Books from Susquehanna University Press
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Diary of a Newlywed Poet
By Juan Ramón JiménezIt stands among the first works of prose in the Spanish language to capture the images and urban landscapes of New York City, revealing as well surprising degrees of modernity and social sensitivity.
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The Turning Wheel: A Study of Contracts and Oaths in Wagner's Ring
By David A. White... Rhine . The Rhinemaidens cry out in soulful anguish , for the gold has been raped and the harmony of nature has been disrupted . The apocalyptic drama begins . The Rhinemaidens are the first living beings to appear in the Ring . Their ...
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Quest for Faith, Quest for Freedom: Aspects of Pennsylvania's Religious Experience
By Otto Reimherr... Bible study , and in weekly services , and prepared for the regular visit of the circuit rider . The class leader was ... circuits . His role was to move around the circuits and make certain his preachers were doing their jobs . He would ...
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Bulgarian Urban Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
By Raĭna Gavrilova... Middle Eastern Cities . A Symposium on Ancient , Islamic and Contemporary Mid- dle Eastern Urbanism . Edited by Ira ... Profile of the Middle East . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1979 . Rossi , Ino , Y. Büttner - Yanuch , and D ...
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Scandalous Truths: Essays by and about Susan Howatch
By Bruce Johnson, Susan Howatch, Charles Adolph Huttar... Truth : The Unity of Susan Howatch's Career CHARLES A. HUTTAR Romance , Desire , and History : The Shifting ... Scandalous Risks : Sex , Scandal , and Spirituality in the Sixties WILLIAM KUPERSMITH , JAN S. WAPLES Part II Introduction ...
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Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture, and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years
By Emily M. HinnovThrough a transnational perspective, Emily M. Hinnov's Encountering Choran Community: Literary Modernism, Visual Culture and Political Aesthetics in the Interwar Years identifies and describes modernist "choran community" as a previously ...
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Measuring the Moment: Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-century Afro-English Writing
By Keith Albert SandifordThis work closely analyzes and evaluates the literary achievement and the sociopolitical impact of three eighteenth-century Anglo-African authors -- Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, and Olaudah Equiano -- and their work, which collectively ...
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Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context
By Ronald L. DottererSeventeen critics are represented in this collection of essays designed to illustrate the vitality and range of traditional and new approaches to Shakespeare studies.
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Thunder at a Playhouse: Essaying Shakespeare and the Early Modern Stage
By Peter Kanelos, Matt Kozuskocritical issues of early modern performance in fresh and vital ways. --
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James P. Goodrich, Indiana's "Governor Strangelove": A Republican's Infatuation with Soviet Russia
By Benjamin D. RhodesRoosevelt exchanged ambassadors with the Soviet Union, an action that substantially vindicated Goodrich.
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Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographical Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Purry
By Jean Pierre PurryThe pamphlets Purry authored and published between 1717 and 1732 illustrate an abiding confidence in his theoretical conclusions regarding geography, climatology, and agricultural science.
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German-language Comedy: A Critical Anthology
By Bert CardulloThis is the first English collection of the greatest comedies written in German from the late-eighteenth to the late-nineteenth centuries.
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Hinsonville, a Community at the Crossroads: The Story of a Nineteenth-century African-American Village
By Marianne H. Russo, Paul Anthony Russo"Seeking to reconstruct the early community of Hinsonville from fragmentary archival materials and oral interviews, Paul Russo, together with his students at Lincoln University, gradually unearthed information on Hinsonville's residents and ...
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Taking Measure: The Poetry and Prose of X.J. Kennedy
By Bernard E. MorrisConcluding the book is a chronology of Kennedy's life and writing history, a discussion of the influences on Kennedy's work, a list of his publications and of the titles of his poetry, and a selected bibliography.
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A Theory of Republican Character and Related Essays
By Wendell John CoatsCoats makes his argument for the importance of such republican generalists in even an advanced, specialized democracy - necessary if political balance is to be maintained.
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Poets at Play: An Anthology of Modernist Drama
By Barbara Cole, Sarah Bay-ChengBeginning with Stevens's Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise (1916) as a dynamic introduction to the modernist transformation of poetry into performance, the collection also includes Millay's biting anti-war satire, Aria da Capo (1920) and H.D. ...
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The Dialogic Self: Reconstructing Subjectivity in Woolf, Lessing, and Atwood
By Roxanne J. Fand... Dialogic Self In positing a schism between the conscious and the unconscious in the unified individual , Sigmund Freud's theory laid an early foundation for a dialogic self - narrative . 23 The importance of Freudian psychoanalysis for ...
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The Surrealist Mind
By J. H. MatthewsThis work reflects the search for proof of the existence of a mind that may be accurately called surrealist.
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John Donne's Poetry and Early Modern Visual Culture
By Ann HurleyAnn H. Hurley is Professor of English at Wagner College.
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Dimensions of Laughter in Crime and Punishment
By John SpiegelJohn Spiegel. 121. Prior to his symbolic move into his coffin - shaped room at Mme . Zarnit- syn's , Raskolnikov is said to have ... Fourth International Congress of Slavicists ( The Hague : Mouton , 1958 ) , p . 122 . 4. E.g. , Gibian ...