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A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture Text, Context and Hermeneutics
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Selen Morkoc
The African State and Asymmetrical Globalization
The Question of Unite or Perish
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Moye Goodwin Bongyu
Art Matters
The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art
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Bernard Koenig
Authority, Dogma and History
The Role of the Oxford Movement Converts in the Papal Infallibility Debates
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Kenneth Parker and Michael J. Pahls, Editors
Beyond the Page
Latin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual
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Angelica J. Huizar
British Novelists and Indian Nationalism
Contrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye,
James Gordon Farrell and Zadie Smith
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Fatma Kalpakli
Christopher Fry
A Dramatic Reassessment of the Fry/Eliot Era of British Verse Drama
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Frances Jessup
The Collected Stories of Lanoe Falconer
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Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Rowland
The Committee of Vigilance
The Law and Order Committee of the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce and Its War Against the Left, 1916–1919
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Steven C. Levi
The Dead and the Quick
Clichés and Neologisms in the Written, Spoken and Visual Cultures
of Britain, The United States and France
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Walter Redfern
The Decline of Nature
Environmental History and the Western Worldview
Gilbert F. LaFreniere
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The English Girl Schools’ Story
Subversion and Challenge in a Traditional Conservative Literary Genre
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Judith Humphrey
Ernst Weiss
Life, Works and Legacy of a Czech Literary Master and
Friend of Franz Kafka, 1882–1940
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Pamela Saur
Europeanism and European Union
Interests, Emotions and Systemic Integration in the
Early European Economic Union, 1954–1966
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Jeffrey Vanke
Form and Perception in Visual Poetry
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Laura Lopez-Fernandez
“Going Down Hill”
Legacies of the American Revolutionary War
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Harry M. Ward
The Life Of George Borrow, 1803–1881
Misfit, Traveler and Author of Genius
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Michael Collie
Living Anarchy
Theory and Practice in Anarchist Movements
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Jeff Shantz
The New Medical Sociology
Compelling Current Narratives
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Irwin Sperber
The Oral Traditions in Ile-Ife
The Yoruba People and Their Book of Enlightenment
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Yemi D. Ogunyemi
Orientalism in Sinology
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Adrian Chan
The Origin of Culture
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Amy Louise Marsland and William D. Marsland
Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870–1914
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Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe and Gregory F. Tague, Editors
The Road From Eden
Studies in Christianity and Culture
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Ted Hughes’ Art of Healing
Into Time and Other People
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Daniel Xerri
The Unobtrusive Miss Hawker
The Life and Works of “Lanoe Falconer”, Late Victorian
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Peter Rowland
Voting in American Elections
The Shaping of the American Political Universe Since 1788
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Walter Dean Burnham with Thomas Ferguson and Louis Ferleger
Walter Benjamin’s Transit
A Destructive Tour of Modernism
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Stephanie Polsky
Washington Irving and Spain
The Romantic Movement, The Re/Creation of Islamic Andalusia
and the Critical Reception
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Celia Wallhead
M AU NS E L & C O (I R I S H R E S E A RC H)
Becoming Gauchos Ingeleses
Diasporic Models in Irish-Argentine Literature
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Edmundo Murray
Clearing the Tangled Wood
Poetry as a Way of Seeing the World
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James Lawless
Homophobic Bullying in Irish Secondary Education
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James O’Higgins-Norman
Irish American Folklore in New England
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E. Moore Quinn
The Irish American Myth of the Frontier West
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Marguerite Quintelli-Neary
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and the Politics of Style
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Collie, Michael
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Huizar, Angelica J. Humphrey, Judith
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Kalpakli, Fatma
Koenig, Bernard
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A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture
Text, Context and Hermeneutics
Selen Morkoc
It is widely accepted that documents on Ottoman architects are rare and that
little is known about the architectural practice in the Ottoman world. A group
of texts that have appeared between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, however,
form an exception to this general assumption. While these texts have been cited
and referred to in diverse previous studies on Ottoman architecture, they have
not been the topic of a major interpretative approach before. A Study of Ottoman
Narratives on Architecture: Text, Context and Hermeneutics is the first interpretive
and comparative research monograph to feature these texts as its main theme.
This is the first translation of these works that contextualizes and interprets their
importance in English.
The first text is a group of five documents that date back to the sixteenth century.
They comprise memoirs and building lists written in prose and verse which
belonged to prominent Ottoman architect Sinan. The second text was written
under the influence of the first group of documents and is in a similar format. It
comprises a memoir dedicated to Sedefkar Mehmed Ağa, who worked as the chief
imperial architect in the seventeenth century, and also provides information on
architectural terms and makes comparisons between architecture and music. The
third text is different from the first two: it is a monograph about the Selimiye
Mosque written in prose in the eighteenth century by Dayezade Mustafa, who
was a complete outsider to architecture. While the three texts have quite different
historical and thematic contexts their point in common is their rendering of
architecture through narratives. From a hermeneutical perspective, the book
compares narratives of the texts with contemporary historiography on Ottoman
architecture.
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The African State and Asymmetrical Globalization
The Question of Unite or Perish
Moye Goodwin Bongyu
Dr. Bongyu’s research work on African States and the African union is well
known. In this monograph he discusses the Balkanization of Africa in the colonial
and immediate post colonial period with an emphasis on the weak, fragile and
marginalized condition of even the strongest of Sub-Saharan African states. He
also describes the rise of African aid funding and the fall of most economic
indicators and the atrophy of key societal elements such as farming and traditional
village life. The work starts with the present situation in Black Africa and various
attempts at regional and continent wide unity by 53 national entities. Next Bongyu
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approaches the problems of macro-level economics, governance and attempts at
unity in the face of globalization. The study ends with new players coming into
the African arena—China, the Gulf States and Brazil. The efforts to salvage the
continent undertaken by Africans themselves and aided by friends abroad may
indeed be the next new thing to emerge from Africa...Ex Africa Semper Nova.
