Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend beyond.
"What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that's the only heaven we are given to know in life." -- Edward Dickinson (Ted) Blodgett E.D. Blodgett's final volume of poems, Walking Into God, is the culmination of ......
Marginal to Mainstream traces the near-miraculous progress of modern art in France in the first half of the twentieth century-from a marginal phenomenon, the domain of a handful of second-string dealers, to the representative form of the epoch and a foundational part of French national identity.
If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, editor Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy, science fiction, and horror have collectively brought forth a revival in ......
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642, covering not only plays and early performance history, but of topics relating to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing.
Italian Modern Myths and Cultural Shifts Sung by Fabrizio De Andre in En
Mythologist in Microgroove investigates the ways in which popular music, as well as other popular genres, engaged with and critiqued modern myth during years of cultural and political upheaval, from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s. The Italian cantautore, Fabrizio De Andre, is the productive lens of the book, as it considers the myths of the ......
From Treason to Runaway Slaves provides case studies of high-profile trials from the early republic examined in terms of the period's history, law, and culture. It focuses on a historical period and place crucial to identity formation in the new nation and the survival of the U. S. as a democratic experiment.
David Finchers Zodiac, the first book-length study of the critically acclaimed 2007 release, offers various critical approaches to the film ranging from early influences, studies in genre and narrative, and media analysis including cinema history, game theory, musicology, and extensions in television studies.
Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives brings together creative literary works and scholarly articles. Both address the changes and challenges to identity formation in an Italy marked by the migrations, populism, nationalism, and xenophobia, and analyze diversity and the affirmation of belonging.
