Wayne State University Press: 405 books
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...
Yudisher Theriak
An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Yudisher Theriak [Jewish Theriac] by Zalman Zvi of Aufhausen, first published in Hanau, in 1615, was a response to an anti-Jewish work titled Jüdischer abgestreiffter Schlangenbalg [Jewish Shed Snakeskin], written by a Jewish convert to Chistianity, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, and published in Nürnberg...
Great Lakes Island Escapes
Ferries and Bridges to Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The Great Lakes Basin is the largest surface freshwater system on Earth. The more than 30,000 islands dotted throughout the basin provide some of the best ways to enjoy the Great Lakes. While the vast majority of these islands can only be reached by private boat or plane, a surprising number of islands—each...
Folk Music in the United States
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1976
Folk Music in the United States gives readers a broad overview of many kinds of folk music found in this country, from the songs of rural Appalachia an d New England through the indigenous music of the American Indians and the African music brought by slaves, to the folk songs of European minorities....