In this book, Robert J. Cirasa contends that William Carlos Williams's The Collected Poems 1921-1931 and The Complete Collected Poems 1906-1938 are truly "lost" works of major accomplishment in the Wi
What is the role of the British media in our perception of warfare? Are the impressions which we glean from war films, television news reports and newspaper stories reliable? What are the issues - pra
The relationship between English Renaissance drama and Renaissance geography is discussed in this book. It also deals with the impact on the drama of new lands and new peoples and of old lands and anc
The essays in this book discuss Mary Shelley’s innovative contributions to the literary forms she worked with during her lifelong career after the publication of Frankenstein: journals, letters, trave
Body of State offers a comprehensive critical perspective on the Moro Affair and on Marco Baliani’s work. With contributions from scholars, theater practitioners, teachers, and students, it constitute
The book is a translation and critical edition of The Prosecutor written by Paraguay’s most famous writer, Augusto Roa Bastos. The novel traces the journey of Félix Moral, exiled by the S
What forms can religious experience take in a world without cult or creed? Organized religion is notably absent from J. R. R. Tolkien's Secondary Universe despite author's own Catholic faith. Contribu
Writers of the Beat Generation were conscious that they shared thematic and philosophical concerns with writers of the American Renaissance. This study provides the first extended examination of inter
In Stoic philosophy, the writing of the Early Church Fathers, and in its allegorical interpretations in medieval and renaissance mythologies, Sisyphus is the archetypal model of human perfectibility.
Circumstances placed John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party at the center of British politics in 1912. After more than a century of struggle, Irish nationalists looked likely to return a parli
In this study Bat Ye’or provides a lucid analysis of the dogma and strategies of jihad, offering a vast panorama of the history of Christians and Jews under the rule of Islam. This epic story sheds li
This book explores the diverse representation of sexualities in Tennessee Williams’s texts and argues for his creative response to the increase, prior to and following World War II, in criminal