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Art Matters
The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art
Bernard Koenig
Art Matters is a clear and comprehensive overview of art criticism as it relates to
both the value of art and the aesthetics of art. The author offers a new perspective
on how science, philosophy and art overlap each other, the author argues that art
can give us knowledge of our world and our place in it the same way that science
or philosophy do (per se Deleuze or Kristeva). Koenig extents his discussion to
incorporate both fiction and music into the notional forms of classical visual art in
a dramatic and unexpected way.
“Koenig’s impressive book reminds us of the eternal importance of the essential act
of human creation.” Richard Moule, CBC
“Art Matters: Knowledge of Art/Art of Knowledge, Bernie Koenig has provided
a book on aesthetics for which both theorists and practitioners of art have been
waiting. For several decades there has been disenchantment with the dominant
“emotive” understanding of the experience of art—that such encounters release
certain satisfying experiences within us. But Koenig has returned us with
considerable erudition and insight to what we all knew: art is a deeply significant
way of knowing the natural and human world.”
Professor Bernard Hodgson, D/Philosophy, Trent University
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Authority, Dogma and History
The Role of the Oxford Movement Converts
in the Papal Infallibility Debates
Kenneth Parker and Michael J. Pahls, Editors
As the force that gave birth to Anglo-Catholicism, the Oxford Movement is
generally treated as an Anglican phenomenon. Yet the influence of members who
converted to Roman Catholicism proved decisive for the years leading up to the
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First Vatican Council and the definition of papal infallibility in Pastor Aeternus
(1870). This collection of original essays edited by Parker and Pahls, explores how
various Oxford Movement converts to Roman Catholicism contributed to debates
surrounding papal infallibility in the 1850s, 1860s and beyond.
From Henry Cardinal Manning and Msgr. George Talbot (a chamberlain to Pius
1X) to John Henry Cardinal Newman and Richard Simpson (a liberal Catholic
journalist), the diverse voices of these converts marshaled arguments on both sides
of the debate and played substantial roles in framing the outcome.
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Beyond the Page
Latin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual
Angelica J. Huizar
This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry
in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. The work uses
a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental
poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative
lens. Examined structures and textures inherent in these performed works vary:
they include paintings, typographical art, optophonetic (visual representations of
sounds) techniques, and music, to name only a few examples. The investigative
scope of the study is large—it includes texts from Mexico, Argentina, Chile,
Uruguay, and Brazil and includes texts in Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Through detailed analysis Professor Huizar demonstrates what we can read in the
visual and sound components of these poems as performance on a page, and while
these may be limited on the bound text, they do produce a “performativity” that
is predictive of current technological innovations of the canon whose performative
and interactive aspects include the latest multi-media technologies resulting in
forms as cyber poetry and hypertextuality, electronic music and pictorial language.
“This is one of the first studies in this area of research and opens new ground
for specialists. It offers a comprehensive as well as an analytical view of
theinterdisciplinary practices …something lacking in previous studies in Latin
American poetry. Recommended.”
Professor Laura Lopez-Fernandez, University of Canterbury
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British Novelists and Indian Nationalism
Contrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye,
James Gordon Farrell and Zadie Smith
Fatma Kalpakli
This is an intriguing and groundbreaking study by a scholar who not only is not
British nor Indian but belongs to a society that has had its own imperial history
as well as having a strong, revitalizing nationalist movement in the 20th c. It is
through this prism that Dr Kapakli discusses, compares and contrasts Indian
nationalism in three seminal novels. The novels in question are Shadow of the
Moon (1957) by Mary Margaret Kaye, The Siege of Knishnapur (1973) by James
Gordon Smith and White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith. The literary analysis
undertaken focuses on the changes in attitude and expectation the British writers
demonstrate in navigating the issues of race, class, gender, religion, education and
age in both Indian and European characters and settings. Especially interesting
is the discussion of male/female relationships and the transgressive energies of
nationalism in determining power and position in pre- and post-independent India
and, indeed, in England itself. Religion is also discussed especially the collision
of Christian, Hindu and Muslim practice in the face of historical imperatives and
societal tension.
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Christopher Fry
A Dramatic Reassessment of the Fry/Eliot Era of British Verse Drama
Frances Jessup
This monograph based on original research and interpretation extends and
enlightens our understanding of one of the seminal moments of 20th c British
theatre—the rise of the verse drama and the re invigoration of Christian belief
based on historical figures on England’s past. The study places Christopher Fry
back in the literary canon and argues for his centrality—albeit a brief one—in
dramatic history. Fry’s life and works are discussed; a careful reading of the major
and minor works is included.
Chapter 1: Christopher Fry’s Life History
Chapter 2: Poetic Drama and Fry
Chapter 3: Tragedy or Comedy
Chapter 4: The Mystery
Chapter 5: Fry and Eliot: The Spark and the Stone
Chapter 6: Choice and Original Sin
Chapter 7: The Heretic vs. The Churchman
Chapter 8: Fry’s Moses and the Biblical Moses
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Chapter 9: Fry’s Combatants
Chapter 10: Caedmon Construed or One Thing More
Chapter 11: Fry’s Style in Early and in Later Plays
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The Collected Stories of Lanoe Falconer
Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Rowland
Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908), who wrote from 1890 onwards under the
pseudonym of Lanoe Falconer, is remembered today primarily as the author of
two best-selling novellas (Mademoiselle Ixe and Cecilia de Noël), five brilliant
short stories (published under the title Hôtel d’Angleterre) and a slim volume
of wonderful reminiscences entitled Old Hampshire Vignettes. All of these will
be found in Collected Tales—but they are reinforced by eight additional short
stories, one additional novella (Shoulder to Shoulder) and one additional vignette.
