Fairleigh Press: 250 books
Cinematography of Carl Theodor Dreyer
Performative Camerawork, Transgressing the Frame
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Legendary Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889-20 March 1968) was born in Copenhagen to a single mother, Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, a Swede. His Danish father, Jens Christian Torp, a married farmer, employed Nilsson as a housekeeper. After spending his first two years in orphanages,...
The Lure of Hope
On the Transnational Surrogacy Trail from Australia to India
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The Lure of Hope portrays a snap shot of the rise and fall of commercial surrogacy in India. By chance, the author’s fieldwork began around the same time NSW legislation in Australia extended its ban on commercial surrogacy to include overseas arrangements. Not long after returning from fieldwork...
George Bronson Rea, Propagandist
The Life and Times of a Mercenary Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
George Bronson Rea, Propagandist brings to life the extraordinary story of a journalist, publisher, engineer, spy, lobbyist, blackmailer and fortune hunter, who represents twentieth century journalism gone awry. Rea’s career as a foreign correspondent and then magazine publisher illuminates essential...
The Biafran Humanitarian Crisis, 1967–1970
International Human Rights and Joint Church Aid
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book focuses on the Biafran humanitarian crisis of 1967–1970 which generated a surge of human rights anxieties and attracted the attention of world humanitarian organizations. For the first time in recent history, different church groups and humanitarian activists around the world came together...
by Daniel Derrin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within...
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
The Concept Albums
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This book combines literary and film criticism with musical hermeneutics and discourse analysis to illustrate how sonic information contributes to the detached listener’s interpretations of the discerning messages of Pink Floyd’s monumental recordings. Phil Rose's primary argument is that the...
Rationality, Control, and Freedom
Making Sense of Human Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The subject of this book is the controversy—one of the oldest in philosophy—about whether it is possible to have freedom in the face of universal causal determinism. Of course, it is crucial to consider what such freedom might mean—in particular, there is an important distinction between libertarian...
The Coordinated Management of Meaning
A Festschrift in Honor of W. Barnett Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book honors the life and work of the late W. Barnett Pearce, a leading theorist in the communication field. The book is divided into four sections. The first section will lead with an essay by Barnett Pearce. This will be followed by sections on (1) practical theory, (2) dialogue, and (3) social...
Romantic Appropriations of History
The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Romantic Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson focuses on Joanna Baillie’s Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821) and on various historical tales, either written or translated, by one of her very close friends, Margaret Holford Hodson. While...
The Stronger Sex
The Fictional Women of Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
The Stronger Sex, a study of the women in the fiction of Lawrence Durrell, argues that Lawrence Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, and protect her dependent man. Durrell's modern twentieth- /twenty-first-century woman is the center of...
Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Discovering the Ethical Prison
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration works from the premise that if the law establishes and maintains both its practical and symbolic authority on the basis of its monopoly on legally sanctioned violence and the suffering threatened and delivered by such violence, then we cannot know the full...
The Price of Honor
The Life and Times of George Brinton McClellan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This biography of George Brinton McClellan Jr., son of the Civil War general by the same name, a congressman, and mayor of New York (1904*–*1910), studies political courage and honor. McClellan was a Tammany Hall Democrat, who challenged the boss of Tammany Hall, Charles Francis Murphy, and put...