History and National Ideology in Greek Postmodernist Fiction investigates the ways postmodernist literary techniques have been adopted by Greek authors. Taking into consideration the global impetus of
The American Way of Life is a cultural history of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way). The book argues that since the term was popularized in the 1930s, the American Way has ser
Reformers, almost by definition, claim the moral high ground because they see abuse and malpractice and want to abolish it. But when their perceptions become clouded, the high ground can quickly turn
Using the framework of self-representation, this book rethinks problems of representation of the female body in French cinema and contemporary French culture. By filming themselves, these filmmakers v
Italian Women at War explores Italian women’s participation in war and conflict throughout Italy’s modern history, beginning with the Unification and ending with the twentieth century. The essays in t
This book considers the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical facets of a temporal paradox in the works of French novelist Claude Simon (1913-2005), and its broader implications for the study of narr
Cinematography in the Weimar Republic argues that the new medium of film was preeminent among the avant-garde art forms that distinguished the cultural renaissance of the Weimar Republic and that with
This book is a phenomenological investigation of the zoo visit experience.Why Do We Go to the Zoo? is rooted in Husserlian phenomenology and focuses on the communicative interactions between humans an
This volume contributes to the growing body of scholarship that seeks to trace the contours of certain aspects of Franklin's intellectual world and argues in fresh ways that Franklin was a thinker of
The Original Iron Brigade tells the story of several New York regiments in the first half of the Civil War. The group saw action in some of the most famous battles of the war, including Second Manassa
The Drama in Shakespeare's Sonnets: "A Satire to Decay" is a work of detective scholarship. Unable to believe that England's great dramatist would publish a sequence of sonnets without a plot, Mark Ja
What do we "see" when we think of Italy? How is our sense of that country, its people and culture formed, what conditions it? Looters, Photographers, and Thieves suggests that our visualization and re
The 16th-century corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil is well-known for the presence of strange elements, such as references to monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd systems of c
Shakespeare Closely Read is a collection of essays, each of which applies the techniques of close reading to one or another of Shakespeare's texts. The essays are united by their commitment to close r
The Catherian Cathedral fills in major gaps in Cather's use of the cathedral metaphor throughout her writing life, exploring and analyzing the incorporation of major elements of Gothic cathedral desig
The innovative, wide-ranging study deftly traverses fields of art, politics, philosophy, psychology, and literature. Reimagining Life redefines Surrealism's place in modern intellectual history and of
This book analyzes the modern political trends and strategies that are leading to major changes in Western civilization, America included, since the OIC strategy targets America also. Learning from th
Uniquely blending theories of literary and filmic intertextuality with issues of race and gender, and written by an experienced author trained both in early modern and film studies, this book can easi
Eleven essays on Algren's major work offer a diverse and lively range of theoretical and historical readings— including discussions of Algren's place in Chicago's left-wing literary tradition, the aes
