Purdue University Press imprint: 164 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light...
The Would-Be Author
Molière and the Comedy of Print
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book is the first full-length study to examine Molière’s evolving (and at times contradictory) authorial strategies, as evidenced both by his portrayal of authors and publication within the plays and by his own interactions with the seventeenth-century Parisian publishing industry. Historians...
by Lorna Fitzsimmons
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Faust Adaptations, edited and introduced by Lorna Fitzsimmons, takes a comparative cultural studies approach to the ubiquitous legend of Faust and his infernal dealings. Including readings of English, German, Dutch, and Egyptian adaptations ranging from the early modern period to the contemporary...
Nossa and Nuestra América
Inter-American Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention...
Género, nación y literatura
Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura gallega y española
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Lugar de Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura española y gallega se ha ganado duro, y ella todavía no ha recibido el reconocimiento que se merece. En Género , Nación y literatura : Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura gallega y española , Carmen Pereira -Muro estudia la obra y personalidad de...
by Guadalupe Martí-Peña
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Entre los mltiples modos de acercarse a un autor tan polifactico y prolfico como el escritor peruano Mario Vargas Llosa, quien gan el premio Nobel de 2010, Guadalupe Mart-Pea ha elegido ver al novelista como ilusionista. Estudia ese mundo de fantasas y ensueos, ese campo de guerra aparentemente inofensivo...
Sites of Disquiet
The Non-Space in Spanish American Short Narratives and Their Cinematic Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face merging perspectives, deferral, darkness, or emptiness. Such a space is neither a site of projection (as...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Engineering design is a fundamental problem-solving model used by the discipline. Effective problem-solving requires the ability to find and incorporate quality information sources. To teach courses in this area effectively, educators need to understand the information needs of engineers and engineering...
Traveling Blind
Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Traveling Blind is a romance, a travel adventure, an emotional quest, and a deeply reflective description of coming to terms with lack of sight. It reveals the invisible work of navigating with a guide dog while learning to perceive the world in new ways. Although an intensely personal account, Traveling...
Tastes of Faith
Jewish Eating in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," wrote the eighteenth-century French politician and musician Jean Brillat-Savarin, giving expression to long held assumptions about the role of food, taste, and eating in the construction of cultural identities. Foodways-the cultural,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
At its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that Americas Jews have devoted themselves to civic engagement and the democratic process. From before the Revolutionary War to the early twenty-first...
Lemberg, Lwów, L'viv, 1914 - 1947
Violence and Ethnicity in a Contested City
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Known as Lemberg in German and Lwów in Polish, the city of L'viv in modern Ukraine was in the crosshairs of imperial and national aspirations for much of the twentieth century. This book tells the compelling story of how its inhabitants (Roman Catholic Poles, Greek Catholic Ukrainians, and Jews)...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Design is ubiquitous. Speaking across disciplines, it is a way of thinking that involves dealing with complex, open-ended, and contextualized problems that embody the ambiguities and contradictions in everyday life. It has become a part of pre-college education standards, is integral to how college...
Who Is A Jew?
Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who “belong,” while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the “inside” and those on the “outside.” From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional,...