An Anthrological and Interpretative Approach to Native American and Indigenous Irish Language Poetry
This is a unique work in the field of Irish Studies and an important contribution to understanding and interpreting Native American poetry. This is the first serious study to research and discuss the topical and social linkages of indigenous Irish and indigenous American Indian poets and poetry. Irish vernacular poetry is one of the oldest in ......
Interviews, Letters, Vignettes, and Reflections, 1964-1982
Voices From Vietnam began as a stage play but, due to the overwhelming number of contributors, is now published in this companion book. Both the play and the book are a collaborative effort between Major Bruce H. "Doc" Norton, USMC (Ret), a decorated Vietnam War veteran, author, and former oral historian for the Marine Corps, and Dr. Harry ......
Voices of Freedom: Asia showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Asian religions and literatures. Co-edited by Texas Christian University colleagues Rima Abunasser and Mark Dennis, the volume is meant to serve as a vehicle ......
Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures. Co-edited by TCU colleagues Rima Abunasser and Mark Dennis, the volume ......
The Shaping of the American Political Universe Since 1788
D Burnham is the Dean of American historians working in the field of elections and is the author of many books; Thomas Ferguson is Professor of History, UMass, Boston and Louis Ferleger is Professor of History at Boston University. Walter Dean Burnham is widely regarded as the greatest living student of American voting behavior. He pioneered the ......
Wagnerian Influences on French Musical and Literary Culture 1870-1945
Paul du Quenoy's acclaimed book reinterprets the works and ideas of Richard Wagner and their profound influence on the artistic, intellectual, and social life of modern France. Wagner's Romanticism influenced the French symbolists so greatly that they named their major journal La Revue Wagnerienne. His musical themes, dramatic structures and ......
Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner's operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously attempted to assess their implications for our systematic understanding of his art. Following Heise's allegorical interpretation ......
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 Walter Benjamin, the latter devised amid and an atmosphere of emergent fascism in Europe between two World Wars. This book represents ......
Philosophy, Theology and the Politics of Confrontation
This work is a major investigation of the questions of war and peace in Black Africa (by Africans) with an emphasis on the philosophical, theological and political underpinnings of contemporary African thought and practice. The voices are overwhelming African (the one scholar /contributor who was not born in Africa is a full time resident of Kenya ......
