Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
by Russell Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Mathematical platonism is the view that mathematical statements are true of real mathematical objects like numbers, shapes, and sets. One central problem with platonism is that numbers, shapes, sets, and the like are not perceivable by our senses. In contemporary philosophy, the most common defense...
Wittgenstein at the Movies
Cinematic Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on...
Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene
Working with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary...
Roth after Eighty
Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy.
This collection seeks to answer those questions...
Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê
Imagining the Ideal Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Intertextual Weaving in the Work of Linda Lê: Imagining the Ideal Reader uncovers the primary textual relationship that Linda Lê (1963– ), the most prolific Francophone author of the Vietnamese diaspora, fosters with a literary precursor of Austrian descent: the feminist writer-in-exile, Ingeborg...
Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty
The Return of Tamerlane?
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
After twenty-five years of independence, there is little doubt that the five Central Asian states will persist as sovereign, independent states. They increasingly differ from each other, and are making their way in global politics. No longer connected only to Russia, they are now connected in important...
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial...
Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics
African Spirituality in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion...
Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature
Looking Inward
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
This book is a study in African literary influence. It focuses on the importance of indigenous sources to new writing. The analytical framework for the study draws on recent conceptual advances in theories of authorship. Juxtaposing works and authors that are traditionally thought to be unlikely bedfellows,...
African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction
Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being is the nexus to scholarship on manifestations of Africanisms in black art and culture, particularly the scant critical works focusing on African metaphysical retentions. This study examines New...
by Keith E. Small
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This unique work takes a method of textual analysis commonly used in studies of ancient Western and Eastern manuscripts and applies it to twenty-one early Qur'an manuscripts. Keith Small analyzes a defined portion of text from the Qur'an with two aims in view: to recover the earliest form of text...
Gabriel García Márquez in Retrospect
A Collection
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect gathers fifteen essays by noted scholars in the fields of Latin American literature, politics, and theater. The volume offers broad overviews of the Colombian author’s total body of work, along with closer looks at some of his acknowledged masterpieces. The Nobel...
Striking a Balance
A Primer in Traditional Asian Values
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Striking a Balance: A Primer in Traditional Asian Values offers a lucid, thoughtful, and thoroughly engaging review of the major ethical teachings in the dominant Asian traditions. Michael C. Brannigan applies his extensive background and scholarship to craft a concise yet comprehensive introduction...
Feminist Advocacy
Gendered Organizations in Community-Based Responses to Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Feminist Advocacy: Gendered Organizations in Community-based Responses to Domestic Violence examines victim advocacy through a gendered organizations perspective. This monograph draws from in-depth interviews with twenty-six domestic violence victim advocates to examine their experiences with gendered...