-
Beckett's Masculinity: New Interpretations of Beckett in 21st C
Jennifer Jeffers 2009
From Murphy to Rockaby to Worstward Ho, Beckett’s Masculinity illustrates how Samuel Beckett’s work functions as a testament to the site of memory for the historically erased twentieth-century Protestant, Anglo-Irish community. Jennifer Jeffers ably shows how Beckett converted his... (read more)
-
Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature
Jennifer Jeffers 2011
Britain Colonized analyzes how and why filmmakers use clichéd Hollywood formulas and American cultural standards when adapting British literature. The films discussed in this book are evidence of the way one nation remakes another, often in the image of... (read more)
-
Contextualizing Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard
Jennifer Jeffers 1998
History. The ancient (Greek and Roman) period ; The modern (18th- and 19th-century) period -- The analytic critique of the aesthetic. The analytic critique of aesthetic experience ; The problem of defining art ; The status of the work... (read more)
-
Samuel Beckett: A Casebook on Modern Dramatists
Jennifer Jeffers 1998
Garland reference library of the humanities - Casebooks on modern dramatists ; vol. 25
... (read more) -
The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, and Power
Jennifer Jeffers 2008
This text interprets a wide range of Irish novels of the 1990s, focusing on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. It looks at how identities do, or don't, conform to familiar notions of sexuality, gender and culture and... (read more)
-
Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative
Jennifer Jeffers 2001
In the twentieth century painters, playwrights, and novelists began to produce non-representational works that eschewed narrative and were entirely devoted to an achromatic colorscape. Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative overturns critical exegesis that interprets these works as negative... (read more)
-
Obsession : male same-sex relations in China, 1900-1950
Wenqing Kang 2009
This is the most serious study to date on the topic of male same-sex relations in China during the early twentieth century, illuminating male same-sex relations in many sites: language, translated sexological writings, literary works, tabloid newspapers,and opera. Documenting... (read more)
-
The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-U.S. Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880–1959
Frederick Jeff Karem 2011
The Purloined Islands offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban... (read more)
-
The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures
Frederick Jeff Karem 2004
To what extent has the growing popular demand for a vicarious experience of other cultures fueled the expectation that the most important task for regional and ethnic writers is to capture and convey authentic cultural material to their readers?... (read more)
-
Cleveland and the Civil War
W Dennis Keating 2022
Although removed from the frontlines, Cleveland played an active role in national events before, during and after the Civil War. President Lincoln visited this abolitionist hotbed after his 1860 election. Following the president’s assassination five years later, his funeral... (read more)
-
Housing and Community Development: Cases and Materials
W Dennis Keating 2011
The fourth edition of Housing and Community Development presents a fresh and comprehensive look at housing law and policy with full coverage of the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath, exploring housing policies and neighborhood revitalization policies to address the... (read more)
-
Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods
W Dennis Keating 1999
Twelve contributions examine some of the most troubled neighborhoods in American cities today, including Atlanta's Peoplestown; Camden, New Jersey; Detroit's inner city; and New York City's Red Hook neighborhood. Contributors, primarily professors in the field of urban planning, review... (read more)
-
Rent Control: Regulation and the Rental Housing Market
W Dennis Keating 1998
Aims to explain in full measure the nature of rent control as it has evolved in North America during the 20th century. The 14 contributions look at topics such as rent control legislation and administration, the economics of rent... (read more)
-
The Suburban Racial Dilemma: Housing and Neighborhoods
W Dennis Keating 1994
Whether through affirmative housing policies or mandatory legislation, there have been numerous efforts to integrate America's neighborhoods, especially the historically white, affluent suburbs. Though much of suburbia has rejected such measures out of a fear of losing their communities... (read more)
-
Cleveland: A Metropolitan Reader
W Dennis Keating, Norman Krumholz, and David C. Perry 1995
Contemporary urban scholars examine the political economy, social development, and history of Cleveland from 1796 to the present in this interdisciplinary collection of essays. Also included are commentaries provided by the leaders of Cleveland, now actively working to transform... (read more)
-
Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods
W Dennis Keating, Norman Krumholz, and Philip D. Star 1996
"A comprehensive, cohesive, and up-to-date assessment of the prospects for community-led initiatives to bring about healthier, progressive cities". -- Jeffrey R. Henig, author of Neighborhood Mobilization.
... (read more) -
A Comparative Study of Three Models of Racial Integration in Housing in Suburban Cleveland
W Dennis Keating, William Pammer, and Lawrence B. Smith 1988
-
Housing and Community Development: Cases and Materials. 4th ed.
WM Dennis Keating, James A. Kushner, Charles E. Daye, Peter W. Salsich Jr, Henry W. McGee Jr, Barbara L. Bezdek, Otto J. Hetzel, Daniel R. Mandelker, and Robert M. Washburn 2011
The fourth edition of Housing and Community Development presents a fresh and comprehensive look at housing law and policy with full coverage of the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath, exploring housing policies and neighborhood revitalization policies to address the... (read more)
-
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms : Methods and Protocols
Anton A. Komar 2009
In recent years, single nucleotide polymorphisms have received increased and special attention in a rapidly developing field of personalized medicine and drug treatment. Comprising more than eighty percent of all known polymorphisms, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are primarily responsible... (read more)
-
Vibration Analysis of a Split Path Gearbox
Timothy L. Krantz and Majid Rashidi 1995
Split path gearboxes can be attractive alternatives to the common planetary designs for rotorcraft, but because they have seem little use, they are relatively high risk designs. To help reduce the risk of fielding a rotorcraft with a split... (read more)
-
Constitutional Law, A Legal Methods Approach
Arthur R. Landever 1999
Casebook supplement. At Present, Keyed to Gunther and Sullivan's Constitutional Law, 13th Edition.
... (read more)
Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.