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Naamiwan's Drum
The Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinaabe Artefacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Naamiwan’s Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years...
OuterSpeares
Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a “brave new world” of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation, noted scholars of Shakespeare and new media consider the ways in which various media...
by Christine Arkinstall
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Christine Arkinstall’s historical and literary study of female freethinking intellectuals in fin-de-siècle Spain examines the contributions of three intellectuals, Amalia Domingo Soler, Angeles López de Ayala, and Belén Sárraga, to the development of feminist consciousness and democracy. These...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain – the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia – from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The...
Roman Literary Cultures
Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors...
by Umberto Eco
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco is also the translator of Gérard de Nerval's...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
The most basic unit of the physical book is the page. It has determined the historical evolution of the book, the types of information communicated, and how the audience accesses that information.
Unique and rewarding in both its scope and approach, The Future of the Page is a collection of...
Why Theatre Matters
Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative...
The Owl and the Nightingale
The Poems and Its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
The Owl and the Nightingale is clearly one of the few major Middle English poems. Despite the clarity and simplicity of its text, however, the poem has occasioned bitter and still unresolved interpretative controversy. Is the key to its meaning to be found in bird lore? the debate form? Is the poem...
Inside Out
The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
‘We have to assume that the mind is working no matter what it looks like on the outside. We can’t just judge by appearance…If you take away the label they are human beings.’ Ed Murphy
What does it mean to be ‘mentally retarded’? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two...
by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Amilcare Iannucci
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars...
Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic
Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
One hundred years after Marshall McLuhan’s birth, Elena Lamberti explores a fundamental, yet neglected aspect of his work: the solid humanistic roots of his original ‘mosaic’ form of writing. In this investigation of how his famous communication theories were influenced by literature and the...
by Marcel Danesi
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an essential resource for beginners and seasoned academics alike. Contributions from over fifty experts and practitioners provide an accessible introduction...
Preaching the Converted
The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
The Vercelli Book is one of the oldest surviving collections of Old English homilies and poems, compiled in England in the tenth century. Preaching the Converted provides a sustained literary analysis of the book's prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly associated...