Fandom At The Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships is an in-depth exploration of the reciprocal relationship between a groundbreaking cult television show and its equally grou
Reading, Writing and Digitizing offers a new theoretical proposal concerning expert and novice readers and writers based on the psycholinguistics of literacy. This book has five specific goals. First,
Ernesto de Martino (1908-1965) is one of the brightest critical thinkers of the 20th century in both the humanities and social sciences. Despite his immense contribution to the study of religion and a
European Empires, with their multi-ethnic societies, have long been considered as failures, and their history was often presented as a narrative of mere disintegration and decay. With the ever-dominat
Excavating the Mind deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, i.e. our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasizing the close interdependence of mi
'Son of Man' is practically the only self-designation employed by Jesus himself in the gospels, but is used in such a way that no hint is left of any particular theological significance. During the fi
Transgressing Women focuses on the literary and cinematic representation of female characters in contemporary noir thrillers. The book argues that as the genre has grown, expanded and been subverted s
Agriculturalist, theologian, and biblical archaeologist Guillaume seeks to make biblical exegetes more familiar with ancient farming and its techniques by integrating some of the growing body of knowl
Was the Jewish Torah codified from its various sources at the behest of the Persian imperial government? This is the question the present book explores by engaging in the much acclaimed theory of Impe
Althans demonstrates here how the nineteenth century form of the gothic novel has been appropriated, inverted and recreated by Australian Aboriginal authors and film makers to express their sense of e
This biography of the thirteenth-century writer Tolomeo Fiadoni, also known as Ptolemy of Lucca, places him squarely in the middle of the political and religious movements of his day. Blythe (history,
In an earlier biography, Blythe (U. of Memphis) traces the life and writings of Italian student of Thomas Aquinas and eventually bishop of Torcello, Tolomeo (ca.1236-ca.1327), and here offers a compan
