Palgrave Macmillan Forlag
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Byron and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Making extensive use of untranslated texts, Arnold Schmidt discusses the impact of Byron's life and works on the discourse of Italian nationalism between 1818 and 1948, his participation in Grand Tour and salon culture, and his influence on Italian Classicists and Romantics.
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God and Man According To Tolstoy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With a critical look at Tolstoy's persona, faith, and thought, this book treats the writer as a midwife of modern counterculture. It shows and tries to correct the metaphysical blunder on which Tolstoy's philosophy was based.
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Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
"Gender and decolonization in the Congo focuses on women and questions of gender in its examination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the assassinated leader of the independent Congo"--Provided by publisher.
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Irish Elegies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this book, critically acclaimed author Chris Arthur continues his experiments with the mercurial literary genre of the essay, using it in innovative ways to explore aspects of family,... Læs mere
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The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A sweeping intellectual history of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia.
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Beckett’s Masculinity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.
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Poe, “The House of Usher,” and the American Gothic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Poe, 'The House of Usher,' and the American Gothic discusses the interrelation between Poe's tale and the modern horror genre, demonstrating how Poe's work continues to serve as a model for exploring the deepest and most primitive corners of the human mind and heart.
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Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen: The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.
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Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Expanding the Boundaries of the Individual (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Cosmopolitanism in the contemporary debate is firmly based in the western tradition of liberal thought, which is culturally situated.... Læs mere
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The Political Economy of Theocracy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book consists of essays by leading scholars in economics and political science which try deepen our understanding of how theocratic regimes behave, by providing... Læs mere
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European Perceptions of Islam and America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s Fragile Ego Uncovered (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book considers European perceptions of their rivals throughout history from the Islamic... Læs mere
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Modern American Reading Practices: Between Aesthetics and History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in... Læs mere
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