Literature and Literary Criticism

Approaches to the Contemporary American Theatre

Author: 

Andreach, Robert J., Retired Professor of English, Monmouth College

Credentials: 

Robert J. Andreach is a retired professor and author of numerous studies of the contemporary American theatre. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University.

Book CoverIn this engaging study, theatre scholar Robert J. Andreach argues, in what will be his final book, that the contemporary American theatre merits appreciation for dramatizing experiences in genres that jostle the audience into thinking about the experiences in new ways, based on five units of analysis: the naturalistic play, modernist theatre, trilogies, tragedy, and comedy.

Market: 
American Studies, American Literature, American History, American Theatre, Theatre Studies, Modernism, Tragedy, Comedy, Naturalism, Performing Arts, Stage, Politics, Social Science, Humanities
Release Date: 
September 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531787 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
280
Illustrations: 
None
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Publisher: 

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Spiritual Shakespeare: Religious Subtext in the Plays

Author: 

Risden, E. L., Professor of English, St. Norbert College

Credentials: 

Author of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Maxims: A Politics of Rhetoric and Irony

For an author who tended to avoid explicitly Christian subjects in his plays and poems, Shakespeare showed an abiding interest in the spiritual qualities of his characters. Spiritual Shakespeare, the latest study by noted Shakespeare scholar E. L. Risden, considers the playwright not only as a Christian writer, but also one of considerable spiritual significance: the plays regularly highlight evidence of characters’ struggles with their own spiritual health. They often show the sorrows that result from spiritual blindness or neglect.

Market: 
English Literature, Shakespeare, Drama, World Literature, Religion, Religion in Literature, Elizabethan Drama, Psychology
Release Date: 
July 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680531565: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Escape From Paradise: A Russian Dissident’s Journey From the Gulag to the West

Author: 

Shatravka, Alexander, Soviet Dissident

Translator:
Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

Market: 
History, Psychology, Memoir, Russia, Russian History, Soviet Union, Migration, Eurasian Studies, Psychiatric Abuse, Asylum Studies, International Law, Soviet Dissidents, Criminal Justice, Prison Studies
Release Date: 
June 1, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680534849 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
564
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Shakespeare and Jung - The God in Time

Author: 

Driscoll, James, Ph.D.

In Shakespeare and Jung - The God in Time literary critic and philosopher James Driscoll presents original arguments for the existence and nature of God. He traverses the boundaries of art, philosophy, psychology, and religion to draw on Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and A. N. Whitehead to define and illuminate the interconnections of God and time.

Market: 
Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Psychiatry, Literature, Existentialism, Shakespeare, Carl Jung, A. N. Whitehead, Time, Psychology of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Theology, Metaphysics, Public Philosophy, Civilization Studies
Release Date: 
January 15, 2019
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534818
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
405
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Identity Politics and the Third World

Author: 

Soi, Neha

Credentials: 

Assistant Professor of English, MCM DAV College for Women,Chandigarh

Identity Politics and the Third World revisits the theories of identification in challenging existing methods of ascertaining developing world identities on the grounds of objectivity and universality. The construction of postcolonial identities refers to the creation of systems of identification.

Market: 
International Relations, Political Science, Identity Politics, National Identity Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Literature, Culture, Cultural Studies, Developing World, Development Studies, Consumerism
Release Date: 
November 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534764
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
330
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Between Palette and Pen: Images of Venice in the Work of F. Hopkinson Smith

Author: 

De Marchi, Agnese, Ph.D., Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Credentials: 

Department of Humanities, University of Trieste; Ph.D., Ca' Foscari University, Venice

This book explores images of Venice in the written and visual art of the multitalented American writer, painter, lecturer, and engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915). A successful artist and intrepid traveler, F. Hopkinson Smith spent every summer in Venice for almost twenty years: his stays in the Italian city resulted in a large output of watercolors and writings, including his popular travelogue Venice of To-Day(1895), which featured over 200 illustrations by Smith himself.

Market: 
American Studies, American Art, Art History, American History, Cultural Studies, Travel Literature, Italy, Italian Studies, Venice, Venetian Art History, Fin-de-Siècle Culture, F. Hopkinson Smith, American Painting
Release Date: 
December 15, 2017
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530537
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
252
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

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Player, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist: The Story of Edward Alleyn, 1566 - 1626 (hardcover edition)

Author: 

Southern, Antonia

Credentials: 

Author of A House Divided: Christianity in England, 1526-1829

Edward Alleyn was a man of many talents and great energy. He was the actor who created the roles of Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus, and Barabas, the Jew of Malta, in Christopher Marlowe’s plays and played in comedies, histories and tragedies by the leading authors of his day. In one week in August 1594, he took the leading part in six different plays. His acting was praised by Queen Elizabeth I herself.

Market: 
Edward Alleyn, Elizabethan theatre and drama, Actors and acting in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, Playwrights in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, English dramatic history, biography: Dulwich, Christopher Marlowe, acting companies in Shakespearean England, Shakespeare
Release Date: 
July 1, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530186
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Player, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist: The Story of Edward Alleyn, 1566 - 1626 (paperback edition)

Author: 

Southern, Antonia

Credentials: 

Author of A House Divided: Christianity in England, 1526-1829

Southern book coverEdward Alleyn was a man of many talents and great energy. He was the actor who created the roles of Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus, and Barabas, the Jew of Malta, in Christopher Marlowe’s plays and played in comedies, histories and tragedies by the leading authors of his day. In one week in August 1594, he took the leading part in six different plays. His acting was praised by Queen Elizabeth I herself.

Market: 
Edward Alleyn, Elizabethan theatre and drama, Actors and acting in Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, Playwrights in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, English dramatic history, biography: Dulwich, Christopher Marlowe, acting companies in Shakespearean England, Shakespeare
Release Date: 
July 1, 2018
ISBN: 
Paperback: 978-1680530285
Price: 
$34.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Kadya Molodowsky: The Life of a Yiddish Woman Writer

Author: 

Newman, Zelda Kahan

Credentials: 

Lehman College/CUNY

Based on detailed archival research in three countries, Zelda Kahan Newman tells the story of Kadya Molodowsky, the most prolific woman writer of Yiddish. A feminist before feminism was a movement, Molodowsky wrote poems that still circulate today.

Molodowsky was caught up in nearly all the cataclysms of twentieth century Jewry: the chaos of World War I, an inter-war pogrom, a narrow escape from Nazi Europe, migration to the US, and a failed attempt at life in the young state of Israel.

Market: 
Jewish Studies, Jewish History, Jewish Literature, Women's Studies, Yiddish Studies, Yiddish Literature, American Studies, American History, Religion, Religious History, World Literature, European Literature
Release Date: 
June 15. 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530568
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
340
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan lessons of life for every day, Volume II

Author: 

Richmond, Walter, Ph.D., University of Southern California

Credentials: 

Professor, Occidental College

The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan Lessons of Life for Every Day represents decades of work by Leo Tolstoy in writing, collecting, and organizing aphorisms and observations into the most complete exposition of his pacifist interpretation of Christianity, designed to be read each day.

Market: 
Linguistics, World Literature, Russian Literature, Russian Studies, World History, Tolstoy, Religion, Religious Studies, Christianity, Pacifism, Metaphysics, Anarchism, History of Ideas, Revolutionary Ideology
Release Date: 
Jan. 15, 2018
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680530513
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
252
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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