Lexington Books: 3858 books
by Mark William Padilla
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The Catholic and Irish-English Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born to a mercantile family and attended a Jesuit college preparatory,...
Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific
The Labors of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book traces the history of working people who helped established the foundation of the American empire in the Pacific from its origins after the American Revolution to its coming of age in the 1840s and 1850s. Beginning with the expeditions of the Columbia and the Lady Washington, Lampe argues...
The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise
Phenomenology and Speculation
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence, surprise). The proposed term desire||surprise captures the phenomenological-speculative character of the...
Urban Ills
Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 2 is devoted to the myriad issues involving urban health and the dynamics of urban communities and their neighborhoods....
Poverty and Place
Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond...
Race and Sex across the French Atlantic
The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Jean Genet's masterpiece Les N_gres was first published in 1958, in the midst of the Algerian war, and first performed at the ThZ%tre de Lut_ce in Paris in October 1959. Yet even though the play is more than 50 years old, it remains a fundamental contribution to critical race theory, as Genet unequivocally...
The South Seas
A Reception History from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The South Seas is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of “the South Seas” has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century. As well as tracing the influence of literary texts by authors such as Daniel Defoe and Herman...
Women Writers of Gabon
Literature and Herstory
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led to the omission of Gabon’s literature from the African canon, but it also discusses in depth the unique elements of Gabonese women’s writing that...
The French Colonial Imagination
Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857-1858, from Second Empire to Third Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The Indian uprisings (1857–58) against British rule in India represent an iconic period within the history of anti-colonial resistance. Numerous works have considered these historical events from British and Indian perspectives, but none have yet questioned how they were viewed by Britain’s foremost...
Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism
A New Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Max Stirner (1806-1856) is recognized in the history of political thought because of his egoist classic The Ego and Its Own. Stirner was a student of Hegel, and a critic of the Young Hegelians and the emerging forms of socialist and communist thought in the 1840s. Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism:...
Reading Dante
The Pursuit of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2007
Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning examines the problem of determining the thematic unity of Dante's Divina Commedia in the history of Dante studies. The question of unity has puzzled Dante readers for centuries, due to an apparent discrepancy between Dante's construction of the afterworld and...
The O.C.
A Critical Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
The O.C., A Critical Understanding, by Lori Bindig and Andrea M. Bergstrom, is a feminist cultural studies analysis of FOX’s hit teen television drama The O.C. (2003-2007). Episodes of The O.C. are analyzed as a set of media texts that blur the boundaries between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic...
Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality
The Intersection of Visual, Aural, and Verbal Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature...
Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust
Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan,...