Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation
Justice Will Be Made
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This work addresses limitations in current approaches to rhetorical historiography and provides fresh philosophical ground that responds to these limitations. By integrating philosophical ideas, a philosophy of communicative engagement is formed and illustrated with descriptions of three women’s...
Women and Comedy
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences...
Cabins in Modern Norwegian Literature
Negotiating Place and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This book examines the significance of cabins and other temporary seasonal dwellings as important symbols in modern Norwegian cultural and literary history. The author uses Michel Foucault’s notion of the “heterotopia”—an actual place that also functions imaginatively as a kind of real-world...
Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America
The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This work analyzes the "New Ethnicity" of the 1970s as a way of understanding America's political turn to the right in that decade. An upsurge of vocal ethnic consciousness among second-, third-, and fourth-generation Southern and Eastern Europeans, the New Ethnicity simultaneously challenged...
Johann Leisentrit’s Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, 1567
Hymnody of the Counter-Reformation in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In their analyses of a pivotal work from the Counter Reformation in Germany, the authors provide a broader knowledge of the religious, political, and humanistic currents of the sixteenth century. Their book adds to scholarship by Bäumker, Wackernagel, Zahn, Ameln, Lipphardt, and others, and will be an essential reference work for research in the history of hymnody and religion in Germany.
Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change
"Pragmatism Not Idealism"
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Even prior to the field’s invention, Susanne Langer implied that the arts are all subtopics of Communication Studies. This unique project has effectively allowed the author to combine his backgrounds in the interdisciplinary fields of popular music studies, cultural theory, communication studies,...
Enter the Undead Author
Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Many narratives of theater history suggest that the 1960s marked the start of a turning away from traditional, script-based, playwright-centric production practices. Literary studies in this period began exploring the concept of the “death of the author” along similar lines. But the author refused...
Women and Tudor Tragedy
Feminizing Counsel and Representing Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The role of women as writers, literary and dramatic characters, and real queens in early modern Europe was central to the development of Tudor ideas about gender and women’s place in society. Women and Tudor Tragedy investigates the link between gender and genre, identifying the relation between...
The Spaces of Justice
The Architecture of the Scottish Court
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
This book looks at the architecture of the courts in Scotland and the importance of these civic spaces. Given the importance of courts to the legal experience it starts by exploring why scholars have been so reticent in examining spaces in which the administration of justice takes place. It notes...
by Mark Allison, Laura Beer, Michael Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable...
The Diary of a Civil War Marine
Private Josiah Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Diary of a Civil War Marine: Private Josiah Gregg is a rare firsthand account of a United States Marine during the Civil War, written within hours of the events described. Gregg enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, and served as a shipboard Marine on the Vanderbilt as it hunted Confederate...
Representing Ebola
Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Representing Ebola provides readers with a critical legal analysis of the recent West African Ebola Outbreak. The author argues that a review of the scientific, military, legal, economic, political, and mediated coverage of this latest outbreak highlights the ways that organizations like the World...
Shakespeare the Man
New Decipherings
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of restricting the search for bits and...
Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Literary and Cultural Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Tracing the eighteenth-century origins of sentimentalism, the collection illustrates its proliferation in nineteenth-century America. Sentimental writings by both sexes played a major role in the formation of middle-class culture and identity as sentimentalism interacted with developing ideals of...