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Crafting the Witch: Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0415977614
- Authors:
- Heidi Breuer
How did the witch become wicked? This is the central question of Crafting the Witch, which documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures that occurred in Arthurian romance as it developed from its earliest continental manifestations in the twelfth century to its flowering in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. In particular, while wizard-figures remained repositories of privileged knowledge throughout these periods,...
Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse
- ISBN:
- 0739127535
- Authors:
- John Ingulsrud, Kate Allen
The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities coming out of Japanese animation, manga, and video games are together called Japan Cool. The origins of the movement are in manga, the practices of the readers, the diversity of the titles, and the sheer number of works.
Proclus' Hymns: Essays, Translations, Commentary (Philosophia Antiqua)
- ISBN:
- 9004122362
- Authors:
- R. M. Van Den Berg
This work studies the hymns composed by the Neoplatonist Proclus in the context of his philosophy. Its main claim is that the hymns should be understood in the context of theurgy, the ritual art adopted by the Neoplatonists in order to obtain mystical experiences.
Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999
- ISBN:
- 9774161467
- Authors:
- Radwa Ashour, Ferial Ghazoul, Hasna Reda-mekdashi
This book is an invaluable new reference source and critical review of Arab women writers from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth.Arab women's writing in the modern age began with A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study - first published in Arabic in 2004 - looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab...
Getting Lost with Boys
- ISBN:
- 0060824328
- Authors:
- Hailey Abbott
Cordelia Packer hates the unexpected, but she's in for a surprise when Jacob Stein offers to be her travel companion, all the way from San Diego to her sister's place in northern California. Before she knows it, her neatly laid out summer plan has turned into a wild road trip, where anything can – and does – happen. Who knew getting lost with a boy could be so much fun?
The Secrets of Boys
- ISBN:
- 0060824336
- Authors:
- Hailey Abbott
Eric: Loves surfing, has killer abs, an even better smile, and a heart of gold. Joe: A sarcastic goofball who gives great advice, which no one ever takes. Zach: Sophisticated college boy, wise in the ways of French painting as well as other French things. A California girl like Cassidy Jones should be out on the beach, not stuck in summer school! But her life heats up when she meets the worldly and romantic Zach – she can't stop thinking...
Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture
- ISBN:
- 0061195391
- Authors:
- Trevor Kelley, Leslie Simon
What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining counterculture movement of the '00s. EVERYBODY HURTS is a reference book for emo, tracing its angsty roots all the way from Shakespeare to Holden Caufield to today's most popular bands. There's nothing new about that perfect chocolate and peanut butter combination––teenagers and angst. What is new...
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture
- ISBN:
- 019507775X
This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture. Probably the two most examined figures of the colonial period, they have often been the object of comparative studies. These characterizations usually portray them as mutually exclusive ideal types, thus...
The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora
- ISBN:
- 0195086198
- Authors:
- F. Abiola Irele
This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampate Ba, and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing...
Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature
- ISBN:
- 0199266123
- Authors:
- Lesel Dawson
In early modern medical texts, intense unfulfilled erotic desire is held to be a real and virulent disease: it is classified as a species of melancholy, with physical etiologies and cures. Lesel Dawson analyzes literary representations of lovesickness in relation to medical ideas about desire and wider questions about gender and identity, exploring the different ways that desire is believed to take root in the body, how gender roles are encoded...
Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
- ISBN:
- 0299222047
- Authors:
- Bertram Cohler
Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, Writing Desire examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, performance artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes the evolution of gay life in twentieth-century America. ...
So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets
- ISBN:
- 0306818051
- Authors:
- Clinton Heylin
In this lively, fascinating account of the publication of Shakespeare’s Sonnets , noted biographer Clinton Heylin brings their convoluted history to light, beginning with the first complete appearance of the Sonnets in print in May, 1609. He introduces us to the “unholy alliance” involved in this precarious enterprise: Thomas Thorpe, the publisher, a self-described “well wishing adventurer;” George Eld, the printer, heavily embroiled...
Icons of Rock [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever (Greenwood Icons)
- ISBN:
- 0313338450
More than half a century after the birth of rock, the musical genre that began as a rebellious underground phenomenon is now acknowledged as America's-and the world's-most popular and influential musical medium, as well as the soundtrack to several generations' worth of history. From Ray Charles to Joni Mitchell to Nirvana, rock music has been an undeniable force in both reflecting and shaping our cultural landscape. Icons of Rock offers a vivid...
Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction (Three Continents Press)
- ISBN:
- 0894106848
- Authors:
- Matti Moosa
The first edition of this book, completed in 1970, was hailed as a major contribution to scholarship on the development of Arabic fiction in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this revised and greatly expanded second edition, Matti Moosa has added five entirely new chapters - one on the popular dialogues of Abd Allah Nadim, and four devoted to 20th-century fiction culminating with the novels of Maguib Mahfouz. He has also incorporated the...
Led Zeppelin Crashed Here: The Rock and Roll Landmarks of North America
- ISBN:
- 1595800182
- Authors:
- Chris Epting
Journey through America’s rich rock 'n' roll history with the musical landmarks detailed in this extensive collection. Nearly 600 locations, including birthplaces, concert locales, hotel rooms, and graves, are neatly compiled and paired with historical tidbits, trivia, photographs, and backstage lore—from the site where Elvis got his first guitar and Buddy Holly’s plane crashed to Sid and Nancy’s hotel room and the infamous “Riot...
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
- ISBN:
- 1596914696
- Authors:
- Pierre Bayard
The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.” If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social situations in which we’re forced to talk about books we haven’t read? In this delightfully witty, provocative book, a huge hit in France...
A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance (Gallica)
- ISBN:
- 1843841096
- Authors:
- Ben Ramm
The Holy Grail made its first literary appearance in the work of the twelfth-century French poet, Chrétien de Troyes, and continues to fascinate authors and audiences alike. This study, supported by a theoretical framework based on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, aims to strip the legend of much of the mythological and folkloric association that it has acquired over the centuries, arguing that...
The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain
- ISBN:
- 1843841193
- Authors:
- Amanda Hopkins
This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, the contributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and...
Early Modern Tragicomedy (Studies in Renaissance Literature)
- ISBN:
- 1843841304
Tragicomedy is one of the most important dramatic genres in Renaissance literature, and the essays collected here offer stimulating new perspectives and insights, as well as providing broad introductions to arguably lesser-known European texts. Alongside the chapters on Classical, Italian, Spanish, and French material, there are striking and fresh approaches to Shakespeare and his contemporaries -- to the origins of mixed genre in English, to...
A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo (MonografÃas A) (Monografías A)
- ISBN:
- 1855661454
- Authors:
- AnÃbal González
Modernismo , a literary movement of fundamental importance to Spanish America and Spain, occurred at the turn of the nineteenth century, roughly from the 1880s to the 1920s. It is widely regarded as the first Spanish-language literary movement that originated in the New World and that became influential in the "Mother Country," Spain. Characterized by the appropriation of French Symbolist aesthetics into Spanish-language literature, modernismo...
A Companion to Latin American Literature (MonografÃas A) (Monografías A)
- ISBN:
- 1855661470
- Authors:
- Stephen M. Hart
A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century until the present day. It shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the complex and variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. The meandering story...
Reader's Guide to Literature in English (Reader's guide series)
- ISBN:
- 1884964206
- Authors:
- Hawkins-DaDy
Reader's Guides are not encyclopedias or dictionaries; they are guides to reading in particular subject. Their aim is to evaluate the secondary material in a broad area of study by means of comparative essays on hundreds of specific topics. Reader's Guide Literature in EnglishN provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current...
Ancient Letters and the New Testament: A Guide to Context and Exegesis
- ISBN:
- 1932792406
- Authors:
- Hans-Josef Klauck; Daniel P. Bailey
This volume places the New Testament letters squarely in the middle of all the important letter corpora of antiquity. Chapters cover the basic letter formula, papyrus and postal delivery, non-literary and diplomatic correspondence, Greek and Latin literary letters, epistolary theory, letters in early Judaism, and all the letters of the New Testament. Part I of each chapter surveys each corpus, followed by detailed exegetical examples in Part II....
Verifying Treaty Compliance: Limiting Weapons of Mass Destruction and Monitoring Kyoto Protocol Provisions
- ISBN:
- 3540338535
International treaties requiring binding commitments on the part of the member states and appropriate compliance verification by an international authority constitute a primary assurance against risks posed by the spread of sensitive technologies that can be used to produce weapons of mass destruction or risks posed by climate changes due to global human activities. This book presents in an interdisciplinary manner experts' analyses and views of...
Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
- ISBN:
- 0801885507
- Authors:
- Deborah Clarke
Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of...
Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
- ISBN:
- 0801886171
- Authors:
- Deborah Clarke
Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of...
Real Emotional Logic: Film and Television Docudrama as Persuasive Practice
- ISBN:
- 0809324091
- Authors:
- Associate Professor Steven N Lipkin PhD
Analyzing docudrama as a mode of argument, this book explores the ethical, historical, and ideological functions of docudrama to discover why these films based on true stories offer such appealing storylines. It posits that such appeal is rooted in docudrama's representation of actual people and events by means of melodramatic narrative structures that play on the emotions of the viewer. The dual nature of docudramas - blending narrative and...
The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation
- ISBN:
- 1844076180
- Authors:
- Pieter Leroy, Ann Crabbé
Policy evaluation is an important and well-established part of the policy process, facilitating and feeding back to promote the ongoing effectiveness of policies that have been implemented or anticipating policies in the making. While all policy areas have their own peculiarities, which must be considered, these are often taken into account by standard evaluation methods, which have been honed over many years of testing. Environmental policy,...
As Through A Veil, New Edition: Mystical Poetry in Islam
- ISBN:
- 1851682740
- Authors:
- Annemarie Schimmel
This new edition of a classic work contains five lectures from a world-renowned scholar on the development of Islamic mystical poetry, from individual Sufi poets like the legendary Rumi, to the intricacies of sacred verse and the joys of nonsense poetry.
All-Girl Crafts
- ISBN:
- 0761323910
- Authors:
- Kathy Ross
THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
All New Crafts for Thanksgiving (All-New Holiday Crafts for Kids)
- ISBN:
- 0761323945
- Authors:
- Kathy Ross
JavaScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner (For the Absolute Beginner (Series).)
- ISBN:
- 0761534105
- Authors:
- Andy Harris
JavaScript is a scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites. JavaScript can interact with HTML source code, enabling Web authors to spice up their sites with dynamic content. JavaScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner not only teaches you JavaScript, a great programming "gateway" language, it will teach you the fundamental programming concepts you need to grasp in order to learn any computer...
Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
- ISBN:
- 0761543643
- Authors:
- David Hodgson
·Unprecedented access behind Half-Life and Half-Life 2 ·A forward by Valve founder Gabe Newell ·Hundreds of art, design, preproduction, and other art pieces crammed into the book ·Over a dozen key members of Valve's staff interviewed ·Officially approved by Valve ·Behind City 17 and other locations ·The development of the Source engine ·A rogue's gallery of beasts, characters, and monstrosities ·Key weapons development revelations ·A...
Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic
- ISBN:
- 0195372697
- Authors:
- Elizabeth Outka
In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly original objects not derived from previous traditions, and in the ideal of a purified aesthetic that might...
German Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
- ISBN:
- 0199206597
- Authors:
- Nicholas Boyle
German literature in all genres and from all historical periods has exerted an enormous influence on the history of western thought. From Martin Luther, Frederick Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Gunter Grass, Germany has produced an impressive number of great writers and great works. In German Literature: A Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Boyle illuminates the particular...
Open Secrets: Literature, Education, and Authority from J-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee
- ISBN:
- 0199208093
- Authors:
- Michael Bell
Open Secrets reflects on contemporary humanistic pedagogy by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret refers not to a revealed mystery but to an utterance that is not understood, the likely fate of any instruction based purely on authority. Revisiting the European Bildungsroman, it studies the pedagogical relationship from the point of view of the tutor or mentor figure rather than with the...
The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory
- ISBN:
- 0199217491
Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and writers. This layering and changing of vistas also finds expression in the literary tradition, from classical times right up to the twenty-first-century. This...
Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910
- ISBN:
- 0199232989
- Authors:
- Herbert F. Tucker
This book is the first to provide a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the French Revolution and the First World War. Although epic is widely held to have been shouldered aside by the novel, if not invalidated in advance by modernity, in fact the genre was practiced without interruption across the long nineteenth century by nearly every prominent Romantic and Victorian poet, and shoals of ambitious poetasters into the bargain....
Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science
- ISBN:
- 0199258120
A unique collaboration between leading poets and scientists, Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science demonstrates through its form, and through practice as well as reflection, that poetry and science can meet with productive results. Crossing between disciplines, and between prose and verse, the book shows how modes of scientific knowledge and of poetic making continue to be intertwined. Often drawing on Scottish intellectual traditions,...