In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies in recent and contemporary Italian cultural producation, in light of current developments in thinkin
This richly illustrated book represents the first interpretive analysis of the Grosvenor Gallerys history in terms of changing attitudes about art and institutions at the end of the Victorian period.
Francophone Women Film Directors: A New Guide is both a teaching tool and a directory for use by scholars and students of film and literature. Unique among guides dealing with film, both for its bread
This book presents two unpublished plays by the English radical, John Thelwall (1764?1834), who, as a leading member of the prorevolutionary London Corresponding Society, was tried and acquitted of hi
Scholars have debated endlessly the transgressive potential of boy actors on the Elizabethan stage, but few have paid attention to the cultural implications of cross-dressed performances occurring on
Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism, this was hardly the case artistically speaking. This last volume conta
Americans and other English speakers have long associated the name of Hans Christian Andersen exclusively with fairy tales for children. Danes and other Scandinavians, however, have preserved an aware
This book examines the contradiction between Chinese perception of the missionary role and the missionariesO own perception of their role. It offers a critical assessment of the role of the missionari
This book revives questions of religious and political authority in poetic prophecy. It argues that modern prophecy operates within a dynamic of continuity and estrangement that combines immanent and
This work is an attempt to bring the latest findings of cognitive psychology to bear on the interpretation of Abstract Expressionism. The heuristic models developed by contemporary cognitive scientist
Engaging with a wide range of texts on gift-theory, extending from Senecas De Beneficiis to Derridas Given Time, Selfish Gifts examines the importance of gift ethics and the rhetoric of honorable givi
Converse in the Spirit is a comparative study of the writings of William Blake and the German visionary philosopher Jacob Boehme. It argues that the relationship between Blake and Boehme was a meeting
In this study of the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule (the dhimmis), Bat Ye’or examines various religious and historical sources, using the new term ‘dhimmit
This book explores the phenomenon of online social networking in the contexts of a global multicultural society caught in the turmoil of the information and communication revolution. It offers readers
Two narratives are used in telling the story of indigenous peoples and minorities in relation to globalization and intellectual property rights. This book steers a careful path between Optimism and Fe
Dubliners’ Dozen is an exploration of those narrative devices that make James Joyce’sDubliners a writerly rather than a readerly text. In place of a single comprehensive theory that integrates all of
This book is the first comprehensive examination of the remarkable singing groupsmale and femaleknown as barbershoppers. In a capella quartets and choruses, barbershoppers concentrate on a song litera
This volume is a collection of ideas stated over a lifetime of service as administrator, diplomat, president, and Chief Justice. It singles out, from the total of Taft's writings and addresses, the es
This volume is intended as complementary to Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy that traced the changes in literature written by migrants in Italy from 1990 to the end of that deca
