Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully…

Each of the fourteen essays in this volume is directed to some aspect of these two questions: What are the peculiarities of…

A pioneer of stage naturalism, David Belasco has come to be universally recognized as one of the first important directors…

Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth - and twentieth-century Greece. This book provides an analysis…

In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an…

Generally known for its advanced, often radical suggestions of reform in politics, religion, morality, and human behavior,…

Spanning the years from the early 1280s until about 1308, this collection of poems contains Dante's juvenilia as well as his…

This book interprets Mon Faust and explores the differences between Valery's and Goethe's treatments of the Faust figure.…

J. J. White reexamines the use of myth in fiction in order to bring a new terminological precision into the field. While…

This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of…

Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century England, minor novelists produced a…

Acts of terrorist violence and foreign espionage may pose a serious threat to the security of the United States; yet recent…

Scholars have long argued that political participation tends to increase with economic and social modernization. In this…

Fever has long been recognized as a symptom of disease. Until the past century it was considered a healthy sign; since then…

The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a…

A group of leading political scientists assess the relevance and usefulness of international relations theory for…

Surprisingly little has been written in Western languages about the eighteenth- century Chinese novel Dream of the Red…

One fundamental premise of democratic theory is that social policy, group choice, or collective action should be based on…

"The most critical dimension of desegregation in our region is found in the attitudes of members of the dominant white…

By analyzing Chaucer's major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the…

The combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the…

Defining "romance" as a form that simultaneously seeks and postpones a particular end, revelation, or object, Patricia…

This book contends that in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and…

Writing with the vigor and elan that readers have come to expect from his many astute reviews and essays, Willard Spiegelman…

This book explores growth and structural change in the labor force that accompany economic development. It reports on labor…

• Rok vydání 1986

Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and…

In a new and controversial interpretation of the literary structure of Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War, Hunter…

Since the end of the civil rights era in the sixties it has become increasingly clear that social and political conflicts…

This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music. It reproduces in facsimile Bartok's…

Contents: Acknowledgments. I. Introduction. II. The Primary Groups and Politics. III. Experiments and the Political Process:…

Riots, insurrections, guerrilla movements, civil wars--all forms of internal conflict are increasing throughout the world.…

Examining the concept of individuality and the ideology of individualism in terms of a dialectic between the self and the…

Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The Concept of "Culture" 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture…

Few scholars have attempted to evaluate critically the role mediators play in managing international conflicts. Thomas…

A seminal figure in the philosophy of history and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the…

Louis IX has long been known both as a saintly crusader and as the founder of effective royal administration in France. But,…

As Dr. Dowling demonstrates, literary Decadence in this linguistic and cultural context was to reveal itself as a mode of…

Negritude has been defined by Leopold Sedar Senghor as "the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are…

The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when…

Goncharov's novels have been popular in Russia since their publication, and Oblomov, the central character of his most…

Traces the prehistory and initial development of wavelet theory, a discipline that has had a profound impact on mathematics,…

• Rok vydání 1995

Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920's through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our…

This reinterpretation of Dryden's life and works shows how his writings were influenced by important contemporaries, the…

Although Balzac's work has been much studied, practically nothing has been written on his use of linguistic concepts.…

Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways…

Presents an analysis of the social, economic, and political evolution of Syria's peasantry, the segment of society from…

Unamuno's long essay on Christianity as a state of agony is followed by nine essays including "Nicodemus the Pharisee,"…

Public medicine, popular education, state employment agencies, the diffusion of scientific and technical knowledge, the…