Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
Transmissions of Memory
Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian...
The Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature
The Case of Liguria
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Situated between the flat and misty Po Valley and the Mediterranean Sea, Liguria appears as a rainbow-shaped and mountainous island, extending from the Tuscan sandy shores of Versilia to the French Alps. Through a close reading of several modern and contemporary poets and novelists, the author illustrates...
Crossing Borders
Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In this collection of essays, contributors investigate the various connections between Willa Cather’s fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices. Including multiple perspectives and critical approaches—derived from the Aesthetic Movement, the visual arts, modernism, and the relationship between...
by Micah Mattix
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
While recent works of criticism on Frank O'Hara have focused on the technical similarities between his poetry and painting, or between his use of language and poststructuralism, Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I' argues that what is most significant in O'Hara's work is not such much his 'borrowing'...
Just Remembering
Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance**and Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just Remembering additionally asks how we might...
Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi
The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in His Auschwitz Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi’s thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.e., his short works of science fiction and fantasy...
Looters, Photographers, and Thieves
Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Working toward an analysis of how photography has contributed to the construction of an Italian 'type' to serve the mandates of the new nation in the 1860s, this book engages writers and photographers who have attempted to address this in their works. From Giovanni Verga and Italo Calvino to the conceptual...
by Diego Lazzarich, Cinzia Blum, Allison Scardino Belzer
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War. It explores Italian socialist pacifism, the role of women during the conflict and a dominant cultural movement, Futurism, whose leader, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, glorified...
Why Do We Go to the Zoo?
Communication, Animals, and the Cultural-Historical Experience of Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Despite hundreds of millions of visitors each year, zoos have remained outside of the realm of philosophical analysis. This lack of theoretical examination is interesting considering the paradoxical position within which a zoo is situated, being a space of animal confinement as well as a site that...
Kenya's Independence Constitution
Constitution-Making and End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Kenya's Independence Constitution: Constitution-Making and End of Empire, by Robert M. Maxon, is a narrative of the evolution of the constitution that was put into effect as Kenya's history as a colonial possession came to an end. It details the attempts of the colony's political elite and the British...
Durrell Re-read
Crossing the Liminal in Lawrence Durrell's Major Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Reading the twelve major novels of Lawrence Durrell, this study argues for their consideration as a single major project, an opus, marked by themes of liminality and betweenness. As major texts of mid-twentieth-century literature, repeatedly earning nominations for the Nobel Prize, Durrell’s work...
Performing Bodies
Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study with an overview of nineteenth-century theories on female inferiority...
The Cultures of Italian Migration
Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective 'Italian' to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like 'home,' 'identity,' 'subjectivity,' and 'otherness'...