Sylvia Neely provides both the first scholarly study of Lafayette's life after the French Revolution and a detailed analysis of French politics during the early Restoration. Lafayette, advocating a liberalism based on the American example, used both legal and illegal means to overturn a conservative government. The personification of liberalism ......
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Rhetoric and Literacy
This book contains interviews with psychologist Mary Field Belenky, linguist and philosopher of language Noam Chomsky, French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, international literacy scholar Paulo Freire, distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz, philosopher Richard Rorty, and cultural critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (all of whose work has ......
The Persistence of a Myth in Twentieth-Century Art
This comprehensive view of the Orpheus myth in modern art focuses on an extremely rich artistic symbol and cuts through all the cliches to explore truly significant problems of meaning. The author takes a new approach to the iconography of major modern artists by incorporating psychological and literary analysis, as well as biography. The three ......
The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart's prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while ......
James C. Hogan introduces each play by highlighting specific and interpretive problems relevant to that play before turning to a line-by-line analysis. The line analysis is comprehensive, ranging from the meanings of words and phrases that pertain to a variety of Greek ideas and institutions to metaphor and imagery specific to each play as well as ......
Featuring 56 illustrations, this definitive work on the arms of France delves into the mythology of kingship, probes the mystique of kings. Hinkle's comprehensive, chronological study of the origin, evolution, and function of the fleurs de lis covers the 200-year period beginning near the end of the 13th century with the emergence of France as a ......
Newspaper Columns by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Friendship, 1934 - 1937
"At Taliesin," a series of newspaper columns written by Frank Lloyd Wright and his early Taliesin apprentices, craftsmen, and workers, was featured in several southern Wisconsin newspapers from 1934 through 1937. The newspaper column first appeared in February 1934, shortly after the Taliesin Fellowship had been formed by Wright in 1932. ......
This first book-length study of rhetoric and environmental politics calls for an end to the present oversimplified conflict between economic and evolutionary progress and suggests instead a continuum embracing the full range of human views of nature. The authors use a systematic analysis of well-known works of nonfiction literature (by such ......
Rylestone focuses on Wordsworth's interrelation of the individual, nature, and the Church, arguing that an understanding of these sonnets is necessary for a complete understanding of the poet's works.
