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Offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece in starkly contemporary terms, emphasising the encounter between newcomers and natives. Although some scholars read Suppliant Women as modelling successful social integration, Geoffrey W. Bakewell argues that the play demonstrates, above all, the difficulties and dangers noncitizens brought to the polis.

Features a collection of poems that travel into mythic ancestral landscapes in southern Italy and Sicily, on a psychic journey of self-discovery.

Illustrates and describes more than 360 native and introduced species that grow and bloom on the Arboretum prairies and also briefly discusses or mentions many additional species, infraspecific taxa, and hybrids.

This work addresses some of the multi-faceted conceptual and theoretical issues connected with symbolic construction of reality through human memory and its subsequent representation. It presents a synthesis of the multiple meanings of memory and representation within the context of truth.

Written for younger readers, this is a look at the life of Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin's first female lawyer. Telling Goodell's story from 1858, when she first decided to become a lawyer, to her place as an actual attorney in the courtroom, it recounts Goodell's hard work and determination.

From heroic war memorials to gigantic fibreglass fish, this volume documents more than 750 outdoor sculptures in the state of Wisconsin. Included are monuments, memorials and masterpieces of traditional public statuary as well as religious grottoes and native American effigy mounds.

Tracing the history of women's studies at the University of Wisconsin, this book draws on oral histories and archival studies to follow this history from the earliest arguments over women's admission to the university, right up to the development of the field of women's studies in the 1970s.

This narrative is illustrated with historic photographs from public and private collections and with maps that show the placement of dams, portages, takeouts, major cities, and mileage markers. The author has also compiled a list of all rapids that once punctuated the river's course.

Tracing the development of Viennese modernism between the 1890s and the 1930s, this exhibition catalogue features 103 fine and decorative art works produced by the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstatte movements.

From the 1940s through the 1960s, Dudley Huppler (1917-1988) moved in the brightest literary and artistic circles in New York, Chicago, Boulder and his native Wisconsin. This is a collection of his drawings.

The history of contemporary American metalsmithing is inextricably linked with the academy. The University of Wisconsin - Madison's metals program is among the best in the nation. This work encompasses hollowware and jewelry, wearable sculpture, poetic and narrative objects, and conceptual installations.

A critical review of Peter Gourfain's career and his politically charged art. Though he showed minimalist sculpture in the 1960s, since the 1980s his work - in terracotta reliefs, cast bronzes, woodcarvings, prints and paintings - has become figurative, expressionist, personal and socially engaged.

Photographer Jerome Mallmann has captured images of New Yorkers in unguarded moments since the late 1960s. Images in this exhibition organized by the Elvehjem Museum of Art show a dispossessed population, those driven or escaping to the streets of New York to indulge in the compulsion to smoke or the need to sleep.

A collection of interviews with 15 Ojibwe elders of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians in northern Wisconsin. The elders, in their 70s and 80s when interviewed, all experienced enormous changes in their lifetimes. They discuss these changes as well as Ojibwe traditions and beliefs

Examining the concepts of region and regionalism in today's rapidly shrinking world, this text expands on theories expressed in the first volume by presenting concrete examples of regionalism in areas as diverse as the American South, Pacific Northwest, Eastern Europe and the Canadian North.

Redefines the genre of horror fiction, calling into question the usual conventions, motifs, and elements. Unlike many critics of this genre, the author sees dis/affirmative horror fiction acting neither to soothe fears nor reduce them to the vicarious ""thrills 'n' chills"" mode, but as intensifying the fears inherent in everyday life.

The reactions of ordinary people to unusual events reveal the general psychology of a society. These essays are footage in the human action of coping with the phenomena of everyday life. They are accounts of ourselves in the human quest for comfort and safety in a world that is short on both.

Is it possible to understand genres such as drama and theatre without considering the influence of television? This work argues that television's dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation of subject position from all other cultural forms and institutions.

Elements of popular culture (such as literature and films) are major industries. This work shows how the methods of popular culture scholarship can be merged with those of marketing and consumer research.

The 15 essays in this volume show the way in which phenomenological approaches can illuminate popular culture studies, and in so doing they take on the entire range of popular culture - television, popular literature, popular vacation sites, and advertising.

Traditionally, romance novels have a reputation as being no more than trashy, sex-filled fantasy escapes for frustrated housewives. But books in this genre account for nearly half of the paperbacks published. Contributors examine the patterns used by the romance authors to tell their stories.

In a world that is witnessing the explosive forces of individualism, tribalism, cultism, religion, nationalism, and regionalism, can the "global village" concept as envisioned by Marshall McLuhan have any meaning or hope for fruition? Do the media merely electronically override the stronger forces of basic human expression without in any way changing them?

In thirteen essays, this book probes ideas and themes that are prominent in contemporary song lyrics. The essays take social change, human interaction, technology, and intellectual development as points of departure for specific examinations of public education, railroads, death, automobiles, and rebels.