Syracuse University Press: 176 books
Light within the Shade
Eight Hundred Years of Hungarian Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
The pure verbal energy characterizing Hungarian poetry may be regarded
as one of the most striking components of Hungarian culture. More than
800 years ago, under the inspiration of classical and medieval Latin poetry,
Hungarian poets began to craft a rich chain of poetic designs, much
of it in response...
Peconic Bay
Four Centuries of History on Long Island’s North and South Forks
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north by Long Island Sound, the Peconic Bay region, including the North and South Forks, has only recently been recognized for its environmental and economic significance. The story of the waterway and its contiguous land masses is one of farmers...
by Jay Timothy Dolmage
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet,...
by Kevin R. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree,...
Irish Women Dramatists
1908-2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Irish women dramatists have long faced an uphill challenge in getting the recognition and audience of their male counterparts. There are more female playwrights now than ever before, but they are often ignored by mainstream theatres. Kearney and Headrick strive to shift the spotlight with Irish Women...
by David R. Collier
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Collier presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century. He delves deeply into the American desire to promote democracy in Iran from the 1940s through the early 1960s and examines the myriad factors that contributed to their success...
Arabs and the Art of Storytelling
A Strange Familiarity
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala’...
Abundance from the Desert
Classical Arabic Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500â€"1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a...
Prelude to Prison
Student Perspectives on School Suspension
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
By the close of the twentieth century, the United States became known for its reliance on incarceration as the chief means of social control, particularly in poor communities of color. The carceral state has been extended into the public school system in these communities in what has become known...
Allegiance and Betrayal
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Allegiance and Betrayal" is comprised of a dozen short stories, all dealing with family in one way or another. The stories are set in New England and the South, including specific locations such as Connecticut and coastal North Carolina. Makuck writes about an offshore fishing trip to settle old scores,...
by Julia Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology
which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival’s celebration
of the Irish peasant farmer as the ideal Irishman to the fierce history
of land claim battles between the Irish and their colonizers, notions of...
Relocated Memories
The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English, nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the development of an Irish anticolonial...
From Rice Fields to Killing Fields
Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant...
Syria from Reform to Revolt
Volume 1: Political Economy and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
When Bashar al-Asad smoothly assumed power in July 2000, just seven days after the death of his father, observers were divided on what this would mean for the country’s foreign and domestic politics. On the one hand, it seemed everything would stay the same: an Asad on top of a political system...