Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 249 books
Mormonism and the Emotions
An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Mormonism and the Emotions: An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts is an introductory Latterday Saint (LDS) theology of emotion that is both canonically based and scientifically informed. It highlights three widely accepted characteristics of emotion that emerge from scientific perspectives—namely,...
From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil
Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality reads major philosophers from the Western philosophical canon and beyond for the spirituality implicit in their metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and logic. Ernest Rubinstein revives for the modern reader the spiritual import of philosophy as an area of inquiry and study.
Embodiment in the Semiotic Matrix
Communicology in Peirce, Dewey, Bateson, and Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Communicology is widely accepted on the international scene as a new name for the study of human communication. It replaces several equivocal disciplinary conceptions such as "communication," which may fail to distinguish the science of communication from its object of investigation or the message-centered...
by David S. Herrstrom
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This book is an interdisciplinary synthesis and interpretation about the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from Paleolithic to Roman times. Humanistic in spirit and in its handling of facts, it marshals a substantial body of scholarship to develop an explication...
On the Edge of the River Sar
A Feminist Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book presents the first feminist translation of Rosalía de Castro’s seminal poetic anthology En las orillas del Sar [On the Edge of the River Sar] (1884).
Rosalía de Castro (1837*–*1885) was an artist of vast poetic vision. Her understanding of human nature and her deep sensitivity...
The Experience of Human Communication
Body, Flesh, and Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This book deals with matters of embodiment and meaning—in other words, the essential components of what Continental thought, since Heidegger, has come to consider as “communication.” A critical theme of this book concerns the basic tenet that consciousness of one’s Self and one’s body is...
The Eudaimonic Turn
Well-Being in Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
The Eudaimonic Turn is a collection of critical essays that, taken as a totality, represent a radical shift in focus and orientation. In the challenge to the hermeneutics of suspicion, the adoption of alternative reading strategies, and the complex investigation of well-being as it is configured in...
by Augusto Roa Bastos, Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The Prosecutor is the third novel of a trilogy written by the internationally famous Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos. It was preceded by the novels Son of Man and I The Supreme. Together these three works contemplate what the author has termed “the monotheism of power.” The Prosecutor explores...
Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry
Characterization in the Morte Darthur
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
This book is the first systematic study in decades of Malory’s development of his characters in the Morte Darthur. Focusing on sixteen key figures in the most important medieval English treatment of the Arthurian saga, it examines Malory’s thematic characterization of individual rulers, knights,...
Pinter’s World
Relationships, Obsessions, and Artistic Endeavors
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Pinter’s World: Pinter and Company is not a full-scale biography but a series of illuminating chapters about Pinter’s life, character, and thought, employing new information found in his “Appointment Diaries,” recent biographical sources such as Simon Gray’s memoirs, and Henry Woolf’s...
by Gerasimus Katsan
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
History and National Ideology in Greek Postmodernist Fiction investigates the ways postmodernist literary techniques have been adopted by Greek authors. Taking into consideration the global impetus of postmodernism, the book examines its local implications. Framed by a discussion of major postmodernist...
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The Artist and His Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909, Futurism sought to propel Italy into the modern world, and is famously known for outlandish claims to want to destroy museums and libraries in order to...
Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis
A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more...
Bernard Kops
Fantasist, London Jew, Apocalyptic Humorist
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This is the first book-length study of the work of contemporary writer Bernard Kops. Born on November 28, 1926 to Dutch-Jewish immigrants, Bernard Kops became famous after the production of his play The Hamlet of Stepney Green: A Sad Comedy with Some Songs in 1958. This play, like much of his work,...