This book explores the appropriation of Shakespeare by youth culture and the expropriation of youth culture in the manufacture and marketing of 'Shakespeare'.
This book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as something more than simply... Læs mere
A fascinating, first-hand account of the bureaucratic and public struggles that lead to the... Læs mere
This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction... Læs mere
By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this subgenre, Johnsen advances the existing critical discussion of... Læs mere
This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.
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Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative... Læs mere
This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the historical, social, psychological, technological, and political aspects that... Læs mere
This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that... Læs mere
Breathing life into a Milton for the Twenty-first century, this cutting-edge collection shows students and scholars alike how Milton transforms and is transformed by popular literature and polemics, film and television, and other modern media.