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A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world

The first English commentary on Plautus' unabridged text

The influence of Zen Master Ikky (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. His work is allusion rich, and, as is common to his Tang poetic models, his verse makes frequent allusion to elements from the full range of China's cultural history and literature. He draws as well from a variety of Buddhist texts in Chinese, including its koans.

Ireland's major political parties maintain their power by playing voters' interests and issues to their own advantage

Refugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations. Through analysis of work by filmmakers Michael Haneke, Fatih Akin, and Alfonso Cuaron, In Permanent Crisis contemplates the way mass media depictions become invoked by film to frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe.

Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. It also explores how individuals' consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives.

In these essays, Bruce Bond interrogates the commonly accepted notion that all poetry since modernism tends toward one of two traditions: that of a more architectural sensibility with its resistance to metaphysics, and that of a latter-day Romantic sensibility, which finds its authority in a metaphysics authenticated by the individual imagination.

Uncovers the lived experience of breast cancer through autobiographical and photographic narratives

Strategic choices allow small parties to balance their interests and achieve success

In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. Alternating between the comic, the tragic, and the neurotic, McLeod's second collection transports readers from the American mainstream to the dark edges of cities and the heartland's lost, forgotten towns.

How Spanish directors have handled religious themes, with their highly-charged political implications, from the historical avant-garde to 2010

Combining interdisciplinary scholarship, political reportage, and personal reflection, this daring book measures the current celebrations of 1960s-era civil rights anniversaries against the realization of a black American presidency, and the stark social and economic conditions of contemporary Black America.

Examines the proliferation of crippled, maimed, and disabled men in the mid-nineteenth-century novel, showing that disability was central to Victorian narrative form. Karen Bourrier argues that this unexpected interest in masculine weakness and disability was a response to the rise of a new Victorian culture of industry and vitality, and its corollary emphasis on a hardy, active manhood.

The second and first centuries BC saw the birth and development of the new Chinese Empire. This work sheds light on the public and private lives of those who lived in the frontier regions. This study enables an understanding of the origins and development of the concepts of state, nation, nationalism, imperialism, ethnicity, and Chineseness.

By probing the dynamics of churches as social groups, this work opens up a fresh perspective on civil rights history and the evangelical politics of the twenty-first century. It contributes to a clearer understanding of the forces that motivate various organizations, religious or otherwise, to engage in politics.

A welcome investigation into Cicero's unusual work on ancient Roman religion

Breaks new ground in the ongoing effort to understand how memorials, buildings, and other spaces have figured in Germany's confrontation with its Nazi past. The contributors challenge reigning views of Germany's postwar memory work by examining how specific urban centres apart from the nation's capital have wrestled with their respective Nazi legacies.

A fictionalized case of medical ethics in Northern Michigan

Drawing on public opinion surveys conducted in 30 nations, this book documents an anti-American sentiment. It suggests that the war in Iraq, human rights violations, and unpopular international policies are largely responsible.

'Preference Pollution' is an assessment of what we know about the free market that focuses on desires people have about their desires.

Informed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of US imperialism, Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester's emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analysing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines.

New wave emerged at the turn of the 1980s as a pop music movement cast in the image of punk rock's sneering demeanor, yet rendered more accessible and sophisticated. Artists such as the Cars, Devo, the Talking Heads, and the Human League broke with the staid rock cliches of the 1970s and pointed the way to a more modern style.

Reveals the crucial role that spectacle played in American activism and reform movements in the 1800s