Palgrave Macmillan Forlag
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Joyce through Lacan and Zizek: Explorations (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.
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Heritage or Heresy: Preservation and Destruction of Religious Art and Architecture in Europe (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This is an account of the roles of local and national movements, and of memory and regret in the destruction or preservation of the architectural, artistic, and historic legacy of Europe in which the author examines what is cultural heritage and why it matters.
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Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Reading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud.
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Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network.
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Remembering the Early Modern Voyage: English Narratives in the Age of European Expansion (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by... Læs mere
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“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture: Studies in European Culture and History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book traces representations of "Gypsies" that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies.
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The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical... Læs mere
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The American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery: The House Abandoned (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery stand out among major American poets - all three shaped the direction and pushed the boundaries of contemporary poetry on an international scale.
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Ronald Reagan and the 1980s: Perceptions, Policies, Legacies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
By the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American... Læs mere
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Cuba and Western Intellectuals since 1959 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This timely book presents a history of the relationship between the Cuban Revolution and intellectuals and activists in France, Britain and the United States,... Læs mere
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Essays in Cuban Intellectual History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present.
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A Study of Personal and Cultural Values: American, Japanese, and Vietnamese (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find... Læs mere
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