These supplementary items, buried in the archives for more than a century, are
now brought to light by Peter Rowland, Hawker’s biographer, after much patient
research and dedicated delving. They are accompanied by a short series of
penetrating Character Sketches, intended for a book (or books) that would never
be written, plus an article on how to tackle short stories. Bearing additional witness
to Lanoe Falconer’s astonishing range and versatility, this fresh material makes
Collected Tales a unique and invaluable volume—one not to be missed by the
growing army of this remarkable writer’s fans.
ISBN 978-1-933146-81-2 / 1933146-81-8
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The Unobtrusive Miss Hawker
The Life and Works of “Lanoe Falconer”, Late Victorian
Novelist and Short Story Writer, 1848–1908
Please see page 18 for a full description.
ISBN 978-1-933146-63-8 / 1933146-63-X
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The Committee of Vigilance
The Law and Order Committee of the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce and Its War Against the Left, 1916–1919
Steven C. Levi
In The Committee of Vigilance Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of
the last of the old western vigilance committees—and the rise of the first modern
American committee devoted to ferreting out “Un-American activities” among
the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists. The
Preparedness Day bombing of 1916 was the catalyst (along with the Los Angeles
Times bombing several years earlier) for full scale civic strife and class violence
in San Francisco. The committee railroaded two men to the death house—Tom
Mooney and Warren Billings—and their cause became one of the most celebrated
in Socialist and Communist movements throughout the world in the 20’s and 30’s.
Levi has done more research on the bombing and its polarizing aftermath since his
first research monograph 30 years ago. This work includes new material on terror
and American culture as well as discussions of material that has only become public
in the last few decades.
With illustrations.
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The Dead and the Quick
Clichés and Neologisms in the Written, Spoken and Visual Cultures
of Britain, The United States and France
Walter Redfern
This work is a major contribution to the study of clichés and neologisms since it
moves beyond considering them separately into their interlinked role in written,
spoken and visual cultures in contemporary Britain, France and the United
States. The general line of attack is a view of language as both reactionary and
revolutionary. Language, Dr. Redfern points out, connives in our clinging to
obsolete “realities”, and yet is constantly evolving by processes of displacement and
substitution. Despite the allegedly static nature of cliché, this study focuses on the
dynamic potentialities of language, whether via the reanimation of moribund ideas
or by coinages from scratch.
Analyzed in depth are: imitation, rumor, political correctness, jargon, euphemism,
plagiarism, stereotyping (racial or otherwise), repetition, and caricature. This leads
to a broader assessment of unthinking prose in English and French (“constipated
thinking”) as well as various tactics for resisting and countervailing such practices.
Linguistic creativity is discussed and the widespread hostility to new words is
demonstrated by discussions of language purification and other protection systems. As well as written and spoken forms of cliché and neologism, Redfern studies the
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visual domain (e.g. kitsch and the neomorphisms of psychotics) in a brief, witty
summary of the issues at hand.
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The Decline of Nature
Environmental History and the Western Worldview
Gilbert F. LaFreniere
The Decline of Nature is an environmental history of the ideas embedded in a
compact account of Western civilization’s ecological impact upon the planet,
particularly in Europe and its former colonies. The major thesis presented is the
idea that two speculative philosophies of history (attempts to understand the
meaning of history) and their associated worldviews have been largely responsible
for destructive attitudes and behaviors towards nature. They include the idea of
providence (i.e. the Christian worldview) and the idea of progress (the science
and technology-based vision of unrestrained economic development and material
accumulation since the 17th century). Some scholars understand the idea of
progress as a secularization of the Christian millennium, the creation of a new
Eden through science and technology. Professor LaFreniere’s research has been
acknowledged as cutting edge and his work has been praised by a number of
leading historians in the field.
ISBN 978-1-933146-40-9 / 1933146-40-0
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ISBN 978-1-933146-51-5 / 1933146-51-6
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The English Girl Schools’ Story
Subversion and Challenge in a Traditional Conservative Literary Genre
Judith Humphrey
The English girls’ boarding school novel was staple reading for girls, not just in
England, through the first half of the twentieth century. Generally dismissed as
sentimental hack writing, these stories were immensely popular. Dr. Humphrey,
who had loved the books as a child, discovered in adulthood that she was still
enamored of them. Her search for why the books still hold up turned into a
dissertation. She concentrates on the genre as a whole, finding several important
similarities. The most important ones involve the independence and strength
of young women living in an all female environment The chapters elucidate
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the positive messages that the books contain: a respect for intelligence and
learning, women as self directed, women active in sports, women in authority and,
importantly, the bonds of female friendship.
Humphrey makes it clear that although some attitudes have changed, too many
girls still see themselves as incomplete without a boyfriend and always secondary to
him. Humphrey’s reevaluation of girls’ school books makes one want to find some
and read them again.
