Originally published in 1992 in hardcover, this paperback features a newly corrected text and a revised and expanded bibliography, which is updated to 1994. The book is the first to address the entir
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman presents a comprehensive resource complied by over 200 internationally recognized contributors, including such leading Whitman scholars as James E. Miller, J
Antonio Gardano's publications are among the most important sources of sixteenth-century music. This final volume in Mary Lewis's three volume set completes the catalogue of Antonio Gardano's public
The essays collected in Modern Greek Literature represent the work of young scholars as they expand the range of approaches to modern Greek literature. The contributors vary in their focus from compar
A collection of essays, stories, poems, plays and novels representing the breadth of Chicano/a literature from 1965 to 1995. The anthology highlights major themes of identity, feminism, revisionism,
Comprises the continuation of Mieder's (German and folklore, U. of Vermont) three previous volumes (1982, 1990, and 1993) registering the paremiological and phraseological publications from around the
Offers approximately 250 paintings, engravings, and drawings which depict scenes of music, dance, religious practice, and storytelling in the everyday lives of African-Americans.
Evans (Harvard U.) collects seven essays of her late colleague, Professor Levin, a major Shakespeare critic. The essays (1959-96) were to be part of a planned larger study to examine what French criti
Preferring the term "transnational feminism" to "global feminism," Richards integrates feminist and postcolonial approaches to reading selected writings of authors whose thought and characters deconst
Presents 41 essays assessing the presidential careers of the men who have occupied the office, from Washington to Clinton. Each essay discusses the president's biography, important events of his term/
Scholars and critics discuss and analyze Sondheim's major productions and themes using various critical methodologies, including deconstruction, Marxism, formalism, psychoanalysis, and historicism. Th
This paleoanthropology reference contains nearly 800 topic headings or entries ranging from 50 to 9,000 words long. It begins with a brief overview of the subject, a classification of primates, a time
This two-volume reference presents not only the events between 1939 and 1945, but also the events leading up to the formal start of the war, the underlying causes, and some of the consequences and res
Xie, a poetry scholar (academic affiliation not noted), examines the notion of the Chinese ideogram in Fenollosa, Pound, and Lowell in relation to Western conceptions and misconceptions and poetic the
Eleven contributors, including two males, analyze the themes of gender and ethnicity--and their siblings of class, sexual preference, and religion--represented in short stories by contemporary America
Documents women's wartime experiences from World War I through the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The essays trace the evolution of women's roles as victims of war into actors and perpetra
Brunvand, author of the standard textbook The Study of American Folklore (Third edition, 1986) and best known for his collections of urban legends, presents the ultimate reference work on folk culture
This is the second of a three-volume set that presents biographical essays on the scholars whose work has defined medieval studies. Covers 35 scholars from the 16th to the 20th centuries whose subject
Investigates how, in epics of the Crusade era, the daughters of the black devil Saracens turned out white, gentle, and often married to the European knight hero at the end of the tale. Especially loo
A collection of criticism and reviews of Shakespeare's comedy from the late 17th century to the present. An introductory essay of 76 pages identifies major critical issues and problems the play has ra
Twelve essays analyze the theological thought of Victorian women who wrote in various genres, and who revised, subverted, or rejected elements of masculine theology. The editor's introduction notes th
With Bradley's 1896 illustration "The Kiss" gracing the cover, the authors present a working terminology of design reform and the themes of such reformers in introducing one of the first of its kind b
Twenty essays, most published between the middle 1970s and the middle 1990s document Greetham's intellectual career as it has been influenced over time. Among his topics are textual criticism in gradu
Edwards (literary studies, Deakin U.) argues that play is endemic to culture and that it helps to explain the operations of literary texts as cultural productions. He analyzes the forms and styles of
Focuses on six masterpieces of short fiction: "The Shadow in the Rose Garden," "Odor of Chrysanthemums," "Daughters of the Vicar," "The Prussian Officer," "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," and "The Rocki
