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The Early Poetry of Robert Graves
The Goddess Beckons
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is the twelfth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for...
Adoring the Saints
Fiestas in Central Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Mexico is famous for spectacular fiestas that embody its heart and soul. An expression of the cult of the saint, patron saint fiestas are the centerpiece of Mexican popular religion and of great importance to the lives and cultures of people and communities. These fiestas have their own language,...
Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico
Death-Defying Acts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the dramatization of local legends to the staging of plays by Shakespeare and other canonical playwrights to the exploration of contemporary sociopolitical problems and their effects on women and children, Mayan theatre is a flourishing cultural institution in southern Mexico. Part of a larger...
Ancient Cuzco
Heartland of the Inca
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Cuzco Valley of Peru was both the sacred and the political center of the largest state in the prehistoric Americas—the Inca Empire. From the city of Cuzco, the Incas ruled at least eight million people in a realm that stretched from modern-day Colombia to Chile. Yet, despite its great importance...
Hispanic Immigrant Literature
El Sueño del Retorno
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in...
Private Women, Public Lives
Gender and the Missions of the Californias
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, Bárbara O. Reyes examines frontier mission social spaces and their relationship to the creation of gendered colonial relations in the Californias. She explores the function of missions and missionaries in establishing hierarchies...
El Narcotraficante
Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona on the U.S.–Mexican Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Since the late 1970s, a new folk hero has risen to prominence in the U.S.-Mexico border region and beyond—the narcotrafficker. Celebrated in the narcocorrido, a current form of the traditional border song known as the corrido, narcotraffickers are often portrayed as larger-than-life "social bandits"...
Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The aim of this anthology is to present a selection of plays that are representative of a fresh spirit and of societal pressures and changes in Spanish American culture. The plays shun the earlier realistic, sentimental, and melodramatic conventions of Spanish American theater. Instead, they reflect...
The Masks of Tragedy
Essays on Six Greek Dramas
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
"What matters about a play is not the extent to which it is like any other play, but the way in which it is different," writes Thomas G. Rosenmeyer. "This is, I suggest, how the ancient audiences received the performances.... My purpose, then, in writing these essays is twofold: ......
Hereditas
Seven Essays on the Modern Experience of the Classical
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Is Ancient Greece still meaningful to the twenty-first-century world? The vitality of the classical tradition, which has been a long-enduring and important element in our culture, is the concern of the seven scholars who in this book present their answers to this question. In various ways their essays...
Caesar in Gaul and Rome
War in Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with Latin knows "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" ("All Gaul is divided into three parts"), the opening line of De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar's famous commentary on his campaigns against the Gauls in the 50s BC. But what did...
Alien Constructions
Science Fiction and Feminist Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and gender of the body to global power relations among sexes, races, and nations. Feminist thinkers and writers...
Yaxchilan
The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever....