This book focuses on the notion of desire in the Italian fin de siècle. It narrates how this notion informs the works of two of Italy’s most prominent authors in the fin de siècle, Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D’Annunzio.
This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters,... Læs mere
Hamlet stands as a high water mark of canonical art, yet it has equally attracted rebels and experimenters, those avant-garde writers, dramatists, performers, and... Læs mere
This work addresses limitations in current approaches to rhetorical historiography and provides fresh philosophical ground that... Læs mere
Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s plays, and narratives about rehearsing and performing Shakespeare’s plays, that acknowledge the inescapable doubleness of “emotional-realist” acting.
Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates and analyzes the ways in which Fitzgerald integrated music with literature through his... Læs mere
This book examines the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the perspective of the period’s radically changing labor relations and... Læs mere
This book explores the many different ways that we can understand the... Læs mere
This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body"—specifically, a foreign culture or nation—as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.
This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we find examples of vampires from literally around the world: each cultur...
This book collects essays by actors, directors, scholars, and teachers who are exploring the ways in which the plays of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries were—and still are—performed.