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by Thomas Bredehoft
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry – anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses – and further...
Epistolary Acts
Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received...
Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams
Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011
Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian...
The Heart of Helambu
Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences...
by Cara Fabre
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms, Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its many forms contributes to common assumptions about the causes, and personal and social implications, of addiction. Recent fictional depictions of addiction...
by Anthony J. Cascardi
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained,...
Unruly Women
Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage. Pairing historical narratives and archival...
by Engin F. Isin
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Previous notions of what constitutes "citizenship" within a country have been steadily challenged by the movement towards a globalized world. Examining the everyday habits of citizens and non-citizens, the contributors to Recasting the Social in Citizenship show how citizenship has increasingly...
Becoming Women
The Embodied Self in Image Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In a culture where beauty is currency, women’s bodies are often perceived as measures of value and worth. The search for visibility and self-acceptance can be daunting, especially for those on the cultural margins of “beauty.”
Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search...
Cancer on the Margins
Method and Meaning in Participatory Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Cancer on the Margins presents the findings of the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Iniative, an organization created to investigate the experiences of women with breast cancer from marginalized and underrepresented groups. The authors examine the psychosocial needs of women living with breast...
Law's Religion
Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Prevailing stories about law and religion place great faith in the capacity of legal multiculturalism, rights-based toleration, and conceptions of the secular to manage issues raised by religious difference. Yet the relationship between law and religion consistently proves more fraught than such...
The Hakkas of Sarawak
Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
As the leading book in its field, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada has been embraced by scholars, teachers, students, and policy makers as a breakthrough study of Canadian religio-ethnic diversity and its impact on multiculturalism. A team of established scholars looks at the relationships between...
Vladimir Nabokov
Poetry and the Lyric Voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the eminent Russian-American writer and intellectual, is best known for his novels, though he was also the author of plays, poems, and short stories. In this important new work, Paul D. Morris offers a comprehensive reading of Nabokov's Russian and English poetry, until...