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Ernst Weiss
Life, Works and Legacy of a Czech Literary Master and
Friend of Franz Kafka, 1882–1940
Pamela Saur
Experiences of twentieth century history and major literary trends are reflected
in the excellent but little-known writings of the Austrian-Czech physician
and novelist Ernst Weiss (1882-1940). Weiss was born in Moravia and studied
medicine, in Vienna and Prague. One of many of Jewish exile writers who fled
the Nazi regime, Weiss committed suicide in Paris when German troops entered
the city in the summer of 1940. Weiss wrote one of the few novels about Adolf
Hitler during the Fuehrer’s life. This work, using an eye doctor as narrator, was an
experimental tour de force. His next novel, the Expressionist masterpiece, Nahar,
was about a female tiger who had once been human. His fiction merges influences
of Expressionism, his own medical background, literary interactions with his
friends Joseph Roth, Joseph Brod and Franz Kafka, as well as a Freudian emphasis
on human drives, obsessions and compulsions. This is the first comprehensive
assessment in English of the life and legacy of an important, underrated voice from
mid twentieth century Central Europe.
Weiss had a wide body of friends and colleagues including Artur Schnitzler and
Karl Kraus as well as Kafka, Brod and Roth. He was a pioneer in modern travel
writing undertaken when he was a ship’s doctor in the Pacific. His work is only
now coming under serious reconsideration. This monograph includes a robust
bibliography and index as well as samples of the author’s oeuvre.
ISBN 978-1-93314672-0 / 1933146-72-9
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Europeanism and European Union
Interests, Emotions and Systemic Integration in the early European
Economic Union, 1954–1966
Jeffrey Vanke
The fact of postwar European integration is only half of an extraordinary
story. The six founding countries were distinct from their neighbors and from
their own histories. After 1945, the Six recast their nationalisms not only to
discard extremism, but also to adopt Europeanism—an emotive drive to create
unprecedented institutions of European unity. At the intersection of their
Europeanized nationalisms and their interests, the Six founded the European
Economic Community, the core of today’s European Union (EU). The early
Community answered security and economic concerns. But the place and timing
of its postwar founding point to the third and crucial force, emotive solidarity.
Only the Six transformed very strong national solidarity communities to include
medium-strength European solidarity as an essential, broad, and deep national
characteristic.
“It (the monograph) is both a deliberate and meaningful implementation of the
cultural approach and a fine analysis of the turning points during the first two
decades (1945-57, 1958-66) at which three of the four closely studied countries
(the Netherlands, France, and Germany), redefined, albeit in their own ways, their
respective nationalism to include Europeanism, whereas the British emphasized
their attachment to their domestic model, the Commonwealth and the Atlantic
vision. ...Recommended for research libraries.”
Professor Gustav Schmidt
Faculty of International Relations, Ruhr-University-Bochum, Germany
ISBN 978-1-93314674-4 / 1933146-74-5
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Form and Perception in Visual Poetry
Laura Lopez-Fernandez
Form and Perception in Visual Poetry is one of the first serious monographs in
English that explores what is defined as Visual Poetry. This intermediate genre has
its own characteristics. It demands inclusion of a number of disciplines: philosophy,
psychology, neurobiology, literature, painting and graphic design, etc. As with
many an emergent area of study an interdisciplinary approach takes into account
new perspectives of analysis while maintaining respect for traditional methods of
approach to poetry.
This work discusses the increasing techno-visual elements of poetry creation and,
by studying the possible mechanisms of perceptions, helps the reader/researcher
understand the complex artistic and cultural paradigm thus presented. Material
is developed that helps the “reading” and “decoding” process stimulated by an
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unusual combination of elements in poetic discourse and example. There is research
work on the semantics of verbal and visual images, color and form. General Gestalt
Theory is employed in discussions of form, rhythm, representation, projection and
interpretation. A number of poems and poets are discussed from the Anglosphere
as well as Spanish language traditions of Spain and Latin America.
With illustrations.
ISBN 978-1-9331426-3 / 193314642-7
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2008
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168
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“Going Down Hill”
Legacies of the American Revolutionary War
Harry M. Ward
This research monograph by a senior distinguished historian of the American
Revolutionary War and its aftermath discusses the legacies of that conflict in a
newer, darker context. That context is one of growing American imperial hubris,
overreach and permanent war abroad as well as economic and social decay of
American homeland. Dr Ward dismisses the notion of a wholly beneficial and
positive revolutionary outcome and discusses the less admirable and tragic
implications of a national war/civil war that drove many thousands of Americans
from their country, destroyed numerous native American societies, enshrined
human slavery in its constitution and has lead to several tragic and bloody
existential crises in 19th and 20th century American history.
The author is well aware of a prime rule of historiography--avoid as much as
possible present mindedness. The rule, however, does not seem too applicable when
writing about legacies. Because the whole spectrum of American history since the
Revolutionary War comes under a purview that is broad, selective and cogently
discussed with brilliant insights as well as forceful lessons for the present. Ward
discusses the road we have traveled so that we may better understand where we are
today and how we got there.
ISBN 978-1-933146-57-7 / 193314657-5
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2009
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366
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The Life Of George Borrow, 1803–1881
Misfit, Traveler and Author of Genius
Michael Collie
“It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but
mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.”
George Borrow
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First, the subtitle of this completely revised and newly augmented study of George
Borrow, “Misfit” implies not subscribing or submitting to normal, mainstream
middle-class values and habits. Borrow preferred the company of gypsies,
vagabonds, foreigners, horse-dealers and outsiders to the conformist, respectable
English person, whom he thought was sometimes incapable of understanding the
realities of the human condition, or simply preferred to evade them. In 1984, this
was the intended meaning of the word “eccentric”; someone with valid, personal
priorities, not in the main stream, away from the centre, free to be critical of
aspects of English life he regarded as false or shallow or unworthy. Borrow did not
subscribe to other people’s view of how life should be conducted; his publications
are the expression of this freedom.
