Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film and Novel on the Road, by Jorge Perez, investigates how Spanish authors and filmmakers employ the road genre to address the reconfiguration of the social, economic,
During her lifetime Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juven
Ambivalent Desires is a literary and cultural study of the reception of modernity in Colombia. Unlike previous studies of Latin American modernization, which have usually focused on the public aspect
I>Antigone's Daughters? provides the first detailed discussion in English of six well-known Portuguese women writers, working across a wide range of genres: Florbela Espanca (1894-1930), Irene Lisboa
This collection gathers new essays in ecofeminist literary criticism and theory that extend the critical trajectory of ecocriticismtoward interdisciplinarity, multiculturalism, and internationalism in
This collection of essays attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the literary events and practices that characterize the last two OOpostrevolutionaryOO decades of Portuguese political and cultur
Blighted Beginnings: Coming of Age in Independent Ireland offers a much needed examination of the manner in which narratives of emerging selfhood were used persistently by authors in order to critique
What Is Film Noir? surveys the various theories of film noir, defines film noir, and explains how the genre relates to the style and the period in which noir was created. It also provides a very usefu
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between g
The story of Venus of Khala-Kanti unfolds in the ancient forests of an imaginary West African village. The story is at once a straightforward narrative of human courage and an allegory for the amputat
In this book a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in l
Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings
Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications o
The seventh volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown showcases a comprehensive collection of his poetry. While Brown is well known as a novelist, his poetry has never before been col
Neuter summarizes H#&233;lè=ène Cixous's early concerns - self, language, meaning, relations, #&233;criture feminine - by laying bare metaphors, incorporating existing material, and developing te
Through close textual analyses of the work of Merce Rodoreda, Remedios Varo, oig, and Carme Riera, this study isolates that which defines a distinctly female narrative voice in Catalan art and literat
This ambitious book takes education as a paradigm for eighteenth-century thinking, especially "Enlightenment." That egalitarian project required limits on those who could profit. Hundreds of English e
Ziad Elmarsafy explores the concept of freedom by reading the works of Corneille, Pascal, and Racine as political theories in the guise of literature. Within this framework, a certain model quickly be
Giants of the Past explores how ideas about evolution, initially seen as a major threat to the establishment of Victorian England, were rapidly co-opted in popular fiction and transformed from a revol
