As a Serbian living in Belgrade when she first heard of the genocide committed under Slobodan Milosevic, Subotic (political science, Georgia State U.), found--when she went back to research this book-
Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in the earliest author's book in Italian by investigating, through an analysis of
In Chosen Places, Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa Jelena Erdeljan examines the Old Testament topic of God-chosen status of Jerusalem and the phenomenon of translatio Hierosolymi in vis
The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches. Centrally planned columnar structures--typically comprised of
Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of th
This book discusses narrative as an adaptive cultural mechanism among Gypsies in Serbia. As a key traditional trait of Serbian Gypsies, storytelling, conveyed along kin generations, influences the beh
