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A study of character and its representations on the modern stage. Within broad literary contexts, William E. Gruber addresses specific questions about the dramatis personae of the playwrights Gordon Craig, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Berhard, and Maria Fornes.

Gruber draws dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play's text toward a theory of theater that incorporates performance. The bare text is clothed in the cultural norms of both actor and audience in performance; in the conversion of words into action; in the actor's creation of his role; and in the audience's involvement.

At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to pacify his less perceptive audience, Francis Fergusson investigates a relationship between Shakespeare and Dante, whom he sees as writing out of the same classical Christian heritage.

In this study Edmund Creeth discovers an intimate, unique, and previously unsuspected kinship between three Shakespearean tragedies-Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear-and the three oldest extant theological dramas about Mankynde-The Castell of Perseverance, Wisdom Who Is Christ, and The Pride of Life.

Cox argues that the thread connecting almost all of Shakespeare's comedies is a plot in which character change is presented metaphorically instead of realistically. Violating classical dramatic rules about the consistency of character, Shakespeare offers character changes that are improbable and unrealistic.

Fifteen original essays that move from structural and thematic subjects to matters of historical and cultural significance. Contributors cover a wide variety of the literary interests and figures of England from the Augustan Age until midcentury including the periodical, Gulliver's Travels, Defoe, Fielding, and the episodic novel as a genre.

Focuses on political, social, and aesthetic issues to reveal the influence of civic celebration on Renaissance theater. Ranging across Shakespeare's canon and including the work of his fellow playwrights, these twelve essays considers tournaments, royal entries, Lord Mayor's Shows, funeral processions progress entertainments, and court masques.

Thinking Through Translation shows us, with eloquent honesty, that translation is a delicate art and skill, and presents the trade as a way of attaining insight about history, the world, and oneself.

Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, this book presents a unified strategy for survival in an interconnected, ever-messier, more surprising cybered world, and examines the institutional adaptations required of defense, intelligence, energy, and other critical sectors for national security.

Offers a revealing ethnography of what is arguably the most dynamic district in one of the world's most dynamic cities. The book looks at the interplay between the neighbourhood's nighttime rhythms; its daytime economy of offices and malls; and Japan's ongoing internationalization and changing ethnic mix.

From the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and religious imagery.

Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies of the cold war era.

Combining the nuanced perspective of an insider with the critical distance of a historian, Alexander Macaulay examines The Citadel's reactions to major shifts in postwar life, from the rise of the counterculture to the demise of the Cold War. The Citadel is widely considered one of the most traditional institutions in America and a bastion of southern conservatism. In Marching in Step Macaulay argues that The Citadel has actually experienced many changes since World War II--changes that often tell us as much about the United States as about the American South. Macaulay explores how The Citadel was often an undiluted showcase for national debates over who deserved full recognition as a citizen--most famously first for black men and later for women. As the boundaries regarding race, gender, and citizenship were drawn and redrawn, Macaulay says, attitudes at The Citadel reflected rather than stood apart from those of mainstream America. In this study of an iconic American institution, Macaulay also raises questions over issues of southern distinctiveness and sheds light on the South's real and imagined relationship with the rest of America.

This collection of articles, essays, and poems offers a survey of the work of the Agrarian writer John Donald Wade (1892-1963), who contributed to I'll Take My Stand. A brief biographical sketch outline's Wade's academic career and his founding of The Georgia Review.

Illustrated with one hundred five black and white photos, this work chronicles the International Grand Prize Race of the Automobile Club of America that was held in Savannah, Georgia, for the first time in November of 1908. Quattlebaum personally witnessed the big Fiats, Loziers, and Mercedes that roared around the turns in 1911.

This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields who shed new light on the social, political, religious, and ethnic diversity of colonial Georgia.

An ambitious theoretical work that ranges from the age of Socrates to the late twentieth century, this book traces the development of the concepts of irony within the history of Western literary criticism. Will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars concerned with the historical basis of critical language and its political implications.

Dauenhauer has collected eleven essays that explore the relationship between philosophy and history and encourage a balanced approach by demonstrating that a full understanding of the one is impossible without knowledge of the other.

Craige calls for the creation of a holistic system of learning that will emphasize interdisciplinary and nondisciplinary research, reconnecting literary studies with history and philosophy, with science and politics, restoring literature itself to a central place in our intellectual discourse and social debate.

Engaging in crucial debate, the contributors to Literature, Language, and Politics argue that the conservative educational agenda imperils not only scholarship and academic freedom but the very social well-being of the nation.

Essays in the fields of music, art criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, and the "history of consciousness" that confront the problems of relativist aesthetics. They range from theoretical discussions of the definition of art in our times to close examinations of particular artworks or art forms.

A thoughtful meditation on the connectedness of history and the possibilities of recovering and understanding the past, this book reveals as much about Corder's literary and historiographical preoccupations as it does about the life of his subject: a twenty-three-year-old lieutenant casualty of the American war with Mexico in 1846.

Yonder is about Corder's struggle for a footing against nostalgia's pull. In a kind of nonlinear, semi random sorting process reflected in the book's structure, Corder turns inward to refocus hazy memories and estimate and shoulder his responsibilities for the turns his life has taken.

St. Catherines: An Island In Time is the story of how a team of archaeologists found the lost sixteenth-century Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale on the coastal Georgia island now known as St. Catherines.

The 1850s was a period of mass immigration of Europeans to America, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group of beleaguered agitators: America's abolitionists.

Exploring the personifications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, Patriarchs of Time traces the lineage of time's corporeal characterizations, from the deities of ancient Persia through modern consumer-culture icons.

Increasing demands for material goods have the potential for spreading wealth, but such demands strain the earth's limited resources. How we address the challenge posed by this depletion of resources, Macey suggests, will be the ultimate test of our rationalizing powers.

This is the diary of Brigadier General William Edward Brougher, who, after distinguishing himself as a combat leader in the unsuccessful defense of the Philippines, stoically endured confinement in Japanese prison camps in Luzon, Taiwan, Kyushu, and Manchuria from 1942 to 1945.