George Borrow Eccentric (1984) was guarded in its treatment of biographical
questions. Collie discusses some key unresolved issues in Borrows life: the question
of paternity (did he and his brother have the same father?); the condition for which
mercury treatment was prescribed (if not syphilis, then what?); the person behind
the name “Isobel Berners” (can she be securely identified?); his Bible Society
accounts (where was he during the periods unaccounted for?); his sexuality (why
did he marry Mrs Clarke?); his religious convictions (do his writings express faith
or cynicism on this score?); and his loneliness (the loneliness of a sharp, perceptive
intellect without intended companionship?). Collie’s study calmly, carefully and
thoroughly discusses the new research tools and information that bring us even
closer to the man, the works and the issues confronted by anyone who writes his
literary biography.
ISBN 978-1-933146706 / 1933146-70-2
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2010
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Living Anarchy
Theory and Practice in Anarchist Movements
Jeff Shantz
While corporate media discussions of anarchists tend to focus on battles with police
and destruction of corporate property, this work is focused on more constructive
aspects of anarchism. In this “analytical memoir,” Sociologist Jeff Shantz describes
anarchist projects for developing and nurturing non-authoritarian mutual aid
projects such as free schools, squats, communications projects, and “autonomous
zones.” He assesses these projects in the context of sociological theories of social
movement organization and the writings of anarchist theorists such as Colin Ward,
Paul Goodman, Gustav Landauer, Hakim Bey, and Sam Dolgoff.
ISBN 978-1-933146-53-9 /193314653-2
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2009
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230
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The New Medical Sociology
Compelling Current Narratives
Irwin Sperber
In the tradition of C. Wright Mills and Irving Goffman, this monograph brings
current research and insight to a social science research area famed for its
fissiparous polemical battles. Sperber surveys the field from Durkheim to the
present and discusses both the origins of the Radical and neo-Marxist perspective
as well as the mainstream, functionalist school of research. The work’s unique
theoretical contribution lies in several areas: Sperber proposes that some of the
diseases of modern civilization (Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, cancer, systemic
lupus, heart disease, chronic depression among others) can be effectively explained,
diagnosed and treated only when a systematic sociological perspective is brought to
bear on them. Sperber also argues forcefully for a progressive, critical view of the
field in language that is clear and persuasive.
ISBN 978-1-933146-56-0 / 193314656-7
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2010
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324
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The Oral Traditions in Ile-Ife
The Yoruba People and Their Book of Enlightenment
Yemi D. Ogunyemi
This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood
aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba
people and their Book of Enlightenment (Ile-Ife) together with its metaphysical
importance to the Yoruba as a source of philosophy, politics, religion and literature.
Coverage includes chapters on Yoruba origins and ancestry as described in the
Ile-Ife, the cultural and trading centers, The Advent of Sacred Literature, referring
to the importance of the oral literature. Next, ethical values are discussed and
contemporary African anthropological and social science research is analyzed as
a tool to describe Yoruba ethical values. The Royal Scrolls are discussed and their
role in developing a written language and a school of philosophy is investigated.
Material on naming [Olodumare and other divinities], family life, and the dispersal
of the oral tradition to other neighboring regions conclude the work.
ISBN 978-1-933146-65-2 / 1933146-65-6
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Orientalism in Sinology
Adrian Chan
When Edward Said popularized Orientalism as a term and a concept, he applied
it to Western attitudes and assumptions about the Middle East. Professor Chan
(UNU) shows how the same factors are at play in Sinology, which he describes as a
study of certain aspects of Chinese culture that are reported and filtered by western
observers since the late European Middle Ages and traditionally have a strong
religious bias.
ISBN 978-1-933146-61-4 / 193314661-3
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2009
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166
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The Origin of Culture
Amy Louise Marsland and William D. Marsland
The Marslands, long time academics, present their theories on the ways in which
human behaviors are grounded in prehistoric, even genetic, elements. Based on
the work of James Frazer, Mircea Eliade. Georges Dumezil and Claude LeviStrauss, among others, they address the creation of myth, development of religion,
symbols, festivals, and relation to the animal world. In these they find beliefs and
behaviors common to all societies, adapted to local environments. Their study
is more of a thought piece, since none of their examples are footnoted. A look at
the bibliography shows many authors (including Frazer) whose work has been
challenged and superseded in recent years.
ISBN 978-1-933146-47-8 / 193314647-8
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2009
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186
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Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870–1914
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe and Gregory F. Tague, Editors
The aim of this volume is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing
authors/playwrights and controversial themes as they emerged in both drama and
theatre. The editors have focused on the essence of creative nexus of London from
the end of the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the Great War (1914). The
resultant study discusses Gordon Craig and production design, Wilde, Shaw, Synge,
Pinero, Strindberg, Harley Granville Barker, Jones, Archer, Ford Madox Ford, D.H.
Lawrence, Galsworthy, Sims, women playwrights, popular theatre among other
topics.
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The work complements J.L.Styan’s 3 volume Modern Drama in Theory and
Practice and is more focused on late 19th/early 20th c transitions and dramatic
breakthroughs than Modern British Drama of Christopher Innes.
“Recommended...”
Professor Denis Donoghue, Henry James University Professor, NY University
ISBN 978-1-9331466-66-9 / 1933146-66-4
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2010
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452
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The Road From Eden
Studies in Christianity and Culture
John Barber
This is a major research study of the effect of Reform Theology on European and
American visual and material cultures. It offers an analysis of Christianity and
culture that builds on the scholarship of Arnold Toynbee and Francis Schaeffer and
utilizes the careful analytical tools of the Dutch scholars Vollenhoven, Dooyeward
and others. Barber’s audacious scholarship aims to put Reform Christianity in
the center of change and interpretation in a way similar to the great Catholic and
Orthodox cultural historians. Barber discusses the Biblical centered energies that
clarify, justify and interpret the culture of Western Civilization.
