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The Christian Goddess

Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald

by Bonnie Gaarden
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011

The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald, examines this British Victorian writer's employment of female figures to represent Deity. Such symbolism is extremely unusual for a Christian author of this period and anticipates the efforts of many modern theologians...
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by Matthew Kendrick
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor explores the economics of the theater by examining how drama seeks to make sense of changing conceptions of labor. With the growth of commerce and market relations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England came the corresponding degradation...
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by Michael Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

Habermas’s Public Sphere: A Critique analyzes the evolution of Juergen Habermas’s social and political theory from the 1950s to the present by focusing on the explicit and on the tacit changes in his thinking about The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, his global academic bestseller,...
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Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010

The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom

by Ted Laros
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017

In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature...
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Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000

Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression

by Simone Brioni, Ann Hallamore Caesar, Eleanor David
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014

Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today and considers the topics of boundaries and borders in their writings. This book takes into consideration known,...
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The Universal Vampire

Origins and Evolution of a Legend

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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013

Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and...
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by Travis Curtright
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

In Shakespeare’s Dramatic Persons, Travis Curtright examines the influence of the classical rhetorical tradition on early modern theories of acting in a careful study of and selection from Shakespeare’s most famous characters and successful plays. Curtright demonstrates that “personation”—the...
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by J. Frederick
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

One of the most pertinent questions facing students of Mormon Studies is gaining further understanding of the function the Bible played in the composition of Joseph Smith’s primary compositions, the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants. With a few notable exceptions, such as Philip Barlow’s...
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Claude Simon

Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present

by Alina Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present considers the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical facets of a temporal paradox in the works of French novelist Claude Simon (1913-2005), and its broader implications for the study of narrative, and for cultural and post-modern theory. This...
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Communicating Catholicism

Rhetoric, Ecclesial Leadership, and the Future of the American Roman Catholic Diocese

by Craig T. Maier
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

Fr. Thomas Reese has observed that American Catholic dioceses are simultaneously mysterious and essential to the institutional health and vitality of American Catholicism. In recent years, as American Catholicism increasingly finds itself embroiled in scandal and conflict, this mysteriousness has...
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Communication Ethics and Crisis

Negotiating Differences in Public and Private Spheres

by J. M. H. Fritz, S Alyssa Groom, Janie M. Harden Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011

This collection of essays extends the conversation on communication ethics and crisis communication to offer practical wisdom for meeting the challenges of a complex and ever-changing world. In multiple contexts ranging from the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and family to the political and public,...
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Law In and As Culture

Intellectual Property, Minority Rights, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

by Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016

There are two oppositional narratives in relation to telling the story of indigenous peoples and minorities in relation to globalization and intellectual property rights. The first, the narrative of Optimism, is a story of the triumphant opening of brave new worlds of commercial integration and cultural...
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Imperial Designs

Italians in China 1900–1947

by Shirley Ann Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012

Imperial Designs is the first text in English to deal comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recent scholarship on both the Liberal and Fascist Italian colonial enterprises centers on the Mediterranean and Northern Africa:...
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Acknowledged Legislator

Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada

by Natasha Azank, Andy Croft, Michael Dowdy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014

Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original...
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