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The Philosophy of Life and Death
Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era.
Decadence, Degeneration, and the End
Studies in the European Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.
Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco-Apocalypse
Communication and Struggle Across Species, Cultures, and Religions
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
This book 'hunts and gathers' across different historical epochs and situations, juxtaposing biblical materials and hip-hop, Christian colonialism and vodou, personal experience and racial politics, poetics and high theory, in order to challenge the current crisis of sustainability from the perspective indigenous communities and deep ancestry.
Young Shakespeare’s Young Hamlet
Print, Piracy, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The different versions of Hamlet constitute one of the most vexing puzzles in Shakespeare studies. In this groundbreaking work, Shakespeare scholar Terri Bourus argues that this puzzle can only be solved by drawing on multiple kinds of evidence and analysis, including book and theatre history, biography, performance studies, and close readings.
by Kym Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book explores the potential for policy reform as a short-term, low-cost way to sustainably enhance global food security. It argues that reforming policies that distort food prices and trade will promote the openness needed to maximize global food availability and reduce fluctuations in international...
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema
The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory...
Female Bodies on the American Stage
Enter Fat Actress
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative
Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.
Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives
Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies.
Bringing Down the Banking System
Lessons from Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The combined collapse of Iceland's three largest banks in 2008 is the third largest bankruptcy in history and the largest banking system collapse suffered by any country in modern economic history, relative to GDP. How could tiny Iceland build a banking system in less than a decade that proportionally...
The Group Theatre
Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.
The New Humor in the Progressive Era
Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
By tracing the effects of unprecedented immigration, the advent of the new woman, and the little-known vaudeville careers of performers like the Elinore Sisters, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, DesRochers examines the relation between comedic vaudeville acts and progressive reformers as they fought over the new definition of "Americanness."
India and the Occult
The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through case studies. Rather than focusing on the activities of Theosophical Society, India and the Occult looks at the 'hard-core' occultism, in particular the British 20th century currents associated with Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Grant, etc.
Writing the Stalin Era
Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.