“Barber has mastered and/or referenced a huge amount of literature. His book is a
great resource…his arguments careful, cogent and revealing. I hope his argument
has a great deal of influence on the church…it is like a mighty force for reformation,
revival and cultural renewal. There has never been anything like it (as a single
volume) in Reform literature. Recommended.”
John Frame
Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology
Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL
With both b/w line and illustrations: 35.
ISBN 9781933146-71-3 / 1-933146-71-0
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Science on Four Wheels
The European Travels of Roderick Murchison
Michael Collie
Professor Collie has studied and written about Sir Roderick Murchison in several
monographs. This study deals with Murchison and the wider and more general
activity of scientific travels in the mid 19th C. This work introduces the reader to
the practices of intellectual and cultural exchange in Continental Europe. These
exchanges, despite the political pressures that often mitigated against the free flow
of ideas, were increased as steam power and telegraphs made their way from west
to east and intrepid savants, such as the eminent geologist Muchison. Each chapter
is devoted to a specific journey as adventure, exploration, scientific enquiry, peer
group contacts and personal, sometimes psychologically significant experience.
Taken together they show the one time President of the Geological Society of
London converting himself into the President of the Royal Geographical Society
especially due to his travels in Eurasian Russia.
Chapter One: Early Travel in Scotland, Hebrides, the Far North
Chapter Two: Overland from Paris to St Petersburg via Riga
Chapter Three: Baden-Baden to Krakow via Berlin, Poznan[Posen] and Warsaw by
foot, horseback,Landau and train.
Chapter Four: Stockholm to Mora via Uppsala, then coast route Gotland,
southern Sweden and Lund
Chapter Five: From London to the Scottish Borders via Newcastle to introduce
Count von Keyserling to British industry in 1842.
Chapter Six: From St.Petersburg to Ekaterinburg across the Urals, across the
Don and back through Krakow searching for coal and minesites to support the
TransSiberian and Russian State Railways.
ISBN 978-1-933146-59-1 / 193314659-1
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2010
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364
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Ted Hughes’ Art of Healing
Into Time and Other People
Daniel Xerri
The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of
all poetry yet until now there has been no monograph on Hughes’ conception of
poetry as a healing device. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in
Hughes’ poetic works and evaluates the poet’s notion of its significance for human
civilization. Research includes Hughes and the immediate post-war generation of
poets in Britain and Ireland, The Movement poets and Hughes’ relations with them,
Hughes as a cultural critic who perceives himself and his poetic talent as possessing
redemptive function.
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Five chapters are devoted to Hughes’ published works starting with Hawk in
the Rain and Lupercal ; the collections are discussed focusing on violence as a
manifestation of energy lacking in human affairs. Cave Birds is analyzed in terms
of the poet’s adoption of alchemical motifs as a means of showing the quester’s
journey to redemption. Moortown is made up of four parts and the healing cycle
present in each of those parts is adumbrated along with analysis of arcana, use
of symbolism and literary allusions. River is discussed with a view to clarifying
Hughes’ interest in light, healing and the redemptive elements of the end of the
quest. Xerri also discusses Hughes as a skeptic and as a poet willing to explore the
healing quest itself with an eye on spiritual discipline in the face of existential voids.
ISBN 978-1-933146-78-2 / 1933146-78-8
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2010
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264
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The Unobtrusive Miss Hawker
The Life and Works of “Lanoe Falconer”, Late Victorian Novelist and Short
Story Writer, 1848–1908
Peter Rowland
Lanoe Falconer (nom de plume of Mary Elizabeth Hawker) was one of England’s
most accomplished young writers in the 1890s; her novel Mademoiselle Ixe was a
bestseller and an international hit. Her short stories and novels were compared
favorably to Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell among others. Her promising career
was cut short by chronic illness. Peter Rowland began his research by discovering
a large mass of Falconer’s unpublished material including personal documents. He
took this trove as a starting point to reconstruct and review Falconer’s work after
almost a century of neglect. Falconer left a small enduring body of work and the
author has included several of her short stories in this study to introduce researchers
and other readers to the literary quality, power and scope of “the unobtrusive Miss
Hawker”.
ISBN 978-1-933146-63-8 / 1933146-63-X
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08/2009
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2010
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364
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Voting in American Elections
The Shaping of the American Political Universe Since 1788
Walter Dean Burnham with Thomas Ferguson and Louis Ferleger
Walter Dean Burnham is widely regarded as the greatest living student of American
voting behavior. He pioneered the collection and publication of historical American
election statistics and his many essays and books on them are read around the
world. His compilation of voting statistics for the famous 1975 Historical Statistics
of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 was a landmark in the field. It presented
the first reasonably complete data series on voting turnout in presidential elections,
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as well as the partisan split and other details of other, mostly federal, elections. But
it was by no means complete, even for national elections. Returns from many areas,
especially in the South and for much of the U.S. before 1824, were not included.
Nor were there reliable turnout data for elections below the presidential level.
Now, at last, his new work fills the gigantic holes at the heart of American history.
Based on his own research into many local archives across the United States as
well as state censuses from the 19th century, Burnham presents a complete series
of presidential voting returns by state, together with state level data for governors
and Congressional representatives. The series includes not only partisan splits,
but turnouts, which makes this the first complete record of voting turnout in US
federal elections ever published. Burnham also presents his estimates of the voting
population for each state, which scholars have long awaited.
He also includes
a number of other series of great interest, including results for primaries in the
South after the Civil War. These were the “real” elections, but the data have been
unavailable until now.
