
by C. O'Rawe
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed consideration of the masculinities that are dominating current Italian cinema, the study addresses the supposed crisis of masculinity.
Transposing Broadway
Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience; and that audience's aspirations and concerns have played out in the shows...
Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction
Legacies of the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century writers associated with the historical avant-garde and their descendants. Building on recent work in new materialism and waste studies, Rachele Dini reads waste as a process or phase...
Richard Wright
New Readings in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father ' s Law (2008).