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Julien Green
The themes that are interwoven like leitmotive in Julien Green's Journal--love, death, art, dreams, water, etc.--are also abundantly present in his novels. Wildgen traces these tapestry-like patterns throughout Green's works with sensitivity and comprehension. ",,,(Wildgen) looks for the deeper ways in which thematic threads connect, and she reveals patterns not previously explored by Green scholars. ...we are indeed in Kathryn Wildgen's debt for this important new achievement in Green studies." --South Atlantic Review.
Liquid Landscape
In Liquid Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas analyzes the history of Florida's incorporation alongside the development of new ideas of personhood, possession, and political identity within American letters, from early American novels, travel accounts, and geography textbooks, to settlers' guides, maps, natural histories, and land surveys.
Collecting Mexico
Considers how public collections on display form powerful ideas of nationalism
The Theatre de la Monnaie and Theatre Life in the 18th Century Austrian Netherlands
In the Austrian Netherlands, city culture determined social life: the cities' feeling of independence stimulated the realization of a personal interdependence within them and consolidated a new conception of society and its focal point. The court attempted to unite and appease at the same time. Theater supplied the symbols and the rituals which shaped and contributed to the building of a new identity. This book describes this social progress from the point of view of the theater and in doing so offers the first extensive study of the influence of the Brussels' Monnaie Theatre on theatrical life in the Dutch speaking part of the Southern Netherlands.
Everynight Life
The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in Latin/o America, Everynight Life translates the motion of bodies into speech, and the gestures of dance into a provocative socio-political grammar. This anthology looks at many modes of dance--including salsa, merengue, cumbia, rumba, mambo, tango, samba, and norteño--as models for the interplay of cul...