Illustrations: 60 pages Statistical and informational armature: tables and graphs.
ISBN 978-1-93314669-0 / 1933146-69-9
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2010
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464
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Walter Benjamin’s Transit
A Destructive Tour of Modernism
Stephanie Polsky
Walter Benjamin’s Transit is a work in two halves. The first, part 1, entitled
“Mapping Desire: Towards a Minor Fascism” applies the lens of Gilles Deleuze
and Felix Guattari’s philosophy to the critical writings of to the critical writings
of Walter Benjamin, the latter devised amid an atmosphere of emergent fascism
in Europe between two World Wars. This book represents something radically
different from other critical approaches to Walter Benjamin’s body of work. It is
an attempt to act with Benjamin to devise a new set of philosophical and political
coordinates viable for a current rethinking of fascism.
This work is critically situated at the margins of Benjamin’s philosophy in its
attempt to extend the parameters of thinking that Benjamin left for us. Throughout
this volume, the critical work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari will lend crucial
insight into Benjamin’s analysis of fascism, based on their pivotal understanding of
it, which considers not only historical fascism of Hitler and Mussolini, but also the
fascism that is part of our everyday behaviour, causing us to gravitate towards the
very same powers that dominate and exploit us. The reality of that fascism, even its
historical guise, connotes an invisible, perpetual war that cannot be definitively lost
nor won, but rather must be engaged as an ethical combat within oneself on a plane
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This insight has particular resonance given that Benjamin, a German Jew, was
himself under constant threat of historical erasure during the course of his lifetime.
Benjamin’s circumstance makes his very person the embodiment of a certain
constellation of fascist forces. It is from within that constellation of forces that the
true problem of how to locate fascism becomes proximate to a life, on this occasion
Walter Benjamin’s life and body in particular. A life, moreover, that sought not to
be non-fascist per se, but rather to become fascism’s greatest ethical observer, so
as to raise alarm bells within its most extravagant perpetrator, the average citizen.
Benjamin was dedicated to a methodology that sought to demonstrate and not to
judge the terms on which history rests. The task of this volume is to transport the
reader over the difficult terrain of these terms to locations of particular behest to
Benjamin’s view of fascism, so as to better evaluate contemporary critical debates
about fascism.
ISBN 978-1-933146-73-7 / 1933146-73-7
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Washington Irving and Spain
The Romantic Movement, The Re/Creation of Islamic Andalusia
and the Critical Reception
Celia Wallhead
This research monograph breaks new ground in discussing (in English) the impact
of Washington Irving’s presence in Spain and the effect of his writings on Spanish
topics by Spain’s critics and general readership. Spanish critics, scholars and
translators were and are active in assessing Irving’s literary style, scholarly grasp and
cultural influence. This work seeks to examine Irving’s influence and his “discovery”
of Islamic Al-Andalus (Irving was the first American to seriously study Mahomet
(Muhammad),the Koran and write about his findings). Wallhead locates Irving’s
literary and historical researches in the troubled, chaotic post-Napoleonic Spain of
Ferdinand V11 and discusses the earliest Iberian reaction to Irving’s books.
Professor Wallhead’s study includes four parts:
1.The legacy of Irving in today’s Spain: the bibliography, the cultural extension, the
“Washington Irving” industry, tourist and travel literature.
2.Influences and sources: early-mid 19c Spain…Andalusia, Seville and the roots of
the southern “romance”.
3.His Spanish writings. Fiction (Tales of the Alhambra), Documentary and
biographical studies: The Conquest of Granada, Mahomet, and Christopher
Columbus.
4.Conclusions.
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Becoming Gauchos Ingeleses
Diasporic Models in Irish-Argentine Literature
Edmundo Murray
This monograph fills a large gap in the literary and cultural history of the Irish
diaspora—The Argentine Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2000
there has been a growing research interest in the Irish in Latin America and the
Caribbean. This work is the only modern research by a skilled scholar on the topic
of the literature of the Irish Argentine. The work has ground breaking material
on specific authors, their economic and their demographic milieu as well as
assessments on Irish allied cultural activities (journalism, politics and music).
Contents include:
- Introduction
- Nineteenth-century Emigration to Argentina
- Irish-Argentine Literature
- Autobiography: Edward Robbins, John Brabazon and J.Macnie
- Fiction: Katherine Nevin and William Bulfin
- Becoming Irish – Argentine
- Chronology
ISBN 978-1-933146-67-6 / 1933146-67-2
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2009
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Clearing the Tangled Wood
Poetry as a Way of Seeing the World
James Lawless
Lawless argues that poetry is capable of addressing the irrational aspect of
people’s lives by drawing on its different grammar and anarchic qualities, and
so affords readers deeper insights into reality. He offers suggestions on how to
achieve the heightened state of consciousness required of man to enter the world
of poetry. Other topics include the process of creativity itself, the influences of
other disciplines and texts, and the evolution of poetry from oral to written form.
Extracts from works of various contemporary poets serve as examples. With a
commendatory preface by Declan Kilberd.
ISBN 978-1-933146-60-7 / 193314660-5
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04/2009
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2009
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176
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Homophobic Bullying in Irish Secondary Education
James O’Higgins-Norman
This research monograph is an exploration of the experiences of students, parents
and teachers regarding sexuality and homophobic bullying in National (i.e. public)
as well as private secondary institutions. The work discusses settings that run
the gamut of tough inner city schools to historical entities with distinguished
graduates and first rate instruction and provides solid research statistics as well as
an historical overview of pedagogies that have been heavily influenced by religious
and sectarian agendas. Gender based schools and co-ed facilities are also contrasted
in relation to bullying and efforts to suppress and re direct class and playground
behaviors. European Union approaches to this problem also discussed. A robust
bibliography and index are included.
