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Internationally distinguished in Iberian, Latin American, Irish and 18th-century studies, Bucknell University Press has been publishing in the arts, humanities and social sciences for more than 50 years. Showing 1-12 of 136 items.
To the Fairest Cape
European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope
By Malcolm Jack
Bucknell University Press
Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833.
- Copyright year: 2019
Transmedia Creatures
Frankenstein’s Afterlives
Edited by Francesca Saggini and Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Bucknell University Press
Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives presents cutting-edge studies of Frankenstein by international scholars who use a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives to investigate how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production on the 200 th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
- Copyright year: 2018
Antigone's Ghosts
The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries
Bucknell University Press
Sophocles' play Antigone is a starting point for understanding the problems of human societies, families, and individuals caught up in the aftermath of mass violence. Through comparison of Germany, Japan, Spain, Yugoslavia and Turkey, we begin to appreciate the different pathways that societies have taken when confronting their violent histories.
- Copyright year: 2019
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Edited by Jennifer Smith
Bucknell University Press
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contributions. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.
- Copyright year: 2019
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Edited by Jennifer Smith
Bucknell University Press
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contributions. The critical analyses are situated within their specific socio-historical context, and shed new light on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature, history, and culture.
- Copyright year: 2019
The Dark Eclipse
Reflections on Suicide and Absence
By A.W. Barnes
Bucknell University Press
The Dark Eclipse is a book of personal essays in which author A.W. Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike, in 1993. While the rest of the family seems to have forgotten about Mike, Barnes has not been able to let him go.
- Copyright year: 2019
Beyond Human
Vital Materialisms in the Andean Avant-Gardes
By Tara Daly
Bucknell University Press
By presenting fresh readings of canonical authors like César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, and Magda Portal and through analysis of newer artist-activists like Julieta Paredes, Mujeres Creando Comunidad, and Alejandra Dorado, Daly argues that avant-gardes complicate questions of agency and contribute to theoretical discussions on vital materialisms.
- Copyright year: 2019
Odysseys of Recognition
Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist
Bucknell University Press
Odysseys of Recognition claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity.
- Copyright year: 2019
Pretexts for Writing
German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy
Bucknell University Press
In this incisive, original book, Seán Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that era—Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel—in the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature.
- Copyright year: 2019
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 24)
Edited by Kevin L. Cope
Bucknell University Press
The annual 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines literature, philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences.
- Copyright year: 2019
Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella
Bucknell University Press
Don’t Whisper Too Much and Bona Mbella present love stories between African women in a positive light. In presenting the emotional and romantic lives of gay African women, Ekotto addresses how female sexuality is often marked by violence, and yet is also a place for emotional connection, pleasure and agency.
- Copyright year: 2019
Reading Homer’s Odyssey
Bucknell University Press
Reading Homer’s Odyssey is a book by book commentary on the epic’s major themes. Each of the epic’s 24 books are divided into sections to stress the length and the importance placed on specific topics and episodes. Footnotes are provided throughout to clarify and complete myths that Homer leaves unfinished, to explain certain terms and phrases, and to provide background information whenever necessary. Additionally, there is a bibliography on the Odyssey, as well as bibliographies that accompany each book’s commentary.
- Copyright year: 2019
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