Origins of English Dramatic Modernism, 1870 - 1914

Author: 

Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Daniel and Tague, Gregory F. - Editors

Credentials: 

Ph.Ds: Meyer-Dinkgrafe is the author of author of Consciousness and the Actor (Frankfurt,1996) and Tague is the author of author of several monographs and collections including Origins of English Literary Modernism (Bethesda,2007)

The aim of this volume is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors/playwrights and controversial themes as they emerged in both drama and theatre. The editors have focused on the essence of creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the Great War (1914).

Market: 
English Drama late 19thc/early 20thc, Dramatic Arts, Theatre Studies, Theatre History, Literary Modernism, Aesthetics
Release Date: 
06/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-9331466-66-9 / 1933146-66-4
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
452
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan and the Politics of Style

Author: 

Donovan, Julie

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/English George Washington University

Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney Owenson). The reasons are many. In this work Dr.Donovan contextualizes an important yet relatively neglected author by analyzing an emblematic Irishness that was too often dismissed in the early 19th century as excessive showmanship; the criticism was not without some basis since Owenson was an actor’s daughter and grew up in the company of traveling performers.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Irish Literature,19th C, Women’s Studies, Irish History, Travel Literature
Release Date: 
04/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 9781933146559/ 978193314655-3
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
278
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Orientalism in Sinology

Author: 

Chan, Adrian

Credentials: 

Ph.D, A.N.U.; Senior Professor, Political Science, University of New South Wales; Visiting Fellow D/History, Research School of Asia and Political Studies at the Australian National University. Author of Chinese Communism (Continuum ,2003)

Foreword by Professor Wang Gungwu,former Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong and currently Director of the East asian Institute, University of Singapore

Market: 
Chinese Studies, Intellectual History, Sinology, Chinese Religions, Modern Chinese History and Politics
Release Date: 
02/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: EAN 978-1-933146-61-4 / 193314661-3
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
166
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Form and Perception in Visual Poetry

Author: 

Lopez-Fernandez, Laura

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Director, Senior Lecturer of Spanish, University of Canterbury

FORM and PERCEPTION IN VISUAL POETRY one of the first serious monographs in English that explores what is defined as Visual Poetry. This intermediate genre has its own characteristics. It demands inclusion of a number of disciplines: philosophy, psychology, neurobiology, literature, painting and graphic design, etc. As with many an emergent area of study an interdisciplinary approach takes into account new perspectives of analysis while maintaining respect for traditional methods of approach to poetry.

Market: 
Poetry, Literary Criticism, Experimental poetry/writing, Visual Studies, Perception(Philosophy), Modern poetry, Design
Release Date: 
6/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-9331426-3 / EAN 978-1-9331426-3
Price: 
$76.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
168
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Joycean Elements in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Aspects of Burlesque, Shadowing, Dichotomies and Doubling

Author: 

Tanner, Barney, former John Hay Fellow at Columbia and author

Credentials: 

Independent Scholar, with a commendatory foreword by Professor Gavin Jones, D/English, Stanford University

This research monograph argues that Scott Fitzgerald consciously used a variety of Joycean devices in THE GREAT GATSBY and these devices were the result of close readings of Joyce’s DUBLINERS and ULYSSES. The monograph breaks new ground in Fitzgerald scholarship and has implications for Joyceans as well. The author’s research was first begun under the mentorship of Professor Wallace Stegner and has lasted over 35 years. Tanner also benefited from a correspondence with Edmund Wilson prior to Wilson’s death.

Market: 
Fitzgerald Studies, Joyce Studies, 20th C.Literature American and Irish, Literary Criticism, History of the Novel
Release Date: 
03/2007
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-25-7
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Origins of English Literary Modernism, 1870 – 1914

Author: 

Tague, Gregory, Editor

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Professor of English, St.Francis College, NY, author of Ethos and Behavior: The English Novel from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy (Bethesda, 2005)

The aim of this work is to focus on the non-dramatic works of the early period of modernism in England with an emphasis on the origins and development of key writers and poets. Other such studies date to the mid1980s (Michael Levenson, Sanford Schwartz, Stan Smith, e.g.) and tend to lean heavily toward intellectual history or poetics.

Market: 
Origins of Modernism, English Literary Studies 19th and 20th c, English Novel, Poets/Poetry late 19thand early 20th century
Release Date: 
10/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-48-5/ 193314648-6
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Becoming Gauchos Ingleses: Diasporic Models in Irish – Argentine Literature

Author: 

Murray, Jorge Edmundo

Credentials: 

MA, University of Geneva, author of Irlandes: Private Narratives of the Irish Emigration to Argentina,1844 – 1912; Co-editor, Irish Migration Studies in Latin America

“In presenting this literature, Murray demonstrates both its specificity as Irish-Argentine, and its character as representative of immigrant literatures in general. In doing so, he reminds us of the crucial issues at stake both in the phenomenon of migration and in the cultural constructs to which migration gives rise.

Market: 
Irish Studies, Irish Literature, Argentine Literature 19th-20th c, Irish in Latin America,Latin American Studies/ literature; Irish-Argentine Literature
Release Date: 
06/19/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-67-6 / 1933146-67-2
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
156
Illustrations: 
Yes - B/W photographs/graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture: Text, Context and Hermeneutics

Author: 

Morkoc, Selen

Credentials: 

Ph.D., University of Adelaide (Australia)

It is widely accepted that documents on Ottoman architects are rare and that little is known about the architectural practice in the Ottoman world. A group of texts that have appeared between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, however, form an exception to this general assumption. While these texts have been cited and referred to in diverse previous studies on Ottoman architecture, they have not been the topic of a major interpretative approach before.

Market: 
Architectural history, Ottoman (Turkish) architecture and design, historiography of Turkish Architecture
Release Date: 
10/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-54-6 / 193314654-0
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies

Author: 

Settele J, Kudrna O, Harpke A, Kuehn I, van Swaay C, Verovnik R, Warren M, Wiemers M, Hanspach J, Hickler T, Kuehn E, van Halder I, Veling K, Vliegenthart A, Wynhoff I, Schweiger O Helmholtz Center, Germany

Climate change will cause Europe to lose much of its biodiversity as projected by a comprehensive study on future butterfly distribution. The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies predicts northward shifts in potential distribution area of many European butterfly species. As early warning indicators of environmental change, butterflies are a valuable tool to assess overall climate change impact and to provide some indication on the chances to come nearer to the target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 set by the EU Heads of State in 2001.

Market: 
Entomology, European Ecology,Climatic Risk,Biorisk Studies
Release Date: 
1/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: ISBN 978-954-642-455-6 (hardback), 165x240, full color edition, recent and modeled (2050, 2080) distribution maps, photo and data on biology and ecology of each species, general chapter on methods of mapping and modeling, references, index, in English
Price: 
$189.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
464
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Prime Butterfly Areas in Serbia

Author: 

Jaksich, P., Editor

Credentials: 

Ph.D

This is a long awaited study of Balkan entomology for the professional as well as the enthusiast. Wartime conditions have prevailed in Serbia until the last few years. Now remote areas and border areas long off limits are fully explored for their butterfly potential. Survival rates and ecological conditions discussed as well as the first complete survey in over 20 years. CD included. Entire work is in English.

Distributed with cooperation of Pensoft.

Market: 
Entomology, Balkan Entomology, Ecology
Release Date: 
12/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: ISBN 978-86-912033-0-6
Price: 
$84.95
Trim Size: 
165 x 240mm
Pages: 
223
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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