“I cannot emphasise enough the importance of Dr. O’Higgins-Norman’s work on
homophobic bullying in Irish schools. While significant empirical studies of this
nature have emerged in Britain, nothing on this scale or level of complexity has
come out of Ireland to date. This work represents a huge contribution to scholarly
work in the field of education studies, and has secured an important foothold for
research into gender and sexuality within the area of sociology of education in
Ireland.” Dr. Debbie Ging, School of Communications, Dublin City University
ISBN 978-1-933146-45-4 / 193314645-1
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05/2008
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2008
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200
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Irish American Folklore in New England
E. Moore Quinn
Millions of Irish came to America in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Quinn, (Ph.D., Harvard) an anthropologist and folklorist at College of Charleston,
wondered how much traditional Irish folklore and customs remained in the second
and third generations of Irish in America. To find out, she interviewed a number of
people of Irish ancestry in New England.
She begins with the Irish language, long suppressed by the British in Ireland, but a
first language for many of the immigrants. The use made by children of immigrants
of unknown Irish words is treated throughout the book, becoming a metaphor for
the acculturation process.
Quinn discusses Irish work in America and ways in which Irish identity was
preserved, through food, sayings, religion, memories and music. She notes how
some customs altered or were dropped. For instance, the hero tales that were the
source of Irish storytelling were abandoned in favor of stories about immigrant
triumph over adversity. Quinn expects her work to be used as a textbook but her
lively writing style makes this book accessible to anyone interested in the Irish in
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calling them in Gaelic.
ISBN 978-1-930901-82-7 / 193090182-8
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The Irish American Myth of the Frontier West
Marguerite Quintelli-Neary
This is the first research monograph to study the interstices between native Irish
folklore and the emerging myth of the American West during the last frontier
period (1860–1890). It begins by tracing the role of Irish pioneers and their
contributions to the westward migration and then examines the many parallel
developments between the myths of Ireland and those that would come to define
the American West. Dr Quintelli-Neary, for instance, discusses the adoption of
traditional Irish music for Custer’s 7th Cavalry (“the Garry Owen”) as well as for
the Texas Rangers; this not only reaffirms the presence of the Irish but validates an
incorporation of their culture in a blending western population.
By examining the trends of American western mythology through the exploits of
four major icons who are Irish by origin, association or appropriation, the author
demonstrates how their adventures serve to enrich a mythology that Americanizes
them, while retaining such traditional Celtic features as a cattle raid, the elopement
and pursuit motif, the formation of vigilance groups and the establishment of
non traditional roles for female heroes. A study of the historical lives of Billy
the Kid, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr and Jesse James as filtered through the
generous imaginings of pseudo biographers, journalists, and pulp fiction writers,
demonstrates how little factual history is retained in the American consciousness
while the mythology is strengthened and enlarged by images perpetuated through
fiction and film.
ISBN 978-1-933146-1 / 193314646-X
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02/2008
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2008
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and the Politics of Style
Julie Donovan
Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee
Sydney Owenson). The reasons are many. In this work Dr.Donovan contextualizes
an important yet relatively neglected author by analyzing an emblematic Irishness
that was too often dismissed in the early 19th century as excessive showmanship;
the criticism was not without some basis since Owenson was an actor’s daughter
and grew up in the company of traveling performers. The study includes an
extensive discussion of Morgan’s personal papers and artifacts housed in the
national Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. No previous study has
fully considered this crucial archival material and its implications.
Unpublished and hitherto unconsulted papers from the Yale University collection
are also part of this original research monograph. Owenson’s writing is far ranging
(she is known both as a polemicist and the author of works on post restoration Italy
as well as Ireland) and she commanded the friendship and respect of many early
19th c. authors and poets including Byron, Shelley, Moore among many others.
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The Law of American Basketball
Lewis Kurlantzick, Editor and Contributor
The volume will be the second in an ongoing project on the legal regulation
of athletics. It will consist of a set of essays on a variety of legal issues facing
professional basketball. The contributors are a distinguished group of academics
and practitioners who have long focused their intellectual efforts on the legal
governance of professional and amateur athletics. This is a much needed addition to
the law literature both in the United States as well as internationally.
Basketball now rivals soccer in worldwide popularity. Accordingly, one chapter
will attend to the international dimension of the sport. A principal focus will be
the present restrictions on the free flow of labor and capital. Thus, leagues abroad
commonly place a limit on the number of foreign players (i.e., Americans) who can
be on a team roster. Comparable limitations are placed on foreign ownership of
teams. In addition, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has an agreement
with FIBA, the international governing body for basketball, that regulates
movement of players across continents. The legality of these arrangements will
be evaluated. While attention will be paid to the law of the European Union, the
principal assessment will be under United States antitrust law. That assessment also
raises the important issue of the reach of American law with respect to international
transactions.
Here are some of the legal issues discussed: The globalization of the sport has
been aided by the development of the internet, which has affected the manner in
which games and information about games are disseminated. Employer-employee
relations, and in particular disciplinary arrangements, have a distinctive cast
in the NBA as compared with more conventional industries. The location and
relocation of franchises are matters of central importance for teams, league, and
municipalities. The league’s ability to artificially limit the number of franchises
below the market-clearing number provides teams with major leverage over
communities anxious to keep or acquire a professional franchise. Among the four
major sports in the United States basketball alone supports a professional women’s
league. A chapter will examine the history, organizational structure, and distinctive
problems of the WNBA. This chapter may provide a vehicle for exploration of
societally related gender and discrimination issues as well.
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