Wayne Press: 446 books
by Jeffrey Haus
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Explores the relationship between Judaism, state, and education in France from the establishment of the Jewish Consistory in 1808 until the separation of church and state in 1905.
Appetites and Anxieties
Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors...
Mothering Daughters
Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2003
The rise of the novel and of the ideal nuclear family was no mere coincidence, argues Susan C. Greenfield in this fascinating look at the construction of modern maternity.
Channeling Wonder
Fairy Tales on Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently realistic...
To Light a Fire
20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) began in 1995 in five Detroit high schools, with weekly classroom visits by a writer-in-residence, the publication of a literary journal for each school, and the mission of encouraging students to use poetry to “think broadly, create bravely, and share their...
by Anthony Butts
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
New from accomplished poet Anthony Butts, a collection of modern free verse with an attention to formal syntax and a keen religious sensibility.
Relief after Hardship
The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710–1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that The Thousand...
Land of Stone
Breaking Silence Through Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
For more than a decade, Karen Chase taught poetry writing to severely incapacitated patients at a large psychiatric hospital outside of New York City. During that time, she began working with Ben, a handsome, formerly popular and athletic young man who had given up speaking and had withdrawn from...
Children’s Special Places
Exploring the Role of Forts, Dens, and Bush Houses in Middle Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
An examination of the secret world of children that shows how important special places are to a child's development.
Grimms' Tales around the Globe
The Dynamics of Their International Reception
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Grimms’ fairy tales are among the best-known stories in the world, but the way they have been introduced into and interpreted by cultures across the globe has varied enormously. In Grimms’ Tales around the Globe, editors Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey bring together scholars from Asia, Europe,...
by Eva M. Simms
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
A dialogue between developmental research and continental philosophy that illuminates how children experience the world.
by Ann Schmiesing
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, author Ann Schmiesing analyzes various representations...
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Although the ideas of “tradition” and “modernity” may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers...
by Ephraim Kanarfogel
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Paperback edition of a favorite text on the literary creativity and communal involvement in the production of the Tosafist corpus.