Wayne Press: 446 books
by Gaylyn Studlar
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
One of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun—Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity. The series offered viewers an unusual hero in the mysterious, Shakespeare-spouting gunfighter known only as “Paladin” and...
by Diane DeCillis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In Strings Attached, poet Diane DeCillis takes inspiration from the story of the elephant calf with a thin rope tied to its leg. Even when it grows into a massive animal, the elephant thinks the same string still restrains it and never attempts to break free. This powerful, funny, and sometimes self-deprecating...
Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts
Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions, editors Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt present thirteen essays that examine the complex religious culture of early modern England. Emphasizing particularly the marginalized discourses of...
Fairy Tales Transformed?
Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, accomplished fairy-tale scholar Cristina...
Reading Cavell's The World Viewed
A Philosophical Perspective on Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
In their thoughtful study of one of Stanley Cavell’s greatest yet most neglected books, William Rothman and Marian Keane address this eminent philosopher’s many readers, from a variety of disciplines, who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of The...
by Stephen Benson
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Considers the profound influence of fairy tales on contemporary fiction, including the work of Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Salman Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson.
Warriors, Witches, Whores
Women in Israeli Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema is a feminist study of Israel’s film industry and the changes that have occurred since the 1990s. Working in feminist film theory, the book adopts a cultural studies approach, considering the creation of a female-centered and thematically feminist...
Next Year I Will Know More
Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries, literacy education was mostly a male prerogative. Even more recently, women have not been taught the traditional male curriculum that includes the Talmud and midrashic books. But the situation is changing, partly because of the special emphasis that...
Narratives of Dissent
War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The year 1978 marked Israel's entry into Lebanon, which led to the long-term military occupation of non-sovereign territory and the long, costly war in Lebanon. In the years that followed, many Israelis found themselves alienated from the idea that their country used force only when there was no alternative,...
by Jessica Milner Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Japanese conventions about comedy and laughter are largely unanalyzed. For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, incomprehensible, paradoxical, and even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original research by both Japanese and non-Japanese...
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl
Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than traditional tales and feature female characters...
by Keala Jewell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
A culture defines monsters against what is essentially thought of as human. Creatures such as the harpy, the siren, the witch, and the half-human all threaten to destroy our sense of power and intelligence and usurp our human consciousness. In this way, monster myths actually work to define a culture's...
From East to West
The Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. And yet, the history of the Jewish migratory movements has not been fully explored in Jewish history. While the Jewish migratory movements in the nineteenth and twentieth...
Jewish Honor Courts
Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the aftermath of World War II, virtually all European countries struggled with the dilemma of citizens who had collaborated with Nazi occupiers. Jewish communities in particular faced the difficult task of confronting collaborators among their own ranks—those who had served on Jewish councils, worked...