This book explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580 and 1660.
This book explores the varying reactions to the political turmoil in Asia in the late 1990s by... Læs mere
Charles Burack argues that Lawrence's major novels, beginning with The Rainbow , are structured as religious initiation rites that attempt to break down the reader's normative mindset and to evoke new, numinous experiences of self and world.
This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite.
This book is a feminist reading of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnogata, of the Kabuki theatre. It is not... Læs mere
This book provides a critical analysis of the liberal ideas of the decline of the... Læs mere
While the fact that both countries possess nuclear weapons may prevent a full-blown conventional or nuclear war, the presence of these weapons in the region may also... Læs mere
Virgil Richardson blazed his own unique trail through the twentieth century: a co-founder of Harlem's American Negro Theater, 1930s... Læs mere
In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States.
While sovereignty is increasingly contested within academic circles, most recent military conflicts have been over issues of sovereignty in some form.... Læs mere
Exploring the Japanese tradition of hidden (or the secret transmission of) knowledge within a closed and often hereditary group, the... Læs mere