הוצאת Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
הספרים של הוצאת Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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This book zeroes in on postmodern representation, which the author defines (with a wink at Borges's "Funes the Memorious") as "memorious discourse." This wide-ranging discussion of contemporary writers and theorists from Nabokov and DeLillo to Levinas and Derrida argues that postmodern representatio...
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Huck Finn in Italian, Pinocchio in English: Theory and Praxis of Literary Translation (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Studies in Italian Studies)
מאת Iain Halliday
This book represents an investigation into one of the basic issues in the study of translation: how do we reconcile theory and practice? The main focus, in the form of close readings and think-aloud protocols in chapters 2 and 3, is on translations of two classic texts: Mark Twain's "The Adventures ...
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This study is the first comprehensive, full-length account of the works of the Anglo-Jewish author Leonard William Merrick [formerly Miller], (1864-1939). Drawing on unpublished materials, it covers Merrick's twelve novels, his several volumes of short stories, eight plays, and contributions to moti...
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Struggle Over The Modern: Purity And Experience In American Art Criticism, 1900-1960
מאת Dennis Raverty
In 'Struggle Over the Modern', Dennis Raverty argues that there was not one, but two competing "modernisms," vying for dominance of this critical field in American art during the first half of the 20th century....
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This book treats the literary work of Julia Augusta Webster within the context of Webster's participation in nineteenth-century British aestheticism. Webster's personal life, her experience as a member of the Suffrage Society and her tenure on the London School Board, as well as her position as poet...
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Disenthralling Ourselves: Rhetoric of Revenge and Reconciliation in Contemporary Israel
מאת Nita Schechet
"Disenthralling Ourselves" portrays contemporary Israel in a process of transition. Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli communities share a nation-state divided by the separate truths of its conflicting fundamental narratives. This book considers ways of converting those separate and antagonistic...
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This book is an original philosopical contextualisation of Wagner's final music-drama in which an analysis of both the sexual dynamics, and the religious and psychological symbolism of the action, provides the foundation for a fresh understanding of the most striking example of the conposer's life-l...
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"If I can show you why I feel as I do toward a certain film," writes Norman Holland, "perhaps you can try out my response for yourself and enrich your own." This book combines subtle readings of eight classic films with memories and associations that make it possible for both Holland and his readers...
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Oedipus borealis is a discussion of aberrance in the mythic and legendary hero as he appears in thirteenth-century Icelandic narratives, and in the quasi-historical figures in the saga literature who are modeled on him. The opening chapter on Greek myth presents Oedipus of Thebes as the paradigm of ...
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This book is the first to approach and portray contemporary Hebrew Israeli poetry that focuses on the Holocaust. It clusters a variety of contemporary Israeli poets whose poetry displays different 'doses' of Holocaust poems. Sometimes the book addresses aesthetically/ideologically a poet who wrote o...
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This is the biography of a man willingly corrupted by the demands of Washington society and of two wives who demanded social prominence. By virtue of his excellent Civil War record, Belknap became President Grant's Secretary of War. The excesses of the Gilded Age were in full flower. Railroad barons...
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For over sixty years, English writer Flora Thompson (1876-1947) has been celebrated as the author of "Lark Rise to Candleford" (1945), a rural trilogy that is considered a minor classic among writings about the English countryside. Challenging the assumption that "Lark Rise to Candleford" is Thompso...
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"Dancing in the Dark" is the title of a 1930s love song that has a philosophical edge, and in its own way encapsulates the central problem, What is life about? Can we possibly come to terms with life's vicissitudes, and can these be understood within a religious framework? The problem of theodicy is...
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Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Soroities
מאת Walter M. Kimbrough
Black Greek 101 provides an analysis of the customs, culture, and challenges facing historically Black fraternal organizations. The text initially provides a history of Black Greek organizations beyond the nine major organizations. Next, the pledging practice of the organizations is chronicled, noti...
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This is the first full-length biography of the distinguished actor-manager Walter Hampden (1879-1955). Most of the sources are from hitherto unpublished documents in the Walter Hampden Collection of the Hampden-Booth Library at the Players Club and from the author's extensive interviews with Walter ...
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This book scrutinizes the genre of the author-as-character with respect to three broad issues - authorship, the posthumous, and cultural revisionism - that arise in reading such works from a contemporary perspective. Late twentieth-century fiction 'postmodernizes' romantic and modern authors not onl...
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Theatrical performance is the most ephemeral of arts. Once a production closes, the living work of art disappears. Fortunately, some productions leave behind enough evidence to reconstruct in words and pictures what a performance was like and to conjecture what the audience saw and heard. Between 18...
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Circumstances placed John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party at the center of British politics in 1912. After more than a century of struggle, Irish nationalists looked likely to return a parliament to Dublin that would allow the Irish people, as one nation, to determine their own domestic af...
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The Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy: Poets, Artists, Saints, Anti-Semites
מאת Wiley Feinstein
This book studies the persecution of Italian Jews during the Fascist period in relation to the Italian cultural tradition. It shows that Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws and Italian support for Hitler's war on the Jews stem directly from beliefs deeply embedded in Italian culture. After studying anti-J...
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Anna Pavlova's revolutionary debut in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera House captivated the nation and introduced Americans to the charms of modern ballet. Willa Cather was among the first intellectuals to recognize that dance had suddenly been elevated into a new art form, and she quickly trained her...
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"A Studio of One's Own: Fictional Women Painters and the Art of Fiction" is a critical study of the portrayal of women artists in nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels in English, including British, American, Irish, and Canadian women writers. This book traces the gradual progression from amateur...
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The Imagined Immigrant: Images of Italian Emigration to the United States Between 1890 and 1924 (Fairleigh Dickinson Universitly Press Series in Italian Studies)
מאת Ilaria Serra
Using original sources - such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews - Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of imm...
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Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism: Ancient India's Rebirth in Modern Germany
מאת Douglas T. Mcgetchin
Investigating the growth of Indology (the study of East Indian texts, literature, and culture) and the diffusion of this knowledge about ancient India within nineteenth-century Germany, this work contextualizes approaches to contact by historically grounding them in a contemporary history of German ...
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Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere: Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
מאת Monica Matei-chesnoiu
This study explores how Eastern European spaces and meanings are constituted in specific cultural contexts in early modern English drama. Focusing on the ways in which these texts integrate the articulation of Eastern European space and geography into a variety of interpretative conventions, the boo...
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Salman Rushdie: A Postmodern Reading of His Major Works is a close textual analysis of Rushdie’s five major novels: Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and The Moor’s Last Sigh. It focuses on the manner in which Rushdie is a postmodern writer whose...
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